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Cheap, easy-to-assemble improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are a growing threat in America, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told members of a think tank Friday.
“We have been working on this a couple of years, and I think we have made dramatic strides,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It is a very high priority.”
Chertoff said efforts to thwart such attacks must be pre-emptive.
Above all else, that intervention requires good intelligence, he said, asserting that such intelligence ultimately would benefit rather than restrict privacy.
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Items compiled by Tribune news services.
