There's a question mark where the head of the TSA should be. Senator -- Senate Republican Jim DeMint of South Carolina holding up confirmati...
The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelli...
I will accept that intelligence by its nature is imperfect. But it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully l...
So we have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line.
Again, no one stepped down. No one has been fired. And what we keep hearing from government officials is, this is not the time to point fing...
There is Leon Panetta, the CIA chief. His agency debriefed the bomber's father. The question is, what happened to that intelligence after th...
We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for Al Qaida.
I will not tolerate it.
We are determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat their networks once and for all.
I encourage Americans to give back by mentoring young people in their communities who may lack role models.
Mentors are building a brighter future for our Nation by helping our children grow into productive, engaged, and responsible adults.
All people are born with an unalienable right to freedom.
I am the commander in chief of the military, of the nation, in the midst of two wars.
It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda and that this group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula trained him, equipped him with tho...
I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicenter of violent extr...
Our nation is at war against the far-reaching network of violence and hatred.
Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that al Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the United States homeland from its safe haven in ...
Make no mistake, that's exactly what we've been doing.
