I guess these pieces of trash didn't get the memo that 9/11 was an
inside job. Jesse Ventura should look into these people and pay them a
visit in person on his next show.http://www.hsaj.org/?boardChristopher BellavitaChristopher
Bellavita teaches in the Master’s Degree Program at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. An instructor with twenty
years experience in security planning and operations, he serves as the
director of academic programs for the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security. Dr. Bellavita is the executive editor of Homeland Security
Affairs, for which he authors “Changing Homeland Security.” He received
his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard BerginRichard
Bergin is an adjunct assistant professor of information sciences at the
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Over the past five years, Professor
Bergin has been teaching full time for the Center of Homeland Defense
and Security (CHDS). During this time, he has designed and implemented
courses used in all CHDS programs. Prior to his academic assignments,
Professor Bergin founded and acted as CEO of Internet Productions – a
premier software applications development company that specialized in
offering innovative e-commerce applications for the World Wide Web. He
has an extensive background in operations and production management and
has worked in the aerospace and inter-networking industries. Professor
Bergin earned his bachelor degree in business administration and his
master’s degree in both information and operations management from the
University of Southern California. He is currently completing his PhD at
NPS in the Information Sciences Department.
David BrannanDavid
Brannan lectures at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland
Defense and Security. He served six months in Iraq as the director of
security policy for the CPA/MOI, where he wrote or led the security
policy initiatives for the Iraqi Police Service (IPS), Department of
Border Enforcement (DBE), Facilities Protection Service (FPS), and the
Iraqi Civil Defense Directorate. Prior to that, Dr. Brannan served as a
political scientist for the RAND Corporation (from 2000 to 2005),
working on areas related to terrorism, insurgency, and law enforcement
with particular expertise related to domestic theologically-motivated
political activism. He still contributes to RAND research on occasion as
an adjunct political scientist and regularly publishes in academic
journals, tactical journals, edited books, and government reports. Two
recent publications include a primer for law enforcement, Preparing for
Suicide Terrorism, and a chapter on left and rightwing terrorism in The
Politics of Terrorism. Dr. Brannan holds a joint honours Master of Arts
and PhD from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Sharon CaudleSharon
Caudle is the distinguished policymaker-in-residence at The Bush School
of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University where she
teaches core courses for public management and policy and international
affairs graduate students and participates in the Integrative Center for
Homeland Security. Prior to that position, she was an assistant
director for homeland security with the U.S. Government Accountability
Office’s (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Team specializing in
homeland security strategic policy and management issues. Dr. Caudle has
taught at The George Washington University, Auburn University, and
Syracuse University in homeland security, public management, and
information technology management. Dr. Caudle earned her master’s and
doctorate degrees in public management from The George Washington
University in Washington, DC and a master’s in homeland security and
homeland defense from the School of International Studies, Naval
Postgraduate School, in Monterey, CA.
Samuel H. Clovis, Jr. Samuel
H. Clovis, Jr. is a full professor and chair of the Department of
Business Administration and Economics at Morningside College in Sioux
City, IA. He also serves as a fellow at the Homeland Security Institute
in Arlington, VA. Dr. Clovis served twenty-five years as a fighter pilot
in the U.S. Air Force. He retired from the service as the inspector
general of NORAD and the United States Space Command to enter the
private sector, where he has held senior positions with a number of
defense-related companies. Dr. Clovis has also held a variety of
positions at academic institutions, lectures in the Department of
Homeland Security-sponsored education programs, and writes extensively
about national preparedness issues. He has been involved in the
development and implementation of national preparedness policy in
support of DHS since 2004. Dr. Clovis graduated from the United States
Air Force Academy with a bachelor degree in political science. He earned
an MBA at Golden Gate University and holds a doctorate in public
administration from the University of Alabama. His research interests
are federalism, intergovernmental relations and public management.
