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U.S. on permanent war footing?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
Speaking on the August 3rd edition of NBC's Meet the Press, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge put the matter quite plainly: "I guess one of the challenges we have to understand is that our job is, first of all, to reduce risk.... [T]he president intuitively realized we are at war. It is a permanent condition. That's why they made permanent changes in the government. That's why we have a Department of Homeland Security." (Emphasis added.)
Ridge's department is rapidly becoming the locus of a "consolidated" (a word he used repeatedly) law enforcement and intelligence system--precisely the variety of ...
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