It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee. |
It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, |
It was bin Laden who decided that it should just focus on the East Coast, and that the West Coast should be held in abeyance ... as a follow-on attack. It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time. |
It was the president who acknowledged the response to Hurricane Katrina was insufficient, and it was the president who first sought the lessons learned. |
It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time. |
Now is not the time to really look at moving organizational boxes. |
Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in the Patriot Act the mention of library records. |
the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of domestic incident management activities of all departments and agencies in the event of a terrorist threat, and during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies, within the United States. |
The problem is you can't share these details when you have operational leads. It takes time. |
Though there will be tragedies we cannot prevent, we can improve our preparedness and response to reduce future loss and preserve life. And while we will work diligently to implement immediate improvements, it is important to recognize that the true transformation envisioned in this report will require a sustained commitment over time by the federal government as well as by state and local governments that have essential duties in responding to disasters. |
Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia. |
We are disappointed that they were all housed together. We are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent. |
We can improve the response. We can make it faster and more efficient, and that's the focus of the 125 recommendations, which are really broken into 17 different areas. |
We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower. |
We must be unanimous in our strong condemnation of such state sponsorship of terrorism and demand its end in our lifetime. |