Vincent J. DohertyVincent
J. Doherty is the director for program outreach for the Center of
Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS) and was the CHDS 2005-2006 senior fellow/practitioner at the
Department of Homeland Security, Preparedness Directorate. He is an
adjunct professor for the Homeland Security Management Institute at Long
Island University and he is currently on the board of advisors for
Ahura and EdgeVelocity Corporations. Mr. Doherty is a member and the
former local co-chair of the Science and Technology Committee for the
Inter-Agency Board (IAB) for Equipment Standardization and
Interoperability. A retired, highly decorated twenty-five-year veteran
of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY), he is currently a
contract instructor for the Center for Domestic Preparedness, an
instructor for the National Fire Academy, and a New York State Certified
Fire Service Instructor.
Kevin D. EackKevin D. Eack
is the senior terrorism advisor for the Illinois State Police, where he
is in charge of the Office of Counter Terrorism and has been selected
for a fellowship with the FBI in the counter terrorism program in
Washington, DC. He is co-founder and present chair of the Midwest
Homeland Security Consortium, an organization comprised of state and
local counter terrorism unit and fusion center commanders and
representing twelve Midwest states and several major cities. In 2006
Inspector Eack received an appointment to the University of Chicago at
Argonne National Laboratory. In 2008 he served on a mission trip to
Poland for the National Guard Bureau providing technical guidance and
assistance in homeland security to the Polish National Police. Inspector
Eack holds a juris doctorate degree from the Southern Illinois
University, a master’s degree in human resources and industrial
relations from the University of Illinois, and a master’s degree in
security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for
Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS). He currently serves as president
of the CHDS Alumni board of directors.
Lauren FernandezLauren
Fernandez is an instructor in the Master’s Degree Program at the Naval
Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. She
recently served as a branch chief in the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security. In that capacity she led analysis of assessment data, managed
national information technology systems, and developed technical
assistance programs. Previously, Dr. Fernandez worked in the private
sector as a systems analyst and emergency management planner. She also
has over ten years of experience as an emergency medical technician and
an incident commander for the Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference.
She holds a bachelor and master’s degree in systems engineering from the
University of Virginia and received her doctorate in engineering
management with a concentration in crisis, emergency, and risk
management from The George Washington University. Her dissertation
research concerned volunteer management system design and analysis for
disaster response and recovery.
Laura Manning JohnsonLaura
Manning Johnson currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Deliberate
Plans in the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning, for the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dr. Johnson helped stand up DHS
in 2003 and served as the Deputy Director for Fusion within the National
Operations Center from its inception in 2003 until 2008. Prior to
joining DHS, she served as an intelligence analyst at the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA). During her tenure at the CIA, she was the
executive assistant to the Director of the Non-Proliferation Center
(NPC), and a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Advisor to the vice
president’s WMD National Preparedness Review. She was the first Director
of Central Intelligence Representative to the Office of Homeland
Security beginning in October, 2001. Dr. Johnson concludes her
three-years as a member of the Intelligence and National Security
Alliance (INSA) Board of Directors in fall 2010. She holds a PhD in
political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and
master/bachelor degrees in political science from Oklahoma State
University. Her areas of focus were public policy, public law, and
public administration. Dr. Johnson has taught at American University,
University of California Santa Barbara, Long Island University, and
Oklahoma State University.
Robert JosefekRobert
Josefek is an adjunct professor at the Naval Postgraduate School’s
Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He has served on the faculty
at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of
Business and has taught at the University of Minnesota. As an expert in
information and decision sciences including social networking and
knowledge management, Dr. Josefek has worked with a variety of both
public and private sector organizations. The focus of his work is to
help senior managers understand strategic and organizational issues
relevant to their information technology options, improving planning and
investment decisions, and establishing organizational design and
development strategies to prepare for future advances. He has served as a
reviewer and associate editor for leading journals and conference
committees including Management Science, Information Systems Research,
MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of Management Information Systems. He
received his PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of
Management.
Clark KimererClark Kimerer is chief of
staff and second-in-command of the Seattle Police Department. A
twenty-five-year veteran, Chief Kimerer oversees all administrative
functions of the department, including the 911 Communications Center,
Training, Finance/Budget, Human Resources, and Information Technology,
and is director of the City of Seattle Emergency Operations Center.
