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June 12, 2010
Obama Administration Is Completely Unprepared for Next Major Terror Attack
Posted by Dave Blount at June 12, 2010 5:25 PM
The government has had nearly a decade since 9/11 to prepare itself for the next major attack, which will likely dwarf the World Trade Center atrocity with the help of weapons of mass destruction. But a recent report from the inspector general of the Justice Department reveals that our current rulers have been spending their time no more fruitfully than they spend our money. As Peggy Noonan explains,
the crucial job of Justice is to manage and coordinate law enforcement and step in if state and local authorities are overwhelmed.
So how would Justice do, almost nine years after the attacks of 9/11? Poorly. "The Department is not prepared to fulfill its role … to ensure public safety and security in the event of a WMD incident," says the 61-page report. Justice has yet to assign an entity or individual with clear responsibility for oversight or management of WMD response; it has not catalogued its resources in terms of either personnel or equipment; it does not have written plans or checklists in case of a WMD attack. A deputy assistant attorney general for policy and planning is quoted as saying "it is not clear" who in the department is responsible for handling WMD response. Workers interviewed said the department's operational response program "lacks leadership and oversight." An unidentified Justice Department official was quoted: "We are totally unprepared." He added. "Right now, being totally effective would never happen. Everybody would be winging it."
The inspector general's staff interviewed 36 senior officials involved in the department's emergency response planning and summarized the finding: "It was clear that no person or entity is managing the overall Department's response activities." You could almost see them scratching their heads and saying, "No one's in charge here."
Be appalled, but don't be surprised. The Justice Department is run by people who are aggressively sympathetic to the Islamic terrorists who may unleash a holocaust by the time you finish reading this.
The rest of the Obamanation Administration is no more likely to keep us safe:
Six months ago, the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism gave both the Obama administration and Congress failing grades on preparedness for biological attack. It said, "the US is failing to address several urgent threats, especially bioterrorism."
Elections have consequences. If the consequences of taking moonbattery to the psychotic extreme of putting Barack Hussein Obama in the White House are not catastrophic, it will be the greatest stroke of luck in history.
On a tip from Varla.
