Asa Hutchinson Quotes

We do hope that technology will help us to keep at a reasonable level the human resource investment that has to be made.

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Right now, it (CAPPS) is random

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The credibility of the FBI's at stake,.. Every case in which an FBI technical expert testifies, is the jury going to be thinking, 'Well, is this the truth?'

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Well, Secretary Ridge would have to speak for himself, but from my experience, you had someone who's got a history in law enforcement just looking at it from the standpoint, 'My goodness, we got intelligence here, we've got to raise the threat level.' But the Homeland Security has to consider, first of all, 'How does the public react to this? Does it measure up to the standards of credibility? Is it something that we can act upon with an appropriate response?' And, quite frankly, sometimes we realized the public couldn't do anything or law enforcement couldn't do anything. There was a push back saying, 'I don't know that we need to create the fear in the American public.' And, in fact, as you can see, as we got more experienced, the number of times we increased the threat level decreased in '04 as compared to '03. I believe it was four times or three times in '03. We reduced that by half in '04. And I think that's just experience getting better at it.

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He's a man of great courage, integrity and patriotism, and a good friend.

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The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

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Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

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You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future.

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