People on the DHS Color-Coded Review Panel
Richard Ben-Veniste, David Bradley, William Webster, Frances Frago Townsend and Manny Diaz will serve on a new homeland security advisory board (AP, Reuters, Post)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today named a bipartisan task force to consider changes to the nation's color-coded terror warning system.
The group will be led by former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend and former CIA and FBI director William Webster. The group will assess how well the Homeland Security Advisory System informs the public, private sector and government about current threats and needed protective steps, The Post's Spencer S. Hsu reports.
Here's the full membership of the advisory board:
Townsend
Webster
Randy Beardsworth, former assistant secretary for strategic plans at DHS and a principal with Catalyst Partners
Richard Ben-Veniste, partner at Mayer Brown LLP and member of the 9/11 Commission
Matt Bettenhausen, California homeland security adviser
David Bradley, owner of the Atlantic Media Group (Much to the surprise of two of his blogging employees)
James Carafano, senior member at the Heritage Foundation
Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami
Clark Ervin, director of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program and former DHS inspector general
Mary Fetchet, founding director of VOICES of September 11th
Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta
Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and State Director of Emergency Management
George Gascon, San Francisco chief of police
Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington
Michael Rounds, governor of South Dakota
Joe Shirley, president of Navajo Nation
Ed Skyler, deputy mayor of New York City
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Ed O'Keefe
| July 14, 2009; 4:35 PM ET
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