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