Homeland security — a strange, strange beast
By: Stephen CollierAmbrogina Conobbio — a former student at New School International Affairs now working in New York City public health — sends along “critical releases in Homeland Security,” described by DHS as follows: “Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies ‘Critical Releases in Homeland Security,’a targeted collection of recently-released documents that are expected to influence homeland security policy & strategy development.” The list of documents (below) is itself kind of fascinating, if only to get a sense of what a confused creature “Homeland Security” is in the United States (you have to create an account on their website to actually see the docs). Climate change, aviation security, country terror threat reports…How in the world could one agency possibly be concerned with all these things? Clearly, as we already know, “Homeland Security” is an answer to a question that has not been clearly posed.
National Strategy for Aviation Security
Nuclear Energy; Balancing Benefits and Risks
Council on Foreign Relations
United States Intelligence Community (IC) 100 Day Plan for Integration and Collaboration
Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes
Country Reports on Terrorism 2006
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
CNA Corporation
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
what’s a “returning global war on terror hero”? is the hero a terror is the war returning? Do you think DHS needs an English undergraduate to help them with their headlines?
May 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
“Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes”? Are there going to be a separate task forces for Returning Global War on Terror Cowards? “Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Villains“??