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On June 11, 2008, the House Homeland Security Committee (HHSC) helda hearing to examine whether the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) is ready to lead relief efforts in the event of a major U.S.catastrophe. Despite the vast amount of resources dedicated toimproving DHS's disaster-response capacity, the consensus of thehearing was that the organization is unprepared to provide adequatepost-disaster leadership.

Intervention, early intervention, by the hotel security guard who was shot through the doorway, according to law enforcement. and we heard from the sheriff saying some 200 rounds were fired into the hallway. that does seem to be a key moment in turning this killer from the focus outside, where frankly had he continued he could have done a lot more damage, to focusing on the potential of somebody coming through that door. >> i think thats right. that was one of the most fascinating parts of the e...

Business. you have to go in, regardless of what you know about the case this early on, with this volume of data, with an assumption that says, i cannot be sure that nobody else was involved. when i read the sheriff, he wasnt saying just that he might think, based on his theory, there was a larger conspiracy. hes saying what anybody, including myself, would say. until we prove that there is nobody else involved, ive got to assume theres somebody else because i cant come back in 30 days and say, f...