"Our crucial intelligence and military resources are overstretched abroad, and our homeland security effort at home is under-funded and poorly managed, " Beer said in a written statement.
Moreover, as Secretary Napolitano has said, once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253 -- after his attempt it's clear that passengers and crew, our homeland security systems and our aviation security took all appropriate actions.
"With every truck, rail and barge shipment, our homeland security becomes more and more difficult to defend, " the congresswoman said.
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"I've instructed the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence community to continue to deploy all the necessary resources to support the investigation, to collect intelligence, and to protect our citizens, " he said.
As I said this week, I will do everything in my power to make sure our hard-working men and women in our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security communities have the tools and resources they need to keep America safe.
Now, the more comprehensive, formal reviews and recommendations for improvement will be completed in the coming weeks, and I'm committed to working with Congress and our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security communities to take all necessary steps to protect the country.
You know, I favor a withdrawal that would be completed in six months, redeployment of our troops, and to use the money to do real homeland security to protect our ports and our borders.
The President thanks the FBI, the Department of Justice and the rest of our law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security professionals who continue to keep us safe and who, once again, have served with extraordinary skill and with the commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand.
Unfortunately, these increasingly suggest a pattern that is at odds with our national and homeland security.
The professionalism of the men and women in our intelligence, counterterrorism and law enforcement and homeland security communities is extraordinary.
On Wednesday October 6, 2004, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to the Defenders of Freedom - the men and women of the U.S. armed services (active duty and reserve), officials of the executive, legislative and judiciary branches, those responsible for the security of our borders and homeland, the first responders, the law enforcement community, intelligence personnel, our allies and industrial base.
For the last four years, as my Advisor for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, John developed and has overseen our comprehensive counterterrorism strategy -- a collaborative effort across the government, including intelligence and defense and homeland security, and law enforcement agencies.
And we will continue to work with Congress to ensure that our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities have the resources they need to keep the American people safe.
That's what these steps are designed to do, and we will continue to work with Congress to ensure that our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities have the resources they need to keep the American people safe.
We've made substantial investments in our homeland security and disrupted plots that threatened to take American lives.
What is most worrying is that such foes are being emboldened by what they correctly perceive as yawning shortfalls in our military preparedness and homeland security.
Reflecting the new challenges of our time, he put new emphasis on cyber security, development and climate change, and made sure that homeland security is fully integrated into our efforts.
We've got to do things differently in so many different aspects of our government, in order for the parts that are crucial to our homeland security and international security to work properly.
They also aver that the costs of adopting a more robust homeland security posture here and our offensive strategy abroad have surpassed the benefits.
As usual, our intelligence, law enforcement and Homeland Security professionals have served with extraordinary skill and resolve and with the commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand.
But it's also my job to ensure that our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security systems and the people in them are working effectively and held accountable.
Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American lives.
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In short, we need our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement systems -- and the people in them -- to be accountable and to work as intended: collecting, sharing, integrating, analyzing, and acting on intelligence as quickly and effectively as possible to save innocent lives -- not just most of the time, but all the time.
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This week, the House of Representatives must take up once again the challenge of providing urgently needed tools to those seeking to assure the security of our borders and homeland.
In recent months, the Bush administration has rightly shown growing confidence in the Navy's ability to make a real contribution from the sea to the security of our homeland and other priority areas targeted for ballistic missile attack.
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Look, obviously the President is -- again, I'd refer you to the speech in May of 2009 that seeks to do -- well, I'd say broadly, the President does not believe that our national security and the protection of our homeland has to be in contradiction with our values as Americans.
To ensure we have the resources to prepare for the future, and to address the emerging challenges to homeland security, we needed a more realistic and balanced assessment of our near-term warfighting needs.
The Department of Homeland Security's surveillance program -- and our acceptance of programs like it -- is just another step in the direction that Franklin so wisely cautioned us to guard against.
My administration worked with the Congress to create the Department of Homeland Security so we could better coordinate our borders and ports.
So we've totally redirected our FBI now from its traditional function to homeland security, and much of the same thing is going in the CIA. But as we're doing that, we cannot lose site of that part of the world, and the interests that we have there.
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