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...Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday that it has finally decided to distribute more money based on risk-not population or politics. ?We are taking a giant step forward,? said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff as he unveiled the list of 35 urban areas that will be eligible for antiterrorism funding this year at a press conference in Washington, D.C. ?We?ve learned some lessons, we?ve listened to some of the critics,? Chertoff said...
...three years, big-city mayors and the 9/11 commission assailed DHS for doling out money with little regard to risk-resulting in Wyoming getting far more antiterrorism funding per person than New York. (See TIME?s investigation " How We Got Homeland Security Wrong," March 29, 2004). Since he took over as secretary in February 2005, Chertoff has promised to be smarter...
...closer look at the new rules shows that America?s porkland-security era may not yet be over. The changes are being made to something called the Urban Area Security Initiative, a program created in 2003 to funnel homeland security money to high-risk cities. This program was always designed to target money based on risk, and it?s only a portion of the total $2.5 billion that DHS will give states in 2006. When it was first created, only seven cities made the ?high threat? list. But as the funding rose, so did the number of cities...
...years ago HHS had said we're looking for 100,000 sources of treatment, I don't think we'd have developed the product," says Hollis. An HHS official says Hollis-Eden's projections were at odds with the nuclear-threat scenario envisioned by the Department of Homeland Security. He also acknowledges that government health officials aren't accustomed to dealing with national- security issues. "It's new to have the medical side of the house working with the intel side," he says. "We're kind of learning as we go." Biodefense companies are also learning that national security...
...late for the flurry of critics, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54, D-Mass., who had already seized on the story as evidence of the federal government’s disregard for civil liberties. The UMass-Dartmouth student originally said two officials from the Department of Homeland Security had shown up at his home to question him about his interest in the “Little Red Book,” the Chinese Communist leader’s seminal text. But in a meeting on Dec. 22 with two faculty members, a school official, and a reporter...