George Foresman - Department of Homeland Security

George Foresman - Department of Homeland Security

George Foresman is Under Secretary for Preparedness. According to whitehouse.gov: Before his appointment as Under Secretary for Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Foresman served as Virginia's Assistant to the... [more]

George Foresman is Under Secretary for Preparedness. According to whitehouse.gov: Before his appointment as Under Secretary for Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Foresman served as Virginia's Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, where he previously served as Deputy. He joined the state government in 1985 and has more than 20 years of public safety experience both at the response and executive management levels. From 1999 to 2003, he served as a member and vice-chair of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction. Mr. Foresman received his bachelor's degree from the Virginia Military Institute.

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DHS' Ready Campaign and 2,700+ Coalition Members Urge Americans to Prepare For Emergencies During Fifth Annual National Preparedness Month Release Date: August 26, 2008 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Ready Campaign ( www.ready.gov ) is sponsoring the fifth annual National Preparedness Month (NPM) in September with support from more than 2,700 NPM coalition members, the largest amount to date. NPM coalition members, consisting of national, regional, state, and local organizations, will combine efforts throughout the month of September to encourage all Americans to take steps to prepare for emergencies before they happen. "National ... Read Full Story
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“The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al Qaeda, but that agents have quietly ‘disrupted’ their activities and even deported a few,” The Bergen County Record’s Mike Kelly leads. Death Cab for Cutie lead guitarist Chris Walla is “baffled” why DHS seized the master disk of his prospective solo album at the Canadian border, dispatching it to computer-forensics for closer inspection, MTV News’James Montgomery relates. Read Full Story
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DHS may have issued its final chemical plant security rule, but “regulators and the about-to-be regulated . . . have different views of what comes next,” The Associated Press’Beverley Lumpkin surveys. DHS is warning U.S. chemical plants and bomb squads to guard against a new form of terrorism: chlorine truck bombs, USA Today’s Mimi Hall tells. “We are basically ignoring these threats,” Sen. Joe Biden inveighs in The Tampa Tribune. “The last terrorist to use cyanide as a weapon . . . killed seven Chicago-area victims in 1982 by lacing Tylenol capsules in stores,”EMS Responder.com notes in re: the Cyanide Poisoning Treatment Coalition. See, ... Read Full Story
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About 7,000 facilities, roughly half of the nation’s chemical plants, are at high risk of catastrophe from either an accident or terrorist attack, The Associated Press’Beverley Lumpkin has DHS stating yesterday as it released new security rules. The Supremes declined again yesterday to hear urgent appeals from two groups of Guantanamo detainees challenging the constitutionality of a new law stripping federal judges of habeas corpus review authority, The New York Times’Linda Greenhouse reports. “The rejection is important because it more or less puts an end to five years of legal challenges to the structure of how the Bush Administration has sought to handle enemy ... Read Full Story
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Defying adamant industry opposition, Senate Dems yesterday grafted language onto the emergency supplemental bill empowering states to enforce chemical security laws stricter than federal regs, CongressDaily’s Chris Strohm reports. Lawmakers “have been more worried about currying favor with the chemical industry, a major campaign donor, than with safeguarding their constituents,” a New York Times editorial chides — while The Detroit News skeptically susses out new DHS regs debuting next month. “There are about 14,000 high-risk chemical facilities across the nation, more than 100 of them within reach of populations of 1 million or more,” The Associated Press’Beverley Lumpkin reminds. Read Full Story
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A team of researchers from the US Department of Homeland Security yesterday started six days of tests at 20 MBTA stations designed to determine how airborne contaminants would spread in a terrorist attack on Boston’s subway system.  
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Chairman received donations from firms appearing at hearingAt a hearing in late March, the nation's credit card companies faced the threat of expensive new rules from an unlikely regulator: the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The committee had never before dealt with credit card issues, but Thompson warned Visa, MasterCard and others that Congress might need to impose tighter security standards...  
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Homeland Security to study dispersion of biological weapons in Boston subwayBioPrepWatch.comby Ted Purlain on December 4, 2009 The US Homeland Security Department has announced that it will release harmless gases and dye tracers into Boston's ...  
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