Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton
Lee Herbert Hamiltonis a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999. Following his departure from Congress he has served on a number of governmental advisory boards, most notably as the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
wants to make it more difficult for national security officials to carry out their responsibilities.
When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole below. I worry about containers being shipped into this country. I worry more about rail security than I do air security.
A member of an intelligence committee who hears of some activity he disapproves of has no real way to bring that public because if he does, he's breaking the law.
They have become quite a strong ally for the United States in terms of the war on terrorism.
depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.
A number of our recommendations were in the area of emergency preparedness. Had they been executed, the death toll would have been lower.
The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.
Reforms are at risk from inertia and complacency. Reforms must be accelerated or they will fail.
He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,
There are so many competing priorities. And it's awfully hard to keep people focused on something like this.
Had we learned of it obviously it would've been a major focus of our investigation.
Anyone watching that storm knew it was going to affect Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. This is not a disaster for the mayor of New Orleans to deal with.
I cannot remember a national security advisor testing in public, under oath, talking at length about policy matters, and that's an unusual event.
I hope the product is being sharpened from what we saw. We saw a lot of things that were unsubstantiated, that were almost in the rumor category.