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That's just the beginning of the turmoil brewing in Amish country. Some men are upset that an increasing number of Amish businesses are owned by women. And there may be a fight ahead with the U.S. government. Homeland Security technically requires photo IDs for interstate travel, and the Amish aren't allowed to have their pictures taken. Again, Witness isn't helping...
That's still being worked out. As things stand, HHS would be in charge of the federal medical response. The Department of Homeland Security would handle the emergency response, as it does after a hurricane. But most of the authority sits with the states, which are free to call on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish testimony on Capitol Hill last week, "FEMA does not own fire trucks, ambulances, search-and-rescue equipment." Says James Jay Carafano, an authority on homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "It's the National Disaster Coordinating Agency. You could probably come up with a sexier name, but that's what it does...
...White House, anxious to head off an outside investigation like the 9/11 commission, is adding staff for its own internal probe, led by Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, and plans to issue a "Lessons Learned" report in coming months. Democrats could get handed more than the whitewash many are expecting. According to Administration officials, the White House plans to use the investigation to win support for changes in government architecture that might otherwise be resisted by Congress or federal employees unions. "We view this as an opportunity to make real improvements," says a senior Administration official. A huge target...
...April, Kidd told anti-war activists from a group called the Harvard Social Forum that they would not be allowed to stage a rally outside an OCS event, in the Science Center, that would feature panelists from the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security. But just hours before the rally was set to begin, she sent an e-mail to organizers of the rally informing them that they would be allowed to hold a “peaceful demonstration” even though they had not gone through the proper procedure for obtaining a permit...