Thanks, Senator Burris.

We have to continue to remain vigilant and to work together at all levels of government.

I really want to urge you to not find any excuse acceptable by the chiefs of mission for not having a Visa Security Program.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do legislatively to expedite that process for you.

My guess is, if you ask the American people what they would want us to do, they would say, I want you to protect my security. I am willing to give up a little of my privacy for that.

We have called it to repair and reinforce them so that they better protect the American people from terrorist attack.

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…

It just seems to me that if somebody brings some information to the U.S. Government that suggests in any way that a person is involved in terrorism, it at least is justification for putting them on a list.

I do not want to diminish privacy concerns, but to me, they must be secondary to the quest--just as you said, one mistake and people get killed.

So now, that information would go immediately to that person from the embassy?

Tell us what IAP is.

al-Qaeda is on the march, not on the run.

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

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), which is commonly known as the '9/11 Commission Act,' was the most sweeping intelligence reform since the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) more than 50…

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

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.

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

Our responsibility is clear: We have to find what the systemic failures were and fix them.

I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the Committee to discuss intelligence reform and interagency integration.

Please take back both to the Department and then to any individual case where a chief of mission says, 'No, I do not want the Visa Security Program,' that they have to find room.

I think, I hear there remains a serious turf battle... between the Directorate of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency.

So we have the equipment to do that kind of search now across the databases?

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

We ought to try to avoid it if we can.

we are prepared to be the bad cops here. This is really important, and we are counting on you to make sure it happens.