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So, thank you very much, Congresswoman, for be Mr. Chairman, as of course you know, and for Commission that we have, that has been establ mission on this advisory Commission to the C ism, weapons of mass destruction, and domestic ties, was established by you, your leadership a mittee, all the way back in January of 1999. think the Chairman said, the thought was s but the truth was that the Congress and pa ship that you provide was very concerned ab and ability to respond to a terrorist attac Commission was established.

We, by statute, are required to report De We, in fact, did report on December 15th and completed all of our work and sent t utory report to be published on Decemb. late August, when of course the Septe Then under your proposal, your leader. tended an additional two years. We a man, on the end of the fourth year. year to go under the present status.

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erns that we are bringing forward, including the need to be prepared to maintain the food ne case of a major attack.

1, the second issue that I would bring forward today the Committee has asked us to specifically address, equipment needed, and policies and procedures and ity of entities and common training requirements. It essential issue that we still have to answer, Mr. Chairnation, and that is, what is readiness? Until we define is and we understand the level of risk that inevitably we n, only then can we begin to focus our attention on what sary to reduce that risk to a minimum while maintaining vil liberties. That is the principal policy goal that the Conand the administration will need to reach towards.

ow do we best set our priorities? Mr. Chairman, it is not posto buy everything that people want to sell to the government. body is coming forward with systems; some work and some But most do work and most do enhance security, but it will ossible to do everything. So we have to define what the pri

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before I yield to my colleagues for questions, iting to me was, back in 1997 when I took a deleour colleagues to Vienna to negotiate with five Rusframework to end the Kosovo War, and I knew the e bringing a guy who was very close to Milosevic-his Dragomir Karic. So I called the Director of the Central e Agency (CIA), George Tenet, and I said, Can you give information about Karic? And he came back about two or urs later and gave me a couple of sentences saying they he was tied in with the Russian Mafia.

telling anyone, I went to the Army's Information Dominter down in Fort Belvoir. At that time, this committee ing up funding for our Information Dominance Centers