Wednesday, July 29, 2009

,Public's help needed in terror fight, Napolitano says Napolitano says..Welcome on board! We been calling for a long time.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Almost eight years after the September 11 attacks, the American public remains insufficiently engaged in the fight against terrorism, the nation's homeland security chief warned Wednejob sharing information with international, state and local partners, she added.
We need to make sure "as a country, as a nation, we are at the point where we are at a constant state of preparedness and not a state of fear," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said."The challenge is not just using federal power to protect the country but also enlisting a much broader societal response to the threats that terrorism poses."We live in a world where "the tools for creating violence and chaos are as easy to find as the tools for buying music online or restocking an inventory," Napolitano told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations."If 9/11 happened in a Web 1.0 world, terrorists are certainly in a Web 2.0 world now," she said, a reference to the state of development of the Internet."The terror threat to the homeland is persistent and evolving."Napolitano outlined a multi-tiered administration homeland defense strategy based on greater interaction between the private sector, local law enforcement, federal authorities and international allies. would continue to encourage new thinking in the war on terror, noting that the department had recently hired a "prominent" former computer hacker to help authorities better identify weaknesses in the country's cybernetwork....MORE..http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/29/homeland.security/index.html

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