Best thread...and thinking put there right now. Completely agree. The solutions exist, but just like other points in history, we have to stretch ourselves to make them work.
Only one quibble with @alexstamos: 9/11 Commission is a bad example in the results department. How much safer does the behemoth TSA make us relative to the industry decision to lock cockpit doors?
And creating a flexible department to fill gaps between fed agencies and locals for new threats? Well it's pretty clear how that one is going. I would counter that the collective convening power around CVE is a better example. Or Deepwater Horizon.
Point being: what we lack right now is the drive of the White House to lock the right doers in a room and create the public conversation so they can get it done. Until then, it has to fall to NGOs and academics as Alex says.
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