Badges, not bullets’ for D.C. airspace mission

[lovuian]

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Badges, not bullets’ for D.C. airspace mission
Pentagon memo lays out airspace security needs for Homeland Security


WASHINGTON - As the Department of Homeland Security debates making changes in how it helps patrol the skies over Washington, the Pentagon has weighed in on the subject, telling the department it favors a strong law enforcement presence over more guns in the air.

“They want badges, not bullets,” said a DHS source familiar with a classified Pentagon memo dated July 20, that includes a Memorandum of Agreement intended to carry the signatures of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.

The memo is the first official document between the Pentagon and DHS regarding security in the Washington airspace. Currently the airspace mission is outlined in a series of classified operational procedures and coordinated among civilian agencies and the military in weekly high level meetings.

Government Accountability Office report released last month criticized the fact that civilian agencies and the military act simultaneously and without any one agency taking the lead during an airspace violation around Washington

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Has Homeland Security solved anything???

[wli]

1. short answer: no

Long answer: It "solves" two major issues, neither of which have anything to do with the stated purposes.

First, there's more awareness of impending economic and other crises among the elites than is being publicized. The incremental imposition of martial law -like procedures and a heavily-staffed Gestapo equivalent are basically preparations for "unrest" expected to occur when those economic hardships have sufficiently apparent or severe effects.

Second, pork. It's an enormous porkbarrel project, and a very serious political tool as far as sending jobs and money to the districts of "obedient" legislators, and a dumping ground for money "disobedient" legislators would otherwise be granted for other purposes.

[lovuian]

2. Very good points!!!

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