Lessons Being Learned from TOPOFF 3, Chertoff Says

Agencies involved in TOPOFF 3 are communicating “efficiently and promptly,” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday on the third day of the large-scale WMD terrorism exercise (see GSN, April 6).

“At this point, we have received tremendous cooperation from New Jersey, Connecticut and our federal partners,” Chertoff said. “There’s no doubt we’re going to learn something from this.”

Chertoff said officials plan to review the drill after it ends Friday to determine weaknesses that need to be corrected in the event of an actual attack, the Associated Press reported (Wayne Parry, Associated Press/PhillyBurbs.com).

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