A port is where chemical, energy and oil facilities all come together with a large number of people, with quite limited security on the water. |
Anecdotal information of poor or nonexistent security in this sector is overwhelming, |
Anything in a paragraph marked 'secret' needs to be deemed secret, and revealing it to someone without proper security clearance or without a need to know is not authorized and is a violation. |
Everything else about the card is perfect for identification purposes. There's a name, there's a number, there's a digital signature. It is in many respects a national ID card even though in the card itself it says 'not to be used for identification purposes,' |
From the point of view of protecting the president, we'd rather have nothing out there as regards Air Force One and the security arrangements. If I were still in government, I'd try to get this taken down promptly. |
I think this issue, Katrina and our government's response to it, should be looked at by an independent commission, |
Israel is quite important to the US. Europe is not indifferent, but it's safe to say they care less. |
It's pretty clear that most of this activity was not focused on major natural disasters ... and was really focused more on the problems associated with terrorist attacks. |
Our country is not so ready to respond to the uber-disasters as we'd like to be, four years after 9/11. |
Social Security cards right now are a problem. They're a very significant breeder-card for other types of identification. It's very easy to get a Social Security card. Many are issued over and over. There are many more Social Security cards in circulation today than there are people in the United States. |
The problem was, who was in charge on 9/11? Who the hell knew? They kept asking and asking. You needed some clarity. It was supposed to pull it all together. … But FEMA was grousing about that, they thought it was taking things away from them. |
The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an [emergency] evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame, |
There was a lot of jockeying at the time to try and protect turf. |
This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country. |
This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps. |