Joe Lieberman: “I want to just go back to last week's first hearing in this series of hearings before I focus on this one and say that I…”

“I want to just go back to last week's first hearing in this series of hearings before I focus on this one and say that I very much appreciated the fact that all of our witnesses in last week's hearing--Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano--acknowledged that mistakes were made with regard to the Christmas Day attack on the plane over Detroit, and all three of them offered to work with each other and with this Committee to make our existing multi-layered counterterrorist defenses quicker to react and harder to penetrate.”