I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the Committee to discuss intelligence reform and interagency integration.
We were using a standard that was, as you said, legalistic.
So we have the equipment to do that kind of search now across the databases?
I do think, ultimately, in these cases, security has to be given much more weight than privacy because of all that is in...
Please let us know if there is anything we can do legislatively to expedite that process for you.
Give us an explanation of that in plain language. In other words, what did not happen with Abdulmutallab which would hap...
So now, that information would go immediately to that person from the embassy?
I do not want to diminish privacy concerns, but to me, they must be secondary to the quest--just as you said, one mistak...
Yes, but what about the case that we had with Abdulmutallab.
But we can do better, and that is part of our job to continue as the oversight committee to push on this.
We live in an age when any one of us and our young children, our grandchildren now in my case, can go on the computers, ...