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...Americans. He has been willing to break the bank to pay for foreign wars, because, he claims, these actions will make the American people safer. But while the President has been unconcerned about spending $100 billion to wage war in Iraq, he has continuously refused to provide funding for homeland security, even when the funding is clearly needed to protect the American people...
...billion in 2004. Instead, Bush transferred $1.2 billion in federal funds already earmarked for local law enforcement to a similar program with a different name. Through some slick accounting and fuzzy math, Bush made it seem like this $1.2 billion transfer was a $1.2 billion increase in funding for homeland security. After this fiscal sleight of hand, the President provided only 71 percent of the funding increase he had promised. The Administration’s failure to provide adequate funding has put serious strain on local departments. As one Massachusetts police officer told the Boston Globe, the same officers...
...resource support for bioterrorism preparedness. It has also witnessed the inevitable tension between the desire to prepare for any and all potential events and concern over creating unnecessary fear and anxiety in the public and diverting scarce resources from other public health programs. Thus the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Americans to create rooms sealed with plastic and duct tape to withstand a chemical attack even as Randall J. Larsen, director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security calls such safe rooms a waste of time...
...Iraq's possession of WMDs were both examples of a common concern, "asymmetric threats," or the idea that nations with far less conventional military strength than the U.S. would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons to redress the balance. Cheney had been charged with developing a policy on homeland security in response to asymmetric threats, which meant that Iraq's continued possession of WMDs was a problem that landed on his desk. In morning intelligence briefings, says a former Administration official, the Vice President began to raise questions about Saddam's regime. Cheney and others, says the official, would...
...stretch for Poniewozik to contrast Mister Rogers' straightforwardness with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's awkward attempts to be reassuring. But Ridge could learn a few lessons from Rogers. Maybe we could get Ridge to wear a cardigan sweater in the security-alert color of the day. JIM HOFFMANN Swansea...