groups are trying to take advantage of other individuals who may have come here to the united states. mr. shahzad, acquire u.s. citizenship and exploit them with their agendas. this is something we have to guard against and are doing every day. how do you do that, though? you re talking about one person who may be an american citizen. yes. and that s why we have this redundant security perimeters and capabilities in place. we were able to stop mr. shahzad before he was able to leave the country. tremendous work by fbi, law enforcement, homeland security, to identify who was responsible for the attempted attack in times square, find him and stop him. so this was a remarkable illustration of how capable now our system is. after 9/11 there s been tremendous work done. in the previous administration as well as in this administration. and so what we have put in place is a system where we have the capabilities to stop people overseas, if they re able to
individuals who have roots in that region that travel back and forth. it shows they are trying to take advantage of individuals who may have been able to come to the united states nand some instances acquire united states citizenship. we have to remain on guard against that. how do you do that? it seems to me so difficult. you are talking about one person who may be an american citizen. that s why we have this redundant security perimeters and capabilities in place. we were able to stop mr. shahzad before i was able to leave the country. tremendous work by fbi, homeland security to identify who was responsible for the attempted act and find the individual before he was able to leave this country. in this span of a little over two days. this was a remarkable illustration of how capable our system is. after 9 1ur/11, some tremendousk
apologized for a particular episode that was might have been taken as disparaging to the prophet muhammad, and so both of those have continued to be looked at by federal authorities. what, brian, is the most important thing you think the federal government needs to do right now to tighten up security in the aftermath of what s gone down over these past few days? i don t think it s so much a matter of tightening up physical security. we re talking about public places, and we can erect security perimeters around public places and terrorists will move to other public places. i think the lesson here is, number one, the importance of domestic intelligence collection if we re going to have more and more terrorists attacks that are not centrally directed from abroad, but, rather, are conceptualized and planned by homegrown terrorists, then we re going to have to have the intelligence in place to pick those up. thus far we have been largely successful, only three out of all of these cons
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