Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean
Thomas Howard "Tom" Kean, Sr.is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. He was appointed to this post by...
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It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.
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There's no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.
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We're frustrated at the lack of urgency. We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again.
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We're frustrated, all of us frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems.
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Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to prevent their ever happening again.
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It is a scandal in our minds that four years after 9/11, we have not yet set aside radio spectrum to insure that police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can communicate reliably during any kind of attack or any kind of major disaster.
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I think there's a real question in my mind and I think of several other commissioners as to whether the president's getting decent information, as to whether the president's getting the kind of thing the president needs to make the kind of decisions that the president every day has to make.
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We believe that the terrorists will strike again. So does every responsible expert that we have talked to.
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We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service we can pay those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and those who survived the blaze, is to do all we can to assure that no one ever again experiences the kind of anguish that they endured.
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Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,
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It was obvious nobody knew who was in charge. There was no unified command structure ... the mayor is saying one thing, the governor says another. The president is in the state, and the governor learns about it on TV.
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It's not a priority for the government right now.
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While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl.
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Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable. We do not have the luxury of time.