gannon. >> i think nctc has been effective. i think it has been grown from strength to strength and is much better today than it was two or three years ago. i think it is doing a commendable job of integrating foreign and domestic intelligence and producing an analysis for a much broader nationally based customer base. i would say that the.which i think needs to be addressed by leadership and i think it is a leadership issue and that is the tension between nctc and the ctc and cia. i was actually around and 1986 when we created the ctc and i think the ctc, there are different missions here. i don't think it is that difficult to appreciate they are different and they should be respected for their differences. they have some need to support one another and we could address that. but i think what has happened is the ctc in the washington domain is getting less attention, less respect and i think it deserves a tremendous amount of credit for what it has been able to do in providing analytic support to operations in the field and th

nctc plays an indispensable role in that regard. the other point i was making is that after the abdulmutallab plot was finallyfoiled, that was not a great moment for intelligce community, mike lighter set up something called pursuit teams. we discovered there was no one in the u.s. intelligence community who had sole responsibility for detecting and piecing together disparate threat information. talk about offense/defense. that is an offense we absolutely need in order to protect our homeland in nctc provides that so i think we have room for both of these things. i think the week after in this picture is still the intelligence and analysis function at the department of homeland security. in the bush administration charlie allen had that job and he was a legendary cia director of perations who built it in my view a kind of many ciaat dhs. i'm not sure we needed it there but i surely think we need more than what we now have there. in fact it is kind of telling that rand pierce who is not the director of i am a but is an undersecretary

gannon. >> i think nctc has been effective.i think it has been grown from strength to strength and is much better today than it was two or three years ago. i think it is doing a commendable job of integrating foreign and domestic intelligence and producing an analysis for a much broader nationally based customer base. i would say that the.which i think needs to be addressed by leadership and i think it is a leadership issue and that is the tension between nctc and the ctc and cia. i was actually around and 1986 when we created the ctc and i think the ctc, there are different missions here. i don't think it is that difficult to appreciate they are different and they should be respected for their differences. they have some need to support one another and we could address that. but i think what has happened is the ctc in the washington domain is getting less attention, less respect and i think it deserves a tremendous amount of credit for what it has been able to do in providing analytic support to operations in the field and the

and a large increase in personnel at the national counterterrorism center, the nctc. the bill also adds hundreds of millions of dollars for intelligence above current levels. in response to the website wilieaks. it has a protection program that will not give classified information. the way it conducts intelligence is by passing an authorization bill to give the i.c.e. and intelligence community budgetary direction. when i first got involved with the teblings community right after 9/11, i did not know of the communications. the different areas and the different c.i.a., n.s.a., the f.b.i., there was not the communication necessary. but this has definitely changed today. the osama bin laden mission proved that. professionals from all across the intelligence community, including the c.i.a., n.g.a., n.s.a. and special ops, all came together as a team to get the job done. we are now on our game. we're working together. we're better than we've ever been, and we've clearly sent a message to the world, if you're going to attack america, if you are going to kill americans we ar

that's the nctc.ng others, the bill adds hundreds of millions of dollars for intelligence above current levels. however, i urge a no vote on this rule because it does not allow all members of congress to offer amendments to this bill. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, thank you very much. you know, mr. speaker, with the election of this new large republican class, some 87 new members, we picked up a -- particular member, who devoted his life not only to his country through service in the military, but also to law enforcement. he comes to washington from florida where he'd been a distinguished sheriff of a large department. he came to us with not only a thought and belief about securing this nation, making sure that we took care of citizens but perhaps more importantly here's a clearer thinking on seeing not only intelligence issues but also the broader context of protecting this co

women in the intelligence community who contributed directly, notably from c.i.a., n.s.a., n.g.a., nctc, and many others from intelligence organization who's contributed indirectly, taken together a magnificent example of team work and intelligence integration. most assuredly thanks must go to the president, our commander in chief -- [cheers and applause] for making, perhaps, the most i'vegeous decision witnessed in almost 48 years in intelligence. he made this decision based on very compelling but largely circumstantial intelligence. and, sir, we are all grateful to you for your faith and trust in us. we're honored by your visit and by your speaking to the intelligence community. and i think it most appropriate that you do so here, at the heart of american intelligence, in the presence of the stars on the wall. we remember as well across the community those who sacrificed their lives on and since 9/11. it's now my great honor and privilege and pleasure to introduce leon panetta who, himself, played a crucial role in this operation. [applause] leon, you've been a superb director of c.i.