Homeland Security Getting Major Overhaul

[dubyaD40web]

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The two-year-old Homeland Security Department is undergoing a massive overhaul to centralize its analyses of terrorism intelligence and place higher priority on bioterrorism.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was resetting top priorities in a bid to spur a sluggish bureaucracy beset by turf wars and growing pains.

Creation of an intelligence director to centralize terrorism analyses and a chief medical officer to focus on bioterrorism are among top changes to be announced by Chertoff on Wednesday. These are two areas where experts believe the department has lagged.

Chertoff ordered a review in March, shortly after he took office, to ensure Homeland Security puts most of its resources into the nation's most vulnerable areas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050713/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/homeland_security

[Javaman]

1. Isn't this the 2nd or 3rd time for a "major overhaul"?

Just more proof these idiots just make this shit up as they go along.

The homeland security dept is the biggest waste of taxpayer money next to Iraq and this so called war on terrorism that jackass* and room full of fuck ups started.

[napi21]

2. Actually, I don't think so. I think Tom Ridge was the WRONG

person to ever head that hugh group, and he never did get any real control of the whole thing.

Chertoff still has to prove himself to me, but so far, he seems better than Ridge!

In a job llike that, you need someone who is a very strong, tough personality (something like a Howard Dean) to first gain the respect of your employees, and then DEMAND the changes you see necessary to take place! Those employees won't all like you, in fact many will probably hate your ideas, but they'll respect you for being straight forward, and do what yu ask.

[steve2470]

3. Chertoff to Overhaul Homeland Security

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMELAND_SECURITY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME


By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer




WASHINGTON (AP) -- Proclaiming the Homeland Security Department "open to change," Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday announced plans to centralize his agency's terror analysis, put a higher priority on bioterrorism and step up detection systems in mass transit.

In welcome news to Washington-area commuters, the department also will lift a rule that forbade passengers from leaving their seats for 30 minutes before flying into or out of Reagan National Airport, Chertoff said in revealing the details of a sweeping overhaul of the 2-year-old agency founded in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Chertoff ordered the review in March shortly after he took office. The overhaul aims to spur the sluggish bureacracy beset by turf wars and growing pains, and to ensure deparment resources are put into the nation's most vulnerable areas.

"Over time, as intelligence warrants and progress allows, DHS will be open to change. We will be straight forward. If something goes wrong, we will not only acknowledge it, we will be the first to fix the error," Chertoff told a packed ballroom of lawmakers, department employees and other officials.

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[Booster]

4. They should overhaul the entire administration. How much money

will this new overhaul cost for a department that's only 2 yrs old? This is the most incompetent group of people I have ever seen.

[dkofos]

8. Do you expect competance from repugs??

[BR_Parkway]

5. How fucked up could they have gotten it in the couple of years it's

been operating? And if it's on the wrong track, then how can they claim they've been making us safer.

[comradebillyboy]

6. good for chertoff

homeland security dept is so fucked up that he can only make it better.

[endarkenment]

7. Sitting on wet seats on the DC shuttle was getting annoying.

A complete overhaul of an agency that is two years old? Can we spell TOTAL INCOMPETENT FUCKUPS?