we also have kenneth weinstein who served as the homeland security adviser and we have the two former homeland security advisers and president george w. bush second term and prior to that he spent 19 years at the justice department including the first of the attorney general for the national security launching the national security division and also served as the general counsel at the federal bureau investigation. he's now the chair of white-collar defense investigations group at taft and is also a member of the directors advisory board on the nationaboard on thenational cour and a member of the public classification board and a member of the cia counsel asked him whextrawide advisory board e chairman of the panel of the national security advisory board so witboardso with that i thinke wanted to start with opening thoughts. it'thoughts. >> i'm delighted and honored to join with the secretary who served in his capacity as the homeland security adviser in the panel. and the fact that this is a boring topic -- >> we all agree. [laughter] dot commission said that the system was blinking