I've Appointed A Task Force To Take

It Would Be Unwise To Say The Least, Irresponsible Of Us At The Tsa, At The Homeland Security Department Not To Evolve Our Technology To Match The Changing Threat Environment That We Inhabit.

Now, A Lot Of What We Are Doing Right Now, Quite Frankly, Is Because Of What Happened On Christmas. Many Of The Things Were Kind Of In The Works. We Were Already Planning, For Example, The Purchase And Deployment Of Advanced Imaging Technology. You Call Them Body Scanners. We Call Them Aits (advanced Imaging Technologies).

Nonetheless, To The Extent That Terrorists Have Come Into Our Country Or Suspected Or Known Terrorists Have Entered Our Country Across A Border, It's Been Across The Canadian Border. There Are Real Issues There.

Well, You Know, I Think In Conversations With Members Of The Senate And Others, They All Recognize That The Issue Of Immigration Is Important. It's Important To Our Nation, It's Important To Our Public Safety, It's Important To Our Security, It's Important To Our Economic Well-being Moving Forward. And It's Not Something That's Going To Go Away.

We Are On The Lookout For Criminal And Terrorist Activity But We Do Not Nor Will We Ever Monitor Ideology Or Political Beliefs. We Take Seriously Our Responsibility To Protect Civil Rights And Liberties Of The American People, Including Subjecting Our Activities To Rigorous Oversight From Numerous Internal And External Sources.