Mass. Governor Criticizes Flow of Terror Information http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62763-2004Oct25.html?sub=AR
By Kevin McNicholas Reuters Tuesday, October 26, 2004; Page A15 BOSTON, Oct. 25 -- The Republican governor of Massachusetts expressed frustration Monday with the way the federal government tells states about possible terrorism threats. During a speech at a conference on domestic security preparedness, Gov. Mitt Romney described how rumors and a lack of coordination appear to hamper the flow of essential information from Washington to local governments across America. Romney's criticisms came with a week left in a presidential campaign that has focused heavily on the war in Iraq and domestic security issues. President Bush, a Republican, has made his leadership in the war on terror central to his reelection campaign. Romney said states must deal with an uncoordinated flow of information from the federal government regarding possible terror threats, and he called for a centralized way of advising local governments of such risks. "We have to have a single conduit, where every single state knows they're getting the same story," Romney, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, told the conference at Northeastern University. "What state and local governments need, in our view at least, is that intelligence information is validated, delivered rapidly to us and comes in a concise and actionable format, and, of course, that it's updated regularly," he said. Romney cited examples of hearing information from one source in the government and then asking another source about it -- only to be told the first source didn't necessarily have the facts straight. "We're giving information to certain federal agencies about what we're hearing from other federal agencies. That doesn't make sense," he said. Romney was elected governor more than a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