Chief Kimerer was planning commander and Seattle point-of-contact for
TOPOFF 2 and a subject matter expert and mentor for TOPOFF 3. He serves
as an instructor and subject matter expert at various universities and
professional institutions in the United States and Great Britain, is
part of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Urban Area Mobile Education Team
(MET), and participates in numerous project and analysis teams covering
a broad range of public safety and homeland defense issues for DOJ,
DHS, and the intelligence community. Chief Kimerer holds a bachelor
degree in classics and liberal arts from St. John’s College in
Annapolis, Maryland, and has completed postgraduate and professional
certification work at various institutions, including the Harvard
Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School. He is also a graduate of the
National Executive Institute.
Ted G. LewisTed G. Lewis
is a professor of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School and
academic associate of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Master’s Degree Program. He has forty years experience in academic,
industrial, and advisory capacities, ranging from academic appointments
at the University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Louisiana, and Oregon
State University, to senior vice president of Eastman Kodak Company, to
CEO and president of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, North
America. Dr. Lewis has published over thirty books and 100 research
papers. He is the author of Critical Infrastructure Protection in
Homeland Security: Defending a Networked Nation (2006) and, most
recently, Network Science: Theory and Applications (2009). He received
his PhD in computer science from Washington State University.
Greta MarlattGreta
Marlatt is the information services manager for the Naval Postgraduate
School’s Dudley Knox Library. She has over twenty-five years of
experience working in libraries in various capacities and is a member of
both the Special Library Association and the American Library
Association. In 2000, Ms. Marlatt was appointed to a three-year term as a
member of the Federal Depository Library Council, an advisory group to
the Public Printer of the United States. She has received the Armed
Forces Librarians Roundtable [AFLRT] Achievement Citation, the Navy’s
Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the Navy’s Superior Civilian
Service Award. In addition to published articles, she is the author of a
number of bibliographies and help guides for topics relating to
intelligence, information warfare, mine warfare, directed energy
weapons, NBC terrorism, and more. Ms. Marlatt holds a master of library
science degree from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in
national security studies from California State University, San
Bernardino.
Rodrigo Nieto-GomezRodrigo Nieto-Gomez is
an instructor at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. His fields of research
include the geopolitical effects of Homeland Security/Defense and
National Security with a regional focus on North America, border
security, discourse analysis, and the implications of new technologies
for security and defense policies. His research on homeland security
issues has led to travel all along the U.S.-Mexico border to interview
political actors, intellectuals, and authorities. In the course of his
research, Dr. Nieto-Gomez has observed the geographic conditions that
affect the security ecosystem of the U.S. perimeter, gaining first-hand
knowledge of every mile of this important and conflictive territory. Dr.
Nieto-Gomez obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) in geopolitics at the
Institut Francais de Geopolitique of the University of Paris. He also
holds a Mexican J.D. from the State University of San Luis PotosÃ,
specializing in international public and private law inside the NAFTA
region.
Michael PetrieMichael Petrie is the director
of the Readiness Operations Planning and Exercises (R.O.P.E) Program at
the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Infectious Disease
and Emergency Readiness (CIDER). He previously served for eight years as
the emergency medical services administrator for the City and County of
San Francisco. Mr. Petrie has worked in a variety of homeland security
areas, including intelligence collection and fusion center operation,
strategic planning, capability assessments, and planning for WMD
incident response. A licensed paramedic for twenty-six years, Mr. Petrie
is a recipient of the State of California EMS Authority’s Meritorious
Service Medal. He is a contributing author for Jane’s publications, and
has published numerous articles for peer-reviewed and professional
journals. Mr. Petrie served on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate
School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), where he
continues to serve as a thesis advisor. He holds an MBA and a master’s
degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Steve ReccaSteve
Recca is a staff advisor for humanitarian assistance and disaster
relief initiatives with the Pacific Disaster Center, and concurrently
serves as the deputy director of the University and Agency Partnership
Initiative for the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Center for Homeland
Defense and Security. Mr. Recca’s previous positions include security
policy assignments with the Central Intelligence Agency, State
Department, Department of Defense, and in academia. From 1995-98, he
served first as special assistant to the secretary of the Navy and then
the director of Central Intelligence. Following assignment to the U.S.
