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...trade with members of the Taliban. President George W. Bush declared two national emergencies in September 2001, activating several obscure statutes, mostly related to calling up the armed forces. And although he proclaimed Hurricane Katrina an "incident of national significance," thus enacting a disaster-response plan headed by then Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, he did not invoke any powers under the National Emergency Act. This is common practice; natural disasters are usually declared state emergencies by the acting governor, who then requests federal aid. (See a bin Laden family photo album...
...couple of hand grenades. No, but we had security all the time whenever we were transferring anything even from one building to another building at Sony. Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security...
...real televisions were harmed. The sets were just cardboard boxes painted with inane smiley faces and decorated with slogans like "Feel good!" "Proud to be USA!" "Safe in the homeland!" The aluminum-foil antennas, however, did collapse miserably from the real gunfire...
...impact of the bickering is more than unseemly public flare-ups, mixed signals and muddled investigations; the conflict could hamper the government's ability to effectively protect against terrorism, the report said. In early 2007, President George W. Bush signed a Homeland Security directive known as HSPD-19 that required Executive Branch agencies to develop a unified approach "to aggressively deter, prevent, detect, protect and respond" to terrorists' efforts to use explosives in the U.S. The report concluded that, unless the DOJ addressed the problem, "competition between the components on fundamental issues involving explosives investigations and lead agency authority will...
...same interview, however, Rajaratnam said he wanted to help rebuild civilian life in his homeland after over 2½ decades of war. "I would like to participate more actively in doing humanitarian work in Sri Lanka," Rajaratnam told the publication. "I am a firm believer that with success comes responsibility and the incredible power of possibility - a responsibility to help those less fortunate and the possibility of actually succeeding in making a difference." Whether he can make that difference from a U.S. prison cell remains to be seen...