Senate Hearing: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11, September 10, 2007.
Witnesses Testimony

  • Michael Chertoff [View PDF], Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • J. Michael McConnell [View PDF], Director of National Intelligence: “If we lose FISA, we will lose, in my estimate, 50 percent of our ability to track, understand and know about these terrorists, what they’re doing to train, what they’re doing to recruit, and what they’re doing to try to get into this country…”
  • John Scott Redd [View PDF], Director, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • Robert S. Mueller III [View PDF], Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Related postings on Protect America Act of 2007 and FISA
  • Wired Blogs – David Kravets – “A top Justice Department official clarified Monday that the new national security electronic eavesdropping rules under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act demand warrants when the “target” of spying is inside the United States. The [announcement by Kenneth L. Wainstein], assistant attorney general for national security, came three weeks after another Justice Department official muddied up the definition of the so-called Protect America Act enacted last month — suggesting warrants were not required to peer into the electronic communications of foreigners on U.S. soil.”

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