a Congresswoman from my home State of Virginia to me and Roxanne, and someone that we rely on ve So, thank you very much, Congresswoman, for be We, by statute, are required to report De I want to thank you very much for The panel composition, as ev On the other me tional attack. The the explosion file. land. This was nE SEN very much of the Tera In the secant ver I We recommender tha that a Federal states strategy requre Gr Coordinated re sponse. We rec cial commer In order to be r tion for any elligence sha so that we a pared to resp health and men The enemy wo hat we are rategy te 1 , emergency servicesat work. e National Guard, and eople from the commufact that becomes necof course with specialty ng in the regular military e believe that this is the id feeling of the American and not to overreact by too of the military. 1 health and medical issues, for a bioterrorism attack. We utical stockpile usage, we are We focused our attention on the es to be prepared for bioterror are a lot of concerns about this Congress on December 15th, paral reimbursement for any types of es, localities, private sector, for im there needs to be constant interoper particularly telecommunications. I nat are before the Federal Communicaight now and before the Committees of ectrum and the ability to distribute that as to enhance inter operability-Federal, at, we are focusing a great deal of attention of the critical infrastructure is in private rical companies, water companies-critical, foe if there is a major attack-will need to be y communicate as well. rns that we are bringing forward, including the need to be prepared to maintain the food he 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. w do we best set our priorities? Mr. Chairman, it is not posto buy everything that people want to sell to the government. hody 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 Shax 1 are there are Members wh yon, the surmaya ag sed in advan I r. was i teme of the Co " Tame as fat we are recommendi 1. that this fuson and analysis center. Pythage Chairman, that we can begin to sha dwich why dormation together which is properly a A to come different immes, all the intelligence Vetals Manny wether in order to be able to share inform 1 There has he a lot of discussion about this, of course. A Heh, in #44iwon to that, we are recommending a separate com het, # rate, additional agency to do domestic intellige gathering with respect to terrorist and foreign activities here in Tited States, and that that be moved from the Federal Burea Investigation (B) into a new organization. This is a very important discussion that we have had. Thisject has been lengthily discussed in our Commission this year The concern is that this work must be done and must be done. Hively, and therefore this Commission is making that reconi. 4 the Ap atement ht thing, 'n we put I support. mmission, wney, who ihim in the fortunately, d the call of ief of all resnt on Septemwas directing ssion will be forthe seriousness of mission who was g things as aggres Ustening. We had been at there were no threats back when you issued this committee was paying ne bulk of America was not, unat we would not have this work of you and your commistelling us what we should be threat assessment mechanism prepare; and you, being the goveeded to relate down to the State all be coming from Washington. ata fusion, I don't think there is anyas I am concerned, because if you can efore it arrives here, you can deal with nan of this subcommittee which oversees spending. We can buy all the tanks and .ant, but I think a far better investment bes is to make sure that we understand that ა. before I yield to my colleagues for questions, ting 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 ours later and gave me a couple of sentences saying they he was tied in with the Russian Mafia. t telling anyone, I went to the Army's Information Dominter down in Fort Belvoir. At that time, this committee sing up funding for our Information Dominance Centers |