avoided it occurring in the first place. in the last administration which put in apparently a lot of people that are regulators, headless nails in there supposedly regulating the oil industry had a role in there because cheney was in there with his secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime that governs people like bp in place because of the previous administration which was run by cheney based upon the halliburton lifestyle that he came from? well, the clinton administration recommended, for example, that an acoustical trigger that would have made it possible to shutdown the well by remote control be installed as an essential piece of equipment. but when the bush/cheney administration took over, they made a determination that it was too costly to build in that extra safety precaution. and, again, when there is an assumption that an accident cannot occur, $500,000, which is
the damage, but a lot of this could had been avoided if they had put in place proper safety measures right from the get-go, defense and in depth, one system after another, that could have avoided it occurring in the first place. in the last administration which put in apparently a lot of people that are regulators, headless nails in there supposedly regulating the oil industry had a role in there because chaenny was in there with his secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime that governs people like bp in place because of the previous administration which was run by cheney based upon the halliburton lifestyle that he came from? well, the clinton administration recommended, for example, that an acoustical trigger that would have made it possible to shutdown the well by remote control be installed as an essential piece of equipment. but when the bush/cheney administration took over, they made a determination t
the damage, but a lot of this could had been avoided if they had put in place proper safety measures right from the get-go, defense and in depth, one system after another, that could have avoided it occurring in the first place. the in the last administration which put in place a lot of these people who are regulators, these headless nails who are in there, supposedly regulating the industry have a role in there because cheney was in there with secret task force. never found out who in the industry was involved. to what extent the government regulatory regime nut place with the current administration ran by cheney based upon halliburton lifestyle that he came from? well, the clinton administration recommended, for example, that an acoustical trigger that would have made it possible to shutdown the well by remote control be installed as an essential piece of equipment.
task force going back to 2004? you know, wolf, i saw the report this morning. obviously, robert got some questions about it this afternoon. i don t have anything more than what you ve just read. but what i will say is this. when this explosion went off, when this fire started in times square on saturday night, new york nypd, the fbi, the national joint terrorism task force, the new york joint terrorism task force went to work on this case. and i think we re all very proud of the work that they did. in just 53 hours, they cracked this case and found this fella. and we re going to, obviously, take every appropriate step as it related to him and his alleged conduct, but we re also going to use the information that we re getting out of this to make sure that we stop other would-be terrorists. so as it relates to the new york times report of this morning, i don t have anything more on that, wolf. but i will tell you this.
including those new resources that we ve put in place and put together over the course of the last couple of months are taking advantage of new leads and new opportunities as a result of everything they ve been able to undertake. as it goes to right at this specific moment, i m just not in a position to answer that. all right. let me read to you a sentence or two that was in a new york times report today. and i m going to read it as is. george la monica bought his two-bedroom condominium in norwalk, connecticut, from mr. shahzad for $261,000 in may of 2004. a few weeks after he moved in, mr. la monica said investigators from the national joint terrorism task force interviewed him, asking for details of the transaction and information about mr. shahzad. it struck mr. lamonica as unusual, but he said detectives told him they were simply checking everything out. has he, faisal shahzad, been on the radar of the joint terrorism