Nearly two years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States is still not spending enough to prepare fire, police, rescue and medical agencies to handle another catastrophic attack, a study by the Council on Foreign Relations has found. Federal, state and local governments should triple their spending on emergency services, the report recommended, increasing the amount spent by about $100 billion over the next five years. The report was written by a panel of experts led by Warren B. Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, and directed by Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the center and a former staff member at the National Security Council and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The group’s senior advisor was Richard A. Clarke, a former White House adviser on terrorism and on computer security. Full Story
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