Bush administration is devoted to letting market forces rule and relying on voluntary public-private partnerships. John Sutter: Partnership has blunted some of the native suspicion in the business community toward government’s regulatory impulses. Sutter asks: Who gets to decide what standard levels of security will be the benchmarks for compliance? He asks: What are reasonable costs of doing business versus a public-safety activity that ought to fall under some government agency’s budget? Sutter says if the worthy goals of homeland security stumble over a failure to clearly address the question of who picks up the tab, that will be a bad thing.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2116902/homeland-security–staring-at-the-check.html