“We are safer than we were on Sept. 11, 2001,” John Scott Redd, a retired vice admiral who heads the National Counterterrorism Center, says in his prepared remarks to the committee. “But we are not safe. Nor are we likely to be for a generation or more.”
Admiral Redd is essentially answering a question put to the counterterrorism specialists by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the panel: “Today we ask: Where do we stand in our ability to detect and deter the next attack that we know is being plotted, or to respond effectively and mitigate the damage to our citizens and our way of life should it succeed?”
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