Embassy in Oslo, Mr. Recca held the Inman Intelligence Chair at NPS,
before returning to Europe in 2003 to serve as DOD’s chief liaison to
the German Federal Intelligence Service. Most recently, he directed the
Center for Homeland Security at the University of Colorado, Colorado
Springs, where he managed graduate and undergraduate education programs,
applied research, and an international civil security seminar program
in partnership with U.S. European Command. Mr. Recca holds a master’s
degree in national security from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Anke RichterAnke
Richter is an associate professor at the Defense Resources Management
Institute of the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Richter was previously a
director of health outcomes at RTI-Health Solutions, RTI International.
Her research interests include resource allocation for epidemic
control, disease modeling and economic impact assessment, bio terrorism
and public health preparedness. Dr. Richter has published in numerous
journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association,
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, PharmacoEconomics, Medical Decision
Making, Clinical Therapeutics, Journal of Emergency Management and
Interfaces. She received her PhD in operations research from Stanford
University.
John RollinsJohn Rollins is a researcher
at the Library of Congress’ Congressional Research Service (CRS)
specializing in terrorism, intelligence community, and homeland security
issues. Prior to joining CRS, Mr. Rollins was the first chief of staff
of the Office of Intelligence for the Department of Homeland Security
and the secretary’s senior advisor on intelligence community reform. Mr.
Rollin’s career includes a variety of analytic, legal, and management
positions in the U.S. Army, FBI, CIA, DIA, U.S. Marine Corps, 1st SFOD-D
(Delta Force), and the United Nations. He frequently testifies before
Congress on issues of national security importance and is the author of
numerous papers and articles addressing a wide range of national
security issues. As an adjunct professor, he teaches homeland security
graduate courses at the Naval Post Graduate School’s Center for Homeland
Defense and Security, University of Connecticut, and Texas A&M
University. Mr. Rollins frequently advises the private sector, state and
local governments, and the media regarding security-related issues. He
is a licensed attorney and graduate of the Senior Executive Fellowship
program, Harvard University.
Stan SupinskiStan
Supinski is the director of partnership programs and a faculty member in
the Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master’s Degree Program.
He is also a visiting professor to the Long Island University Homeland
Security Management Institute and has served on the faculty of the
University of Massachusetts and University of Denver. He is the former
deputy for training and education for the North American Aerospace
Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, where he developed the
organizations’ academic training and education programs; he is also the
founder and former director of the Homeland Security/Defense Education
Consortium (HSDEC), a network of more than 270 federal, military, and
civilian educational institutions. Dr. Supinski has conducted research
and authored numerous articles on homeland security and defense,
technology support to education, and language acquisition. His research
includes development of the Daily Knowledge Vitamin, a technology-based,
distributed learning methodology used to maintain and incrementally
increase knowledge and skills. The methodology has been used by military
linguists worldwide, and has been adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard and
other DOD and civilian organizations. Dr. Supinski holds a PhD in
instructional systems design from Florida State University and a
master’s degree in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate
School.
David TuckerDavid Tucker is an associate
professor in the Department of Defense Analysis, co-director of the
Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, and an instructor in the
Homeland Security Master’s Degree Program, all at the Naval Postgraduate
School, Monterey, California. Before coming to the Postgraduate School,
he served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict as the deputy director for
special operations and as a Foreign Service officer in Africa and
Europe. Dr. Tucker’s publications include “Terrorism, Networks, and
Strategy: Why the Conventional Wisdom is Wrong” Homeland Security
Affairs (June 2008); U.S. Special Operations Forces, with Christopher
Lamb (Columbia University Press, August 2007); and “Confronting the
Unconventional: Innovation and Transformation in Military Affairs”,
(Letort Paper, U. S. Army War College, October 2006). He holds a PhD
from the Claremont Graduate School and is a member of the Board of
Visitors of the Marine Corps University.
