LAT: Homeland Security Lacks 'Watch List

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-watchlists2oct02,1,6772563,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Three years after the failure of federal security agencies to coordinate their efforts contributed to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has failed in its effort to create a single, comprehensive "watch list" of suspected terrorists, according to a government report released Friday.

"DHS is not fulfilling its responsibility under the Homeland Security Act," said Clark Kent Ervin, inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, whose office conducted the study.

The report identified lack of leadership by the Department of Homeland Security and a continuing failure of the government's scattered intelligence agencies to coordinate information as the primary causes of the department's failure to produce a comprehensive terrorist watch list.

The lack of such a list, and the underlying failure of the government's far-flung intelligence and security agencies to cooperate and share information, have been widely cited as a major contributing factor in the Sept. 11 attacks. Without a central database containing the latest information about possible terrorists, border guards and other security personnel are hard-pressed to do their jobs, experts agree.

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

1. good thing they...

realeased it on a Friday to make sure that EVEYONE sees it...how long will it take for the world to see that BushCo are just not up to the job?

[Rose Siding]

2. Oh, man: hoisted on their own petard by their own report...

and saying so out loud. The sky is falling.

[oldhat]

3. I feel a lot safer with Bush as president.

Only his strong leadership can whip this bureaucracy into shape.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. Well, Tom's been WORKING HARD on the Cat Stevens thing...

Actually, a search of recent news articles turns up Tom's name in relations to:
a. a recent high-level resignation from his department
b. a recent re-hash of three-year-old dirty bomb recommendations
c. Cat Stevens
d. Lack of DHS action on securing chemical plants in the US
e. Lack of response re: 9-11 panel reforms

Yep, Tom Ridge has been WORKING HARD on Homeland Security.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Maybe Kerry could use this info --