The four-star general and NBC News military analyst was the keynote speaker April 6 at the expo, which was attended by a record-breaking number of 21,619 security professionals, an 11-percent increase over the 2004 ISC West attendance.
“We are safer than before 9-11,†McCaffrey insisted. “We threw $80 billion on top of this pile [called] homeland security, and it’s slowly trickling down. Eventually, it will get to you.â€