it failed because of his incompetence, not because of our efforts at identifying and stopping him. that's key difference. >> let me go back. presumably you have more information about all this than we do. you had mentioned before, and sources have told us that he had multiple visits back and forth to the middle east over the last five to ten years. but he also had a clean record. so is there any reason to think that he was a threat before this? >> well, i mean, this is where we have to go take a look. i mean, who was he in contact with when he went to the middle east? in our surveillance efforts overseas, was he ever in contact with individuals that we might have identified as being suspicious individuals overseas? if so, why didn't we pick him up? that's the kind of information. that's our job on the intelligence committee. that's our job in congress to do that kind of oversight. not to point blame, but to help make sure that we give the intelligence community the types of tools that they need. these are very -- these are very