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Article: Allocating Resources for Homeland Security
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 5, 2004
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Coverage of the recent General Accounting Office study of homeland
security expenditures in the National Capital Region may leave
readers with a false impression of what the region's jurisdictions
have been doing ["D.C. Area Anti-Terror Spending Criticized; Homeland
Security's Local Office Lacks Strategy, GAO Says," front page, June
24].
First, the region received several hundred million federal dollars
immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. Much of it was targeted to
strengthen the capacity of first responders. Emergency management
officials have stressed that our region is better prepared as a
result of the new equipment and frequent exercises and training
supported by these funds.
Second, ...