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Sept. 11 Panel: U.S. Remains Unprepared
The commission gave failing grades to the administration for the following areas:
"The five "F"s were for:
Failing to provide a radio system to allow first responders from different agencies communicate with each other during emergencies.
Distributing federal homeland security funding to states on a "pork-barrel" basis instead of risk.
Failing to consolidate names of suspicious airline travelers on a single terror watch screening list.
Hindering congressional oversight by retaining intelligence budget information as classified materials.
Failing to engage in an alliance to develop international standards for the treatment and prosecution of detained terror suspects."
In their defense the congress and current administration did get an A- on their efforts to curb terrorist funding, but that was the highest grade they got. More needs to be done to prepare this country against the terrorists, and all politics aside, we should be pushing our elected representatives toward increasing these grades on the whole, in my opinion.
The commission gave failing grades to the administration for the following areas:
"The five "F"s were for:
Failing to provide a radio system to allow first responders from different agencies communicate with each other during emergencies.
Distributing federal homeland security funding to states on a "pork-barrel" basis instead of risk.
Failing to consolidate names of suspicious airline travelers on a single terror watch screening list.
Hindering congressional oversight by retaining intelligence budget information as classified materials.
Failing to engage in an alliance to develop international standards for the treatment and prosecution of detained terror suspects."
In their defense the congress and current administration did get an A- on their efforts to curb terrorist funding, but that was the highest grade they got. More needs to be done to prepare this country against the terrorists, and all politics aside, we should be pushing our elected representatives toward increasing these grades on the whole, in my opinion.