Political Quotes

“tonight I want to build off the comments of perhaps some of the previous speakers in talking about America is still a Nation at risk. In his new book, Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner raises the possibility that better tactical performance by the United States could have averted the September 11 terrorist attacks. He suggests that the problem was that law enforcement and other agencies failed to effectively identify and act on numerous clues in the months preceding those tragic events. This could be true, but it is more likely that the attacks could have been averted had the U.S. recognized a new enemy emerging in the 1990s and developed a strategy to effectively respond to it, a lapse that the United States Intelligence Community will have to make up as it reinvents itself to respond to a fluid world that I think was redefined by September 11.”