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On October 29, 2001, President Bush issued the first of a new series of Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPDs) governing homeland security policy. . Bush Administration In the new Bush Administration, the directives that are used to promulgate Presidential decisions on national security matters are designated National Security Presidential Directives (NSPDs). As discussed in NSPD 1, this new category of directives replaces both the Presidential Decision Directives and the Presidential Review Directives of the previous Administration. Unless other otherwise indicated, however, past Directives remain in effect until they are superseded.

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New federal duties would include supervising passenger and baggage security, performing background checks and training screeners and other security personnel. Other duties would include purchase and control of all equipment and oversight of security patrols. Although it wants a larger federal presence at security checkpoints, especially at major airports, the administration reportedly does not favor making this a full federal responsibility. James Oberstar, D-Minnesota, the top Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, criticized Bush for failing to call specifically for federal employees to handle security screening. We wouldn't think of contracting out our Army to protect us against an open foreign invasion.

Within a day of the attack, before any light had been shed on the source of the assault or the dimensions of the plot, the government and the media had launched a coordinated campaign to declare that America was at war and the American people had to accept all the consequences of wartime existence. The US ruling elite has been hampered in implementing such policies by the lack of any significant support within the American population and resistance from its imperialist rivals in Europe and Asia. Now the Bush administration has decided to exploit the public mood of shock and revulsion over the events of September 11 to advance the global economic and strategic aims of American imperialism. He has the full support of a debased media and a Democratic Party that is more than happy to end any pretense of opposition to the Republican right. Such a declaration of unabashed militarism would have been unthinkable prior to September 11.