Justice Department officials insist that it has a strong record of breaking up large prostitution rings around the country, but many of the cases they cite involve case brought several years ago, especially before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks; after that, the department vowed to focus its attention on national security threats.
But that is not the kind of event on which a nation beset by real pandemics and other major public health issues focuses its biological security strategy, and that is precisely what the commission is urging.
Those Israelis who claim that, given the raging turmoil throughout the Middle East, Iran's nuclear threat, and the future uncertainty, Israel should focus on its security than take a risk with the Palestinians, are dead wrong.
"Because Israel has been so focused on its security, it has not reached out enough in the past to strengthen the diaspora.
With the Treasury focusing its aim on securities with 10- to 30-year durations, investors made a mad scramble to buy long-term bonds ahead of a shortage.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has focused its attacks on Iraqi security forces, but senior American officials have also expressed fears that the group may export its violence.
For now, Congress is focusing its attention on homeland security in a rush to have a new Cabinet agency to bring home to the voters.
For three years from late 2011, the group focused its attention on Egyptian security forces and institutions of state far to the west.
Because current conditions are so dire, the Fed is now not only expanding liquidity but also focusing its purchases on Treasury securities — from bills maturing in 18 months to bonds maturing in 30 years — that have an average maturity of five to six years.
For Credit Suisse, the sale is part of an effort to focus on its securities underwriting and trading business.
