Mark Warner

The two Senators from Virginia accept the challenge of the Senator from Maryland to a cookoff on crabcakes. Before we started this, the Senator talked about her mother's formula. We have ours.

I am joined by the distinguished Senator from Florida, Mr. Nelson, Senator Allen, Senator Martinez, Senator Talent, and Senator Collins. I am prepared to give my statement in support. I see the Senator from Vermont.

I am deeply humbled by the comments of the Senator. It has been a privilege. I have had an awful lot of good luck, and a lot of people have given me the wisdom and counsel in which I have put together this modest career. I thank the…

You address this thing in a very broad context, which you are free to do. I was very specific. When he said several hundred thousand, I inquired as to whether there is any document, either in the Department of the Army or the joint staff…

Indeed, I commend the committee as a whole for the manner in which it pursued its look into this situation. We are awaiting what is described as maybe the final report--the Senator is aware of that--which is to be a compendium analysis of…

I know you want to be accurate. You are known on the committee as being a very accurate person, but you know the Secretary of Defense did forward the name of Secretary Roche, Secretary of the Air Force, to the Senate. Therein we discovered…

Yes, we have. The Congressional Budget Office would score this provision as a traditional procurement program which would expressly require the Air Force to pay for each tanker in the year it is purchased. I remind my colleagues that three…

Section 133 bars the Air Force from executing a contract for the multiyear purchase of aircraft specified under Section 8159, that is, general purpose Boeing 767 aircraft that would be modified as an aerial refueling aircraft. Section 8159…

The Administration notes that the Committee bill did not include Section 6 (``Preservation of Authority and Accountability'') of the Administration's proposal; the Administration supports inclusion of this provision in the Senate bill. The…

If I might reply, I was privileged to know General Clapper very well. I think you will find he was not with the NGA, but he was Director of the DIA, when he used to come before the Armed Services Committee. He is with the NGA now.

I draw the Senators' attention to the September 28, 2004, Statement of Administration Policy... The administration opposes the Committee's attempt to define in statute the programs that should be included in the National Intelligence…

Would the Senator look at page 412 of the 9/11 Report, please. Let me read it: The Defense Department's military intelligence programs-- the joint military intelligence program (JMIP) and the tactical and related activities program…

If I understood my colleague, all the TIARA and JMIP budgets are off the table. Did the Senator just say that?

You did not confuse this old fox; he is listening. But the others may not be able to follow these nuances.

Roughly about 30 percent of the NGA budget is derivative of the JMIP budget. One of the pending amendments of the Senator has this provision in it. He said the programs may be moved. My language does that. It says: A program, project, or…

I would like to read from page 412 of the 9/11 Commission. The Commission states as follows: The Defense Departments's military intelligence programs-- the joint military intelligence program (JMIP) and the tactical intelligence and…

And that fact is known, if I can say to my colleague, that fact is known the world over, that the man who directs the CIA and who is visiting in Great Britain or Pakistan, that is the man who will go home and look the President of the…

Nevertheless, who knows them better--that is, the individual members of the CIA--than the Director who has daily hands-on authority, who travels and visits in posts all over the world, who is basically responsible for their promotion…

My concern, what I am trying to achieve by this succession of amendments, is to provide some uniformity in the process designating and selecting the heads of the various--for example, the combat commands, as I refer to them, that was the…

We are trying to make certain just that undefined but all important concept of accountability remains. As you possibly take portions of the responsibility of department heads away and give it to the NID, I want to make sure, if something…

I fully understand the import of the language you are quoting. But that is almost putting a blessing on everything that is written into the bill. I am not sure I am prepared as yet to say that. That is going to require a little study on…

Obviously you tried to express the good intentions of trying to work this out. Certainly I desire to do so. But we must be very careful, under the extraordinary circumstances under which this very important piece of legislation is being…

Then I read his direct quotation, which seems to me we have translated into this amendment in good faith.

Equally important that the heads of the departments should continue to be in charge of and therefore continue to be accountable for the performance of their respective departments.

I associate myself with his remarks about how we are going about this. We have made enormous progress since the 1991 operation in Iraq, as the Senator well knows, particularly in the tactical level and in military intelligence. I am…