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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Katrina taught us we can't rely on cable news broadcasts and early written reports to give an accurate assessment of the loss.
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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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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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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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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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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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U.S. military forces executed the largest, fastest, most comprehensive and most responsive civil support mission ever. In a domestic relief operation unprecedented in scale, over 72,000 federal military and National Guard forces flowed into the Gulf Coast region over a 12-day period to assist fellow Americans in distress.
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We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.
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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 need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,