blinking bright red cared about is the key challenge for us and i look forward to discussing how and ctc is addressing these in the q&a. >> thanks, mr. chair. they're a number of provocative questions which will look forward to discussing with you. timothy healy is the director of the terrorist screening center which is located in the federal bureau of investigation at the department of justice. mr. healy, we thank you for returning to the committee and welcome your testimony now. >> thank you, sir. chairman lieberman, ranking member collins, senator brown, senator burris, thank you for the opportunity to talk about the terrorist screening center and the watch listing process. the attempted terrorist attack to northwest 253 summer 25th highlight the ever present terrorist threat to our homeland. over the past seven years the tse has played a vital role in the fight against terrorism reintegrating terrorist information from law enforcement and intelligence communities into a single nondatabase known as the terrorist screening center database, tsd beat for the terrorist watch list. this wa

terrorism task force here in washington and thereby various agencies, department of homeland security, and ctcelligence community about what information we had, and that correspondence to read through the afternoon. approximately 2:00, a little bit before, a little afterwards, our agents went to the hospital and determined to try to interview abdulmutallab, with the specific objective of finding out whether there was any immediate threat of additional bombs on other planes or additional persons on that plan who might constitute a threat and spend up to an hour interviewing abdulmutallab. as has been pointed out, the determination was made not to provide miranda warning some the believe this was information necessary to determine public safety and so that interview was conducted along those lines. we continued to obtain information from the various entities in the intelligence community throughout the afternoon and at 5:00 this evening there was a video teleconference and i was established by the john brennan at the national security council attended on that video teleconference where most of t

review began in the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 legislation, which established the dni and the end ctc and of course we've now been longer to experience the department of homeland security. so where weimar protect it. the american people are more protected than they were on 9/11. that's the good news. but we can do better. and that's part of our job is to continue the oversight committee to push on this. so the changes that you have made, the various ways across the agencies represented here since christmas day our construct to and helpful and increased security. and i look forward to the report and changes in policy on the watch list and of course the secure flight is implemented, it will be even a better situation. but anyway, i thank you for what you do everyday. please continue to it and will continue to push you. and question are the record will remain open for 15 days on this hearing for additional statement. senator collins, do you want to add anything? thank you very much. the hearing is >> remarks now in u.s. policy concerning amalia pitt really a rematch of the assistant secr

terrorism task force here in washington and thereby various agencies, department of homeland security, and ctcintelligence community about what information we had, and that correspondence to read through the afternoon. approximately 2:00, a little bit before, a little afterwards, our agents went to the hospital and determined to try to interview abdulmutallab, with the specific objective of finding out whether there was any immediate threat of additional bombs on other planes or additional persons on that plan who might constitute a threat and spend up to an hour interviewing abdulmutallab. as has been pointed out, the determination was made not to provide miranda warning some the believe this was information necessary to determine public safety and so that interview was conducted along those lines. we continued to obtain information from the various entities in the intelligence community throughout the afternoon and at 5:00 this evening there was a video teleconference and i was established by the john brennan at the national security council attended on that video teleconference where most o