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The ROTOR Act would require safety reviews of flight routes at large and midsize airports. It would limit the circumstances under which military aircraft could disable location broadcasting systems such as ADS-B. It would also require most aircraft to equip with location tracking technology, including ADS-B In, by the end of 2031.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report on the collision concluded that if the aircraft involved had been equipped with ADS-B In, pilots would have received substantially more warning before impact...
The House voted down the ROTOR Act on February 24, 2026, rejecting bipartisan aviation safety legislation that would have required most aircraft to carry advanced tracking technology. Lawmakers defeated the measure after the Defense Department withdrew its support one day earlier, citing national security and cost concerns. The bill had passed the Senate unanimously in December and initially appeared likely to clear the House...
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the bill would create unresolved budget burdens and operational security risks affecting national defense activities. He also said the Senate failed to incorporate several updates that had been discussed with the department, though he did not detail those concerns.
Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran, according to more than a half dozen sources with knowledge of the firings.
The firings came as Patel claimed — without evidence — that the team of FBI agents who investigated Trump’s hoarding of top-secret records at his Mar-a-Lago club had engaged in improper investigative steps.
But his gutting of the global espionage unit, known as CI-12, also came days before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, a series of bombing strikes on Iran that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Canceled contracts, a failed polygraph and personal disputes: Inside the turbulent tenure of Noem’s former cyber czar
A dozen current and former officials said that former acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala’s leadership was troublesome for the agency long before his reassignment late Thursday.
The interim chief of the nation’s top cyber defense agency had convinced many people he was not up to the task long before his sudden reassignment late Thursday. But the one person who mattered most — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — stood firm on keeping him in place.
In his roughly nine months as acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Madhu Gottumukkala made a series of decisions that alienated career staff, created friction with Trump appointees and provoked scrutiny from influential lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Nine current and four former cyber officials who spoke with POLITICO over the last several weeks said his tenure was so chaotic that it was hampering the agency’s core mission: protecting sensitive government networks from a crush of cyberattacks. All were granted anonymity for fear of retribution.
Several who spoke with POLITICO said the agency was long overdue for a leadership change. Under Gottumukkala, said one current official, the agency was “devolving every day.”
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
The frustration with Gottumukkala was shared by several administration officials, two of whom told Noem as far back as November that Gottumukkala should not be in charge at CISA, according to three current cybersecurity officials with knowledge of those conversations.
At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.
The Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into whether the staff provided “false information” about the need for the test — which was scheduled after Gottumukkala sought access to certain highly sensitive cyber intelligence shared with the agency.

Back in the 1970s, the Nixon corruption from Watergate did trigger governments at all levels to pass sunshine laws, open meeting laws and ethics reform. It's amazing that, one person has eroded all of the ethics reforms, and even more amazing that a lapdog Congress has sat idle while it happened. It all goes back to McConnell and his blocking of the impeachment convictions. The lesson learned by Trump is that he can do whatever he wants and a Congress can't muster enough votes to stop him and an activist Supreme Court has given the executive branch power that is not in the Constitution.I want to see her ass in jail so bad. She is not only crooked and corrupt, she's a fucking socio-path who needs to be restrained and kept away from animals and humans.
But I want to see her really suffer during the process. Not to redeem herself, but to be confronted with her own evil by decent peope on a jury.
She is without doubt, one of the worst people that the Senate confirmed. And they knew she was a monster and confirmed her anyway.

Trump just appointed one the stupidest members of Congress to replace ICE Barbie- the macho plumber guy who keeps getting Iran and Iraq confused.
Tommy wants to go back to Alabamy to be the next guvner.Tommy Tuberville must have turned him down, huh?
Yes, and these baboons will elect him. It's a madhouse! It's a madhouse! It's a MADHOUSE!!!Tommy wants to go back to Alabamy to be the next guvner.
I have to think it's a good thing. Noem's replacement is no more fit to conduct the pogroms than she was. And if midterms neuter Congressional defense of Trump, the new lead may be in a dead-end post.I am amazed. But I suppose not surprised.
Trump Doesn't want competence. He wants loyalty.
Lindsey Halligan being investigated by Florida Bar
Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who was hand-picked by President Trump to prosecute his political adversaries, is under investigation by Florida’s bar, a letter sent by the organization and obtained by The Hill shows.
The letter was sent last month to the executive director of Campaign for Accountability, a watchdog group that filed complaints against Halligan in Florida and Virginia.








