those are important documents required by the ctc. customarily over the years, going back to the early 1900's, the state took a position that was a partner with these folks, with the counties that are going to make investments on their system, and the state stepped up and funded this project initiation document. the governor says they can no longer afford that, so he has severed the reimbursable authority. as a result, project on the system that any local self-help entity is going to fund will require that entity to fund the initiation documents. with that, i will bring my presentation to a close. supervisor mar: thank you. ." >> i know that we are late, so i will be super brief on this. on a.b. 57, i had quite a bit of activity on this bill in sacramento, and they were coordinated with the mayor's office and senator lyndon's office. the bottom line is we have communicated with the mayor's office about the need to take the bull by the horns and have this discussion about regional representation now, not as an emergency in january when

address what i understand from the committee define confirmed and in a position such as the director of the ctc, i believe wholeheartedly that in that role i have an absolute of certain legal obligation to the best of my ability to provide all intelligence information in a full and timely way to this committee, and i believe that if i am in that position, i authority and ability to make that judgment greatly exceeds what it was in april of 2009, and the committee has my full commitment that i will live up to that obligation. >> mr. vice chair, there is a letter dated july 22nd, song and by the assistant attorney general which clearly states the officials who provided the briefing including mr. olsen to discuss the review process in general but were not authorized to discuss deliberations or decisions about any specific detainee's and it goes on to say consistent with the parameters set for the briefing she did not discuss the decision making or specific detainee's and this would be available in the next up is senator conrad and he's not here, senator wyden? >> thank you madame chair and mr. ols

the thrks ctc grew significantly in size, capability, and maturity under michael leiter. its successes and those of the broader counterterrorism community include numerous plots that were tabaretted here at -- thwarted here and abroad. nctc achieved less noticed by equally important advances in the sharing of threat information across the intelligence community, a streamlining, if you will, of intelligence, an improved watch listing capability and greatly improved analytic capability. despite improvements in reforms, especially in response to the findings and recommendations of this committee and others after the christmas day attempted attack by umar, i'm still very concerned about the possibility of terrorist attacks against the united states. i believe this is a very critical time. the period leading up to the 10 #th anniversary of -- 10th anniversary of 9/11 is a time of heightened threat. despite pressure against al-qaeda in pakistan including the successful strike against bin laden, the group remains dangerous. at the same time, the threat from al-qaeda's affiliates

lot of their findings are very similar to the independent review panel findings that was a part of the ctc process. as we said before, the knowledge--we knowledge that we have a lot of improvements that we need to make it have been working on them for the last of much and we will continue to work on them. in order to make sure that the system is safe, we have to continually look for ways to improve our process and our procedures. >> in san bruno today, construction on this home on earle street near the explosion is moving along as you can see in the video, the walls are up and crews are beginning to work on the inside of the home. the home owner edward, he says that he is encouraged to see the progress. here is the man in his own words on pg&e and how this past year has been a tough one. >> i was very happy with what happened they deserve what they got. for a long time they took forever to check really what went wrong for this but in the long run this company that they deserve. i miss the people i lost some friends they were great friends of mine will never see them again, and this should

the mega-people and if i am honored to be confirmed it will absolutely be my commitment to find a way to overcome expressed concerns about sharing information when that information is necessary to subport and ctc'ssion and that is to prevent another terrorist attack. so certainly you have my commitment to look very heart of that question. >> as you and i discussed in my office the critical role that nctc plays is for the most part centered around information sharing, and it is a requirement that u.s. director of nctc share information you have that you have got to get the information first. and let me just say that the chairman and i without question read it to make sure you have all the tools that you need and from a policy standpoint we are prepared to do what is necessary to make sure that the information that you have to be shared is all of the intelligence information. and let me just close by saying that as the chairman stated, we have gotten inundated with letters of recommendation which you should feel very honored to be supported in that respect. i know you are. letter from general alexander was very calm mentoring and not only did he write a letter, but he happens to be a good friend a