These topics bear little resemblance to the urgent recommendations made by the 9/11 commission,

By and large, the [independent] 9-11 commission looked backwards. What we have been pushing is what are the recommendations going forward so that we do not have this type of thing happening again.

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult,