It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.