we will turn to bruce hoffman -- national security preparedness group. we will turn to bruce hoffman. they put together this report. i know you want to hear from verse. i think bruce intends to summarize the report briefly and then he, john, and steve will take your questions. tom and i will kick in if we can. -- will chip in if we can. we have assembled and remarkable group of people with regard to their backgrounds in national security and homeland security. they are a real group of experts. john dannon is one of the experts here. he has had a very long and distinguished career in the intelligence community. he now works at bae systems as one of their trusted advisers. our group includes fred townsend, who worked in the white house on homeland security matters. that includes the former secretary of dhs, governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge. it also includes former energy secretary, spencer abraham. we have two former attorney general and the group. dick former guard and ed meese. we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all

we will turn to bruce hoffman. they put together this report. i know you want to hear from verse. i think bruce intends to summarize the report briefly and then he, john, and steve will take your questions. tom and i will kick in if we can. -- will chip in if we can. we have assembled and remarkable group of people with regard to their backgrounds in national security and homeland security. they are a real group of experts. john dannon is one of the experts here. he has had a very long and distinguished career in the intelligence community. he now works at bae systems as one of their trusted advisers. our group includes fred townsend, who worked in the white house on homeland security matters. that includes the former secretary of dhs, governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge. it also includes former energy secretary, spencer abraham. we have two former attorney general and the group. dick former guard and ed meese. we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all these people together and you have a pretty good group to assess where our government stands with

we will turn to bruce hoffman -- national security preparedness group. we will turn to bruce hoffm. they put together this report. i know you want to hear from verse. i think bruce intends to summarize the report briefly and then he, john, and steve will take your questions. tom and i will kick in if we can. -- will chip in if we can. we have assembled and remarkable group of people with regard to their backgrounds in national security and homeland security. ey are a real group of experts. john dannon is one of the experts here. he has had a very long and distinguished career in the intelligence community. he now works at bae systems as one of their trusted advisers. our group includ fred townsend, who worked in the white house on homeland security matters. that includes the former secretary of dhs, governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge. it also includes former energy secretary, spencer abraham. we have two former attorney general and the group. dick former guard and ed meese. we have former members jim turner, david kirby, and dave beckmann. put all these people together and you have

we will turn to bruce hoffman in just a moment. he and peterbergin are the two -- peter bergin are the two key players, they are the ones who put together this report and i know you want to hear from bruce. i think bruce intends to summarize the report briefly. and then he, john, and steve will take your questions, and tom and i will chip in if we can. we have assembled, i think, a remarkable group of people with regard to their backgrounds in national security and homeland security. they are a real group of experts. john gannon is one of the members. he's here today. he's had a very long and distinguished career in the intelligence community. now works at b.a.e. systems as one of their trusted advisors. our group includes fran townsend who worked in the white house on homeland security matters. it includes the former secretary of d.h.s., governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge. also includes former energy secretary spencer abraham. we have two former attorney generals in the group, dick ther nwerg and ed meese, and we have several for