Ray Kelly, Joe Lieberman, Mike Rogers on List of Possible Napolitano Replacements

With Napolitano out at DHS, White House begins to vet replacements

The Hill - President Obama and his security advisors are busily compiling and vetting a list of possible candidates to replace outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

With immigration reform on Congress’s front burner, the next nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will receive an extraordinary amount of scrutiny. But their resumes must go above and beyond the current immigration debate, according to those close to discussions.

As the federal government’s largest umbrella department, DHS oversees more than two-dozen agencies and areas, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Coast Guard.   More