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...leads are falling through the cracks." Germany's fractured security system dates back to the aftermath of World War II, when law enforcement was broken down into isolated agencies to prevent the emergence of another Gestapo. Today, six different federal agencies have their own tiny slivers of homeland security turf, while each of Germany's 16 states has its own local intelligence-gathering and enforcement organizations. The agencies are further divided by the extent of their remits - the BKA, for example, can't initiate investigations but can continue those started by others; the Federal Office for the Protection...
Maybe it was U.S. homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's visit to London last week. Or maybe it was just more aftershocks from last month's bombing in Bali. But suddenly Europe started feeling a lot like the U.S., where Ridge and Attorney General John Ashcroft issue terror alerts on what seems like a weekly basis. Britons were getting decidedly mixed messages from their government. On Thursday, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas. Maybe they will try to use boats or trains...
...were widespread and, in some places, outright shocking. In Massachusetts, 45 percent of voters supported a ballot question that would eliminate the state income tax, cutting $40 billion from the state budget. In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a widely respected Vietnam veteran, was defeated on the issue of homeland security. In countless other close races—for the senate in Minnesota and Missouri, for the governor’s office in California—Democrats fared very poorly, and in several cases lost contests that were eminently winnable...
Democrats were divided on Bush’s massive tax cut; a quarter of Senate Democrats voted in favor of the ill-conceived plan. Instead of disagreeing outright with Bush’s idea of a Department of Homeland Security, the Democrats let the plan languish while they bickered about a minor labor dispute. Republicans have adopted the idea of subsidized prescription drugs, leaving the Democrats with no proposals that match the sweeping innovation of Bill Clinton’s 1992 proposal to extend health care to all people who are uninsured...
...comes the hard part. Everything you hear about how difficult it will be to govern with a majority is true. Deficits are already mushrooming and now Bush cannot blame the opposition for increasing spending. He must manage a tricky economy while pushing some costly new proposals. His Department of Homeland Security will be expensive; his plan to transform Social Security will cost at least $1 trillion in transition costs, according to the experts and any plans he has for overhauling the tax code will also certainly have big outlays associated with making the switch. We may even see Democrats running...