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...from FEMA said, 'Americans don't live in tents,'" van Heerden recalls. "I said to her, people will kiss your shoes for a tent in the end." It was also worrying that the new head, Michael Brown, would report not to the President but to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Like Chertoff, Brown, a Colorado attorney, had no emergency-management experience...
Meanwhile, in the strange parallel universe of Washington press conferences, federal officials regularly congratulated one another. "I think it is a source of tremendous pride to me to work with people who have pulled off this really exceptional response," Chertoff said Thursday. In an interview with National Public Radio, he was pressed six times about the misery of the 25,000 refugees at the Convention Center. Chertoff said he had not heard about any problems...
Homeland security�secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...
...have spent $18 billion on protecting planes and only $250 million exclusively on transit since 9/11. But that's partly because aviation is much easier to secure. And it's also because local officials have always picked up more of the costs for transit. When Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was asked if he would push to raise transit funding after the London bombings, he demurred...
Indeed, it's hard to know how much we should spend until we decide on our priorities for protecting the nation's transport system--something Chertoff's department has not yet made clear. "That kind of road map is still missing out of Washington," says Daniel Prieto, research director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative at Harvard University. Sixteen times as many Americans take public transit every day as take planes. Does that mean the spending ought to shift to those riders? On Dec. 31, the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to provide Congress with a strategic plan...