Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Secretary Chertoff's Comments about the Increased Risk of a Terrorist Attack

July 11, 2007 -- Washington, DC - “Our nation, and New York in particular, faces serious threats.

We need serious analysis, serious homeland security strategies, and serious leadership more concerned with keeping people safe than keeping people afraid.

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More than five years after 9/11, we still must secure America’s borders, railways, mass transit systems, ports, chemical plants, nuclear facilities, and more. State and local agencies still need real interoperable communications. Our nation still requires risk-based – and not politically-based – security funding.

When I meet with Secretary Chertoff on Thursday, I will share these concerns. And I will tell him personally that I am disappointed in his unhelpful, ambiguous rhetoric – and dismayed by the Bush Administration’s failure to match five years of tough talk with an evidence-based, strategic response that includes threat-based homeland security funding.”

Source: Senator Hillary Clinton