Combating Terrorism: A Proliferation of Strategies : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, March 3, 2003U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 182 pages |
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... roles and missions of the Federal Government and agencies , but also those of State and local government , the private sector and international community . Finally , a national strategy must incorporate sound management principles ...
... roles and missions of the Federal Government and agencies , but also those of State and local government , the private sector and international community . Finally , a national strategy must incorporate sound management principles ...
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... role in many of these strategies , some confusion in setting prior- ities and developing coordination mechanisms may ... roles and responsibilities for all players . If the Federal , State , local , private , and international ...
... role in many of these strategies , some confusion in setting prior- ities and developing coordination mechanisms may ... roles and responsibilities for all players . If the Federal , State , local , private , and international ...
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... role in addressing the challenges facing this process . In addition to recently passed legislation , reorganizing the Federal Government to combat terrorism , and the appropriation of significant funds to support the war on terrorism ...
... role in addressing the challenges facing this process . In addition to recently passed legislation , reorganizing the Federal Government to combat terrorism , and the appropriation of significant funds to support the war on terrorism ...
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... roles and responsibilities to combat terrorism . Given the number of agencies , it is also important that there be mechanisms to coordinate across agencies . We have identified federal agency roles and responsibilities and coordination ...
... roles and responsibilities to combat terrorism . Given the number of agencies , it is also important that there be mechanisms to coordinate across agencies . We have identified federal agency roles and responsibilities and coordination ...
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... role in authorizing , funding , and overseeing the implementation of these strategies to protect the American people from terrorism both at home and abroad . BACKGROUND ON NATIONAL STRATEGIES RELATED TO TERRORISM National efforts to ...
... role in authorizing , funding , and overseeing the implementation of these strategies to protect the American people from terrorism both at home and abroad . BACKGROUND ON NATIONAL STRATEGIES RELATED TO TERRORISM National efforts to ...
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Page 27 - National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and The National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets (hereafter referred to in this testimony as the cyberspace security strategy and the physical protection strategy).
Page 64 - These are representatives of the true "first responders" — those heroic men and women who put their lives on the line every day for the public health and safety of all Americans. Moreover, so many of these panel members are also national leaders in their professions: our EMS member is a past president of the national association of emergency medical technicians; one of our emergency managers is the past president of her national association; our law officer...
Page 105 - Bush administration approach involves six "critical mission areas": intelligence and warning, border and transportation security, domestic counterterrorism, protecting critical infrastructures and key assets, defending against catastrophic threats, and emergency preparedness and response. The administration also proposed four key methods, or "foundations," for enhancing all six areas: law, science and technology, information sharing and systems, and international cooperation.
Page 48 - The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security.
Page 129 - The most urgent unmet national security threat to the United States today is the danger that weapons of mass destruction or weapons-usable material in Russia could be stolen and sold to terrorists or hostile nation states and used against American troops abroad or citizens at home.
Page 75 - The Panel concludes that the Nation must be prepared for the entire spectrum of potential terrorist threats — both the unprecedented higher-consequence attack, as well as the historically more frequent, lesser-consequence terrorist attack, which the Panel believes is more likely in the near term. Conventional explosives, traditionally a favorite tool of the terrorist, will likely remain the terrorist weapon of choice in the near term as well. Whether smaller-scale CBRN or conventional, any such...
Page 67 - ... Funded Research and Development Center. We have been exceptionally fortunate to have that support provided by The RAND Corporation. The breadth and depth of experience at RAND in terrorism and policy issues across a broad spectrum have made possible the panel's success in accomplishing its mandate. Its assessments of federal programs, its case studies and hundreds of interviews across the country and around the world, its seminal work in surveying state and local response entities nationwide,...
Page 142 - First Annual Report to the President and the Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, /. Assessing the Threat, December 15, 1999; and.
Page 62 - Member, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to be here today. I come before you as the Chairman of the Advisory Panel to Assess Demesne Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction.