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...Even before September 11, it was clear that there was significant weakness on our borders, too many agencies not connected with each other,” Kamarck said in an interview following the hearing...
...Kamarck explained the reasons why the effort to protect the American homeland needed such a significant reconstruction of the government...
...Most of these agencies deal with borders, people and things coming in and out of the United States,” Kamarck said. “The problem is that we don’t have the intelligence branch section of the government coordinated to work with the agencies at the border...
While the bill’s draft also addresses the importance of protecting the country from cyber-terrorism, Kamarck said monitoring America’s physical borders is most critical to prevent terrorism...
During the hearing, Kamarck said that “homeland defense will not happen in the White House or in a coordinating council. It will happen on our borders or before our borders when consular officers, customs agents, INS agents, coast guard personnel and airport security officers, acting on intelligence gathered here or abroad, manage to stop, deter or prevent terror...