Homeland Security heavily influenced by Jewish Groups

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Jewish security network meets with DHS chief

Leaders of the Secure Community Network met Wednesday in Washington with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. SCN, which coordinates security for North American Jewish institutions, has been working with DHS for a while on security training and assessments, but this was the first meeting with Napolitano since she took office earlier this year.

Representatives of the Conference of Presidents and the United Jewish Communities, the two organizations which created SCN, as well as leaders of some other Jewish umbrella groups were part of the session. They discussed the "concerns the community has over the spike in incidents" directed at the Jewish community in recent months, said SCN national director Paul Goldenberg. "The last six months have been extraordinary months for the Jewish community."

Secure Community Network Discusses Security & Preparedness with DHS Secretary Napolitano

WASHINGTON D.C.-Leaders of the Secure Community Network (SCN), under the auspices of the Conference of Presidents, representing 52 national Jewish organizations and United Jewish Communities, representing 157 Jewish Federations, met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday to discuss general security concerns as well as those more specific to the Jewish community and pledged continued support of DHS's renewed focus on engaging the private sector in working towards a safer and more secure nation.

Last week, during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Secretary Napolitano outlined DHS' commitment to engaging the private sector and creating a "culture of preparedness."

"SCN's primary mission since its founding nearly five years ago has been to instill a 'culture of security awareness and preparedness' among our member organizations and the American Jewish community at large," said Alan Solow, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents.

What is the Secure Community Network?

What is the Secure Community Network?
The Secure Community Network (SCN) is part of the American Jewish community's response to heightened security concerns in the United States.  SCN has two main functions: (1) rapid information sharing in crisis situations and (2) enhancing security awareness at Jewish organizations and institutions to protect against terrorism and other threats.

The Secure Community Network serves as the central address for the Jewish community concerning matters of communal safety, security, and all-hazards preparedness and response. Through SCN, the organized Jewish community has established a coordinated approach for community wide notifications, crisis management and security measures emphasizing common standards for enabling Jewish communities throughout North America to embrace and evidence a culture of security awareness, preparedness and disaster recovery and resiliency.

SCN professionals offer expertise, guidance and assistance to Jewish organizations and institutions on protection against terrorism and other threats.  They also operate the SCN crisis communication system that allows rapid dissemination of critical information to all SCN members.

SCN maintains close working relationships with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, intelligence and counter-terrorism units, and others who provide advice on security and safety matters.  SCN also maintains contact with major Jewish communities worldwide to share information and experience and to maximize resources.

Who Manages SCN?
SCN is endorsed by the national leadership of the American Jewish community.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the former President and CEO of the United Jewish Communities, serve as co-chairs of the SCN Board of Directors.  

Board of Directors/Management Team
A Board of Directors/Management Team oversees SCN operations.  The group is comprised of ten permanent organizational members, and three organizations from the participating Conference member organizations that will rotate every six months.  The ten permanent members are: American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League, Conference of Presidents, Jewish Community Center Association, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Orthodox Union, Union for Reform Judaism, United Jewish Communities, and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.  The rotating organizations will be selected alphabetically from the list of participating organizations.

Staff
SCN is professionally staffed by a team of senior security policy analysts, administrators, law enforcement and intelligence service executives.  It functions from a state-of-the art operations center in New York City.

 Advisory Committee
A select group of distinguished law enforcement and security executives serve on the SCN Advisory Board, and are a significant resource for guidance and expertise regarding collection, analysis and dissemination of threat information related to terrorism and other potential incidents.  This important group also advises the management and Board of Directors in formulating security policies and procedures for Jewish communal institutions, developing strategies, emergency planning and preparedness, communications, crisis management, and disaster recovery.  

Who Participates in SCN?
The SCN network includes the 52 member organizations of the Conference of Presidents, the 157 North American federations represented by UJC, the 350 JCC's, Y's and camp sites associated with Jewish Community Centers Association, and the synagogues, rabbinic arms and schools associated with the four major religious streams.  

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Remarks by Secretary Napolitano at the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Conference

Release Date: April 22, 2009

Washington, D.C.

Secretary Napolitano: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for that kind introduction, and thank you for inviting me to be the final speaker in what looks to have been a very successful gathering here in Washington, D.C., for the ADL [Anti-Defamation League]. Thanks particularly to my friends from Arizona. Where are they? I miss you guys.

And I will tell you, every morning as the Secretary of Homeland Security I get a kind of a briefing—a briefing from my own department, the FBI, and the CIA about things going on in the United States and things going on in the world that are part of the situational awareness that one must have in a position like this.

But that brings me to partnerships, and I want to close with that, because the ADL and DHS have had some good partnerships. In recent years, the Department has placed our employees in your advanced training school to educate us on the tactics used by extremists and terrorists; the strategies that may be used by law enforcement to deter, prevent and respond to incidents and threats; and to make us aware and sensitive to and cognizant of the civil rights and liberties that must be protected even while you are enforcing the law and conducting these very difficult investigations.

