Attack Quote by Jane D. Hull

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy…

— Cofer Black

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence…

— Randy Forbes

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

— Lincoln Kirstein

I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z.

— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

— John Linder

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police…

— Otto Schily

The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.

— Todd Wilcox

The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can't do that if some of those…

— Lloyd Austin

Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Our primary responsibility as the Department of Homeland Security is to protect the safety and security of the American people. And that means taking…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled…

— Anonymous

“Eyewitnesses at the scene described it as a special-operations-style attack. A BBC reporter onsite took this eyewitness statement: “Yeah I seen it, looked like…

— A.G. Riddle