M. Thanks to the efforts of USINPAC,
Congress is paying
attention to Indian American concerns about the growing AIDS epidemic in India
and I am confident that this exchange program, which will be administered by
the U. Wherever that
assignment might be, you
can leave here knowing that you've been drilled and tested -- and found
to be
worthy.
This training center has been critical to the improvements we've made in
law
enforcement and national security since the attacks of September 11th. We are dealing with a network
that has had cells in countries
all over the world -- yet bit by bit, by diplomacy and by force,
with our
allies and partners, we are acting to shrink the area in which terrorists can
operate
freely.
We've also needed to make law enforcement officials familiar with Man-
Portable Air
Defense Systems, and to get started on a major new
Counterterrorism Operations Training Facility
. I've had many
opportunities to meet with servicemen and women, from military bases at home
and
abroad, to the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
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This morning the commission presented me with their
recommendations, which
are thoughtful and extremely significant.
My administration has taken
steps consistent with the commission's
recommendations. USINPAC has worked hard with my office to
bring this
issue to the attention of HIRC Members.
I appreciate the warm welcome to Glynco
.
Many countries have joined us in tracking the enemy, disrupting plots
against America and
our friends, destroying the training camps of terror, and
closing off their access to funding. We
've needed a mock port of entry complex, and new training for
flight deck officers, federal air marshals
, TSA screeners, and visa security
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They have done an excellent job. We need to understand
the threats and
adjust our capabilities to meet those threats. Our collection and analysis
of
intelligence will never be perfect, but in an age where our margin for
error is getting smaller,
in an age in which we are at war, the consequences
of underestimating a threat could be tens of thousands
of innocent lives.)
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Glynco, Georgia
4:21 P. I thank
you for your kind words, and for the great service that you render the
country
. And it defines the men and women
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In February, I named John Negroponte
the first Director of
National Intelligence, a post that was created to help ensure that our
intelligence
community works as a single, unified enterprise.usinpac. Since that time, more than a half
million
officers and agents have graduated from FLETC -- including more than
85 percent of the federal law
enforcement workforce.
In the 44 months since, we have seen unrelenting effort to defend the
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THE PRESIDENT: Today millions of
Americans are saddened by the death of
Terri Schiavo. The commission report delivers a sharp
critique
of the way intelligence has been collected and analyzed against some
of the most different intelligence
targets, especially Iraq. These
include the uncovering of Libya's nuclear and missile programs.
We must work to replicate these
successes in other areas.
The President and his national
security team must have intelligence that
is timely and intelligence that is accurate.
USINPAC is a united, strong and clear voice representing the Indian
American community on Capitol
Hill, the White House and the State Capitols. You're doing great work
for the American people, and
I'm honored to bring congratulations and good
wishes to all of you from our President, George W.
It's been 35 years now since the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center was established to provide
high quality, consolidated training
to men and women in law enforcement careers.
The war on
terror also has a home front, and we have taken extraordinary
measures to protect the American people
and our homeland.
We're all grateful, as well, to the men and women of our military.
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The central conclusion is one that
I share: America
's intelligence community needs fundamental change to enable
us to successfully confront the threats
of the 21st century. We need to
prevent terrorists from getting their hands on the weapons of mass
murder they
would like to use against our citizens.Historic Vote by the House International Relations
Committee Passes State Department Authorization Bill Including Several USINPAC Initiatives
WASHINGTON
, The following are remarks by the Vice
President to Students and Staff at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training
Center:
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. And it's our job, ladies and gentlemen
, to make sure the
United States of America never lets down its guard. In addition to all the traditional
training provided here, you've
stepped up to meet the needs of a new and very different era for law
enforcement. We never take it for granted. Several years ago I was asked
to speak to the class
of 2002 at the United States Naval Academy. I appreciate the chance to be with you this
afternoon
to thank you for your fine work, your idealism, your sense of duty,
and the great credit that you
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The most solemn duty of the American President is to protect the American
people. In their
report today, the
commission points out that America needs to know much more about the weapons
programs
and intentions of our most dangerous adversaries."
