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 News Release  For Release:  September 12, 2001

Contact: Lou Zickar (202) 225-3706

 

Thornberry Condemns Attack, Calls for  Establishment of U.S. Homeland Security Agency  http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx13_thornberry/Septembereleventh.htm

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) ( R-TX) today condemned yesterday’s terrorist attack on America and called for the establishment of a National Homeland Security Agency to help the federal government better prevent and respond to threats against our home. “Yesterday was a day without adjectives,” Thornberry stated. “There is no fitting way to properly describe the shock, horror, grief, and anger we all felt watching the ttragic ragic events unfold. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families, to those who are trying to rescue those who may still be trapped, and to those who are working to bring the cowards who committed this crime to justice.

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the complicated security environment in which we now live.” According to Thornberry, these changes include: 





Improving our Intelligence – With better organizational focus, clearer requirements, improved coordination and dissemination and more resources. “Intelligence – both technical and human – remains our first and best line of defense,” Thornberry remarked. Transforming our Military – Everything from its personnel  policies, to its acquisition acquisition processes, to its professional education. “It will take more than tanks and aircraft carriers to provide our security in the the future,” Thornberry said. “Our military must be able to deal with with a broader array of threats. Business as usual will not be good enough to do the job. Strengthening our Homeland Security – Today, more than 40 agencies have some responsibility for homeland security. “We must reorganize federal agencies to better prevent and respond to homeland threats,” Thornberry stated. “It will take more than incremental changes. It will take bold steps -- even if it means stepping on bureaucratic toes -- such as the establishment of a  National Homeland Security Agency.”

Thornberry noted that he has introduced legislation that would do just that. The bill is cal called led The National Homeland Security Agency Act Act (HR 1158). Based on a recommendation by tthe he bipartisan Comm Commission ission on National Security/21st Century, the measure would bring together four federal agencies currently on the front lines of homeland defense – the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, and the Border Patrol. Under this legislation, FEMA would be renamed the National Homeland Security Agency. The new NHSA would continue to be the federal government’s principal response agency in times of natural This website stores data such as cookies to enabledisaster. essential site But under this pl plan, an, it would also become the federal functionality, as well as marketing, principal agency for coordination, response and government’s personalization, and analytics. You  prevention manmade disasters, may change your settings at anywith time regard to terrorist attacks and other manmade andsettings. the principal point of contact for state and local governments. In or accept the default carrying out this mission, the NHSA would be assisted by the Coast Privacy Policy Guard, Customs Service and Border Patrol, which would be transferred to the new homeland security agency as independent entities. Marketing

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 National Domestic Preparedness Office, which are currently part of the the Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Investigation. “The intent of establishing a new Homeland Security Agency is not to add another layer of fat to our already bloated federal bureaucracy,” Thornberry noted. “Rather, the goal is to reali realign gn and consolidate a number of key federal agencies in a way that will help the federal government better prevent and respond to homeland threats. HR 1158 was introduced by Thornberry in March and is currently under consideration by the Government Reform Committee.

see also FEMA Executive Orders Orders /  / shadow_government.htm  shadow_government.htm 

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