From Slate's Today's Papers newsletter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20secure.html
Nearly 80 percent of the United States' international trade moves through only 10 ports, the NYT says, "with the biggest loads passing through Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland in California and New York." A terrorist attack on any of them would have devastating economic consequences. But the Department of Homeland Security has been slow to address the threat, the paper says. And while the major ports received a large chunk of the government money, smaller grants went to such improbable terrorist targets as St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, Martha's Vineyard, "and six locations in Arkansas, none of which appeared to meet the grant eligibility requirements." Arkansas is landlocked. The NYT doesn't mention it, but TP can't help recalling that the department's undersecretary for border and transportation security is Asa Hutchinson, who is resigning amid speculation that he is planning a 2006 run for governor of ... Arkansas.
