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BY ADELE SAMMARCO
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Blasting the New York City Police Department’s spy tactics on Muslims, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took the issue one step further and knocked the NYPD to the mat over what he described as arrogant, selfish, provincial and paranoid behavior.
Speaking at a press conference in Trenton Thursday, Christie schooled the NYPD over what he says the Department should have learned as a lesson more than a decade ago.
“What bothers me is that they seem to have abandoned the key lesson from September 11th, which was we should be sharing information with each other. That’s the problem. The problem is that they are in here working on cases…how do they know that the Attorney General’s Office is not surveilling the same people? How do they know that the Attorney General’s office hasn’t been surveilling those people for two years? This is when you have law enforcement officers hurt or killed because they are surveilling the same people and then they don’t know that those guys are law enforcement and vise versa and people wind up shooting each other. And also you miss out on opportunities. We may be much more advanced at surveilling the people they are surveilling and we might be able to short-circuit their investigation or put jet fuel underneath it to get it done and stop something before it happens,” said Christie.
In the months following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. , the 9/11 Commission, was established on November 27, 2002, to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding 911, and the preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The 911 Commission was also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, the 911 Commission consisted of five Democrats and five Republicans, and was created by Congressional legislation, with the bill signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The Commission's final report was based on extensive interviews and testimony. Its primary conclusion was the failures of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and that had these agencies acted more wisely and more aggressively, the attacks could have potentially been prevented.
Lack of communication between law enforcement agencies was also cited as a key oversight.
