Bill Nelson: “I rise to comment about the 9/ 11 Commission report. I think it is an excellent report. Its recommendations ought to be…”

“I rise to comment about the 9/ 11 Commission report. I think it is an excellent report. Its recommendations ought to be implemented and they ought to be implemented soon by the Congress. Given the fact that we are near gridlock in an election season and it is very unlikely in September when we come back from the August recess we will get anything done, I think we ought to consider coming back after the election and implementing the recommendations of the report. Why? Because the only way we protect ourselves from the enemies whom we call terrorists is to have accurate and timely information. The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence. So whatever we need to do to avoid the colossal intelligence failure we had on September 11 and the colossal intelligence failure we had again prior to going into Iraq, we best get about the job of correcting that information gathering, information flow, and information analysis so we can try to continue to thwart the attempts at doing damage to us. Is it not interesting what the 9/11 Commission report said? It specifically defined the terrorist as someone who is usually an Islamist fundamentalist who has warped the teachings of Islam so that it becomes a passion of hatred, and out of that wanting to do damage to the free world. Of course, we being the superpower are the target of that.…”