Comments on: New CRS report on homeland security intelligence http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-13001 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/#comment-13001 [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...] [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...]

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comments on: New CRS report on homeland security intelligence http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-13001 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/#comment-13001 [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...] [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...]

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-13001 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/#comment-13001 [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...] [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...]

]]> Comments on: New CRS report on homeland security intelligence http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-13001 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:29 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/#comment-13001 [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...] [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...]

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-12982 Michael Hampton Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:46:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/22/new-crs-report-on-homeland-security-intelligence/#comment-12982 I wish you lots of luck getting the intelligence community not to classify everything that comes in automatically. But this is the chief problem with U.S. national intelligence right now. Unfortunately, it's not at all a priority for the Bush administration; rather, it wants to expand secrecy. This will foreclose any meaningful moves toward an information-sharing network where intelligence gets to the people who need it, in time to do good. I wish you lots of luck getting the intelligence community not to classify everything that comes in automatically. But this is the chief problem with U.S. national intelligence right now.

Unfortunately, it’s not at all a priority for the Bush administration; rather, it wants to expand secrecy. This will foreclose any meaningful moves toward an information-sharing network where intelligence gets to the people who need it, in time to do good.

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