David Boren: “I am proud to join and cosponsor this amendment with Senator Cohen. The recent Ames case makes clear the need for…”

“I am proud to join and cosponsor this amendment with Senator Cohen. The recent Ames case makes clear the need for reform. Our amendment would strengthen the tools available to the Federal Government to deter, catch and prosecute those guilty of spying against our country. It grows out of work performed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence when I served as chairman and Senator Cohen served as vice chairman in 1990. The amendment is the product of work performed by a distinguished panel of outside experts. Public hearings on their proposal were held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The independent panel, which issued its report in 1990, was chaired by New York businessman Eli Jacobs, who had served on a number of national security advisory boards. Other members included Lloyd Cutler who has been recently named White House Counsel; Warren Christopher, now the Secretary of State; Jim Woolsey who has since been named CIA Director; Admiral Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and former deputy director of the CIA; former White House counsel A.B. Culvahouse; Sol Linowitz, former ambassador to the Organization of America States; Richard Helms, former director of the CIA; Seymour Weiss, a former ambassador and State Department official; and Columbia law professor, Harold Edgar who is a noted scholar on national security law.”