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...Democrats, in a typically garish display of ineptitude, allowed the issue to slip away in 2002. They blocked the Department of Homeland Security - which they had proposed in the first place - because the Republicans wanted to loosen union rules governing hiring and firing. Biden believes this stubbornness cut into his party's usual advantage with women and cost it the election. The Democrats, of course, succumbed immediately thereafter: the Department of Homeland Security was established. But not very much security has come of it. Indeed, Budget Director Mitchell Daniels blurted the real Bush strategy last week: "There is not enough...
...deal with biological and chemical attacks; that the major ports - like Long Beach, Calif.--are protected; that nuclear-power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants are guarded? Apparently, there has been precious little progress on any of these fronts. "The Administration just hasn't made the commitment to homeland security that it has to national security," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who is not a guy, told me last week. "They're not focused on it the same way they are on making the case against Iraq. A statement like Daniels' suggests they're abdicating...
...White House argues that it has increased homeland-security funds significantly. That's true, sort of: there are all those uniformed people at airports; there are larger stocks of vaccines and antibiotics. More money has gone to border patrol and - just recently - to port security. But there's an element of three-card monte here: money slops from pot to pot, and the totals remain unchanged. On the ground, the situation is largely unchanged too. Nicholas Scoppetta, the New York City fire commissioner, says the Federal Government replaced all 91 fire trucks destroyed on Sept. 11, but it hasn...
...product lineup: sensors for cutting-edge military drone aircraft, minivan-size airport baggage scanners, lifelike human dummies that breathe and bleed? If it sounds like a grab bag, that just goes to show how rapidly the defense business is changing. And the best model for a post-9/11, homeland-security-era defense firm may be L-3 Communications, which makes each of these unique high-tech devices...
...morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lanza's professional world view changed. From the windows of his 34th-floor Manhattan office, he saw the attacks on the World Trade Center, and in those minutes the national-security business was redefined. "Nobody gave a damn about homeland security before that morning," he says. "Suddenly the whole world was interested...