According to a report by Reuters‘s Mark Hosenball, Matt Drudge‘s Drudge Report and many others have been kept under surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS official involved in the monitoring program confirmed the authenticity of the list to the news agency.

If your favorite TV show or radio program airs weekdays at 2 PM, the FCC has an important message for you. In order to test its new emergency alert system, the FCC has announced it is shutting down all communications on television and radio to test out its new Emergency Alert System on Wednesday, November 9th. While the system has been tested in various states previously, this will be the first all-inclusive, national test.

The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a way to fuel people’s anger at Wall Street, and the Department of Homeland Security is concerned such high-profile events may inspire hackers to once again target big financial institutions.

All this week, there was growing opposition to the Muslim radicalization hearings led by Republican Congressman Peter King. In case you missed it, here are just some examples of criticism in the media from Jon Stewart, The New York Times, Chris Matthews, Cenk Uygur and Donny Deutsch. Well now that the first day of hearings is complete, King has a message for the media.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared on CNN‘s State of the Union and was eager to defend Director of National Intelligece James Clapper’s embarrassing ordeal of being unaware of the London arrests of 12 people as part of a potential holiday terror plot. Napolitano attempted to dismiss concern by explaining Clapper’s lack of knowledge due to the fact that he was so involved with other issues and did not haven time to squeeze in a briefing before the interview with Diane Sawyer.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano attended the funeral of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry who was fatally shot while pursuing a gang last week in Arizona. In a phone call where Napolitano offered condolences to the family, the father of the murdered agent, angry that the border is still not secure, told her “you gotta wake your man up in the White House” and she allegedly responded “he’s done more in the last two years than any other president.” However, to the Terry family such sentiment represented “empty words.”

Lest anyone believe that there is away around the TSA’s new anti-terror screening, Geraldo Rivera is here to set the record straight: even celebrities get their junk touched. Rivera visited Juan Williams on the O’Reilly Factor last night to share his recent flying experience: “they say ‘Hi, Geraldo,’ and then they proceed to give me the most invasive, insulting, intrusive body pat down.” No one is safe.

During an interview on America Live, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) told host Megyn Kelly that the current UPS Bomb scare story is the sort of plot that is “a test of our defense system” and “this is for real” “whether or not it’s a test.” Additionally, he said, “there is something happening here which has been taken very seriously.”

A massive oil spill floating around the Gulf of Mexico has gone from an environmental concern to a homeland security menace, as it grew today to a size larger than the state of Rhode Island and is expected to hit the shores along the Gulf of Mexico later this week.

When former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s book first came out, there was a lot of vigorous overselling of the tome as a smoking gun in the politicization of terror alerts. While Ridge’s book seems to indicate he had concerns that efforts to raise the alert level might have been political, it is hardly proof of that. However, Ridge appeared on last night’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” and promptly tried to walk back even that suspicion.

When a high-ranking government official meets an establishment journalist, the ensuing fawning at the feet of power can sometimes be too much to bear. Last weekend, Chris Wallace was compared to a “teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers” for his lack of incision in a televised segment with former Vice President Dick Cheney. And then there’s Rachel Maddow, who on last night’s episode of her MSNBC show was the most well-prepared “teenage girl” on TV, calmly dismantling every argument put forth by former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge.