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...Bush announced his own plan in May, which made no reference to the commission’s recommendations. Rather than create a Homeland Security agency—which meant more government, a no-no in the Bush campaign—Bush opted to leave the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in charge of developing policies to deal with domestic terrorism. Bush’s plan assigned an already overburdened Dick Cheney to assess the state of national security, even though the Commission had already made significant progress in that direction...
Coordinate is the key word here. Against the recommendations of the recent commission on national security chaired by former Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman, Ridge will not be in charge of a superagency into which have been folded operational arms of the Federal Government like FEMA. That may be a mistake. If there is one thing more depressing than the number of reports on homeland security, it is the unanimity of their conclusions. At present, coordination simply doesn't happen; homeland defense is a patchwork quilt made by an inept seamstress. Some stories would be funny if they weren...
...commission co-chaired by Rudman and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart concluded in January that the threat of terrorism called for nothing short of a new federal department combining FEMA, the Customs Service, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. Many in Congress agree. "If you want to get a job done, there's no substitute for having an agency with a budget," says Democrat Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But given the fact that Republicans in Congress were trying to kill four Cabinet departments only six years ago, it's hard to imagine a Republican...
...FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY If you are located in one of the attack areas and in need of assistance, contact FEMA...
...good broad-based study being done by cabinet officials with help from their staffs and involves the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce and Treasury. Josh Bolton had a policy in the White House, Joel Albaugh is involved, the head of FEMA, a broad range of Administration officials [have] come together to work on this particular problem...