Some of the failures are shocking. Four years after 911, it is a scandal that police and firefighters in large cities still can't talk to each other when they are hit with a major crisis.
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This is not a terrorist incident, but it brings into play all of the same issues and shortcomings, ... What makes you mad is that it's the same things we saw on 911. Whoever is responsible for acting in these places hasn't acted. Are they going to do it now What else has to happen for people to actThomas Kean
The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and locality has got to have one agency in charge.
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Changes in government organization are vastly important but are still only part of what we need to do.
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We believe that the terrorists will strike again. If they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuses be.
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There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.
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