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Article: Traditional Coast Guard Duties Suffer, Study Says
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- The Washington Post
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- April 2, 2003
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Coast Guard efforts to capture drug traffickers and patrol
commercial fisheries have suffered as it has turned its focus to
homeland security since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
according to a study released yesterday.
The declines uncovered by the General Accounting Office, the
congressional watchdog agency, stoked concerns among some lawmakers
that the Coast Guard might neglect its old missions as it trains its
energy on securing the nation's ports, waterways and coastal areas.
At a hearing yesterday on the Coast Guard's transition to the
Department of Homeland Security, which it joined March 1, Rep. Frank
A. LoBiondo (R-N.J.), chairman of a House subcommittee on Coast Guard
and ...