Bert TussingBert
Tussing is the director of the Homeland Defense and Security Issues
Group of the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership. He
joined the Center in October 1999 following nearly twenty-five years in
the United States Marine Corps. He is a Distinguished Graduate of both
the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Naval War College,
and holds master’s degrees in national security strategy from the Naval
War College and military strategic studies from the U.S. Army War
College. Mr. Tussing is a senior fellow on George Washington
University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute; a member of the Board
of Experts for the University of California-Irvine’s Center for
Unconventional Security Affairs; and on the steering committee of the
Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium Association. In December
2008 he accepted an appointment to the Department of Homeland Security’s
Homeland Security Advisory Council, wherein he will advise in the
development and execution of the department’s congressionally-mandated
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.
Lauren WollmanLauren
Wollman is a senior faculty member for the Center for Homeland Defense
and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School. In this capacity, she is
the lead instructor for the Policy Analysis and Research Methods
coursework sequence, and oversees research at the Center, including the
student thesis system. Special projects in her portfolio include
developing the Homeland Security Digital Library taxonomy in
collaboration with taxonomy specialists, developing the curriculum for
the national certificate program for Homeland Security Studies, and
heading the Faculty Development Initiative at CHDS, through which the
Center will achieve its strategic growth targets. Dr. Wollman received
her PhD from the University of Southern California.
Glen WoodburyGlen
Woodbury is the director of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for
Homeland Defense and Security and is responsible for leading the
Center’s strategic commitment to servicing the homeland security
priorities of the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, as
well as local, state, tribal, and federal agencies. His previous
responsibilities as an associate director (2004-2007) included the
development of executive education workshops, seminars, and training for
senior state and local officials as well as military leaders. Mr.
Woodbury served as the director of the Emergency Management Division for
the State of Washington from 1998 through 2004. In this capacity, he
directed the state’s response to numerous emergencies, disasters, and
heightened security threat levels, including the World Trade
Organization disturbance in Seattle in 1999, the Nisqually Earthquake in
February 2001, the TOPOFF II Exercise in 2003, and the national
response to the attacks of September 11th. Mr. Woodbury holds a bachelor
degree in engineering sciences from Lafayette College and a master’s
degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Ok...so let's take a look at some of these folks...
http://www.hsaj.org/?boardChristopher BellavitaChristopher
Bellavita teaches in the Master’s Degree Program at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. An instructor with twenty
years experience in security planning and operations, he serves as the
director of academic programs for the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security. Dr. Bellavita is the executive editor of Homeland Security
Affairs, for which he authors “Changing Homeland Security.” He received
his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
When
the Naval Postgraduate School started their "Homeland Security Affairs"
journal, Bellavita, the journal's executive editor, published the
following article in the first issue.
He calls his observations of the periods prior and subsequent to the false flag attacks of 9/11, 7/7 and Madrid, the
"Issue-Attention Cycle". But in reading his article, you'll recognize it in its more familiar form:
Problem - Reaction - Solution. =================================
Changing Homeland Security: The Issue-Attention Cyclehttp://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=1.1.1Christopher Bellavita, Ph.D.
The July 7, 2005 attacks on London inescapably direct public attention to our own transportation system.
Everyone getting on a bus or train will look a little more carefully at
objects that seem out of place or at people who look a bit suspicious.
Public officials
will call for more equipment, more people, and more spending for transportation security.
It
happened in the U.S. after the Madrid bombings in 2004. But eventually –
as also happened after Madrid – public attention and vigilance will
wane.
Transportation security advocates will again have to battle for resources against competing homeland security interests.The
attacks in Madrid and London illustrate Homeland Security’s slide from
the apex of the national domestic policy agenda into the mundane world
of grants, bureaucracy and interest groups. But this is not a bad thing.
