Earlier this year the House Committee on Homeland Security issued a report card on the department it oversees.
Five years after the attacks that changed our Nation, America remains on alert.
America’s ability to field and deploy new technology is critical to the Long War.
Our Nation’s first responders still have trouble communicating among themselves.
While the Congress acted promptly on Commission recommendations to restructure the Executive Branch, and while we have so far succeeded in preventing any further terrorist attacks in the United States, Congress has done little to reform itself.
It should be an independent agency with a direct line to the President.
We should focus more on what it does than where it goes.
Peter King, representative of New York, criticizes how the Obama administration tries to deal with terrorists in civilian courts, “If we are going to protect Americans in our international war on terror, Abdulmutallab and his fellow terrorists should face trial in military commissions, not in civilian courts.”
Congressman Dan Lungren of California spells out how we must understand the enemy in order to adapt our defenses and protect our nation, “We must understand that we face an enemy who is as elusive as they are deadly and sinister. They have made adaptations in response to…