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Napolitano: Include citizens in homeland security effort

U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano enters the turnstile of the subway with Mayor Michael Bloomberg in NYC. / Getty Images Photo / July 29, 2009

Americans are "nowhere near as prepared" as they need be to help the government in its ongoing counterterrorism effort, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday, adding the federal government is largely to blame.

"For too long we've treated the public as a liability to be protected rather than an asset in our nation's collective security," Napolitano said in a speech at...

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