President Sets Alerting Policy

Yesterday President Bush signed an Executive Order to establish, “an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible, and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people in situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other hazards.” The order directs the Department of Homeland Security to inventory and asses the current systems, establish common protocols, and oversee training and testing of such a system. Since Congress controls the federal budget, the order comes without any funding. Read about the order here.