In Their Own Words

"I do not think he has a firm grasp yet of the Intelligence Community, and therefore I am pretty strong in my thought that he has to step in pretty hard here or some of these tensions which have surfaced will exaserbate."

Fmr. Congressman Lee Hamilton, Fmr. Co-Chairman of the 9/11 Commision, spoken before Homeland Security Hearings on the 12/25 Underwear Bomber.

Fmr. NJ Gov, Thomas King, said the US got distracted by Health Care and the Economy, from the President right on down.

Sen. Leiberman says this is like Alice in Wonderland, where reality got turned upside down, where the bomber was treated as a citizen and Merindized instead of being treated as an enemy combatant.

"the terrorists are going to look for any gap they find in the system, and they are very stragtigic about it. They will go to an international system to where they think a gap exists ... "

Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secetary, today's press conference

she is incouraging Europe nations to use the full-body scanners (which they don't like and you can now bet are going to be coming to an airport near you very soon -- to heck with civil liberties when the Dems are in charge)