Homeland Security to Hold Internal Review

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department will undergo a massive internal review to ensure its policy and funding decisions are being driven by threat assessments, its chief told lawmakers Wednesday.
The department, which opened its doors two years ago this week, has suffered turf battles and growing pains after merging 22 agencies under one roof.

Testifying in his first congressional hearing since being sworn in last month, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said changes made after the review will "better enable us to identify, prevent and, if necessary, mitigate and respond to attacks on our homeland."
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Chertoff and several of his top lieutenants faced lawmakers across Capitol Hill to lobby for the department's $41.1 billion budget plan for next year -- $34.2 billion of which must be approved by Congress. Though funding for a bevy of programs falls short of security levels mandated in new intelligence reforms, the officials insisted the budget blueprint would fulfill the department's needs.

Lawmakers said the department has yet to answer fully how to close gaps in border and transportation security systems or protect critical infrastructure.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Like another person said in another thread, I just had a diabolical

thought....

Imagine several persons having some substance in the soles of their shoes at several major airports... with a small hole to "spread it around" and walking up and down the sidewalk or even in the airport itself. People would pick it up and get slammed at the sniffer. I mention this cuz it shows just how vulnerable our systems are, how inefficient, how susceptible to "sabotage" they could be.

I hope no one ever does something of the sort, but it is possible, and Homeland Insecurity should be looking at all the angles so that they could clip something like this from the getgo. I mean, just imagine what would happen... total chaos. Shut down the airport it would.