president bush had me lead a effort to craft the national information sharing strigae. that is sharing information not only across the federal government which i submit to you is much better than it's ever been. but also vertically down across to state and local first responders, by the way also intelligent sharing with our international allies. this will, for time and memorial be a work in progress. we should never feel as though we've solved the information sharing problem. that said, you know, the american people in the wake of the tragedy of september 11th understood that we needed a better, stronger system of homeland security of counterterrorism. they understand that there have been mistakes because people didn't understand the gravity and urgency of the threat. well, as i say to my children, nobody gets to make the same mistake twice without consequences. and i think that's true of the federal government. if we don't get information sharing right, you can be sure when there is another attack, i said when not what if, there will be a problem with information shari