I have real and growing concerns about the approach to the war powers issue, and in particular about the precedent that may be set here.

I think for a variety of reasons we have heard discussed at great detail here today, a counterinsurgency strategy is just not sustainable and is not likely, no matter how many years we pursue it, to succeed in developing a truly secure and…

I am really concerned about the points that have been raised by other members here about the very destabilizing impact on Pakistan of our role in Afghanistan and the lack of the resources to really make the engagement with Pakistan…

One of the principal reasons is in order to have the resources, the diplomatic and the military and the development resources, the focus, the capacity for lots of other important threats, to deal with Yemen and Somalia, with an emerging…

I can see that my time has expired, and not wanting to go over my time, I will simply say how grateful I am for the testimony of the panel and the opportunity to follow up on some of the proposals in your white paper.

And I would just be interested in whether similar protections are currently given to entities that share information with the existing information-sharing and analysis centers.

I understand the value of immunity in terms of speeding up cooperation. I just wanted to flag my concern about how this balance is struck going forward.

Intellectual property protection is something that is of great importance to Chairman Leahy and to me.

What more do you think we could be doing to help local law enforcement with these IP enforcement challenges?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

And to what extent do City of Wilmington, New Castle County, DSP investigators that are dealing with crime, particularly drug crime that may be regional in its origin or gang-related crime, are they hampered by the lack of that…

You cannot have a good law enforcement hearing without some new acronyms.