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...probably not going to build that system anytime soon. Congress has tried to do it twice in the past two years, and failed both times. First, it created the Department of Homeland Security, which included a whole new bureaucracy--the office of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection--to build the system. But IAIP was almost immediately mugged by the CIA, which backed a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center to do much the same thing. The Pentagon and the FBI ignored both efforts, in the classic passive-aggressive manner of turf-obsessed bureaucrats...
Neither of the two bills emanated from the White House. Homeland Security came from congressional Democrats; Intelligence Reform from the 9/11 commission. Both ideas sprouted during election seasons; both were popular. Bush opposed the creation of a Department of Homeland Security before he favored it--and he has been unwilling to do the head cracking necessary to ensure that his friend, Secretary Tom Ridge, has the authority to do his job. Bush was dragged into supporting intelligence reform by John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately--without any input from, or negotiation with...
RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the brusque and blunt former New York City police commissioner who won praise for his calm crisis management in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...
...appears that the Bush administration has suddenly awakened to the very real threat of terrorist infiltration of the U.S. through the obviously porous border we share with Mexico. That it took an al-Qaeda operative to alert us to this obvious risk is ridiculous. What has our Homeland Security Department been doing? Wouldn't our nation be a lot more secure if, instead of spending billions of dollars in Iraq, we used the money to secure our borders...
In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...