On February 20, 2014, the LA Times published and article title "why 9/11 can happen again" by the National Homeland Security flaws and disorganization that has the potential to let another massive attack happen on US soil. I agree that their are flaws among the homeland security flaws that need to be addressed but do not agree with how this article was written.
The author Gary Hart is a lawyer and former senator from Colorado and the other author Norman Augustine is a retired aerospace executive and was undersecretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977 both of the authors worked within the government and they must have a good understanding of how things work, with this being known they have good creditably from the little background we are provided.
The intended audience for this article is the American people, more specifically the average middle class American. The authors give several scare tactics to catch the readers attention. including statements like " substances that could kill before we become aware that they are in our air or water, hasn't been prioritized" these statements are meant to raddled the average citizen and get the people thinking of how things must change.
Hart and Augustine claim that Congressional oversight has made the Homeland Security even more confusing and do not focus on the safety of USA. They support their claim with minimum statistics, the article does include the outstanding number of committees and subcommittees (108) which does seem like too much for the department as Homeland Security. Secretary Michael Chertoff said, "When many voices speak, it's like no voice speaks." Hart stats that the president and congress have to listen to others and the Hart-Rudman report in order to fix this problem. I would like to know more information about the Hart- Rudman report and the other reports credentials and what kind of solution they are reporting. Overall i think the article is lacking statistical evidence and supporting information.
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