Port and Cargo Security: How Is the U.S.A. Doing Now?

Stephen E. Flynn of the Council on Foreign Relations is the Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies. Author of "The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation" and "America the Vulnerable," he is a former adviser on homeland security for the U.S. Commission on National Security. A retired Coast Guard officer, Flynn now researches and writes on issues related to homeland security. Flynn recently spoke with CSO Senior Editor Joan Goodchild about how the US is doing when it comes to port and cargo security.

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Jeremy
Thu, 2008-09-18 15:28

All this spending on port security is just a waste of money. Ports have been wide open for 7 years since 9/11 and nothing has been brought in. If you could somehow secure the ports--at incredible expense--a terrorist will use another method, of which there are infinitely many. As this article addresses, it is unlikely that one can secure the ports.

We have finite resources to address the problems of terrorism, let's put them where they will do the most good.

http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/ISA2008.pdf

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Anonymous
Fri, 2008-09-19 12:48

Council on Foreign Relations? Why wasn't someone from the GOVERNMENT interviewed. The CFR is pushing for a North American Union that will destroy American independence. The CFR is not operating in our best interest and they cannot be trusted.

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