We also, of course, have our own civil rights/civil liberties area, section, within the department. And we have undertaken action, sometimes with ADL or other similar groups to provide outreach to communities of particular sensitivity and do some pretty unusual—some functions that you wouldn't normally place within DHS.

Secretary Napolitano: Take a few questions?

ADL National Chairman Glen Lewy: Yes. Follow-up with a Q & A.

Secretary Napolitano: Thank you. That was very kind. We're going to do some questions now. You're in charge.

Mr. Lewy: You're in charge, Madam Secretary.

Secretary Napolitano: Okay. Okay. Yes, sir.

ADL National Leadership Chair Rick Barton: What we're going to do—that's why I'm in charge on this.

Mr. Barton: We go to the microphone right there.

Secretary Napolitano: Please.

Mr. Barton: And we always start to the left at ADL.

Secretary Napolitano: But I'm in the middle.

Question: Hi. My name is Mark Schoendorff. I'm from Los Angeles, Calif. In Los Angeles we have earthquakes, and the last major disastrous earthquake that we've had was in 1994. It's now 2009. Unlike a hurricane or unlike a tornado, they come unexpectedly and they affect a lot of people. Now that FEMA has been incorporated into DHS, what steps if any, hopefully, have been taken to, I guess, respond to an impending natural disaster in Southern California?

Secretary Napolitano: Yes. In fact, I was just in—I've been in Southern California twice in the last four weeks, once in the San Diego area, and once in—I was in L.A., actually, last Monday. And the answer is we're working very closely with California, its state emergency management division, and others. And you are right. That is a key difference between an earthquake and a hurricane.

With a hurricane you have a hundred hours ahead of time. You can pretty much know or have a pretty good estimate where it's going to land. An earthquake, it's 2 a.m. and boom, you know, something happens. And so we are doing planning for that and we are planning—I don't have the exact date, but I want to say it's within the next 12 to 18 months—a major national exercise focused on earthquakes.

Now, that one will be along the major fault that's in the Midwest that hasn't erupted in a while and the seismologists believe that it will. So we're doing a major multi-state exercise there, but we are doing similar types of things in California.

Yes?

Question: Thank you. Stuart Scher, Boulder, Colo. There's been a lot of discussion here at this conference and in the past about the balance between fighting terrorism and protecting civil rights. And one measure or the only measure I've really heard is have we been attacked again? By that measure, the last administration did a very good job, and so far, so has this administration. How do we measure the effectiveness of our efforts so we can decide whether certain, you know, infringements, perhaps, on civil liberties might be worthwhile?

Secretary Napolitano: It is impossible to measure a negative, in a way. It is easy to say what you caught, and it's difficult to say what you prevented, in part because you don't want to give lessons to others or set examples for others on what to do and what investigatory techniques were used.

I think what I can say is that this administration has a strong commitment to making sure that as we do everything in our power to prevent terrorist acts from occurring, that that is done rigidly within the Constitution and the rights provided in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights And I think you have to just express that sensitivity and then design your investigations and your work accordingly. How you measure that in terms of—well, if we went ahead and did this kind of surveillance or infiltration, would we prevent something? I think we have to ultimately say there are some things we just won't do.

Question: (Inaudible)

Secretary Napolitano: I just took Florida's emergency management director [W. Craig Fugate] to be the head of FEMA, so they may be a little surly right now. His confirmation hearing is tomorrow, so he is—assuming that he is confirmed. Just speak loudly, and I'll repeat the question.

Question: We had 90 meetings this morning on the Hill about immigration reform, which is a huge issue. And I just—in this group my question is: are there baby steps that are being taken that might be out of the spotlight where something is happening? Because we keep hearing, it's huge. It's huge. It will happen. Is there stuff happening now that might not be out there in the news that is going on with the immigration reform?

Secretary Napolitano: Yes. And that was what I was referring to when I said that that was one of the major initiatives of our department: smart, effective immigration enforcement. And, you know, that is really looking at our own internal processes, how we handle things administratively, making sure. For example, one area of concern has been the condition of ICE detention facilities.

ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's the agency that picks up or holds illegal entrants once they are apprehended. And so I have actually—when I came to work, I found that that was way down on the org chart, buried somewhere, and wasn't really getting the attention that it merits. And I brought in somebody that I have great confidence in who really understands detention facilities, contract management of facilities, how to staff them appropriately, how to have the right medical care, that sort of thing, and really elevated that issue. I didn't need comprehensive immigration reform to do that. I just know that it needed to be done and we did it.

