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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!As President Obama confronts failures in the U.S. intelligence system that allowed a Nigerian man to board a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas with hidden explosives, former 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton warned Thursday that the task is so formidable, the nation "cannot get this down to zero mistakes." Asked about security challenges over the next decade in the wake of the foiled bombing of Northwest Flight 253 and the suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA agents, Hamilton said, "I think they will go where we're not. These guys are not stupid." Hamilton, who now serves ...
WASHINGTON (Jan. 7) -- The vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission charged that "complacency set in" after the 2001 terrorist attacks and blamed "human failure" for not preventing the Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up an American airliner over Detroit. While there has been some progress, former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton said, "I do not feel that homeland security is at the highest priority level of the government. It's true today, it's been true in recent years. It may be that this Detroit incident will change that." Hamilton spoke just hours before President Barack Obama was to ...
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