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Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security: the National Terrorism Advisory System vs. The Homeland Security Advisory System
In the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, a complete review of America's counter-terrorism operations took place. What was seen as the fault in U.S. intelligence to predict the 9/11 attacks was a severe lack of information sharing between U.S. intelligence agencies, and the lack of protocol in the event of future terrorist attacks. Thus, the Department of Homeland Security was created in an attempt to bring together the informational capabilities of the various U.S. agencies working on counter-terrorism, with a command structure that penetrates the entire U.S. law enforcement system. The DHS quickly instituted its first recommendations on March 12, 2002, with the creation of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), based on a colored threat scale from green to red, and protocol to be followed nationwide in accordance...
The HSAS scale was intended to create a broad nationwide alert system to full attention at a moment's notice, a capability that was lacking on September 11th.
The HSAS system only once reached the most severe color, red, due to intercepted information from al-Qaeda agents, on August 10, 2006. (Chronology of Changes, 1) Credible threats to commercial aircraft departing from Britain to the United States were to be targeted by al-Qaeda in an aerial hijacking. Fortunately, this attack was halted, and three days later, on August 13, 2006, the red threat was reduced to orange. In the Obama administration a new head of the Department of Homeland Security was announced, a former governor by the name of Janet Napolitano. She believed that the HSAS system was inferior, and that changes needed to be made in order to provide a more effective terrorism alert system to the public.
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Works Cited
"Chronology of Changes to the Homeland Security Advisory System." DHS. Web. 24 Mar. 2012.
Mathes, Michael. "AFP: New U.S. Terror Alert System Replaces Color Code." Google News. Web. 24 Mar. 2012.
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