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Lloyd Salvetti is a 35-year veteran of the CIA who served as director of intelligence for the National Security Council. Today, he consults on intelligence matters. His advice: 1. Learn from history how to use -- and how to not use -- the intelligence that is gathered for and presented to the White House; 2. Consult experts in the field; 3. Set realistic expectations for the American public about the value and limits of intelligence; and 4. Take responsibility for the actions of the U.S. intelligence community.
Hear It Now (January 15, 2008)
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 Kay Goss was a senior FEMA official in the Clinton administration. Her advice: 1. Emphasize adequate funding for emergency preparedness and management; 2. Invest in training for early responders, especially train-the-trainer courses; 3. Apply the lessons of national security and national defense to emergency management; and 4. Embrace the "all hazards" approach to homeland security.
Hear It Now (January 22, 2008)
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 Dr. D.A. Henderson led the World Health Organization's efforts to eradicate smallpox. His advice: 1. Get regular advice from the top-rate biological scientist with real world experience, and 2. Recognize that we are entering an age that will be dominated by biological issues.
Hear It Now (January 13, 2008)
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 As a senior official with DHS, Richard Cooper worked primarily with the private sector. He is now a partner with Catalyst Partners, a government and public affairs practice in Washington, D.C. His advice: 1. Encourage DHS to work closely with the state and local governments, as well as NGOs and adverage citizens; 2. Recognize that homeland security must be a public/private partnership to succeed; and 3. Keep FEMA inside DHS
Hear It Now (February 12, 2008)
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Jody Westby
is CEO of Global Cyber Risk and an adjunct distinguished fellow at
Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He answers the question, "If you had five
minutes with the presidential candidates,
what would you tell them?" A few words of wisdom from her, "Tell a story that connects the dots between generations and cultures."
Hear It Now (February 19, 2008)
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 Jonah J. Czerwinski is a managing consultant with IBM, working on homeland security policy issues, and a senior fellow for Homeland Security in IBM's Global Leadership Initiative. He also served as a senior adviser for the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Some of his advice is for the presidential candidates to recognize there are five aspects to any national threat: flow of people, flow of information, flow of cargo, conveyances and flow of global finace.
Hear It Now (February 26, 2008)
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 Dr. Ruth David is CEO of Analytic Services. She worked for two decades at Sandia National Laboratory on the design of nuclear devices. From 1995 - 98, she was deputy director for science and technology at the Central Intelligence Agency. Her advice for the candidates includes three simple things to think about: think global, think systems and think resilience.
Hear It Now (March 25, 2008)
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Fred Burton is vice president for counterterrorism at Stratfor and the author of, "Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent." In this
interview, he answers the question, "If you had five minutes with the
presidential candidates, what would you tell them?" He believes that the presidential candidates should recognize what the threat is to every region of the nation, not just the border states.
Hear It Now (May 06, 2008)
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In a global economy, public health and homeland security are closely tied, says Dr. Scott R. Lilibridge, director of the Global Health and Security Initiative and a professor of epidemiology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center. " A disease can be in Africa one day and in the United States the next," he says. The nation's next president must understand the need for international cooperation in maintaining public health around the world.
Hear It Now (June 10, 2008)
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 Homeland security may be the nation's top issue for public safety, says George Haddow, adjunct professor with the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at the George Washington University. But the next president should understand that emergency management must share equal billing, he says. The Bush administration is working with a false paradigm that says the U.S. must choose between preventing the next major attack or preparing for the next major disaster, he says. In truth, Haddow says, homeland security and emergency management should work in tandem. The next president's first step, Haddow says, should be to remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security.
Hear It Now (July 22, 2008)
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 Dr. Gigi Gronvall is a senior associate at the center for BioSecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is here to answer the question, "If you had five minutes with the presidental candidates, what would you tell them?
Hear It Now (March 04, 2008)
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 Local and State law enforcement must become full partners with the federal government in the homeland security policy and decision making process, says Edward A. Flynn, Milwaukee's chief of police, who on 9/11 was police for Arlington, VA., home of the Pentagon. The Obama administration should enhance the analysis of criminal information that may lead to terrorist cells in the United States, streamline access to security clearances for the state and local law officers, and make much better use of intelligence gathered by these officers, he says.
Hear It Now (November 04, 2008)
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 The next president has the opportunity to make a dramatic change in the nation's couterterrorism strategy, says Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe institute for Advanced Studies, and the author of "What Terrorists Want." In addiction to American voters, she says, the next president must be prepared to address an international audience, which is watching the 2008 election with anticipation and anxiety.
Hear It Now (November 04, 2008)
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 The next president must get past the politics that influence spending on homeland security, and learn to
think in terms of risk assessment and cost benefit analysis, says Veronique de Rugy, senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
The
next administration should allocate the homeland security budget based
upon risk, she says, and should put a strong focus on nuclear threat
reduction.
Hear It Now (October 21, 2008)
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 President Obama's first priority should be to restore international
cooperation in fighting terrorism inspired by radical Islam, says Jim
Turner, former U.S. congressman from Texas. For too long, the
United States has positioned itself as taking on al Qaeda and similar
organizations virtually single handed, Turner says. Instead, the next
administration should position al Qaeda as a threat to all civilization
and should seek help from other nations in combating that threat. And
that effort should begin in the Muslim world. A three-term
congressman from Texas 2nd District, Turner was a member of the Armed
Services Committee, and was the ranking minority member of the House
Committee on Homeland Security.
Hear It Now (December 02, 2008)
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Todd Kent is the deal of liberal arts at Texas A&M University at Qatar located in the heart of the Persian Gulf. His students come from all over the Middle East region. His advice is to recognize the high interest in the U.S. democratic process among students in the Middle East and to understand that "homeland security" among Middle East students largely means an absence of conflict.
Hear It Now (December 02, 2008)
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Ronald L. Tammen, director of the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, has three recommendations for the Obama administration: 1. Put a moratorium on reorganizing DHS, 2. Train government executives in crisis management, and 3. Integrate the business community with the homeland security community.
Hear It Now (December 16, 2008)
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