The HIRC vote, however, will have a significant
impact on the sale of
advanced weapons systems such as F-16s to Pakistan that can be reverse-
engineered
by the Pakistanis or the Chinese who have an ongoing fighter plane
manufacturing joint venture with
the Pakistanis or by fringe groups within the
Pakistani military establishment linked to Al Qaeda
.S.M. This continuing threat demands a
comprehensive, effective response to make this nation better
able to respond
to any future attacks, to reduce our vulnerability and, above all, to hunt
down
the terrorists before they can hit us again. We've begun Project BioShield,
to develop new vaccines
and treatments against biological weapons.zinni anticipatory
The lives of
our citizens are at stake. I appreciate
your service to our country. And the
sacrifices they have made have helped protect America, and
our nation is
grateful for their hard work. I'm proud of the efforts of
our intelligence workers
and I'm proud of their commitment to the security of
our country, and the American people should
be proud, too. We will work to give our
intelligence professionals the tools they need.
This
is a rare incident where three top USINPAC initiatives (terrorism,
visa backlogs and HIV/AIDS funding
for India) are represented in one bill and
voted in by the most powerful committee in the US House
of Representatives.
A second provision, added by Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and
Congresswoman
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), conditions military sales to
Pakistan on that country's full compliance
on terrorism and proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction. (Laughter. And all Americans can be
proud of the result.fanatical opportunists
It's important
for Congress to move quickly on John's confirmation, because
he'll have a key
role in the continued reform and restructuring of intelligence capabilities. Where
we have had success, the commission
reports we have seen innovative collection techniques and a fusion
of
interagency intelligence capabilities. And the work our
intelligence men and women do is,
by nature, secret, which is why the American
people never hear about many of their successes. To
that end, we provide bipartisan support to candidates for public
office who address the community
's concerns. Its contribution to
the country is more vital today than it's ever been. And when the
big challenges come along in your day-to-day work, you'll
be ready to face them squarely and decisively
. And
elements of our critical infrastructure -- such as power plants, bridges, and
tunnels --
are also watched over more closely than prior to 9/11. Several
times a week we meet with Mike Chertoff
, the Director of the FBI, and the
Director of the CIA. And the
country is very grateful.zinni opportunists
The
work they're doing is critical.
And that's why this report is important. It will enable these
fine men
and women to do their jobs in better fashion, to be able to more likely
accomplish their
mission, which is to protect the American people, and that's
why I'm grateful to the commission for
this hard work. And
my administration will continue to make intelligence reforms that will allow
us to identify threats before they fully emerge so we can take effective
action to protect the
American people. And they're
great friends of law enforcement, as well. The terrorists behind 9/11
have
declared their intention to kill great numbers of innocent Americans, and they
seek ever
more deadly means to do so. And they are watchwords of the Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center
. But the President and I want you to know
that we realize how hard you're working.refrain shanahan
The threats today
are unprecedented. I asked two fine Americans to
chair this commission, Judge Laurence Silberman
and former Senator Chuck Robb.
I also want to thank the other members of the commission -- Senator
John
McCain, Rick Levin, Harry Rowen, Walt Slocombe, Bill Studeman, Judge Patricia
Wald, Chuck
Vest and Lloyd Cutler. They have given us
useful and important guidance that will help us transform
our intelligence
capabilities for the needs of a dangerous new century.) Thank you very much. This
is an absolutely first-class training center.ronfeldt countering
Laura and I extend our condolences to Terri Schiavo's
families.
In other words, we need to adjust.
