TOTAL 911 INFO
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Democrat 9/11 police-state bill on fast track
Congressional Democrats are in a race to prove they can destroy the country on the pretext of 9/11 just as fast if not faster than the White House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Bohemian Grove) is set to push through the House of Representatives this afternoon a 279-page bill implementing draconian measures suggested by the 9/11 Cover-up Commission which have yet to become law.
The information contained in author Rep. Bennie Thompson's official 23-page summary of the bill, AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FROM TOTAL911.INFO reveals several measures to increase the power of the Big brother surveillance state: §403 – Airport Checkpoint Screening Explosive Detection
This provision creates a
Checkpoint Screening Security Fund to support the research, development and deployment of EDS checkpoint technologies. The provision provides a one-time deposit of $250 million in FY2008, from the revenues collected from the passenger ticket fees. The 9/11 Commissioners continues to be concerned about the threat that a would-be terrorist would get passed the TSA checkpoint with explosives strapped to their bodies. The 9/11 Public Discourse Project gave Congress a "C" on improving airline screening checkpoints to detect explosives. The Commissioners found that "while more advanced screening technology is being developed, Congress needs to provide the funding for, and TSA needs to move as expeditiously as possible with the appropriate installation of explosive detection trace portals at more of the nation's airports."
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§404 – Strengthening Explosive Detection at Airport Screening Checkpoints
This provision directs the Department of Homeland Security to issue, within seven days of enactment, a strategic plan for the deployment of explosive detection equipment at checkpoints that is long overdue under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
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§409 – Advanced Airline Passenger Prescreening.
This provision directs the Secretary to submit a plan with milestones to test and implement a system to prescreen passengers against the automatic selectee and no fly lists. The plan is due 90 days after enactment of the Act and must include (1) a description of the system; (2) a projected timeline for each phase of testing and implementation of the system; (3) an explanation of how the system integrates with the prescreening system for passenger on international flights; and (4) a description of how the system complies with the Privacy Act.
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§722 – Homeland Security Advisory System
. This section directs the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis to implement an advisory system to relay advisories and alerts to the public regarding threats to the homeland. This bill likewise prescribes the contents of those advisories and alerts, and it makes clear that the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis is not to use color designations as the exclusive means warning the public of potential threat conditions.
§723 – Homeland Security Information Sharing
. This section directs the Secretary to integrate the various intelligence components of the Department (CBP, ICE, TSA, etc.) into a Departmental Information Sharing Environment (ISE) to be administered by the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis. To support the development of the ISE, this section: (1) requires the Secretary to appoint "Knowledge Management Officers" for each intelligence component in order to promote a coordinated approach to gathering and disseminating homeland security information; (2) establishes business processes for the review of information provided by State, local, tribal, and private sector sources and related feedback mechanisms; and (3) establishes a training program for Department employees so they can better understand what "homeland security information" is, how they can identify it as part of their day-to-day work, and how it is relevant to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis;
This section also directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, to establish a comprehensive information technology network architecture that will connect all of the databases within the Department of Homeland Security to each other – promoting internal information-sharing within the Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and among the Department's various intelligence components. This section requires the Secretary to submit an implementation plan and progress report to Congress in order to monitor the development of the architecture and encourages its developers to adopt the functions, methods, policies, and network qualities recommended by the Markle Foundation.
---- Although the bill would purportedly give a special "privacy and civil liberties oversight board" more power; overall the bill just throws more money at the homeland-industrial complex, creates more and bigger databases on Americans, and subjects Americans to even greater surveillance, intrusion and stripping of rights while travelling than is now the case.
- The Senate Homeland Security Commitee (202-224-4751) is holding a hearing on this matter today. LIVE AUDIO
To contact your House member, the Congressional switchboard is 202-224-2131.
The complete table of contents for HR 1, the "Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007" follow below: TITLE I—RISK-BASED ALLOCATION OF HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS
Sec. 101. First responders homeland security funding.
TITLE II—ENSURING COMMUNICATIONS INTEROPERABILITY FOR
FIRST RESPONDERS
Sec. 201. Improve Communications for Emergency Response Grant Program.
TITLE III—STRENGTHENING USE OF A UNIFIED INCIDENT
COMMAND DURING EMERGENCIES
Sec. 301. National exercise program design.
Sec. 302. National exercise program model exercises.
Sec. 303. Responsibilities of Regional Administrators of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
TITLE IV—STRENGTHENING AVIATION SECURITY
Sec. 401. Installation of in-line baggage screening equipment.
Sec. 402. Aviation security capital fund.
Sec. 403. Airport checkpoint screening explosive detection.
Sec. 404. Strengthening explosive detection at airport screening checkpoints.
Sec. 405. Extension of authorization of aviation security funding.
Sec. 406. Inspection of cargo carried aboard passenger aircraft.
Sec. 407. Appeal and redress process for passengers wrongly delayed or prohibited
from boarding a flight.
Sec. 408. Transportation Security Administration personnel management.
Sec. 409. Strategic plan to test and implement advanced passenger
prescreening system.
TITLE V—STRENGTHENING THE SECURITY OF CARGO
CONTAINERS
Sec. 501. Requirements relating to entry of containers into the United States.
TITLE VI—STRENGTHENING EFFORTS TO PREVENT TERRORIST
TRAVEL
Subtitle A—Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center Improvements
Sec. 601. Strengthening the capabilities of the Human Smuggling and Trafficking
Center.
Subtitle B—International Collaboration to Prevent Terrorist Travel
Sec. 611. Report on international collaboration to increase border security, enhance
global document security, and exchange terrorist information.
Subtitle C—Biometric Border Entry and Exit System
Sec. 621. Submittal of plan on biometric entry and exit verification system implementation.
