Homeland Security Project

About the Project

The Homeland Security Project’s (HSP) core mission is to be an active, bipartisan voice on homeland and national security issues.

The project is co-chaired by former Governor Tom Kean and former Congressman Lee Hamilton who led the 9/11 Commission’s bipartisan 20-month investigation into the September 11th attacks and forged unanimous agreement on its 41 recommendations – the vast majority of which were enacted into law.

In Wake of Bombings, Strategy to Counter Online Radicalization in the Spotlight
April 24, 2013

By Carie Lemack and Laura Hall

The online activities of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects charged with the tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, indicate that the brothers viewed extremist messages online. Online networks provide an easy way for extremists to spread their message, give advice to new radicals, and plan attacks. Arguably, the use of the Internet to radicalize and recruit homegrown terrorists is the single-most important and dangerous innovation since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Cyber Security Policy Research Guide
April 30, 2013

The issue of cyber security is vast and requires analysis from a range of experts and perspectives. The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Homeland Security Project compiled this list of reports on cyber security from policy analysis centers across the country, as well as resources from businesses and news sources. It is our intent to provide a helpful starting tool to cyber security researchers who seek a wide array of opinions and information. As our nation and indeed the world become increasingly connected online, we hope that American society will continue this healthy and necessary discussion of the challenges, dangers and opportunities that global connectivity creates.

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Countering Online Radicalization in America
Dec. 4, 2012

While being a force for good, the Internet has also come to play an important—and, in many ways, unique—role in radicalizing homegrown and domestic terrorists. Supporters of Al Qaeda, Sovereign Citizens, white supremacists and neo-Nazis, environmental and animal liberationists, and other violent extremist groups all have embraced the Internet with great enthusiasm and vigor. They are using it as a platform to spread their ideas, connect with each other, make new recruits, and incite illegal and violent actions.

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Countering Online Radicalization in America
Dec. 4, 2012