USINPAC does not support elimination of
developmental assistance to
Pakistan, particularly funds allocated towards political and economic
reform
programs. This said -- USINPAC is very pleased that Congressman Faleomavaega
added language
in the bill requiring the President of the United States to
report to Congress on the extent to which
the Government of Pakistan has
restored a fully functional democracy in Pakistan in which free, fair
and
transparent elections are held. I'm pleased, as well, to be with my good friends Saxby Chambliss
and Jack
Kingston. We have persuaded another regime to voluntarily
abandon its weapons of mass
destruction programs. We've
passed the Patriot Act, so law enforcement can fight terrorists with
the same
tools that we use against organized crime and drugs. And I was
told that on the morning
of September 11th, every midshipman in the brigade at
Annapolis had the same wish, that he or she
could graduate on September 12th,
and take the fight to the enemy. Any such content will be removed
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Every
day, dangerous regimes are working to prevent us from uncovering their
programs and their
possible relationships with terrorists. Bush. We have uncovered a
sophisticated, large-scale network
selling nuclear weapons technologies on the
black market -- and we have shut that network down. I
know
that a good number of the people who work and train here are veterans, and
others have family
members serving in the armed forces today. The attack
on America had taken place, of course, earlier
in their senior year.M.smartest asymmetric
We face a new and
different kind of enemy.
Today I've directed Homeland
Secretary advisor Fran Townsend to oversee
the interagency process, to review the commission's findings
, and to ensure
that concrete action is taken.
The work of our intelligence community is extremely
difficult work.
Thank you, sir.
END 11:38 A. And the whole nation appreciates
the
men and women who come here for training, as well as the instructors and
staff who devote so much
energy and effort to their jobs, year in and year
out. For the first time the President has made
countering and
investigating terrorist activity our nation's top intelligence and law
enforcement
priority.
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11:31 A. I asked these distinguished
individuals
to give me an unvarnished look at our intelligence community, and
they have delivered.
I'm
grateful for your hard work, and now the chairman of the commission
and the co-chairman of the commission
have agreed to answer your questions.
A provision in the bill added by Congressman Brad Sherman
(D-CA) for the
first time acknowledges the dangers of the ongoing close military partnership
between
China and Pakistan and also the fact that the technology peddled by
the father of Pakistan's nuclear
bomb to rogue countries originated in China. EDT
Well, thank you very much. And good afternoon
, Mike and Connie. And we may never know what
horrors this country has been spared because of the
extra effort, creativity,
and determination of the men and women who serve America in public safety
,
intelligence, and national security. They are as
motivated and focused as I have ever seen them
.superpower implicitly
That morning in 2001 changed everything for our country, as we began fighting
a new kind of war
against determined enemies. Standing up this department has been a
massive, necessary undertaking
.
It's in the nature of your business -- as in intelligence and national
security -- that many
of the wisest judgments and the best work go
unrecognized until years after the fact, if ever.4gw myke
In
Pakistan,
our intelligence helped expose and shut down the world's most dangerous
nuclear proliferation
network. We need to work together to ensure that this threat is contained
and diminished on time
. This provision is very similar to a provision we were able to
include in the previous State Department
Bill and USINPAC should be publicly
acknowledged for the difference they are making.
DHS,
now ably led by Secretary Chertoff, merged together some 180,000 men
and women from more than 20
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Since September the 11th, 2001, we've taken bold and vigorous steps
to prevent further
attacks and overcome emerging threats. To protect them, we need the best intelligence
possible,
and we must stay ahead of constantly changing intelligence
challenges.
So last year I issued
an executive order creating an independent
commission to look at America's intelligence capabilities
, especially our
intelligence about weapons of mass destruction. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen remarked
, "The issue
of WMD in the hands of terrorists and rogue nations in the current day world
is very
real. Our
mission is to ensure effective representation on issues of concern to Indian
Americans
. They do a superb job for Georgia and all the folks here. In a multinational campaign,
we continue
to make progress in many categories -- financial, legal, military,
and otherwise. With strong partners
at our side -- and
with the skill and the honor of the finest military in the world -- we have
removed
two brutal regimes. We are reforming our
intelligence agencies to ensure that they work as a single
, unified
enterprise, under the leadership of the Director of National Intelligence. We've had to
move quickly to develop the equipment and
procedures to protect against WMDs, radioactive material
, and vehicle-borne
explosives.refrain isenberg
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The essence
of civilization is
that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. Please be
seated -- if you've got a chair. And I
want to thank also, Connie, your fine staff, the faculty
members, and all of you that are here today
and have taken the time to come
out. And
we've created the Department of Homeland Security, the
largest reorganization
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WASHINGTON, The following is a statement by
President Bush:
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To win the war on terror, we will correct
what needs to be fixed, and
build on what the commission calls solid intelligence successes. WASHINGTON
, The House International Relations
Committee (HIRC) voted this morning to pass the State Department
Authorization
bill, which ushers in a new era in Congress where South Asia dominates much of
the
discourse and so does USINPAC."
Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), who has also praised USINPAC's
work,
emphasized that "this measure is not aimed at any specific country, but
addresses the global
threat of nuclear black market activities because it is
in our vital interest to shut them down.
"
Congressman Faleomavaega said.
I've been looking forward to the trip for a long time
, and we've had a
great afternoon. The United States has
acted decisively, and we have sent a clear
message: We will not stand by and
allow terrorists to find safe haven, or to gain weapons of mass
murder to use
against us.
Our nation today has better security at our borders and airports.
Vigilance, and professionalism, and adaptability are critical to national
security, especially
in times of war.kempfer mafias
I urge all those who honor Terri Schiavo to continue to
work to build a culture
of life, where all Americans are welcomed and valued
and protected, especially those who live at
the mercy of others.
"Congressman Faleomavaega's provision is extremely important to peace and
prosperity in South Asia," USINPAC Chairman Sanjay Puri said, "and we are
pleased that he worked
with us to include this historic initiative. He commented, "I
have been assured that in the committee
report strong language will be
included to make sure that India is a focal point of this program
and I am
pleased by this outcome. We
promote issues that are shaped by the emerging concerns of
our community. For additional information about
USINPAC please visit the website at http://www. We
have more
sophisticated monitoring of ports of entry and incoming containers. At a time when
so
many are searching for greater purposes in life, we can point to people
like all of you as examples
.
Thank you very much.anticipatory spinney
M.
They spent a lot of time on this project.
We've increased
funding for first responders tenfold since we took office, to make sure they
have the training
and the equipment for WMD detection, and the ability to move
quickly against chemical or biological
attack.
Yet for all of these improvements in security, we must realize -- as the
9/11 Commission
put it recently -- that America is safer, but that we are not
yet safe. The enemy that appeared on
9/11 is wounded and off-
balance, and on the run -- yet still very active, still seeking recruits
, and
still trying to find ways to hit us.counterproliferation isenberg
In cases
where there are serious doubts and questions
, the presumption should be in the
favor of life.
Before long, those of you now in training
will join other graduates in
assignments throughout the government. Every morning President Bush
and I receive an intelligence
briefing, and we review threats tracked during the previous 24 hours
.
That kind of commitment, that kind of devotion to the freedom and security
of the American
people defines our military.
END 4:31 P. EDT
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Congressman Faleomavaega
also added a total of $2 million for HIV/AIDS
Research and Mitigation Strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention
."
Other provisions in the bill, added by Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY)
provides an additional
Consular office for the US Embassy in India to relieve
the visa processing backlogs in a country
that has the largest applicants for
visa to enter the United States, primarily from businessmen,
scientists,
graduate students and tourists.com.Remarks by the Vice President to Students and Staff
at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
(Applause. I can tell you that I've been immensely
impressed by the work that goes on here -- not just from what I've seen today,
but from all I
've observed over the years, particularly in the urgent period
since 9/11. Thank you for your cooperation
.
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I appreciate the example of grace and dignity they have displayed
at a difficult time. I want
to thank them for their hard work.
The men and women of our intelligence community work hard
. EST
The HIRC vote this morning, while a first step in the legislative process,
is
a giant step for USINPAC's focused initiatives to pass into law priority
issues which are of paramount
concern to the Indian-Americans grassroots. "I commend USINPAC for working to bring
about peace in
the region and for the input they provide to Members of the
Committee. Department of State, is an
important step in recognizing this problem
and for further legislation to include India as the 16th
country for PEPFAR. All of this, and a great deal
more, has been carried out by FLETC, and I can
say with complete confidence
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