Source: FEDERAL DOCUMENT CLEARING HOUSE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ED ROYCE (R-CA) CHAIRMAN
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ED ROYCE (R-CA) HOLDS HEARING ON STATE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
Washington Transcript Service
05-12-2005
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND NONPROLIFERATION SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS A HEARING ON STATE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT MAY 12, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD R. ROYCE (R-CA) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER T. KING (R-NY) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS G. TANCREDO, (R-CO) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA (R-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TED POE (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JERRY WELLER (R-IL) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE J. GRESHAM BARRETT (R-SC) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE HENRY J. HYDE (R-IL) EX OFFICIO U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BRAD SHERMAN (D-CA) RANKING MEMBER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT MENENDEZ (D-NJ) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT WEXLER (R-FL) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH CROWLEY (D-NY) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS A. CARDOZA (D-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ADAM B. SCHIFF (D-CA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TOM LANTOS (D-CA) EX OFFICIO WITNESSES: PHILIP ZELIKOW, COUNSELOR, STATE DEPARTMENT JOHN BRENNAN, INTERIM DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER RAPHAEL PERL, SPECIALIST IN INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM POLICY, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE LARRY JOHNSON, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BERG ASSOCIATES [*] ROYCE: This hearing of the subcommittee will come to order. This hearing is reviewing the State Department's annual report on terrorism. The State Department's last two editions of its yearly report on international terrorism have been mired in some controversy. The 2003 edition had to be reissued after significant errors were detected, errors that under-reported the number of terrorist attacks for 2003. This year, the State Department issued its 2004 report minus its traditional annex statistical reporting on the number of terrorist attacks worldwide. This change leaves us with two documents, a Country Reports on Terrorism, produced by the State Department, and a Chronology of Significant International Terrorism produced by the National Counterterrorism Center, where we used to have one, Patterns of Global Terrorism. Patterns had been around since 1983. It was widely used, really throughout the world, because it was authoritative and it was comprehensive. In truncating this document, a pretty good brand name was jettisoned.
Post-9/11, when we're finding that much of what we've been doing for years in the terrorism field has been ineffective, it's an odd time to play with success. <more> http://snipurl.com/f0du