Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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Related And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of d... SIBEL EDMONDS On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come o... BARTON GELLMAN The Bureau of Land Management has essentially become the bureau of oil and gas development. DAVE ALBERSWERTH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential... JEFF DUNCAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES So it is a good awakening, an alarm system has gone off about how people in the Bureau really feel a... WILLIAM WEBSTER Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha... DUSTIN HOFFMAN It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It... RACHEL MADDOW The Census Bureau was more inclined to define people the way they defined themselves rather than imp... ERNESTO SAGAS This strong book proves that, at the top, the bureau was turned into what could be called the H.B.I.... HERBERT MITGANG To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world. ... THE 9 11 COMMISSION REPORT a friend of the bureau. JAMES MCLEAN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bur... MICHELE BACHMANN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN It's not for the Farm Bureau. It's for the farmers to let people know we appreciate them. LOUIE FIGONE The Bureau doesn't have any secret files. W. MARK FELT I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is tod... BJORN ULVAEUS I think these are the skills that one needs along with the humanitarian heart to get the job done, t... ELLEN SAUERBREY It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial c... STEVE BREEN In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ... AMY WALDMAN The data released today by the Bureau of Meteorology adds to a huge body of scientific research that... ERWIN JACKSON Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER They should have a laptop computer with a white sticker with the U.S. Census Bureau sticker on it, a... MAGDALIS LOPEZ I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I t... HOWIE CARR Search deep and wide, from all sphere of known and unknown cosmos, You will find many things that ha... OLUSEYI AKINBAMI Christianity is the most efficacious way of life in the world SUNDAY ADELAJA I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"... ROBERT ANTON WILSON After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to r... AARON TVEIT The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in m... BILL DEDMAN I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER The city would end up getting sold out before 9/11, but not at the frequency or amount of the demand... SCOTT WISEMAN I have a very deep commitment to the fundamental work of this bureau protecting vulnerable people, ELLEN SAUERBREY You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ... RICHARD CURTIS I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I wa... ROBERT MUELLER Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She wa... ILYASAH SHABAZZ We believe the American Community Survey is the future, not only for the census bureau, but also for... LOUIS KINCANNON I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting ... ROBERT MUELLER We'd like to talk further with the audit bureau and clarify this. We definitely believe they (the ex... DAVID LARSON I am confident that every action we took as the FBI detained individuals in the wake of 9/11 was app... ROBERT MUELLER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate coun... JAMES STOVER No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as... RICHARD CURTIS The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. JAMES F. BYRNES At the bureau, we need to get rid of past prejudices to move forward and we are giving attention to ... BOB MASUDA The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. T... DAVID HUNT I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ... DANIEL DENNETT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all ... ALAN DEAN FOSTER Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them... BRUCE BARTON Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have no... BRAD MELTZER We are pleased that BLM has restored the funding. OSU has enjoyed a long and productive relationship... HAL SALWASSER For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha... DUSTIN HOFFMAN The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori... DICK CHENEY Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w... BARACK OBAMA A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, wh... ANITA SHREVE Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE The state of Florida would have never required her to take her veil off if 9-11 had not occurred. HOWARD MARKS Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life. MUHAMMAD ALI The real key is to get over the hurdle where victims didn't want to report to the bureau what had ha... JIM WILLIAMS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B... RICHARD CURTIS I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH Why the Head is placed above the heart? The head should be the judge of the heart concerning matters... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t... MARTIN JACQUES To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run w... JOE DARION After 9/11, there was an awakening. The administration has to believe that it's possible to wait too... RICHARD PERLE All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way. CATHERINE OF SIENA Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; ne... ANONYMOUS It would be nice if there would be more consistency among scores. There's always going to be cases w... GERRI DETWEILER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th... AMY WALDMAN This is closest we'll ever be. This is our escape. Our secret closet, our letter of invitation to Ho... EMIL OSTROVSKI Obviously, 9/11 was one of the most profound events in our life as a country. Foreigners weren't rea... CHARLES DUMAS North Carolina believes a challenge should be brought before the Census (Bureau). WALTER DELLINGER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, President Bush should admit that he wrongly invoked t... EDWARD KENNEDY Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS how can the world go on when mine has been destroyed? CHERISE SINCLAIR Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for th... TOM HIDDLESTON Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the... RICHARD ENGEL The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab does not have the capacity to quantify the amount of... JOHN NORTON The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab does not have the capacity to quantify the amount of... JOHN NORTON How was it we were so far behind the curve that it was almost laughable. It just makes my jaw drop t... CHUCK SCHUMER The municipal police bureau sent policemen to help maintain traffic order that night, who then were ... XINHUA NEWS AGENCY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL One of the criticisms in the 9/11 Commission's report is [that] agencies failed to connect the dots ... BOB FOX There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might n... ANDY ADAIR It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON He could serve anywhere in the country at the discretion of the bureau. JEFF DORSCHNER
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