9/11 Exposed ‘Enormous’ Communications Gaps, Need for Network, Lieberman Says

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks exposed “enormous gaps” in emergency communications capabilities and underscored the need for a legislative solution to establish a nationwide interoperable network, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said July 27.

His remarks came during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing as President Obama and congressional leaders continued to discuss a debt ceiling/deficit reduction package, which could incorporate Senate legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to hold voluntary “incentive” auctions of spectrum, in which television broadcasters, who hold licenses to spectrum through the commission, could voluntarily release some of it back to the government ...