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Is America Prepared for Disaster?
Publication Date: 2007/05/30
Publication / Source: washingtonpost.com
Author: Brian A. Jackson
The Associate Director for RAND's Homeland Security Research Department weighs in on whether we can (and the benefits of being able to) measure the effectiveness our current disaster preparation efforts.
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Agriculture At Risk?
Publication / Source: The Progressive Farmer
Author: Jim Phillips
The terrorists who struck New York City and Washington D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way America defines security. And while most of us have probably given little thought to terrorism happening in rural America, scientists and law enforcement officials view America's food supply at risk.
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Modernizing Homeland Secuirty
Publication Date: 03/25/2002
Publication / Source: Blueprint Magazine
Author: John D. Cohen and John A. Hurson
Last year's terrorist attacks uncovered a deadly lack of integration among America's domestic defenses. Several of the future hijackers were briefly involved with police or other government agencies, which entered their names into government data systems. At least two of the men were sought by the FBI; the names of others were in other intelligence databases. But because the data systems were not linked, the dots were never connected, and the men went on their way. The chance to prevent terrorism was lost.
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Hearing Shfts Focus to U.S.-Canada Border
Publication / Source: The Detroit News
Author: Gordon Trowbridge
An interview with Duke University border security expert David Shanzer, outlining the need to secure America's Northern border against terrorists.
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Homeland Security Failures
Publication Date: 11/20/2003
Publication / Source: Blueprint Magazine
Author: Shane Ham
It's been more than two years since President Bush announced, shortly after 9/11, that the federal government had "no more important mission than protecting the homeland from future terrorist attacks." So how's he doing? Unfortunately, at this point the president gets only a D.