Access Control
& Security Systems

A team of Brookings Institution scholars will release a comprehensive strategy to address the challenges of Homeland security today. They identify a number of shortfalls in the Bush administration's approach.

Two criticisms - that the government is focusing too narrowly on preventing recurrences of the terrorist airliner crashes and anthrax mailings; and that the administration's emphasis on protecting U.S. targets rather than taking domestic steps to prevent those attacks in the first place - are explored in the report.

The report also examines who should pay for the necessary security measures (federal, state or local governments), and whether the government should re-organize itself to face these new challenges.

The report will be released on the Brookings Web site: http://www.brookings.edu

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