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So Who's Keeping America Safe? (Part 1 of 2)
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The administration gets lousy marks on managing terror. That's the official word from the members of the 9/11 Commission when they measured the government's recent efforts to prevent terrorist attacks on America. The Commission's conclusion: The government racked up many Fs and Ds, and few As. In one word, the government flunked. Four years after 9/11, the U.S. is "alarmingly" vulnerable to terrorist attacks, plus attacks with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The 9/11 report was headed by Thomas H. Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, and put together by the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.
Congress alone racked up an F for failure to allocate the domestic anti-terrorism budget on the basis of risk and a D for the government's efforts to track down and secure nuclear material that could be used by terrorists. There was one lonely A-minus awarded for the government's efforts to stem the financing of terrorist networks. I doubt it triggered a round of applause from taxpayers.
Equally upsetting, I wonder how many people know about this report and its disturbing conclusions. The critical front-page information was reported in the back pages of The New York Times national section only a few weeks ago. There were also sound bites on nightly news reports that whizzed by most folks so quickly, they barely had time to cogitate, no less react to the …
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