Why Guam? That doesn't help us prepare for anything. Also, how can you learn squat from the 2005 drill when the government won't let anyone know what was done right or wrong during that drill?
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever later this month when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
Yet even as this drill begins, details from the previous national exercise held in 2005 have yet to be publicly released — information that's supposed to help officials prepare for the next real attack.
House lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday, including why the "after-action" report from 2005 hasn't been made public. Congress has required the exercise since 2000, but has done little in the way of oversight beyond attending the actual events.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, did not get a direct answer to why it has taken the department two years to finish the after action report.
"I'm just wondering how much of that information you gleaned is actually current enough to move forward with," Thompson, D-Miss said. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., asked if the department was not releasing the report because it's hiding something.
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