Peter King

This is unacceptable and cannot stand.

We now have educated young people coming to the public safety profession with daily experience in using wireless devices and technology that provides them with the independence to seek and acquire information in real-time for all of their…

As far as the other issue, I would just go back to the fact that with all of the various threats we may have in this country, there is only one threat that has killed 3,000 Americans, and that is why I am focusing on that.

But anyone listening to your questioning overseas, whether they are watching al-Jazeera or BBC or whatever they are watching, they would somehow think there were in this committee, in this Congress, on this side of the aisle who somehow…

We are trying to conduct intelligent hearings. We are trying to see the extent of radicalization in the American Muslim community.

I mean, it is not a profound finding to say that a person can be an al-Qaeda terrorist with blue eyes.

I would hope that there is no equivalency right now between the various organizations that your side has been talking about.

There are many different dimensions to this radicalization issue.

I understand where you are coming from, and I understand your contribution to this committee.

As far as the intelligence community, we held a series of meetings and briefings available to both the Majority and the Minority staff in the lead-up to this, meeting with various intelligence and security officials throughout our…

The necessity for swift, precise, and effective counter-terrorist actions through our military, our intelligence community, and our law enforcement community, both within the United States and abroad, must never be replaced by an attitude…

The dangerousness and the effectiveness of al-Shabaab's rhetoric is clear from Minnesota's experience with this organization.

I can't think of anyone more qualified or more distinguished to fill that vacancy than Mr. Green.

I will not back down from holding these hearings.

I believe that through AIMCOP and programs like it, we will have fewer crimes to investigate, fewer threats to our communities to address, and fewer young people leaving our neighborhoods to fight and die in foreign lands.

Al-Shabaab has established and shown clear and unequivocal ties not only to an Islamic fundamentalist rhetoric, but also to other terrorist organizations with which we are intimately familiar in this country, to include al-Qaeda.

I have said that whenever we can get intelligence that there is an organized threat against our country...

I also owe it to all the friends, neighbors, and constituents I lost on September 11. I will not back down.

This committee needs to examine the threat from lone wolves in our midst.

The fact is, if it was so important, you had 4 years on this committee. Not once was a hearing held into any of those issues.

We are going to focus on a target which threatens the security of this Nation.

The fact is this committee was set up to combat terrorism.

I would just remind the members of Minority, for 4 years, they controlled this committee.

Is there anything unique about a religious radical, as opposed to a gang member, a skinhead, or a neo-Nazi?

However, the common denominator in these cases is conversion to a radical form of Islam while in prison.