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CONTEXT U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a British newspaper that the U.S. fears its next major terrorist attack could be carried out by "clean-skin terrorists" in Europe who feel they are treated as second-class citizens. He warned that the visa-waiver program, which allows citizens from some European countries to enter the U.S. without a visa, could be an open door for the terrorists...
...News correspondent Major Garret failed to share with viewers damning sections of a Senate report on the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in March of 2006. While the other three major networks reported on the reports castigation of the White House, the Department Of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense, Garret only talked about sections criticizing Federal Emergency Management Agency...
...city electrician to meet city regulations and concerns. Only two of the sensor nodes currently mounted collect weather data, while the rest are relay nodes that transmit the data, according to Bers. Welsh said that in the project’s early stages, the idea responded to a homeland security concern: monitoring levels of toxic waste. The researchers decided to pitch the project to the National Science Foundation, where the project was a “natural fit,” he said. The project began to receive funding from the National Science Foundation last August. According to Majid Ezzati...
...Polish Sejm, or parliament, in downtown Warsaw to demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about 1,000 demonstrators mounted a counter-rally in favor of loosening Poland's laws: "Free women, free world," they shouted...
...There have been missteps. Giuliani's push to have former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik of Giuliani Partners nominated for Secretary of Homeland Security was a fiasco. Investigators quickly turned up some undisclosed financial favors done for Kerik by a company seeking municipal contracts. But in general, business and politics have meshed so smoothly inside Rudy Inc. that at times you can't tell them apart...