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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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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Federalizing the National Guard for purposes of law enforcement would be a last resort, not a first resort.
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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.
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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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If Rita had produced catastrophic damage, we would not have been reliant on media reports to scope and assess that damage.
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However, we are looking at a wide range of contingencies, potentially involving Title 10 forces (federal troops) if a pandemic outbreak of a biological threat were to occur,
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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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It's the Constitution of the United States. It's the recognized authority both of the national government and of the state governments, creating a dual chain of command.
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These preliminary observations, and others under review, form the framework for an in-depth analysis of our response to Hurricane Katrina and will enable DoD to better plan for the next catastrophic event.
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And my expectation is that any quarantine measures that would be put in place would likely involve a substantial employment of the National Guard, probably under command and control of the governor of an affected state,
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We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.
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With that drawdown toward the end of the week we recognize that the mission of Joint Task Force-Katrina is now approaching what we believe to be a successful conclusion,