Posted on 09/08/2007 8:43:07 AM PDT by ChessExpert
This week Rudy Giuliani rolled out another of his 12 Commitments -- this one to ensure preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Giuliani is promising not to repeat the errors of Katrina and to develop a better funded and coordinated and more decentralized Department of Homeland Security. His chief advisor on this issue is Louis Freeh, who served under Giuliani as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and then later as FBI Director. He talked about disaster preparedness as well as the Justice Department and his past experience with Giuliani.
How is Giuliani's approach to disaster preparedness better than the current one?
Freeh says that "from an operational point of view" the biggest change may to be create "accountability centers" in different regions of the country where state and local authorities who ultimately will deal with a crisis will be responsible for disaster planning. He notes that when the Department of Homeland Security was founded "many people resisted as did the President" because of the logistical challenges of combining 22 agencies into one operation. He remarks that if such a plan were proposed in the private sector a Board of Directors would likely reject is as "dysfunctional." According to Freeh, devolving responsibility to regional centers and "integrating" planning with first responders are keys to ensuring improved responses to the next disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
There are only one or two Republican candidates who I could not support. I think they all deserve a favorable hearing. We need a conservative Republican Congress.
Americans used to roar for Liberty, now they bleat for Security.
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Amen to a conservative Republican Congress.
Now if only we didn't have these damned Rinos that need weeding!
I wondered when that worm was going to crawl out from underneath his rock....
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Sounds wrong to me too. Bad marketing? Worse? Thinking back, the “Contract with America” had enumerated promises. But the count did not make it into the title. The Bill of Rights has ten amendments, but was never titled as the “Ten Amendments.” Friends of Rudy might want help their man with some good advice. I wish each Republican candidate gets the best guidance possible. We are going to stuck with, err fortunate to have, one of them.
Enough of this liberal crap. Screw Rooty Toot.
Funny how all you Rudy-haters can’t see the beauty in what he is talking about here. If Duncan Hunter had propsed the same thisng you would all be cheering. Had this system been in place before Katrina, Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin would have been brought up on criminal charges for what they failed to to before, during, and after the storm. He is talking aboout making the state and local officials the FIRST line of response and holding them accountable for that response. As it should be.
DUH! - yeah, we would because HE WOULDNT HAVE LOUIS FREEH AS HIS ADVISOR/SUPPORTER/WHATEVER.
Were you in college in the 90s?
All about Rudee and nothing more about Judee.
My preference would be to abolish FEMA. That might clarify responsibility. I would even give kudos if Ron Paul recommended it. Tancredo could suggest abolishing FEMA. He has nothing to lose. Any first tier candidate, or VP contender, gets double credit for recommending we abolish (not replace) FEMA.
In this article, Freeh/Giuliani seem to have at least a semblance of concern about addressing something that is a real mess now. I don't fully grasp their recommendations. But then, I didn't fully appreciate the surge in Iraq when it was advanced in April (or earlier). They might have some good ideas.
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