A new report card for homeland security
Steve Flynn from the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report card for the nation's homeland security efforts, and the grades that he gives are the kind that any child would try to hide from his or her parents:
Port Security: D+ Nuclear Plant Security: B/B+ Air Defense: B Airport Security: C+ Border Control and Immigration: C Chemical Plant Security: D-/F Disaster Response: C- Bridges, Tunnels, and Other Infrastructure: C Public Relations: DI would probably give more favorable grades for some of these, such as airport security and border security, but that's partially a function of the fact that I'm a product of the era of grade inflation, where a B- is considered a poor grade. But some of these grades - notably Chemical Plant Security and Public Relations - are deservedly poor, given the track record of DHS and Congress over the past couple of years. Steve has a podcast on the CFR site that explains these grades in greater detail. And his new book The Edge of Disaster will be hitting bookstores in early 2007.
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