C. W. Bill Young: “A world controlled by terrorists or threats of terrorists is not acceptable. A world controlled by dictators or…”

“A world controlled by terrorists or threats of terrorists is not acceptable. A world controlled by dictators or dictatorial regimes or corrupt regimes is not acceptable. The United States of America is vulnerable on many fronts to these types of threats, but the more effective our intelligence operations, the better we are at what we do in the field of intelligence, whether it is technical intelligence or human intelligence. The more effective our intelligence is, the more secure America is and will be. I believe we did very well in the area of overhead technology, as well as other types of technology, many of which we cannot even talk about here in this open session today, but we have not done nearly as well on human intelligence. And today's world requires a very effective human intelligence capability. This bill, while I am sure you will hear much debate today that it is not a perfect piece of legislation, is a very good step toward making our intelligence capability far more effective. And I would say again, effective intelligence is good security.”