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Freeh's opening statement, as much as I could take of it:

I've appeared before congress..first time in 1980 before Rudman when I was an agent.
'bipartisan leadership I've always commended" BS
outstanding support for law enforcement BS
First of all, I express condolences to victims of 9-11 and all terrorism, I have strived every day to ensure that people we protect are safe. And men and women of law enforcement, are appreciated by people here, and they lay down their lives.. THIS IS TIME FILLING BALDERDASH!!!

(((Get on with it Freeh!!))) (He's talking about watching FBI agents remove the bodies on the USS Cole. It was an act of war. . He watched FBI agents removed human remains at Khobar Towers too. Act of war. Same FBI people did these tasks, and were protected by Marines as they worked. They ifted through ruins of our embassies too. These also were acts of war.

Same FBI agents did the same things at first World Tower too. I watched this too.

I visited families of these victims.
On June 2001, shortly before I left the FBI victims family members of Khobar Towers came to me at FBI headquarters to thank me. Most moving day of my public service.

my 26 years of public service.

I want to give over view of terrorists threat. and give limitations of FBI before 9-11.

Terrorism = inevitable. We can't prevent it all. No country ,no country, especially a democracy, can prevent the inevitable attacks.

Intelligence community and FBI did not have sufficient information to prevent 9-11 repeating Moeller's statement to the committee that 9-11 couldn't have been prevented.

The terrorists didnt break laws, acted like us, like Americans, we couldnt have found them. They didn't have their own computers. In short, terrorist exploited loopholes in our security systems. Nothing they did triggered alerts.

On the Phoenix memo: predictive value must be evaluated , "bits of information we had can be viewed like a sip of water coming out of a fire hydrant"

Nothing I've seen, nothing I know about, could have prevented 9-11.

I want to applaud George Tenet

(((CYA and CYA the CIA too)))

Those bad old terrorists, they gonna exploit all our shortcomings.

sheeeeet!! Freeh is even giving kudos to Clinton and Gore for a study from back in 1997!! I don't want to criticize the FAA, but while you are going after the CIA and FBI, don't forget the FAA.

FBI allocations were insufficient in counter terrorism. We didn't have enough agents.

Thanks YaYa. I just tuned in to the C-SPAN3 radio.

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp#radio

LOL Porter Goss announces the committee has been summoned to a vote, but tells Louie Louie to keep right on giving his opening statement. (((who's listening anyway?)))

We can hope Mary Jo White's statement is much shorter. Maybe the Q & A will be less predictable.

Oh by the way, the FBI made Al Queda (sp) it's number 1 target in 1999, so says Louie Louie.

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But they had enough agents to investigate possible ties between Timothy McVeigh and "right wing" militia groups. They didn't find one but the cost in manpower and resources just for that phase of the investigation came to around one million dollars.
They also had enough agents to spend years on a manhunt for Eric Rudolph. Not saying they shouldn't have tracked him but last I heard, attempts to catch him were costing near two million and that was a couple of years ago.
Here's hoping each Islamakazi will get the same consideration by the feds.