And all 50 states, through our Homeland Security Information Network, are connected to it. This is a goal we've reached five months ahead of schedule.
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It's a national effort grounded in the knowledge that states and local agencies play the primary role in emergency response.
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There will always be more to do, but today, America is significantly stronger and safer than ever before,
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Effective firefighters in every community are critical to America's homeland security, ... We want to help the fire service to move quickly to develop and acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and equipment to respond to all emergencies, large and small.
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As the world community combats terrorism ... you're going to see more and more countries going to a form of biometric identification to confirm identities,
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More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on alert, There were times when the White House was really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that' We often lost the argument.
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