On the day before the Labor Day weekend, the White House released the President’s latest “National Preparedness Month” Proclamation. Like last year’s, the proclamation employs the term “resilience.” Yet, the White House remains unwilling to act to establish resilience as the nation’s preparedness objective and daily operating condition. Rhetoric is not results.
In 2006, the first homemade drug-trafficking submersible to be seen at sea by American law enforcement officers was interdicted 100 miles off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica, carrying 3 tons of cocaine. Ever since, these stealth vehicles have been intercepted periodically throughout the eastern Pacific expanse.
Tom Cellucci, former Chief Commercialization Officer for the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Ann-Christine Langselius, former vice president for the Swedish Defense & Security Government Agency, are joining forces to create a Web TV channel dedicated to serving the needs of the many stakeholders in the worldwide security enterprise.
The US Treasury Department has added eight Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders to the list of specially designated nationals. The LeT terrorists designated by Treasury include Sajid Mir, the “project manager” responsible for coordinating the November 2008 siege of Mumbai.
Senior police officials on Wednesday warned of potential terrorist attacks in Southern California amid a growing risk of war breaking out overseas. LAPD is concerned with what it calls a number of “active plots” in the Southland.
In a recent op-ed, Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the EPA, proposed greater regulation of the U.S. chemical sector because the current regulations aren’t working. Gov. Whitman is right on one thing: the current system isn’t working, but it is not because of a lack of regulation. Chemical companies have tried, but DHS isn’t keeping up
DHS has called in the Pentagon’s premier research agency to help develop a new generation of imagers that are faster, smaller, more precise, and less prone to hacking.
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an editorial by Christine Todd Whitman, titled “The Chemical Threat to America.” In the op-ed, the author calls on the Administration to expand and implement chemical security regulations in the water sector as a means to protect America. She advocates that the federal government should be able to mandate chemical processes and force water systems to use so-called Inherently Safer Technologies. Ms. Whitman is smart and capable, but on this issue she is wrong, wrong, wrong.
As Hurricane Isaac bears down on the Gulf Coast, the following are important online resources that will help you stay ready for a hurricane, respond to its arrival, and recover from its damage. Use well.
Federal hurricane trackers this year will be experimenting with powerful new tools: unmanned boats and aircraft, including a massive drone more known for spying on battlefields than monitoring nature’s violence.
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