And they are giving more weight to industry profits than they are public safety.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x236644"Editor's note: Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and the former head of the CIA's unit focused on fighting terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The author of "Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security," Faddis is also president of Orion Strategic Services, a Maryland-based security firm that does consulting work for the Department of Defense and counter-terrorist training for private firms."
...Roughly 18 months ago I started work on a project that ultimately lead to the writing of my recently published book, "Willful Neglect," on homeland security in the United States.
I examined security at a wide range of potential targets inside the United States, including chemical plants, liquefied natural gas facilities, biological research laboratories and nuclear power plants.
This was not a theoretical study. I did my homework up front, but after that, I went out on the street and I did what my 20 years in the CIA had trained me to do. I looked at all these targets in the same way as an adversary would. What I found was deeply disturbing. Eight years after 9/11, we had done little or nothing to enhance security in most areas.
Nuclear power plants were no exception.
Security at nuclear power plants is in the hands of private security companies hired to protect the facilities by the power companies that own them....
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/15/faddis.nuclear.plant.security/http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201527.phpNew Jersey's Sharif Mobley, Suspected alQaeda Member, Attended Yemen's Dammaj Islamic Institute
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As the facts begin to come out about Sharif Mobley, not only have we learned that US authorities were aware of him for some time, but that he also worked in several nuclear plants before leaving for Yemen two years ago. Additionally, Mobley attended a known extremist school in Yemen.
AOL News: Mobley was known as "the Somali" because of his African heritage, he said. He also said Mobley studied at Dar al-Hadith Dammaj institute in Saada, a well-known Salafist school in Yemen's northern province, which was decried as a "known terrorist training center" during tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
"Reports say that between 3,000 and 5,000 foreign students live and study there," said Abdul-Salam al-Korary, a local journalist who has covered Yemen for several decades. "It is a very radical school."
The Dammaj Institute is the flagship school of the Dar al Hadeth network of hard core Salafi institutes in Yemen. The school is isolated, and students are immersed in the rigorous teaching program 24/7. There are a half dozen other Dar al Hadeth schools and numerous outposts dotted all over Yemen.
The Dammaj school gives students light weapons training, but they insist it is for self defense purposes necessitated by the Sa'ada War. The school has railed against the Shiite Houthi rebels and students have gotten into several firefights. In earlier outbreaks of the war, the Dammaj school reported that it was well guarded by Yemeni troops. According to typical Salafi philosophy, the Dammaj institute eschews political participation....
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