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By Brett Wolf, Analyst, Complinet, Ltd.
In April President Barack Obama traveled to Mexico to meet with President Felipe Calderon and discuss the drug-related violence that had begun to spill over into the United States even as the Mexican Army pressed its fight against the country's murderous cartels that operate along the border.
One reality was made abundantly clear to Obama and his cadre: Mexico will not be able to make meaningful progress until the United States finds a way to damn the river of drug money and arms that flows southward across the Rio Grande, fueling the cartels' private armies.
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By David Williams, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
While the investigations remain ongoing and the accused have the right of the presumption of innocence, recent arrests of alleged terrorists in New York and Colorado serve to remind all of us a simple fact: Terrorism knows know borders. It can be planned and carried out anywhere.
Given these realities, we need to balance vigilance with the recognition that, in a free society, we cannot control every outcome no matter how serious the ramifications.
Even so, the current atmospherics give pause not just for thought, but for action, too.
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By Haywood Talkcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services
According to US Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security, more than 11 million maritime containers arrive in United States seaports each year -- an average of 32,000 a day. Only a fraction of these containers are ever inspected, presenting terrorists with tens of thousands of opportunities each day to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the country.
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By Al Martinez-Fonts, Former Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector at the Department of Homeland Security
Over the past several months I have repeatedly been asked: What advice would you give to your successor about what DHS, and particularly the Private Sector Office (PSO), should be doing? |
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