Last year, lawmakers ordered The National Strategy for Transportation Security as part of the 2004 intelligence bill. Only until recently, DHS had refused to admit to the existence of a plan and has now come under fire.

Slade Gorton , former 9-11 Commission member, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that DHS has turned its plan over to Congress, but the agency will not allow anyone, including all first responders at the local level, see it unless they have a security clearance in place.