We don't do politics in homeland security, |
We don't want to broadcast to everybody where we're going to be doing this, but those areas and elements within the private sector, they have already been contacted and they understand that for the time being we want to maintain a similar level of security, |
We got very specific information regarding when and what flights. It didn't quite have the specificity with regard to the nature of the attack, but there was certainly enough credibility associated with the when and the where, the date and the flight |
We had specific information that needed to be acted upon relative to the Air France flights. |
We have 90 days to get things ready to open the front door, |
We have more protective measures in place at yellow today than we did six months or a year ago, ... And there will be more put in place on a day-to-day basis every single day, for as long as the department exists. |
We have to give people something to do. |
We know they have the capability to succeed and they also hold the mistaken belief that their attacks will have an impact on America's resolve, |
We realize that's a vulnerability that could be exploited with potentially catastrophic consequences, |
We think at the end of the day, a lot of this is going to be about turnout in the battleground states, |
We think, based on the initiatives that we've announced today, that we can absorb that cost. |
We want visitors from abroad to continue to come to the United States, but we also want to secure our borders, |
We went from a handful [of federal air marshals in fiscal year] '01 to literally thousands in '04 and there's been a modest reduction and I think we can manage that reduction through '05, |
We'll be ready to answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American people. |
We'll want them to pull in all that information and sort it out between rumor and suspicion and fact and speculation and misinformation and do an assessment, do an analysis and then communicate it -- if it's a real threat -- communicate that to state and local governments, |