Preparing for the war on terrorism: hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress (Perfect)
United States Congressional House
ISBN: | 9781234183882 |
Publisher: | Rarebooksclub.com |
Published: | 15 January, 2013 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Preparing for the war on terrorism: hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress (Perfect)
United States Congressional House
Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2002. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)49835888 Subject: Bombings -- United States -- Prevention. Excerpt: ... 11 agencies have suffered some tremendous embarrassments. They tell me. I don't have to tell them. They read. They remember better than I do the Aldrich Ames disaster with the CIA when the top person in charge of counterintelligence with respect to the Soviet Union is on the payroll, the - Hoffman - the recent FBI top intel-ligence person, counterespionage person, being found to be on the payroll of the Soviet Union. They bring up these things and they say, well, why can't you tell us if they have taken steps to make sure this never happens again? The intelligence community, they know it is kind of an incestu-ous community, and they don't like to have open forums and dis-cussions, and not many Members of Congress really discuss those things that go on there. There are some basic and simple questions that we can all ask without in any way jeopardizing the security of the Nation. If the people don't want to answer them and find that they are jeopardizing the security and the operations of the in-telligence community, they don't have to answer it. But basic questions like, how many high-level people do you have in decisionmaking positions who have background and understand Islamic culture? Are there people at top places who are making these decisions who really understand? If they are there, what kind of resources do they draw on? Is there a think tank? Is there a re-source pool that they can steadily draw on of people that are cur-rently monitoring and can really monitor because they understand the language, they understand the culture, they have background? These are basics that surely the answer ought to be in the af-firmative, but we don't know until we ask. What about the language situation? Mr. Horn has just said we have the school out West ...
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