Security deadlines missed since 9/11 (Homeland Security compared to FEMA)

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/AP: Security deadlines missed since 9/11
Some say Congress shares blame with unrealistic requirements
Sunday, October 30, 2005


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the September 11 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists.

A plan to defend ships and ports from attack is six months overdue. Rules to protect air cargo from infiltration by terrorists are two months late. A study on the cost of giving anti-terrorism training to federal law enforcement officers who fly commercially was supposed to be done more than three years ago.

"The incompetence that we recently saw with FEMA's leadership appears to exist throughout the Homeland Security Department," said Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee. "Our nation is still vulnerable."

Congress must share the blame for the department's sluggishness in protecting commerce and travel from terrorists, according to other observers.

Lawmakers piled on deadline after deadline for reports, plans and regulations while the department, created after the 2001 attacks, had to integrate 22 agencies with 170,000 workers and cope with terrorist threats and hurricanes....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/30/security.deadlines.ap/index.html

[Glenda]

1. This is disturbing...

but why would I expect any different from this administration?

They're still doing a heckuva job, apparently. :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

2. Bush was elected as the terror president-yet Kerry many times brought

up the fact of sites that were not secure--ship yards, nuclear plants, etc. Yet Bush was elected. It always amazed me (deeply disturbed me).

[rodeodance]

3. kick

[rodeodance]

4. kick

[sabra]

5. kick for the truth

[indepat]

6. Destroying the myth that W can keep us safer from terra than a dem