the department of homeland security has accomplished in the past ten years it is our to producer rachel carson a so yes all right there rachel thanks so much for joining me so one of the big reasons that the d.h. us was created in the first place was to create to increase the flow of information between departments has not happened sure so essentially the nine eleven report that came out after the september eleventh attacks said that the reason why the government didn't know what was going on was because these agencies were so separate from one another that there was no flow going on and since then even as you heard so far in in the story we just saw. within that agency it's still very much separated there are a lot of departments within the larger department of homeland security often fighting for resources and as such they don't necessarily have the same policies of the time they're not always on the same page and this is in addition to the fact that other agencies that claim that they're also interested in homeland security take the cia the f.b.i. department of defense they aren't part of h

with the next decade and all of the billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars that they get so rachel carson as our producer thank you so much for your report well it's been four years since the financial crash launched the u.s. into the great recession and still parts of the two thousand and ten dodd frank financial reform bill have yet to be put into effect more specifically the volcker rule that rule would real orient deposit taking banks toward safer banking practices by prohibiting them from making speculative trades with their own money but while three financial regulatory agencies argue over the finer details of the rule members of the occupy the f.c.c. group are putting their money where their mouth is or at least where their lawsuit is in any case they're actually suing the f.c.c. saying that the lang the rule is putting their money at risk to explain the lawsuit and its chances of success i was joined earlier by eric taylor he's one of the plaintiffs in the case and also a member of occupy the f.c.c. first of all they're the lawsuit was a stamp amended last july. and recently. ther