Homeland Security - Special Issue
The Challenge
By Katherine McIntire Peters
Ensuring homeland security will involve a lot more than creating a new Cabinet department.
No Man's Land
By Katherine McIntire Peters
Across vast stretches of the Southwest border, security is just a pipe dream.
In The Line Of Fire
By Katherine McIntire Peters
It's the federal government's job to make sure the people who respond to the next terrorist attack have the tools and the training for the job.
Detecting The Threat
By Shane Harris
Technology and the war on terror.
In Transit
By Jason Peckenpaugh
Ten months after Sept. 11, Washington is letting the transportation sector protect itself.
Communication Breakdown
By Shane Harris
The FBI's ancient computer system inhibits its ability to share critical investigative information.
Columns
Editor's Notebook: The Cost Of Security
Who's Who
Profiles of some federal officials responsible for homeland security, including the following key players:
- Office of Homeland Security
- Frank Cilluffo, Special Assistant to the President and Adviser for External Affairs
- Border and Transportation Security
- Richard Bennis, Transportation Security Administration
Gustavo De La Vina, Immigration and Naturalization Service
Mary Ryan, State Department
Michael Cronin, Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Public Health
- Scott Lillibridge, Health and Human Services Department
Jerome Hauer, Health and Human Services Department
Steven Bice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. David Fleming, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Doug Hamilton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Edward Baker, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. James Hughes, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health
Maj. Gen. Lester Martinez-Lopez, Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Thomas Day, U.S. Postal Service
- Counterterrorism
- Francis Taylor, State Department
Paquale D'Amuro, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Juan Zarate, Treasury Department
Julie Myers, Treasury Department
James Gurule, Treasury Department
Marcy Forman, Customs Service
Stephen Younger, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
James Clapper, National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Brig Gen Douglas O'Dell, 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
- Domestic Preparedness
- Bruce Baughman, Office of National Preparedness
Andy Mitchell, Office for Domestic Preparedness
Stephen Wiley, Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Gordon, Energy Department
Richard Meserve, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dr. Kristi Koenig, Veterans Affairs Department
Kenneth Kasprisin, Readiness Response and Recovery Directorate
- Infrastructure Protection
- Richard Clarke, Special Adviser to the President on Cyberspace Security
John Tritak, Bureau of Industry and Security
Ron Dick, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Paul Kurtz, National Security Council
On The Record
The top leaders of the homeland security effort describe the challange, in their own words:
- George W. Bush
President of the United States - Tom Ridge
Director, Office of Homeland Security - Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary - John Ashcroft
Attorney General - Tommy Thompson
Health and Human Services Secretary - Norman Mineta
Transportation Secretary - Colin Powell
Secretary of State - George Tenet
Director of Central Intelligence - Robert Mueller
FBI Director - James Ziglar
Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner - Robert Bonner
U.S. Customs Commissioner - John Magaw
Undersecretary of Transportation for Security
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