Porter Goss: “we all know what an arduous and shocking day yesterday was. Mr. Speaker, we are experiencing direct and deep feelings of…”

“we all know what an arduous and shocking day yesterday was. Mr. Speaker, we are experiencing direct and deep feelings of grief and loss for the families of the victims, so many victims there were. CeeCee Lyles of Fort Myers, Florida, in my district was a flight attendant on one of the United Airlines flights, number 93, one of the brave Americans who called her husband, reported the hijacking, and said good-bye. Imagine the terror of that. Today I started my day as usual, walking to the Capitol office from my nearby home here, and there was the Capitol dome above us, rising beautifully, boldly, reassuringly, into a bright, blue sky and the strong sunshine of the morning today. I thank the Lord for keeping it safe, and the good Americans who worked to do that as well. For a minute, it was like yesterday never happened; it was just all a bad dream. And then we all went to work. The images, the statistics, the reports, they are heart-wrenching. What kind of people, if we can call them people, could think up and carry out such fanatical and diabolical atrocities against innocent human beings? How does hate grow so grotesquely and get channeled into such devastation? What type of murderous leaders would advocate these kinds of things? Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues, this is the face of terrorism. It is unspeakably evil; and we, the United States of America, are confronted with it on behalf of our citizens. I have no doubt we shall prevail.”