The bottom line is that homeland security is not about one department, one level of government or one organization, ... It is a national call to action, a philosophy of shared responsibility, shared accountability, and shared leadership.
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The U.S. homeland is better protected. America has become a land scoured, probed, patrolled and fenced by a web of informers, computers, guards, spies, tape recorders, detectors, sensors, Jersey barriers, concrete planters and bomb-sniffing dogs. It may have nipped some plots in the bud and deterred others. We look differently as a country now to the terrorists, ... We have created security measures unlike the terrorists have seen before, and we continue to upgrade them.
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Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,
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You ought to consider it potentially a terrorist event because it looked like he was equipped to do massive harm and damage to people, ... Unfortunately, there's some very troubled people within our own country and we've seen they can act out and we have to be prepared and ready for them as well.
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He did. In focusing so intently on things people might be carrying, I think we probably overreacted, ... Does anybody truly think you could take over an airplane with fingernail clippers, nail files, cuticle scissors The answer is absolutely not. We need to move from looking for weapons to paying attention to people who are or could be terrorists.
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We do recommend that individuals and families in the days ahead take some time to prepare for emergency,
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