that our intelligence community improve its capabilities and that law enforcement change practices to procufocus more on preventing attacks before they happened than prosecuting terrorists after an attack. it is hard to overstate the transformation america's intelligence community had to go through after 9/11. our agency suddenly needed to do far more than the traditional mission of monitoring hostile powers and gathering information for policy makemakers. instead, they were asked to identify and target plotters in some of the most remote parts of the world and to anticipate the actions of networks that by their ve their very nature cannot be easily penetrated with spies or informants. it is a testimony of the hard work and dedication to the men and women of our intelligence community that over the past decade, we have made enormous strides in fulfilling this mission. today, new capablities allow us to know who a terrorist is in contact with and fool the trade of his travel or funding it allows information to be shared more carefully. relationships with foreign intelligence services have ex