It is an affirmation of the profound trust Americans continue to place
in their public safety professionals.
It is also the natural dynamic of the Issue-Attention cycle.More than 30 years ago, Anthony Downs wrote about a cycle that affects many domestic public policy problems.
1
Downs argued that certain issues follow a predictable five stage
process: pre-problem, alarmed discovery, awareness of the costs of
making significant progress, gradual decline of intense public interest,
and the post problem stage. Before the London attacks, homeland
security was on the cusp of Stage Five. After the attacks, it revisited
Stage Two. Before too many months pass, it is likely to recall the
difficulties of Stage Three, make a brief return trip through Stage
Four, and – if there are no more attacks – settle into Stage Five.
We
have been at war with the terrorists since September 11, 2001. They
have been at war with us since October 23, 1983, when 241 U.S. service
members were killed in Lebanon.
During the
almost 20 years before the nation formally joined the Terrorism Wars,
homeland security was in Stage One of the Issue-Attention Cycle: the
pre-problem stage. A relatively small group of people were
alarmed by the rising threat of terrorism. As has been well documented
in the post 9/11 era, most of those calls to pay attention were ignored.
(Did he just say that Homeland Security was started in 1981?)After
the pre-problem phase comes Stage Two: Alarmed Discovery and a euphoric
enthusiasm to do something quickly about the problem.
Alarmed Discovery is triggered by an especially dramatic event, such as September 11th. At this point, the rest of the nation discovers – or in the case of the London bombings, recalls –
the problem.
Political leaders rise up to demand and to oversee an immediate
solution. They are driven by a can-do ethos that asserts no problem is
too big or complex to be solved. We just need to get the right people
working together as a team, come up with a plan, and simply fix the
problem. Stage Two of the Cycle is characterized both by shock and by
the unyielding confidence that we can do something to right the wrongs
that allowed the problem to happen.
After September 11th, we saw
the largest reorganization of the national government in over half a
century. We allocated rivers of money to homeland security, even taking
away funds from other public safety programs. Interestingly, very few
states and cities – with the notable exceptions of New York City,
Washington D.C., and a few other cities – made such dramatic structural
or resource changes. This was an early signal that perhaps most of the
country is not as concerned about homeland security as are the
jurisdictions with the most vulnerable targets
In Stage Three of the Cycle, there is a growing awareness of the costs of making significant progress.
The nation has not been attacked in almost four years. We have spent
more than 100 billion dollars on homeland security. Hundreds of
thousands of people have now added “homeland security” to their job
responsibilities.
(AKA: Reaction)Even
so, books, articles and reports continue to point out how vulnerable
our borders, ports, transportation systems, schools, public health, food
supply, chemical industry, and infrastructure are to terrorist attacks.
Our spending and our programs focus mostly on preparing to respond more
effectively and efficiently to the next attack. We still do not have a
national plan to prevent terrorism. We do not even have a shared
vocabulary for prevention.
The executive branch of the national government is embarking
on a multi-year effort to convince states and cities
to obey the expanding dictates of
Homeland Security Presidential Direction (HSPD)8
if they want to continue to receive homeland security funding. ...
(Sounds like mafia "pay the protection money" in exchange for not having your business torched, doesn't it?)(Article continues...)
...The
Issue-Attention Cycle continues. The post problem stage of the Cycle
becomes Version 2.0 of a new pre-problem stage. Anyone paying attention
can hear homeland security specialists worrying about ports, public
health, food supply vulnerabilities, and more.
The country will be attacked again – next month, next year, or in the next decade. After
the Alarmed Discovery that follows the attack, there will be another
period of “euphoric enthusiasm” to dramatically change what we are doing
now.
References 1. Anthony Downs, “Up and Down With Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention Cycle,’” The Public Interest, 28 (Summer 1972): 38-50.
2. See summary of polling data at
http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm. Greg Toppo, “Graduates fear debt more than terrorism,” USA Today; May 19, 2005.
