Post by Shadow on Dec 9, 2005 21:20:47 GMT -5
Security analyst: Terrorism threat 'will never go away'
Prison Planet
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former 9/11 commission issued a report Monday that faulted the government's progress in implementing the reforms the panel suggested last year.
To better understand the commission's concerns, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan discussed the commission's final report Monday with Richard Falkenrath, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a CNN security analyst.
KAGAN: [Former 9/11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean] said that pretty much everybody who's in this business believes there will be another attack on U.S. soil. Do you agree with that?
FALKENRATH: I do agree. And it is true that virtually everyone in the business agrees with that. It's the right planning assumption for our national security apparatus. We hope it doesn't happen, and we're going to do everything we can to prevent it from happening, but we should assume that it will.
KAGAN: What about the criticism of the funding formula, saying that it needs to be done based on different cities and areas of their risk, not on geography and politics?
FALKENRATH: ... I think everyone who studied this issue closely recognizes that the money should be allocated based on vulnerability and threat. There is a problem in the Senate, which they directly addressed. The Senate has so far declined to pass legislation that would allow the money to be distributed based on vulnerability and risk. And the reason is that the smaller states and the rural states would end up getting less money.
Prison Planet
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former 9/11 commission issued a report Monday that faulted the government's progress in implementing the reforms the panel suggested last year.
To better understand the commission's concerns, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan discussed the commission's final report Monday with Richard Falkenrath, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a CNN security analyst.
KAGAN: [Former 9/11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean] said that pretty much everybody who's in this business believes there will be another attack on U.S. soil. Do you agree with that?
FALKENRATH: I do agree. And it is true that virtually everyone in the business agrees with that. It's the right planning assumption for our national security apparatus. We hope it doesn't happen, and we're going to do everything we can to prevent it from happening, but we should assume that it will.
KAGAN: What about the criticism of the funding formula, saying that it needs to be done based on different cities and areas of their risk, not on geography and politics?
FALKENRATH: ... I think everyone who studied this issue closely recognizes that the money should be allocated based on vulnerability and threat. There is a problem in the Senate, which they directly addressed. The Senate has so far declined to pass legislation that would allow the money to be distributed based on vulnerability and risk. And the reason is that the smaller states and the rural states would end up getting less money.