There are other issues. The change in focus in workplace enforcement, for example, did not require comprehensive immigration reform. It was a change in focus that we are getting ready to get out to our own—within our own agency about what we want to concentrate on on the immigration side at the Department of Homeland Security.

They're kind of looking at the paperwork trail that one goes through when one becomes naturalized to see if there are ways to facilitate that. And, then I just signed in Mexico several weeks ago a number of repatriation agreements about what will happen and the different states that we will return illegal entrants in to Mexico. So all of that work is ongoing even though we don't have comprehensive immigration reform.

You bet. Back to the center.

Question: Dave Coleman from McLean, Va. After the Holocaust, many survivors were very wary of any kind of government documents or identifying papers. Many Jews were even scared to circumcise their children for fear that the government could too easily identify them. How do we balance our need to identify people to protect our security with the kind of American feeling that they have a right to privacy and you have a right to not have to identify yourself to the government, and you should be able to just live anonymously about the government knowing too much about who you are or what you do every day?

Secretary Napolitano: It's tough, because we do have a sense, and really, a need for privacy. But on the other hand, you've got to have a Social Security number. You've got to pay your taxes. There are responsibilities that go along with being a citizen of the United States. There's a contract, in a way, between individuals and the United States.

So how do you have that contract and have it be a vital part of existence without undue infringement on privacy? One issue that has come up on is an issue called REAL ID, which was a bill passed by Congress several years ago, but they never put any money behind it. And the states, Democrat and Republican governors alike, resisted it because they didn't want to pay for it, quite frankly.

And so we've been, over the last weeks, meeting with governors of both parties to look at a way to repeal REAL ID and substitute something else that pivots off of the driver's license but accomplishes some of the same goals. And we hope to be able to announce something on that fairly soon. So, you know, that is a balance. But nobody really lives in the United States in a complete bubble. Right? There is a relationship there. The question is: how do you have that relationship in such a fashion that people's privacy rights are not violated?

Question: Hi. I'm Bill Mowat from Seattle, Wash. I just have a question around—we were talking yesterday. There's a debate currently in the press and all over the place about the role of torture and whether it was effective or non-effective in, you know, getting information that led to, you know, good things, people not being killed, et cetera, et cetera.

And I know this is very controversial. But the question I have is: do you think the administration in general, even privately and maybe not releasing much information, will investigate to see if there was any effectiveness and kind of resolve that debate, even if it is just internal, so that—I don't know—there's something going forward?

Secretary Napolitano: Well, I think the President has been very clear that he wants to move forward, that he is not interested too much in focusing on what was done in the prior administration. And, I think he said very clearly, and kind of what I said in answer to a previous question, there are some things we are just not going to do, that we are the United States. We believe we stand for certain things, and one of the things we stand for is that we don't torture. And, so, in a way, the kind of cost/benefit analysis is not that helpful.

That being said—that being said—you have to have ways to interrogate. You have to have ways to find information. You have to have ways to work with other countries to prevent terrorist attacks because there are people in this world who seek to do us harm. And let's be blunt about it. And so the challenge to us is to do that and to work to keep the American people safe in a world where we can never be risk-free—there can never be guarantees—and to do it in a way consistent with our fundamental values as Americans. And that is the message the President has sent to his cabinet, and that is how we will conduct ourselves.

Mr. Lewy: That's it. No further questions.

Secretary Napolitano: Thank you all very much.

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Title: The Jewish Secure Community Network in the USA working with Dept. of Homeland Security--This is a Mossad Operation
Source: War in Iraq
URL Source: http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/167819
Published: Jun 30, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-06-30 04:10:25 by Zoroaster
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The Jewish Secure Community Network in the USA working with Dept. of Homeland Security - This is a Mossad Organization By: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 21.06.2008 [21:44 ] (2028 reads)

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This is more or less proof that Homeland Security is a Jewish-run outfit. Thanks for the post CrackSmokeRepublican.

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DHS is a direct outgrowth of 9-11, and we know who brought us 9-11.

Jewish Zionists, e.g. the Silverstein mafia.
Christian Zionists, e.g. George Bush
Oil Zionists, e.g. Dick Cheney
Israeli Zionists, e.g. Netanyahu and Mossad

DHS  might as well be named the Department of Israeli Homeland Security & general Disaster Capitalism.  it's purpose is not to provide for the security of US citizens.

Homeland Security heavily influenced by Jewish Groups ?  <-- understatement.

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I think it is a complete and total illegal Jewish Defense Force in America. Run by the top Zionists in the DHS for criminal purposes. They obviously wanted to preempt anybody getting pissed off at them for their egregious financial crimes.  The criminals have learned from their own criminal history as well. They know that once the dumbed down "goy" American brain cells finally connect them to the the failure and bankruptcy of the USA, they will be drawn as targets despite their 24/7 chipper propaganda on TV.