Michael Chertoff
I'll bet that you've been wondering how come after five years the airlines have suddenly discovered that clear liquid might be a danger. I'll bet you've wondered how come the vaunted Dept. of Homeland Security under Republican management can't do anything but react to terrorist actions. In other words, alleged airline bombers arrested in England, U.S. airlines tighten security. London bombing of subways, NYC police department checks bags for a week or so (at certain more visible stations).
Will the U.S. (under Republican control) ever get ahead of the terrorists? I doubt it.
Check out the following by John Solomon:
"As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new explosives detection technology. Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of Homeland Security Department steps that have left lawmakers and some of the department's own experts questioning the commitment to create better anti-terror technologies.
"Homeland Security's research arm, called the Sciences & Technology Directorate, is a 'rudderless ship without a clear way to get back on course,' Republican and Democratic senators on the Appropriations Committee declared recently.
"'The committee is extremely disappointed with the manner in which S&T is being managed within the Department of Homeland Security,' the panel wrote June 29 in a bipartisan report accompanying the agency's 2007 budget."
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