Emerging Threats

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM

TOM DAVIS, Virginia, Chairman

CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut

DAN BURTON, Indiana

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida

JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York
JOHN L. MICA, Florida

GIL GUTKNECHT, Minnesota

MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana
STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio

TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania
CHRIS CANNON, Utah

JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee
CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan

MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio
DARRELL E. ISSA, California

GINNY BROWN-WAITE, Florida
JON C. PORTER, Nevada

KENNY MARCHANT, Texas

LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina

HENRY A. WAXMAN, California
TOM LANTOS, California
MAJOR R. OWENS, New York
EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania
CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland
DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois

WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri

DIANE E. WATSON, California
STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland

LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California

C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland BRIAN HIGGINS, New York

ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Columbia

BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont (Independent)

MELISSA WOJCIAK, Staff Director

DAVID MARIN, Deputy Staff Director/Communications Director
ROB BORDEN, Parliamentarian
TERESA AUSTIN, Chief Clerk

PHIL BARNETT, Minority Chief of Staff/Chief Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY, EMERGING THREATS, AND INTERNATIONAL

Hearing held on March 2, 2005

Statement of:

Ben-Veniste, Richard, Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist

Attacks Upon the United States

Blanton, Thomas, executive director, National Security Archive, George
Washington University; Harry A. Hammitt, editor and publisher, Ac-
cess Reports: Freedom of Information; Sibel Edmonds, former Contract
Linguist, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Blanton, Thomas

Edmonds, Sibel

Hammitt, Harry A.

Leonard, J. William, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, Na-

tional Archives and Records Administration; Rear Admiral Christopher

A. McMahon, U.S. Maritime Service, Acting Director, Departmental

Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency Response, Department

of Transportation; and Harold C. Relyea, Specialist in National Govern-

ment, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Leonard, J. William

McMahon, Rear Admiral Christopher A.

Relyea, Harold C.

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:

Ben-Veniste, Richard, Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist

Attacks Upon the United States:

Letters dated February 11 and March 1, 2005

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Prepared statement of

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Blanton, Thomas, executive director, National Security Archive, George

Washington University, prepared statement of

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Edmonds, Sibel, former Contract Linguist, Federal Bureau of Investiga-

tion:

Hammitt, Harry A., editor and publisher, Access Reports: Freedom of

Information, prepared statement of

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Higgins, Hon. Brian, a Representative in Congress from the State of
New York, prepared statement of

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Kucinich, Hon. Dennis J., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Ohio, prepared statement of

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Leonard, J. William, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, Na-
tional Archives and Records Administration, prepared statement of
Maloney, Hon. Carolyn B., a Representative in Congress from the State
of New York, prepared statement of

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McMahon, Rear Admiral Christopher A., U.S. Maritime Service, Acting
Director, Departmental Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency
Response, Department of Transportation, prepared statement of
Relyea, Harold C., Specialist in National Government, Congressional Re-
search Service, Library of Congress, prepared statement of

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Shays, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State

of Connecticut, prepared statement of

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Waxman, Hon. Henry A., a Representative in Congress from the State

of California:

Letter dated March 1, 2005

Prepared statement of

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