{"id":45857,"date":"2025-09-10T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/?post_type=pps_press_release&#038;p=45857"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:01:36","slug":"partnership-for-public-service-statement-on-national-security-and-the-9-11-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"pps_press_release","link":"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/press-release\/partnership-for-public-service-statement-on-national-security-and-the-9-11-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership for Public Service Statement on National Security and the 9\/11 Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today released the following statement from <strong>President and CEO Max Stier <\/strong>on the health of the national security community on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur government\u2019s primary responsibility is to keep us safe. Unfortunately, in just over seven months, the Trump administration has put our nation at serious risk of being unprepared for terrorist threats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe primary conclusion of the commission charged with investigating the 9\/11 attacks was that the government\u2019s principal failure was its inability to \u2018connect the dots\u2019\u2014to piece together information from many parts of the intelligence community to comprehend and then stop what ultimately happened.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this administration, expert national security leaders have been sidelined or fired, and dissenting voices or those with information that runs counter to the president\u2019s worldview have been silenced. All of this creates an environment hostile to the sharing and elevating of the kind of information necessary to uncover and stop threats against the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFailing to connect the dots is a big problem but not having the dots to begin with is even worse.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[12481,11769],"pps_publication_topics":[],"class_list":["post-45857","pps_press_release","type-pps_press_release","status-publish","hentry","tag-9-11","tag-national-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Partnership for Public Service Statement on National Security and the 9\/11 Anniversary &#8226; Partnership for Public Service<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives for a more effective government for the American people.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ourpublicservice.org\/press-release\/partnership-for-public-service-statement-on-national-security-and-the-9-11-anniversary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Partnership for Public Service Statement on National Security and the 9\/11 Anniversary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON &#8211; The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service today released the following statement from President and CEO Max Stier on the health of the national security community on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.\u00a0 \u201cOur government\u2019s primary responsibility is to keep us safe. 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