S. HRG. 108-588 CURRENT AND PROJECTED NATIONAL SECURITY CURRENT AND PROJECTED NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS TO THE FEBRUARY 24, 2004 95-393 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 2004 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE PAT ROBERTS, Kansas, Chairman JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia, Vice Chairman Page Mueller, Hon. Robert S., III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Tenet, Hon. George J., Director, Central Intelligence Agency HEARING ON CURRENT AND PROJECTED NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS ΤΟ THE UNITED STATES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2004 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:07 a.m., in Room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, the Honorable Pat Roberts, (Chairman of the Committee), presiding. Committee Members Present: Senators Roberts, Dewine, Bond, Lott, Snowe, Hagel, Chambliss, Warner, Rockefeller, Levin, Feinstein, Durbin, Bayh, and Mikulski. Chairman ROBERTS. The Committee will come to order. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today meets in open session to conduct the public segment of its annual worldwide threat hearing. It has become the practice of the Committee to begin its annual oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community with a public hearing so that our members and the public will have the benefit of the Intelligence Community's best assessment of the current and projected national security threats to the United States. Our witnesses today are the Director of Central Intelligence, Mr. George Tenet; the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Robert Mueller; and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby. The Committee thanks all of our distinguished witnesses for being here. The witnesses have been asked to provide a comprehensive, unclassified assessment of the nature and extent of the current and projected national security threats to the United States. The witnesses have also been asked to highlight the significant developments in these areas that have occurred since this Committee's last worldwide threat hearing last February. Obviously, this past year has been extremely eventful. While we have made significant progress on the war on terror and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, other threats remain and new threats do continue to emerge. Saddam Hussein's reign of terror has rightfully been put to an end, yet peace and stability in Iraq are still threatened by continued attacks. Libya has renounced its weapons of mass destruction programs and permitted inspections that are international, while other nations, such as Iran, Syria and North Korea, refuse to dismantle ongoing weapons programs. |