Cơ quan liên bang và đội đáp ứng Hơn 200 quan chức nhà nước và địa phương đã được mời đến thủ đô liên bang ở Washington, DC vào tháng Tám năm 1998 do Bộ Tư pháp, Văn phòng Hỗ trợ Chuẩn bị Nhà nước và địa phương tạo ra tháng năm, để hỗ trợ các thành phố và tiểu bang chuẩn bị tốt hơn cho khủng bố. Thông điệp chính từ các quan chức địa phương rằng chính phủ liên bang vẫn chưa có hệ thống chặt chẽ để ngăn chặn hoặc phản ứng với khủng bố. . | 5 Federal Agencies and Response Teams There is a need for an organization manned trained and equipped to counter the growing biological chemical terrorist threat. The Marine Corps will have such an organization. manned with properly skilled and trained personnel. equipped with state-of-the-art detection monitoring and decontamination equipment. suited for operations in a wide range of contingencies. General Charles C. Krulak 1995 INTRODUCTION More than 200 state and local officials were invited to the federal capital in Washington . in August of 1998 by the Department of Justice Office for State and Local Preparedness Support created in May to assist cities and states to better prepare for terrorism. The key message from the local officials was that the federal government still has no coherent system for deterring or responding to terrorism. They asked the Clinton Administration to put a single government agency in charge of developing a new national plan within six months as the present system is often duplicative frequently chaotic confusing and overly bureaucratic. An 8-page summary of comments was given to Attorney General Janet Reno. Only half the state and local officials on one panel said they knew that the President had revamped the terrorism system and fewer than half had ever heard of Richard A. Clarke the national federal coordinator for antiterrorism. The local officials seemed infuriated about the number of federal antiterrorism units including the Army s SBCCOM the Marine s CBIRF the . s DEST the State Department s FEST the Energy Department s NEST and the Department of Health and Human Services MMST. At least 40 different federal agencies or offices are to assist state and local response officials responding to weapons of mass destruction WMD and terrorist actions involving nuclear biological and chemical weapons. This chapter examines several of these units. . MARINE CORPS CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT RESPONSE FORCE The truism that .
