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...House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King confirmed in a phone interview early Saturday afternoon to TIME that officials were close to a deal involving the Congressional leadership, the White House and the Dubai company. The agreement would call for a 45-day ?CFIUS-plus investigation,? King said, referring to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a Treasury Department-run interagency panel that probes proposed acquisitions...
...main novelty of this report, submitted by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, is that it is hell-bent on looking forward. Yes, this happens to be politically convenient. No administration relishes pointing fingers at itself. But it is also a reasonable next step, given that hurricane season is just a few months away...
...example, the report finds "significant flaws" in the National Response Plan, a framework for handling disasters that the Department of Homeland Security unveiled at the beginning of last year. The report calls for a 90-day review of the plan and says it should be changed to anticipate that the feds may need to temporarily assume some state and local responsibilities...
...Though it takes pains not to cast blame, the report does suggest shifting a number of functions currently handled by the Department of Homeland Security (or its now notorious division, FEMA) to other branches of the federal government. Those include having the Department of Justice take over sole responsibility for handling law enforcement immediately after a disaster, giving Health and Human Services the job of overseeing the distribution of emergency aid to victims as well as a network of medical response teams, and bringing Housing and Urban Development on board to manage temporary housing - which should not, the report stresses...
...Well, that?s a different matter altogether. Some do, some don?t. As the report points out, the military has a great unified-command model that the Department of Homeland Security could learn from; but that model took almost 60 years to build. It will be hard to streamline the system in time for the next major disaster...