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Vision Statement Revision
August 05, 2009 at 09:14PM
The second sentence in the vision statement makes no sense. We do not prevent terrorist attacks by "providing active leadership, removing barriers, etc." Being engaged with both the public and pri...
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Aspiration vs. goal
August 05, 2009 at 07:59PM
The "goals" look more like aspirations than goals to me. To borrow from project management vernacular, goals should be SMART: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Time-based ...
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Coordinated regional response/assistance
August 07, 2009 at 04:14PM
We should ensure that organizations are training for a coordinated/consistent response to a major incident with their allied/partnering agencies.
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better integration with critical small businesses
August 07, 2009 at 02:34AM
"providing incentives for the sustained engagement..." does not capture the breadth of activity the DHS needs to undertake in order to fulfill this mission statement. While the DHS and related Fed...
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Mission Vision
August 02, 2009 at 03:28PM
The mission vision for Borders is short and to the point like this one should be
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retired law enforcement
August 05, 2009 at 08:42PM
Many Federal LE positions have a cut-off for hireing at 37 years of age, because of retirement issues, etc. Create a new catagory in order to hire some of the thousands of trained law enforcement ...
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expectation re: preventing terrorism
July 31, 2009 at 03:41PM
If we look at the Israeli and British approaches, there is no expectation that terrorism can be entirely prevented because that is recognized as being an unrealistic goal. If we are to move away f...
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FPS Portal
August 07, 2009 at 10:37PM
The FPS Portal is a wonerful tool for facilitating interagency communications.
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Natural Hazards
August 05, 2009 at 05:59PM
Remove natural hazards from this section. Natural hazards are not applicable to counterterrorism and domestic security management.While many homeland security capabilities are all-hazards applicab...
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Need to separate into distinct mission areas
August 01, 2009 at 09:42PM
Counterterrorism and domestic security management are distinct missions, albeit with several important overlapping goals and values. By separating the two, each mission can be made stronger and mo...
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Lack of coordination
August 05, 2009 at 06:26PM
Three of these goals indicate they are shared with Disasters (planning for ... responding to ...). However, they don't show up over under the Disasters tab. Suggests a lack of coordination.
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Board Member
August 04, 2009 at 07:51PM
We need to have out standing, unbiased review of the application people are applying to come to United States and any one coming with immigration Visa need to be fairly delt. Fairness is the on...
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Alternative CT Mission Statement
August 06, 2009 at 03:24AM
ALTERNATIVE CT MISSION STATEMENT SUGGESTION: TO MOBILIZE A CONCERTED AMERICAN EFFORT TO COUNTER TERRORISM OR OTHER DELIBERATE ACTS OF DESTRUCTION OR SOCIETAL SABOTAGE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE C...
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Whose goals are these?
July 31, 2009 at 05:07PM
Eliminate goals that are not related to preventing and responding to terrorism. Include goals that clarify homeland security needs to collaborate with the agencies and functions that are related t...
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Supply chain
August 05, 2009 at 04:56PM
Although it is implied in goal 2, hardening the supply chain should be an explicit goal.
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Comments
August 06, 2009 at 10:03AM
General Comments on Mission Statement: Add a statement to ensure operations are conducted within all federal, state and local regulations and that all rights and privledges provided US citiz...
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Man Made Hazards
August 03, 2009 at 03:39PM
The euphemism 'Man Made Hazards' as used in Goal 4 is very misleading. DHS does not have responsibility for preventing most of the real man made hazards that face our society. Global warming, toxi...
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The vision could be more memorable
July 31, 2009 at 04:21PM
My idea is to rework the vision statement so it offers a clear and memorable vision. For example: "We want to prevent terrorist attacks." I do not think the proposed vision statement can "mobil...
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Make a strong distinction between malicious actors versus normal citizen protest.
August 07, 2009 at 08:35PM
We must ake a strong distinction between malicious actors versus normal citizen protest. There is a current movement to demonize those who just diagree with the administration. This is totally dif...
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Mission Vision Statement
August 03, 2009 at 12:07AM
What are other attacks? Providing incentives; does this refer to grants? If not what does this refer to? Under Goals: #3 Prevent illicit access to and movement of materials and capabilitie...
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Alternative CT Vision
August 01, 2009 at 07:15PM
Make it shorter, to the point, and free of what Peter Drucker calls a hero sandwich of good intentions, since natural disasters area out of the purview of counterterrorism and security management. ...
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Mission "creep"
August 02, 2009 at 05:15PM
Concur that the mission is not consistent with the title to the extent that it addresses natural disasters. Those references should be transfered to the Disasters section. Also, we would be bet...
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another goal
August 02, 2009 at 05:29PM
One of the goals should be to recognize that all other goals must be sought only in the context of preserving the personal freedoms and civil liberties that we cherish in the US.
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America will be judged by how she treats the most vulnerable of her citizens
August 04, 2009 at 09:04PM
Homeland security must be balanced against American citizen's loss of freedoms, and minority citizens are the most vulnerable. DHS should cooperate with our general aviation association, AOPA, wo...
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CT Vision Statement
August 03, 2009 at 03:54PM
The vision statement is well intentioned but wordy. Phrases like "mobilizing American effort" and "assure resilience" are not reasonable, though laudable. May I recommend that there be a vision st...
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Food Defense
August 04, 2009 at 05:40PM
Contamination of food with toxic chemicals and harmful pathogens with an intent to inflict mass illnesses and death should be considered an important aspect of modern day terrorsm. With increasing...
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Why human rights matter
August 07, 2009 at 02:43PM
"Efforts to achieve these objectives must always respect human rights. Human rights are an integral and valuable part of the American political tradition. Respecting human rights--especially the r...
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Smart tradeoffs
August 07, 2009 at 04:30AM
Insert the phrase "smart tradeoffs" or similar wording in the Counterterrorism "mission vision" statement, and/or the goals. Use it as a conjunction between conflicting goals, such as "Counter ter...
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Glossary/definitions section
August 07, 2009 at 12:15AM
I think it might be helpful to have a definitions section or glossary of each major term for the mission and goals.
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Mission or motto – tomatoe or tomato
August 02, 2009 at 02:46AM
I am a simpleton and I like things simple. I want to be able to wake up in the middle of the night and have my fellow homeland security professionals wake up and be able to precisely recite a simpl...
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