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2001 Congressional Hearings

Hearing on the Administration's National Money Laundering Strategy for 2001
26 September 2001 -- Senate Banking Committee

• Opening Statement of Chairman Sarbanes
• Testimony of Sen. Carl Levin
• Testimony of Rep. John LaFalce
• Testimony of Rep. Marge Roukema
• Testimony of Hon. Jimmy Gurule, Department of the Treasury
• Testimony of Hon. Michael Chertoff, Department of Justice
• Testimony of Stuart Eizenstat
• Testimony of Alvin James
• Testimony of Jonathan Winer

Homeland Defense
25 September 2001 -- Senate Judiciary Committee

• Opening Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman
• Opening Statement of Sen. Orrin Hatch, Ranking Member
• Prepared Statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft

Legislative Measures to Improve America's Counterterrorism Programs
24 September 2001 -- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• hearing transcript
• Opening Statement of Chairman Bob Graham
• Opening Statement of Vice Chairman Richard Shelby
• Testimony of David S. Kris, U.S. Department of Justice
• Testimony of Jeffrey H. Smith, former CIA General Counsel
• Testimony of Morton H. Halperin and Kate Martin, Center for National Security Studies
• Testimony of Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology

The Nation's Response to the September 11 Attacks
24 September 2001 -- House Judiciary Committee

• Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft

On the Nomination of Robert S. Mueller, III to be Director of the FBI
30 July 2001 -- Senate Judiciary Committee

• Opening Statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy
• Opening Statement of Sen. Orrin Hatch
• Opening Statement of Robert S. Mueller, III

"Is the CIA's Refusal to Cooperate with Congressional Inquiries a Threat to Effective Oversight of the Operations of the Federal Government?"
18 July 2001 -- Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, House Committee on Government Reform

• Transcript
• Opening Statement of Rep. Stephen Horn
• Opening Statement of Rep. Christopher Shays
• Statement of former Rep. Lee Hamilton
• Statement of R. James Woolsey, former DCI
• Observations on GAO Access to Information on CIA Programs and Activities, testimony of Henry L. Hinton, Jr., General Accounting Office
• Statement of Ivan Eland, Cato Institute
• Statement of Col. Daniel M. Smith, Center for Defense Information

Reforming FBI Management: The Views from Inside and Out
18 July 2001 -- Senate Judiciary Committee

• Opening Statement of Hon. Patrick Leahy, Chairman
• Opening Statement of Hon. Orrin Hatch, Ranking Member
• Statement of Hon. Raymond W. Kelly
• Statement of Robert Dies, Assistant Director, FBI
• Statement of Kenneth Senser, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI
• Statement of John E. Roberts
• Statement of John Werner
• Statement of Frank L. Perry
• Statement of Patrick J. Kiernan

Wired World: Cyber Security and the U.S. Economy
21 June 2001 -- Joint Economic Committee

• Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Senate Ranking Republican Member
• Sen. Jack Reed
• Sen. Jon S. Corzine
• Hon. Lamar Smith
• Lawrence K. Gershwin, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency
• Catherine A. Allen, BITS
• Duane P. Andrews, Science Applications International Corporation
• Albert J. Edmonds, EDS
• Frank J. Cilluffo, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Oversight: Restoring Confidence in the FBI
20 June 2001 -- Senate Judiciary Committee

• Transcript
• Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman, Judiciary Committee
• Honorable Orrin G. Hatch, Ranking Member, Judiciary Committee
• Honorable John Danforth, former Senator
• Honorable Glenn Fine, Inspector General, Department of Justice
• Honorable William Webster, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCoy, LLP
• Honorable Michael Bromwich, former Inspector General, Department of Justice
• Norm Rabkin , Managing Director, U.S. General Accounting Office

Oversight of the Daniel M. King Case
03 April 2001 -- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• Statement of Jonathan Turley, attorney for the defense
• Statement of Lt. Robert A. Bailey, Judge Advocate General's Corps, attorney for the defense
• Statement of Lt. Matthew S. Freedus, Judge Advocate General's Corps, attorney for the defense

Current and Future Worldwide Threats
8 March 2001 - Senate Armed Services Committee

• George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence
• Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

The Worldwide Threat in 2001
7 February 2001 - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

• George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence
• Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
• Thomas Fingar, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research