Jane Harman: “I commend his service to the Congress and to the other body when we were both staffers. And I share his heat. I was…”

“I commend his service to the Congress and to the other body when we were both staffers. And I share his heat. I was standing on this floor just half an hour ago or so saying we all got it wrong. Mentioning the fact that starting in the first Bush administration and continuing in the early part of the Clinton administration, unfortunately, we disinvested in some critical parts of our intelligence and defense because we thought the world was safer. And to see the chairman of this committee, my friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), distort the record on the floor of the House is really surprising to me, stunning to me. I do not believe we on this side have done that. I think we have fairly shared across many administrations the mistakes that were made. As my colleague from Florida has pointed out many times, Mr. Chairman, what changed at 9/11 was the audience. Then, finally, there was the political will to act in ways that many of us on a bipartisan basis thought were the correct ways way before 9/11. I commend the gentleman from Florida for thinking they were correct before 9/11. But, sadly, four hours of debate is reaching a very sorry end here. The facts are the facts. The record should be accurate. And we on this side are trying to create an accurate record. And one of the things we have been urging is full funding of counterintelligence in this budget and that counterintelligence, the facts will show, is not fully funded.”