Even though the Inspector General indicated that there there's a shortage of TSA personnel, in regard to the screening program?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Secretary Napolitano. In fact, one of my staff people witnessed your work at TSA firsthand, as a screener. They said you did an excellent job.

Because it wasn't clear in the Inspector General's report as to whether or not that had reached the 50-percent level.

this report indicates that TSA is unable to properly identify and address vulnerabilities which continue to occur year after year

Are you optimistic about securing full cooperation from the Gulf countries?

I think those are very wise lessons indeed.

it may in fact be a helpful signal because it shows that we're not like the Soviets, that we're not trying to stay there and impose our way of life on them.

I think it can lead to success if we implement it the way we should.

I think that the impetus that the President's decision is giving us will change the reality on the ground.

Can this work, despite everybody's best efforts?

I think that Afghanistan has a unique place in the historical narrative of these extremists that makes it especially important to us.

I think it's essential. It's obviously languished for more than a half a century, and it has been on the National Transportation Safety Board's Most Wanted List since 1990.

If you combine the issue of fatigue, low salaries, lack of experience... all of these amount to a potentially dangerous situation for passengers and pilots.

We hope that one of the results of our investigation will be a new pamphlet on extremist activities that incorporates the lessons of this case.

I am concerned, however, by reports that our Federal law enforcement and counterintelligence agents may have backed off from further inquiries into Major Hasan's activities based on concerns about his First Amendment rights.

Leaderless resistance is ultimately a strategy of weakness.

The prohibited activities that are listed in this manual are all geared toward organized activities.

The stresses are showing up in the form of breakdowns, suicides, sometimes homicides.