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After the bridge collapse Minneapolis on Aug. 1, the Department of Homeland Security announced that there was no evidence of terrorism. Similar declarations followed the July explosion of an 83-year-old steam pipe in Manhattan and an August 2003 power blackout that affected 50 million people and shut down airports across the Northeast. All very alarming, but no terrorism here. Carry...
...nation. The strain on our foundations can cut Americans off from their jobs, their families and emergency services, sometimes just for short periods that don't make the news and sometimes permanently. While it's always nice to know there was no malice aforethought, infrastructure failures suggest a homeland that is less than secure...
...General Accounting Office (now called the Government Accountability Office) found serious flaws in the security of the 50-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center off eastern Long Island, New York - the only facility in America cleared to research FMD. Two years later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the facility had become outmoded and "increasingly costly to maintain." Last year, the department said it was considering locations for a new, $450 million disease...
...tribunals by doing absolutely nothing. It didn't approve or disapprove them, but left Bush free to romp over the legal rights of anyone suspected of terrorism. As Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the head of its Center for Health and Homeland Security, has pointed out, staying silent is not the way this constitutional game should be played...
...original version of this article reported that almost 100,000 Arabs fled their homeland before and after the creation of Israel. However, approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced...