Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
HEARING OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11 WITNESSES: MR. MICHAEL CHERTOFF, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS); MR. MIKE McCONNELL, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (DNI); MR. ROBERT S. MUELLER, III – DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI); VADM JOHN “SCOTT” REDD, U.S. NAVY (RET.) – DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER (NCTC) CHAIRED BY: SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN (I-CT) LOCATION: 342 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 9:34 A.M. EDT DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007 SEN. LIEBERMAN: (Strikes gavel.) The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone who's here, including, of course, our four witnesses. Tomorrow, September 11th, 2007, people across our nation and in fact in many places around the world will pause to mourn and reflect on the terrorist acts -- attacks of September 11th, 2001. Today, in this committee room, we rededicate ourselves to the memories of those lost and the families and the nation that grieve for them. Today we take time to assess the continuing Islamist terrorist threat to America and what our government is doing to protect the American people from an attack like the one that occurred six years ago. Today we ask what lessons were learned, where do we stand in our ability to detect and deter the next attack that we know is being plotted, and is our government ready to respond effectively to mitigate the damage to our citizens and our way of life, should another terrorist attack be carried out.
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