Paul McHale
Paul McHale
Paul F. McHale, Jr.is an American politician. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Additionally, from 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. In 1992, McHale defeated former U.S. Congressman Donald L. Ritter for his seat representing the Lehigh Valley in the U.S. Congress. Currently, McHale is the President of Civil Support International LLC, which is a consulting firm that advises private contractors...
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We anticipate providing from the Department of Defense a 500-bed mobile hospital. That will be deployed in the New Orleans area.
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We all have different radios. We all use different frequencies. Yet we all must be able to talk to each other.
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We will be deploying into New Orleans a force the size of the New Orleans police department each day, every day, for the next three days. That is a remarkable movement of law enforcement capability into an area that clearly needs augmentation and reinforcement,
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Early situational awareness was poor, a problem that should have been corrected following identical damage assessment challenges during Hurricane Andrew,
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Federalizing the National Guard for purposes of law enforcement would be a last resort, not a first resort.
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We cannot excuse that kind of misconduct because we happen to belong to the same party as the president or agree with him on issues or feel tragically that the removal of the president from office would be enormously painful for the United States of America.
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we want to do more than watch TV. . . . We want to ensure as a matter of policy we have better eyes on target.
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DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.
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Could we have physically moved combat forces into an American city, without the governor's consent, for purposes of using those forces - untrained at that point in law enforcement - for law enforcement duties? Yes.
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The word is 'caution. We have to look at a mission and decide if a civilian capability is available and appropriate.
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The role of the military within domestic American society, both by law and by history, has been carefully constrained, and there is nothing in our strategy that would move away from that historic principle.
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We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,
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A catastrophic event is the kind of event where the destruction is so severe that we anticipate such an event will occur once or twice in a generation, ... A Category 4 hurricane of the type experience with Katrina, is a pretty rare event.
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This may well have been a very painful disclosure of a gap in our capability that we must now correct to deal with not only natural disasters, but with terrorist attacks that may be even larger in scope.