TITLE VII—IMPROVING INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION SHARING
WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIRST RESPONDERS
Subtitle A—Fusion and Law Enforcement Education and Teaming (FLEET)
Grant Program
Sec. 701. Findings.
Sec. 702. FLEET Grant program.
Subtitle B—Border Intelligence Fusion Center Program
Sec. 711. Findings.
Sec. 712. Establishment of Border Intelligence Fusion Center Program.
Subtitle C—Homeland Security Information Sharing Enhancement
Sec. 721. Short title.
Sec. 722. Homeland Security Advisory System.
Sec. 723. Homeland security information sharing.
Subtitle D—Homeland Security Information Sharing Partnerships
Sec. 731. Short title.
Sec. 732. State, Local, and Regional Information Fusion Center Initiative.
Sec. 733. Homeland Security Information Sharing Fellows Program.
Subtitle E—Homeland Security Intelligence Offices Reorganization
Sec. 741. Departmental reorganization.
Sec. 742. Intelligence components of Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 743. Office of Infrastructure Protection.
TITLE VIII—PROTECTING PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE
EFFECTIVELY FIGHTING TERRORISM
Subtitle A—Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Boards
Sec. 801. Short title.
Sec. 802. Findings.
Sec. 803. Making the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board independent.
Sec. 804. Requiring all members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board be confirmed by the Senate.
Sec. 805. Subpoena power for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Sec. 806. Reporting requirements.
Subtitle B—Enhancement of Privacy Officer Authorities
Sec. 811. Short title.
Sec. 812. Authorities of the privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security.
TITLE IX—IMPROVING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
Sec. 901. Vulnerability assessment and report on critical infrastructure information.
Sec. 902. National Asset Database and the National At-Risk Database.
TITLE X—TRANSPORTATION SECURITY PLANNING AND
INFORMATION SHARING
Sec. 1001. Strategic transportation security information sharing.
Sec. 1002. Transportation security strategic planning.
TITLE XI—PRIVATE SECTOR PREPAREDNESS
Sec. 1101. Participation of private sector organizations in emergency preparedness
and response activities.
TITLE XII—PREVENTING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
PROLIFERATION AND TERRORISM
Sec. 1201. Findings.
Sec. 1202. Definitions.
Subtitle A—Repeal and Modification of Limitations on Assistance for
Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism
Sec. 1211. Repeal and modification of limitations on assistance for prevention
of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism.
Subtitle B—Proliferation Security Initiative
Sec. 1221. Proliferation Security Initiative improvements and authorities.
Sec. 1222. Authority to provide assistance to cooperative countries.
Subtitle C—Assistance to Accelerate Programs to Prevent Weapons of Mass
Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
Sec. 1231. Findings; statement of policy.
Sec. 1232. Authorization of appropriations for the Department of Defense Cooperative
Threat Reduction Program.
Sec. 1233. Authorization of appropriations for the Department of Energy programs
to prevent weapons of mass destruction proliferation
and terrorism.
Subtitle D—Office of the United States Coordinator for the Prevention of
Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
Sec. 1241. Office of the United States Coordinator for the Prevention of Weapons
of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.
Sec. 1242. Request for corresponding Russian coordinator.
Subtitle E—Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Proliferation and Terrorism
Sec. 1251. Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation
and Terrorism.
Sec. 1252. Purposes.
Sec. 1253. Composition.
Sec. 1254. Responsibilities.
Sec. 1255. Powers.
Sec. 1256. Nonapplicability of Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Sec. 1257. Report.
Sec. 1258. Termination.
TITLE XIII—NUCLEAR BLACK MARKET COUNTER-TERRORISM
ACT
Sec. 1301. Short title.
Sec. 1302. Definitions.
Subtitle A—Sanctions for Transfers of Nuclear Enrichment, Reprocessing,
and Weapons Technology, Equipment, and Materials Involving Foreign Persons
and Terrorists
Sec. 1311. Authority to impose sanctions on foreign persons.
Sec. 1312. Presidential notification on activities of foreign persons.
Subtitle B—Further Actions Against Corporations Associated With
Sanctioned Foreign Persons
Sec. 1321. Findings.
Sec. 1322. Campaign by United States Government officials.
Sec. 1323. Coordination.
Sec. 1324. Report.
Subtitle C—Rollback of Nuclear Proliferation Networks
Sec. 1331. Nonproliferation as a condition of United States assistance.
Sec. 1332. Report on identification of nuclear proliferation network host countries.
Sec. 1333. Suspension of arms sales licenses and deliveries to nuclear proliferation
host countries.
TITLE XIV—9/11 COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
Sec. 1401. Short title; table of contents.
Subtitle A—Quality Educational Opportunities in Arab and Predominantly
Muslim Countries.
Sec. 1411. Findings; Policy.
Sec. 1412. International Arab and Muslim Youth Opportunity Fund.
Sec. 1413. Annual report to Congress.
Sec. 1414. Extension of program to provide grants to American-sponsored
schools in Arab and predominantly Muslim Countries to provide
scholarships.
Subtitle B—Democracy and Development in Arab and Predominantly Muslim
Countries
Sec. 1421. Promoting democracy and development in the Middle East, Central
Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Sec. 1422. Middle East Foundation.
Subtitle C—Restoring United States Moral Leadership
Sec. 1431. Advancing United States interests through public diplomacy.
Sec. 1432. Expansion of United States scholarship, exchange, and library programs
in Arab and predominantly Muslim countries.
Sec. 1433. United States policy toward detainees.
Subtitle D—Strategy for the United States Relationship With Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia
Sec. 1441. Afghanistan.
Sec. 1442. Pakistan.
Sec. 1443. Saudi Arabia.
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