Stephen Flynn
Stephen Flynn
Stephen Flynnwas an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dálaat the 1932 general election for the Leitrim–Sligo constituency. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election up to 1957. He died in 1960 during the 16th Dáil, a by-election was held on 1 March 1961 which was won by Joseph McLoughlin of Fine Gael...
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It?s an incredibly efficient system, but it?s also a system that poses opportunity for bad people to do bad things.
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It shouldn't matter whether the company is from Des Moines or Dubai, do you have confidence that they are essentially doing things that safeguard our security interest?
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It seems like a very basic concept but we can't get any traction on it with the U.S. government.
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The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.
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With no debate in Congress or directive from the White House, the Pentagon has narrowly defined its role as 'homeland defense' against an enemy attack from outside the United States, limiting its role in disaster response to a last-resort backfill for civil authorities. Not surprisingly, that philosophy dictates a very passive posture.
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We have no idea who's in the ports. And many of the folks who come in to service the ports, that drive the trucks back and forth, are people who don't have very distinguished backgrounds. May have criminal backgrounds.
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We're not acting like a nation at war.
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The degree to which the Bush administration is willing to invest in conventional national security spending relative to basic domestic security measures is considerable.
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That's what made this almost impossible to get someone to pay attention for it.
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You're not going have a bunch of UAE citizens working the docks. They're longshoremen, vested in high-paying jobs. Most of them are Archie Bunker-kind of Americans.
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A weapon of mass destruction smuggled into our country in a cargo-container could be the next 9/11. The bad guys watched and learned how we reacted after the last attack by grounding all aviation. They could generate massive economic and societal disruption if they succeed at spooking us into closing our borders and ports to all incoming containers,
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(A fence) would be near the bottom of my list.
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This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem. Americans were shocked to learn that the vast majority of port operations in this country are handled by foreign firms. But transportation is a global network, and we're not going to own all of it.
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This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem.