Robert C. Byrd: “I urge you to make provision to call outside witnesses so that the committee will have more than just the administration…”

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.