Issa just shut down Basham’s self aggrandizing opening statement!
Keil seems like he is apt to be going on and on like Basham.
I hate it when everyone reads their statements.
Can’t anyone talk extemperaneously?
Having had responsibility for the security of over 4,000 people in a corporate headquarters complex in a major urban city known for crime, I’ll tell you that this breach of security represents a complete collapse of what should have been a layered security system.
The old belts and suspenders theory. You don’t rely on just one layer of defense.
This was NOT an unforseeable event. This is an event that could and should have been anticipated, and there should have been training against it.
What if there were not one, but MULTIPLE simultaneous threats occurring?
Mr. Basham even said we could be here talking about why the SS shot and killed an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD.
Really? So what?
We could just as well be talking about why half the White House was blown up by someone wearing a suicide vest right now.
The director should resign just out of sheer incompetence and what is left of her honor.
A promise to do better next time is not going to cut it.
There is no acceptable excuse for what occurred, and the same people cannot be left in charge to figure out how it does not happen again.