Panel Participants

1. Panel Participants Dan Heinemeier President, Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA) Rep. Jim Turner (D-2nd District of Texas) Ranking Member Select Committee on Homeland Security, US House of Representatives & Terrorism Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee Hon. C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. Assistant Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Policy and Planning US Department of Homeland Security Uri Har Director General, Association of Electronics and Information Industries Tel-Aviv - Israel

2. Homeland Security and the Post 9-11 Challenge World Electronics Forum 2004 Dan C. Heinemeier, CAE President, GEIA

3. Homeland Security and thePost 9-11 Challenge • Some US Homeland Security Challenges: • Maintaining national focus vs. other national needs • Security imperative vs. affordability issues • National openness vs. protection at all costs • Progress to date vs. continuing challenges/ problems: • Bush Administration views • Political critics in election year • Where do we go from here? • National 9/11 commission recommendations

4. 1972: Terrorist attack at Munich Olympics 1973: US Ambassador to Sudan and other diplomats assassinated in Khartoum 1974: Libyan terrorist bombs TWA plane flying from Athens to Rome, kills all 85 passengers 1972 1975: Domestic terrorists bombed a Wall Street bar and US Department of State 1973 1978: Terrorists kidnap & assassinate Italian Prime Minister, Premier Aldo Moro 1979: Iranian radicals seize US Embassy in Tehran, 66 American diplomats held hostage 1976: Terrorists seize an Air France airliner and its 258 passengers (Entebee Hostages) 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1981: Terrorists assassinate Anwar al-Sadat 1979 1980 1983: US Embassy & barracks bombed in Beirut; 241 Marines killed 1981 1982 1983 1985: Air India flight is blown up in the air, killing 328 people 1984 1986: Terrorists bomb Berlin disco filled with US soldiers 1985 1986 1987 Report of the National Commission on Terrorism (2000): 40 recommendations, none acted upon. 1988 1988: Pan Am flight blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1993: World Trade Center bombed, 6 killed & more than 1,000 injured 1995 1996 1995: Sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway killing 12 and injuring 5,000 1997 1998 1996: Khobar Towers bombed, 19 killed & more than 500 injured 1999 1997: 58 tourists massacred at Temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt 2000 1998: U.S.embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, killing at least 224 2001 1999: Planned Millennium attack on airliners and LAX foiled 2000: USS Cole attacked in the port of Aden, Yemen 2001: World Trade Center & Pentagon attacked, >2,800 killed International Terrorism: A Long Heritage How long will the memory of September 11th sustain America’s resolve?

5. JULY 29, 2004 COMMENTARY – • “The Unbearable Costs of Empire” • Post-9/11 rationale: America must police the world to stop terrorists before they do us serious harm. • Funding Priorities: Only the Defense and Homeland Security departments have received significant funding increases in fiscal year 2005 budget. • BusinessWeek Editorial View: “U.S. can't afford the role of global cop” • U.S. now borrowing over $600 billion/year from the rest of the world: • Central banks of China, Japan, and others • In the next 2-10 years, foreign investors will see decline of the dollar • is unavoidable and begin to unload dollars • U.S. can't afford even the $486 billion/year currently spent on • defense and homeland security

6. Openness Remains a Foreign Policy Priority • Sec. of State Colin Powell, April 21, 2004: • “…protecting our democracy and the special, welcoming society we have always been demands that we remain an open nation. America must continue to be a magnet for enterprising minds from around the world and the preferred destination of millions of tourists.” • But, security-driven travel constraints impact international visitors: • Fingerprinting of many visitors raises privacy and human rights concerns, as China’s government has pointed out (March 2004). • Processing problems & delays have prevented visitors from legitimate attendance at trade shows and other meetings. • Intrusive requirements for personal information reporting. • March ‘04 travel from overseas down 30% from previous peak.

7. Homeland Security and the Post 9-11 Challenge • How are we doing? Progress to date in the war on terrorism (quoting President Bush – July ’04): • Libya WMD programs dismantled • Terrorist leaders captured, their plans and financing disrupted in ongoing raids world-wide • Working with friends and allies across the globe • Support for democracy in broader Middle East • Private arms network in Pakistan broken up • Not cited by President Bush: • No major domestic attacks on US since 9/11/01

8. Homeland Security and the Post 9-11 Challenge • How are we doing? Problems to date in the war on terrorism (source: Sen. Kerry campaign website - August ‘04): • Intelligence services remain fragmented, lack coordination • Our borders, ports, chemical plants, etc. remain vulnerable to attack • Police, firefighters, other “first responders” lack information and equipment • Bush shifted focus of war from Afghanistan/al Qaeda to Iraq • Allies are disaffected at a time when we need them most • No strategy to win hearts and minds around the world in the “war of ideas”

9. Implement a global strategy • Attack terrorists and their organizations • Prevent growth of Islamist terrorism • Protect against, prepare for new attacks • Reorganize US intelligence organizations • Unify intelligence efforts among agencies • Create a new National Counterterrorism Center • Appoint a new National Intelligence Director • Strengthen FBI and other domestic players • Unifyand strengthen Congressional oversight • (88 committees & subcommittees involved now)

10. “Unity of purpose and unity of effort are the way we will defeat this enemy and make America [the World] safer for our children and grandchildren.“