Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.gpo.gov/congress/house http://www.house.gov/reform 75-970 PDF U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 2001 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office KF27 CONTENTS Page Hoffman, Bruce, director, Washington Office, RAND Corp.; James Clap- per, Jr., Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.), vice chairman, Advisory Panel to Assess the Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism In- volving Weapons of Mass Destruction, accompanied by Michael Wermuth, project director; and Frank Cilluffo, chairman, Report on Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism, Center for Strategic and International Studies Rudman, Hon. Warren B., Co-Chair, U.S. Commission on National Secu- rity/21st Century; and Charles G. Boyd, General, USAF (Ret.), execu- tive director, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by: Cilluffo, Frank, chairman, Report on Combating Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism, Center for Strategic and Inter- national Studies, prepared statement of Clapper, James, Jr., Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.), vice chairman, Advisory Panel to Assess the Domestic Response Capabilities for Ter- rorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, prepared statement General Accounting Office, prepared statement of Hoffman, Bruce, director, Washington Office, RAND Corp., prepared Kucinich, Hon. Dennis J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio, prepared statement of Rudman, Hon. Warren B., Co-Chair, U.S. Commission on National Secu- rity/21st Century, prepared statement of Shays, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State Article by Sydney Freedberg, Jr., entitled, “Beyond the Blue Canar- COMBATING TERRORISM: IN SEARCH OF A NATIONAL STRATEGY TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, VETERANS COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Christopher Shays (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Shays, Putnam, Lewis of Kentucky, Gilman, Kucinich, and Tierney. Staff present: Lawrence J. Halloran, staff director and counsel; R. Nicholas Palarino, senior policy advisor; Thomas Costa, professional staff member; Jason Chung, clerk; Alex Moore, fellow; David Rapallo, minority counsel; Earley Green, minority assistant clerk; and Teresa Coufal, minority staff assistant. Mr. SHAYS. A quorum being present, the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations' hearing entitled, "Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy," is called to order. Last week we learned the stalled investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 Americans has been beset by a longsimmering power struggle between the FBI Director and the U.S. Attorney assigned to bring terrorism perpetrators to justice. Transfer of the case to another prosecutor may breathe new life into the 5-year-old inquiry, but the change is also a symptom of a suffocating problem plaguing the Federal effort to combat terrorism-in a word, "turf." In 1995, the President designated the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the lead Federal agency for consequence management-the measures needed to protect life, restore essential services, and provide emergency relief after a terrorism event involving conventional, biological, chemical, or radiological weapons of mass destruction. The FBI, part of the Department of Justice, was directed to lead crisis management-the measures needed to prevent or punish acts of terrorism. Today, more than 40 Federal departments and agencies operate programs to deter, detect, prepare for, and respond to terrorist attacks. We put their names out to demonstrate how difficult it would be to get them all in one room, much less get them all to speak with one voice. |