DHS be ready

Ridge assures us that we are secure, even though there is going to be another attack this summer, and probably next fall, and perhaps for the rest of our lives.

The DHS now has "full nationwide connectivity" to a new Homeland Security Operations Center, which Ridge described as a "nerve center for homeland security information and incident management." He also said homeland security directors in all 50 states have direct access to the DHS through a recently deployed Homeland Security Information Network, known as the Joint Regional Information Exchange System (JRIES).

..."The most advanced technologies, including the newly created Internet-based Homeland Security Information Network, allow us to maintain up-to-the-minute information, to map that information against our critical infrastructure and known threats, and then share it instantly with the White House, all 50 states, more than 50 major urban areas, and thousands of state and local agencies."

  ComputerWorld article

But if we don't scramble the jets, it's really not going to matter, now is it?

If the Commander in Chief and President of the United States, in whom resides the authority to shoot down airliners, sits around reading pet goat stories waiting for someone to tell him what to do, all the technology in the world won't be of much use, will it now?

If all 50 states had "full connectivity" on 9/11, what would have been done differently? How would that have helped?

You're right. It wouldn't have. But by golly, I bet you feel like this administration with its Department of the Fatherland is making you safe at last, don't you?

Don't you?