Hi-tech center links inaugural security

[truthpusher]

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Hi-tech center links inaugural security

January 18, 2005

Miles from the Capitol where President Bush will take the oath of office, dozens of officials from 50 federal, state and local agencies will work side by side in a high-tech command center keeping close tabs on the security situation for the first presidential inauguration since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

At 120 work stations in the northern Virginia center and using giant video screens, law enforcement and security personnel will be able to watch from cameras that monitor downtown Washington streets, keep track of aerial surveillance flights and check sensors scanning for evidence of deadly biological or chemical agents.

"If there is a piece of technology that exists, we've put it to use for this event," said Jim Rice, the FBI supervisory agent for Thursday's inauguration.

For the first time, all the federal agencies that deal with security, law enforcement and crisis response will be housed in a single Joint Field Office. Also new for this presidential inauguration, federal agencies will be under the command of a "principal federal official" reporting directly to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.

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[EC]

1. So all someone has to do

is blow one place and the whole security system shuts down? And they don't even have to be in Washington where all the cops and guards are? That's kinda foolish isn't it?


Chrysler Motors here in town (WI) uses a Florida security firm to watch their parking lots and in factory for theft and espinage...it's not working so well, more vandalism and theft then ever...They switched to this firm to break the Unions, telling all the local guards they could transfer to the new firm, (their dime) and work for them at minimum wage out of Florida....