Testimony of Slade Gorton to the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Slade Gorton
If there is another terrorist attack on the United States, the American people will neither understand nor forgive a failure to have connected the dots.
Reaffirming information as a top priority would require the administration to move the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment into the Executive Office of the President. This would enable the PM-ISE to carry out its statutorily required government-wide authority to coordinate the policies and procedures necessary for an effective information sharing framework, and give the PM-ISE White House backing to carry out its mission. Elevating the PM-ISE into the EOP will ensure that the PM-ISE is able to coordinate across federal, state and local agencies effectively in order to improve the way our government shares information.
