And the reason we chose those seven countries was those were the seven countries that both the Congress and the Obama administration identified as being the seven countries that were most identifiable with dangerous terrorism taking place in their country".
The administration identified five areas to which more resources would be devoted.
His top White House economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, entered the administration identified with the centrism of President Bill Clinton's tenure.
The seeds of 9/11 were sown in the Reagan years when that administration trained and financed terrorist movements like the mujahedeen in Afghanistan against nationalist governments the administration identified as Soviet proxies.
David Gergen, director of communications during Mr. Reagan's first administration, identifies the crisis as "a naked moment," when the president's grace under pressure revealed the man's essence.
Peter Morici, a senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, a research group, said that if the administration identified the country or group behind the attacks and acted swiftly to eliminate any further threat, the economic risk would be likely to pass quickly.
Officials in the Obama administration identify the E.U.'s inability to solve its economic travails — which threaten to harm America's economic prospects — as their biggest frustration with Europe".
Mr. Spota said that Ms. Brady, 29, who has been charged only with third-degree robbery and obstructing governmental administration, identified Mr. Laffer as the man who exited the pharmacy after the killings.
While his initiatives to stabilize the economy may be driving up the federal deficit, he noted that he also inherited a hefty deficit, estimated at $1.3 trillion this year, from his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and said his administration "identified two trillion dollars in deficit reductions over the next decade".
