It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened. |
It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened. There is no question that two of the 9/11 hijackers came from there and money was laundered through there. |
It was a disappointing response. |
It was obvious nobody knew who was in charge. There was no unified command structure ... the mayor is saying one thing, the governor says another. The president is in the state, and the governor learns about it on TV. |
It's not a priority for the government right now. |
It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress. |
It's very disappointing. All we're trying to do is make the public safer. |
Katrina pointed out serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. And what is frustrating to us is that [these are] many of the same problems we saw in 9/11 and the response to that disaster. |
Nobody knew who was in charge. |
Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again. |
People ought to stay out of our business. |
Some of the failures are shocking. Four years after 9/11, it is a scandal that police and firefighters in large cities still can't talk to each other when they are hit with a major crisis. |
The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and locality has got to have one agency in charge. |
The problem was the CIA and FBI not communicating and not picking them up. |
The question will be whether the guy at the top [in charge of intelligence] has any real budget authority. If he doesn't, it's not real. I think the good part of the week was the President's statement that he's open to change. |