Y 4.IN 8/19: FED-DOCS S. HRG. 108-161 CURRENT AND PROJECTED NATIONAL SECURITY DEPOSITORY For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office DEC 0 2 2003 STANFORD UNIVERSITY SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE PAT ROBERTS, Kansas, Chairman JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia, Vice Chairman CONTENTS Hearing held in Washington, D.C., February 11, 2003 Ford, Hon. Carl W. Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Page Jacoby, Vice Admiral Lowell E, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agen- cy 66 Mueller, Hon. Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Inves- 44 Letter to Hon. George J. Tenet transmitting Questions for the Record Letter to Hon. Robert Mueller transmitting Questions for the Record HEARING ON THE WORLDWIDE THREAT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2003 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:02 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, Chambliss, Warner, Rockefeller, Levin, Feinstein, Wyden, Edwards, and Mikulski. Chairman ROBERTS. The committee will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen and my colleagues, it's been a longstanding tradition for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to begin its annual oversight of the U.S. intelligence community by conducting a public hearing to present to our members and to the American public the intelligence community's assessment of the current and projected national security threats to the United States and our interests abroad. Appearing before the Committee today are the Director of Central Intelligence, Mr. George Tenet; the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Bob Mueller; the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Admiral Jake Jacoby; and the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Mr. Carl Ford. Now, while the United States faces a staggering array of new and growing threats around the world, unfortunately none of the traditional threats commonly discussed prior to September 11 have abated. We still face very significant long-term potential threats from emerging powers in Asia that continue to build increasingly powerful military forces with the potential to threaten their neighbors. International drug smuggling rings linked to the guerrilla armies and the proliferators of ballistic missiles and advanced conventional weapons and unscrupulous international arms merchants who are willing to sell almost anything to anyone are but a few of the continuing challenges that we face worldwide. We must also confront the acute threats from what is less traditional and often referred to as "asymmetrical." As we are all painfully aware, our country faces a great and continuing threat from international terrorism, especially the group of mass murderers of the al-Qa'ida network. As we will hear from our witnesses today, while our intelligence agencies and our military forces have won some very tremendous and important victories against al-Qa'ida during the last year and (1) |