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We wonder why they continue with false flag terror attacks: this guy just explained it all.
http://www.csl.army.mil/BertTussing.aspxProfessor
Bert Tussing was born in Portsmouth, VA, the son of a career Naval
Officer. He graduated with honors from The Citadel in 1975 and was
commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
During a 24 year career in the Marines, Professor Tussing served
operationally with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing; the 2nd Marine
Division; Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One; Marine
Helicopter Squadron One (where he was designated a Presidential Command
Pilot); and with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations
Capable). Over the course of his career he participated in multiple
humanitarian relief exercises in the Caribbean; Operation Urgent Fury in
Grenada; operations as a part of the Multinational Force in Beirut;
Operations Provide Promise and Deny Flight in Bosnia; and the final
withdrawal of U.S. forces from Somalia.
Following his
operational assignments, Tussing was assigned to the Pentagon where he
served as Marine Corps Analyst to the Secretary of the Navy in the
Office of Program Appraisal. While there, he participated in the
Secretary of the Navy's focus group for the Commission on Roles and
Missions of the Armed Forces, and served as a consultant on the Defense
Science Board on "Tactics and Techniques for the 21st Century."
Professor Tussing was subsequently selected for a Brookings Legislative
Fellowship, through which he served on the staff of the Chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee's Personnel Subcommittee. Following the
fellowship, he assumed duties as Deputy Legislative Assistant to the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Professor Tussing joined
the Center for Strategic Leadership of the U.S. Army War College in
October of 1999. His focus areas include Homeland Defense, Homeland
Security, Terrorism, and Civil-Military Relations. Since the spring of
2001 he has led and served in multiple forums and studies focused on
homeland defense, homeland security, and military support to civil
authorities. He has served on three Defense Science Boards: DoD's Roles
and Missions in Homeland Security (2003), DoD's Role in Critical
Infrastructure Protection (2004), and Critical Infrastructure Protection
(2005). He has hosted, organized and facilitated numerous symposiums
and workshops dedicated to domestic security, including the United
States Army War College's Consequence Management Symposium (Aug 2001);
In Support of the Common Defense: Examining Critical Infrastructure
Protection in the Public and Private Sector (with George Washington
University's Homeland Security Policy Institute-Aug 2004 ); Responding
to the Unthinkable: The Role of the Army's Reserve Component in
Responding to CBRNE Attack in the Homeland (Sep 2004); Reinforcing the
First Line of Defense: The Role of the National Guard in Critical
Infrastructure Protection (Aug 2005); Leveraging the Reserves: Improving
the Military's Domestic Crisis Response(July 2006); Achieving Unity of
Effort in Responding to Crises (Jul 2007), and Reexamining the Role of
the National Guard and the Service Reserves in Support of Civil
Authorities (May 2008). In 2006 he initiated the formation of the
Consortium for Homeland Defense and Security in America, partnering the
Army War College with
George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute, the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the
Heritage Foundation,
and providing for an annual forum dedicated to addressing the
challenges and complexities of domestic defense in the modern era. Prof
Tussing has served on many formal and informal advisory groups in
support of the United States Northern Command, the Department of
Homeland Security and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs. He is a senior
fellow of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy
Institute; a member of the Board of Experts for UC-Irvines' Center for
Unconventional Security Affairs; on the steering committee of the
Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium Association; and a senior
fellow of Long Island University's Homeland Security Management
Institute. In December 2008 he accepted an appointment to the Department
of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council, wherein he
will serve to advise in the development and execution of the
Department's Congressionally-mandated Quadrennial Homeland Security
Review.
WATCH THIS 9 MINUTE VIDEO:
http://www.chds.us/?player&id=32In
summary, the US needs to partner with Mexico for "security"
(NAU/SPP/NAFTA talking point) and civilian gun ownership in America is
causing Mexico's violence.
This guy peddles the same bull sh*t as what's in this thread:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=186250.0
