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...officials argue that there was really no way the U.S. government could have foreseen, much less prevented, the deadly attacks on Washington and New York City. Osama bin Laden's plot was too diabolical, they said, too well executed and too perfectly aimed at the blind spots of our homeland defense for anyone to have imagined or foiled it. "We were surprised by what happened here," said Vice President Dick Cheney five days afterward...
...looked back. He has launched two wars, sent special-forces teams to at least half a dozen other countries, pumped billions into old spy networks and new unmanned weapons, and engineered the biggest reorganization of government since the cold war by creating the Department of Homeland Security. At home, he has signed legislation granting sweeping new powers to the Justice Department and other law-enforcement agencies. Overseas, he has authorized a new military doctrine that abandons deterrence for pre-emptive action. The government has focused on these threats in unprecedented ways. As Bush said last week, "We are slowly...
...government clearinghouse for terrorist threats. A single center would ensure that information would be spread around liberally and that someone could ultimately be held accountable. But instead of just one clearinghouse, there are more threat centers than ever before. Each agency--the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security--has its own analytical or operations center, and some have both. Several agencies still produce separate watch lists of terrorists operating worldwide. Last week Congress grew impatient with what seemed to be an exploding universe of terrorist information and action centers in Washington. "Right now there is more confusion...
...providing an intelligence windfall about potential a-Qaeda plots against the U.S., western and Saudi governments. The sources say Saudi authorities passed al-Ghamdi's allegations about what could be multiple airline hijackings to the CIA, which then briefed President Bush and also provided them to the Department of Homeland Security...
Since we reported on jetmaker Embraer in the May issue of TIME Global Business, the Brazilian up-and-comer has garnered fresh attention. Embraer recently announced that it would open a plant in Jacksonville, Fla., and start pursuing U.S. defense and homeland-security contracts. (Embraer already sells a line of surveillance aircraft to the governments of Brazil, Greece and Mexico.) Then more news: discount carrier JetBlue Airways ordered 100 Embraer regional jets for $3 billion. The deal was especially notable because JetBlue had earlier espoused the maintenance and training efficiencies of using only one type of plane--one made...