It's a failure of our intelligence system. ... It's a failure that was caused by a lack of resources and by a complacency that set in over the last 10 years, a complacency that convinced all of us that with the demise of the Soviet Union, there were no more threats.
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In the 21st century, you have to be able to monitor where information is going and who's tapping into it, ... You have to be able to do massive data mining, and nobody can do that today.
Curt Weldon
The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.
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Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.
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I voted for this president. I campaigned for him, but on this issue he's wrong.
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The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives,
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