[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17205]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     ONGOING ADMINISTRATION FAILURE

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, well, the Republicans can try and dredge up 
the ghosts of administrations past, but this commission report released 
this morning says that both the Clinton and Bush administrations are 
equally culpable in 9/11. What they say is there is an ongoing failure. 
The greatest failure is of our intelligence agencies and law 
enforcement agencies to share information.
  They say no matter how much money you dump into the intelligence 
agencies, they are going to continue to fail because of the culture of 
keeping their own information. They say we need to establish a new way 
of sharing information among those agencies.
  The gigantic bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security, 
written on the back of a napkin by Karl Rove at the White House, did 
not get there because it excluded the intelligence agencies who failed 
the United States of America. Nothing has been done about this ongoing 
failing to integrate the information. They put out something called the 
TTIC, the Terrorist Threat Information Center. Guess what? They send 
low-level people there on short details and they do not share. They are 
like 3-year-olds about billion dollar budgets.
  They have the information to make this country safe. It is time for 
this Congress and this administration to take the steps we need that 
are outlined in this report. Forget about Sandy Berger and a bunch of 
other B.S.

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