I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did i met with him when he first came in and i watch and he really did an incredible job so please pass on my regards to him. I would appreciate it. Let me add that immediately following the directors testimony the committee will hear from the three commissioners leading the congressionally directed review of the fbis implementation of the 9 11 commission recommendations. Director comey is the seventh director, a good man, good choice to lead the pirro following a distinguished government career. His assistant u. S. Attorney in the gambino crime family and the terrorists responsible for the 1996 cohort khobar tower bombings. He
Your thoughts on not only what could happen if the government shuts down but your thoughts on if it should or not reviewed here is how you can reach out to us or not. Here is how you can reach out to us. cspanwj on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. And you can send us email, journal cspan. Org. Newspapers highlight will happen over the next couple of days. From the front page of the post joining us to give us a sense of what could happen, the leadership editor of roll call. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lets start with the house. S speakere boehner has regarding the short term funding bill. Guest republicans are scheduled to meet at noon today. I think that is going to be a pretty important meeting. They have to decide as a behind ae, do they get specific alternative to send back to the senate . They have some choices here. They could just take up the senate bill, put it on the house floor, and it would probably pass with mostly democratic support. A lot of republicans would not v
And served in iraq. A lot of new information, and a clear a clear idea of what happened on this military base five years after it experienced another shooting also by a soldier on base. The general saying theres no indications that this is related to terrorism, but he wont rule it out. A local soldier, hes been serving at fort hood. He has family, he is married with family in the region, they are not identifying him yet. Theres no indication of terrorism, the same thing about hassam when he killed 13. It was classified as a work place shooting. In 2009 major hussan made it clear he did it in the name of the taliban, his own jihad, he was a muslim warrior trying to protect them. They classified it as a work place shooting, the classification for here as well, it is likely. Both times, these soldiers bought semiautomatic pistols offbase and brought them on to ford hood. The the general said weapons concealed weapons are not allowed. They ared to be registered. It was clear this did not h
Of information act and that was something that had taken place from 1940 to 1966 when the fbi for that period of time had a formal relationship with the American Legion in which members 100,880 members of the American Legion acted as informers for the fbi in their communities and regularly filed reports with the fbi. The americans had no idea that kind of informing was taking place and they were untrained informants. Budget request for the next fiscal year. Over the next two and a half hours before House Appropriations of committee he also talked about the threats of terrorism and cybercrime. The hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did
All our decisions are a work in progress and so i appreciate the i told the general i love the idea of the commission to look at us especially as a new director is a great opportunity for me to get a new set of eyes on the work that we do. I hope you will truly swing the door open wide for these gentlemen and make sure that top to bottom the fbi is making themselves available anything and everything these gentlemen leave so we dont ever get a report like that. I will do everything in my power. I told my folks behind their backs this means a lot to me. I want a fresh aggressive inspection. I want candid views because thats how we get a better especially at the beginning of a tenyear term thats the gift for me. So i will do everything to make that happen. With respect to fort hood, i am no expert. Ive read the report and ive already been scheduled for a meeting so he can take me through it. One of the Lessons Learned so i can better understand what did we mess because i asked him from th