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Hearing Highlights Continued Security Gaps in Nation’s Capital

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The War on Terrorism: How Prepared is the Nation’s Capital? (Part II), 3/29/06. Links to prepared testimony, in PDF.

  • “On July 14, 2005, the Subcommittee held a hearing that examined coordination efforts within the National Capital Region (NCR) in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster. This second hearing will give the officials from the governments of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the opportunity to update the Subcommittee on their efforts to improve and refine coordination efforts.”
  • Washington Post: “Nearly five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Washington region still lacks a strategic plan to guide preparations for any future attacks or to effectively spend hundreds of millions of homeland security dollars…”

    • Related government documents:

  • Homeland Security: The Status of Strategic Planning in the National Capital Region, Full text GAO-06-559T, and Highlights. March 29, 2006.
  • DC Homeland Security Strategic Plan
  • National Capital Region Homeland Security Strategic Plan
  • District Response Plan

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