Joe Lieberman

It seems to me in these cases, that the great weight has to be given to security.

Give us an explanation of that in plain language. In other words, what did not happen with Abdulmutallab which would happen now under the change?

I do think, ultimately, in these cases, security has to be given much more weight than privacy because of all that is involved.

These questions do come up and it does seem to me, though there clearly is a problem of false positives.

I mean, at some level, frankly, I say, too bad that the airline has to do that extra work to stop somebody from getting on a plane who might blow up the plane and kill everybody on it and a lot of people on the ground.

Tell us what IAP is.

America is the indispensable Nation in the world.

I applaud that initiative. I think this has been a failure of the U.S. Government as a whole to deal with this very tough problem.

Senator Lieberman, Senator Graham, and I are working on legislation to try to address this very important issue.

It is imperative, in our view, that the DNI and the NCTC be successful in their vital missions.

Is there a filter applied--I am going to give you a little extra time. I apologize.

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…

I want to thank you--incidentally, just to say in public session, I know it is controversial.

I think it is a very tough bill to draft.

It is too important that Congress' oversight be as good as it possibly can be.

The urgency on terrorism has been too low, and we have to reject complacency.

You do hold people accountable, as is appropriate, and you go on with the aim of securing the country.

The obligation we have to everybody else on the plane is to check anybody we have reason to suspect of being a terrorist

There ought to be a category where there is some basis for concern about contact with terrorism.

We are in a world war with the Islamist extremist terrorists who attacked us on September 11, 2001.

We ought to try to avoid it if we can.

Congressional oversight, I think leadership from our point of view have to be the keys to doing that

Thanks, Senator Burris.

We were using a standard that was, as you said, legalistic.

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, go to Google, and search an enormous array of databases immediately.