February 2001
A bipartisan panel led by former US senators Warren B. Rudman and Gary Hart on Wednesday called for the creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the United States against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks in the country. The commission making the recommendation included high-ranking military and former Cabinet secretaries. Their report warned bluntly that terrorists probably will attack the US with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons at some point within the next 25 years.
June 2002
Bush to Announce Restructuring of Homeland Security
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:09 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a major restructuring, President Bush will propose creation of a Cabinet domestic security department to take over border security, intelligence and other issues now housed in eight separate federal agencies.
The Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld/Rice braintrust finally figures it out. A year and a half, and 3,000 deaths late.
And will the press point out, or even remember, that George Jr., having awakened from his 18 month siesta, is finally doing what a Presidential Commission, appointed by William Jefferson Clinton, recommended that he do when he first became President?
Will the press ask Ari "My lips are moving" Fleischer :
"Ari, isn't the President now doing exactly what former President Bill Clinton's appointees recommended that he do 18 months ago?"
They will ask that, won't they?
Robert Trimble
mediawhoresonline.com
This is what Congress is truly capable of.
Nothing, if the executive branch can stonewall. That is, until a politically expedient time, like now when bi-partisan investigations are starting. |
