Homeland Insecurity
Homeland Insecurity
President Bush said, “We have created a new department of government to defend our homeland, focused the FBI on preventing terrorism,…improved border security, and trained more than a half million first responders.”
FACT: “As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, according to current and former administration officials and independent experts.”
FACT: “DHS is still a compilation of 22 agencies that aren’t integrated into a cohesive whole,” said its recently departed inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, who released many critical reports and was not reappointed after a falling-out with Ridge. Asked for examples of ineffectiveness, he replied: “I don’t know where to start. . . . I’ve never seen anything like it.”
FACT: When asked about the administration’s effort “to secure chemical plants and trains carrying chemicals,” President Bush’s former Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Richard Falkenrath replied, “I’m sorry to say, since 9/11 we have essentially done nothing.”
FACT: Virtual Case File, the software overhaul intended to aid in coordinating the FBI’s antiterrorism measures, “has been a train wreck in slow motion.”
FACT: The White House has consistently underfunded top security priorities like firefighter and police departments…
FACT: …as well as ports…
FACT: …and trains.
FACT: “The Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting,” though this project was one of the top priorities of the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Insecurity
Homeland Insecurity
President Bush said: “In the three and a half years since September 11th, 2001, we have taken unprecedented actions to protect Americans. We have created a new department of government to defend our homeland.”
FACT: “The Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, according to current and former administration officials and independent experts…it remains a second-tier agency in the clout it commands within President Bush’s Cabinet, the officials said. ”
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February 3rd, 2005 at 12:09 pm
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i work for government - so let me just tell you what homeland security has bought some of my co-workers ......
new wireless laptops.
do i feel more secure??????
sorry for the cynicism
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:27 pmThree million illegal aliens will sneak over the border this year, and thousands of those caught have been from the middle east. See this for examples of the chatter about terrorists sneaking over the border.
Regarding Bush's guest worker plan, see The Big Show on the Border for the truth.
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:36 pmI keep hearing and reading references to the many millions of 'first responders' trained. Who are these people and what training did they receive? I find this very unbelievable. Unless, of course, the reference includes people like TSA workers, but I thought those folks weren't included in Homeland Security. It's a huge mess and I'm beginning to think the sole purpose for the creation of that department was to destroy the civil service system.
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