Timothy Roemer: “first of all, before even September 11, I want to applaud the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) and the ranking…”

“first of all, before even September 11, I want to applaud the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) and the ranking member, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), for working in a bipartisan way even before that tragic event. I also thank the very talented staff that we have in this committee for working in a bipartisan manner as well. Francis Bacon once said, ``He who will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.'' I have encouraged, as this committee has encouraged, new ways to reorganize and restructure our culture and our targeting in the intelligence community. In the culture, we need to push reforms and new ideas even more, to move from a culture that targets sometimes too often nation states, militaries, to a culture that will promote targeting sinister and seamless cell groups of terrorists. We need to move a culture from guards and guns and gates to a culture of targeting tents and terrorism and technology. That is the kind of reform that we need in this bill. We are moving in that direction. We have an independent commission in this bill. We have emphasis on foreign language skills. We have more emphasis on HUMINT, human spies telling us where people's motivations and targets are; and we have more money for counterterrorism.”