George Lemieux

What specific measures has the administration taken in the last 12 months to ensure Iranian ties with the Venezuelan Government do not facilitate operations by Hezbollah and Hamas in South and Central America?

the eGuardian system is an unclassified system, that once implemented, will help DOD and law enforcement identify suspicious activity and hopefully preempt a terrorist attack.

But, we've been working on this program since 1995 and it occurs to me that we went to the Moon faster than we built this airplane.

I think if I were in your position the two things that would be keeping me up at night would both be cyber and space, as two priorities where we have to keep our advantage.

I'm convinced that the American military knows how to fight a counterinsurgency operation, and will succeed militarily in the Nation of Afghanistan.

I believe that outside of the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, the most dangerous place in the world for us right now is Yemen.

These ungoverned territories and the presence of people like Anwar Awlaki in Yemen, who are using sophisticated recruiting tools, who grew up in the United States, understands how to use social media to attract recruits, is as dangerous of…

I hope that you will push for that type of collaborative working relationship because I think you having that information is essential to doing the job that you need to do to protect the American people.

We don't do a very good job in government in making sure that we are doing things efficiently and effectively.

I think the American people, if they knew about this, would be shocked about how long it's taken to build this plane and get it in the air.

Do we need to pay these folks more? We'd be a lot more efficient to put together a squad of the best and brightest people in the world working for us.

But these types of numbers in this environment, when this country is going broke with $12.4 trillion in debt and we are going to add another $10 trillion to the debt this decade, is not sustainable.

I think we're all focused on Iran. We're all worried about the combination of a terrorist, with Iran, delivering a destructive terrorist attack to this country, whether it be a chemical weapon or a nuclear weapon.

I don't think we can overstate the need to counter violent extremism before it becomes violent.

The United States, its partners and allies cannot cede our message of hope, freedom, and security to terrorists.

Poverty and hopelessness can be powerful factors in someone's decision to embrace violent extremism.

I worry, and what keeps me up at night, is that terrorist threats could come from the south, with a combination of Iran, Venezuela, Hamas, and Hezbollah, to our country.

We can't wait until May or August or January to figure this out, we've got to figure it out right now.

If we don't have a goal to go there by a specific time, it seems to me that the drive, both funding and purposefully, will be lacking.

So, when we're talking about $6 billion, or whatever sum it's going to be, the funding without a plan gives me concern.

Are we giving our men and women the appropriate tools to do the job?

I'm worried that in the next 10 years we're going to be talking about Venezuela trying to obtain a nuclear weapon.

I adhere to the old Reagan expression, 'trust, but verify.' Our job is to know.

General Petraeus, do you believe Iran is a growing threat to stability in our hemisphere based on their increased cooperation with Venezuela and other states hostile to the United States?

President Chavez has considerably deepened his country's cooperation with state sponsors of terror.