Are top national priorities getting into the homeland security budgets?
Look at strategy documents and compare them to budgets, and there’s not a lot of connection. • Strategy documents focus on WMD in hands of terrorists as key threat. Three layers of homeland security: preventing terrorists, protecting infrastructure and people, preparing to respond/mitigating consequences of an attack. Strategy documents say the first layer is the most important. • Budget is divided into infrastructure and warning; border and transportation; domestic counterterrorism; protecting critical infrastructure; catastrophic terrorism; emergency preparedness and response. • Catastrophic is where we spend the least amount of money, though it’s where we have the most risk, though it has doubled. Less than 2% of the total is in the top layer of strategy, which is indicated as most person. • The really big money is being spent on border and transportation, and protecting critical infrastructure; and that’s stayed roughly the same between 2003 and 2008. Those aren’t the top layer of
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