James Loy Quotes
Why are you calling it a failure rate at this airport. Why not say success rate?
The inspector general had issued a report describing the high failure rate of the security check system to detect weapons. The security director would have preferred the spin of reporting the success rate.
James Loy, Coast Guard Admiral & Director, Transportation Security Administration, Complaint to Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin, Quoted in Mother Jones, April 2005
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The bipartisan Presidential Commission had unanimously made 41 recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. While the Bush Administration and Congress implemented a few many of the more critical ones were left unaddressed. The commission on its final day issued a report card giving failing grades to both the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress.
He was discussing the genetic atrocities, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the murdering of scientists that had been justified by governments for national security reasons especially the murder of Russian geneticists by Stalin in Russia.
This was a realistic assessment of the power of aircraft carrier-based warplanes as had been demonstrated at Pearl Harbor.
After 4 years as president he became less idealistic. See {633099}.
They are supplemented by contractor building guards and security officers who have minimal training, no law enforcement authority.
The Bush administration were busy making their appointments and setting some domestic priorities. In 4 months 9-11 would make them wish that they had taken these warnings more seriously. See {637530}.
James Milton Loy is a retired United States Coast Guard admiral who served as Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005 and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) from November 4, 2003, to March 1, 2005. Prior to his appointment as the DHS Deputy Secretary, he served as the second administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from 2002 to 2003, and before that as the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1998 to 2002.
