>> kuo: yeah. >> pelley: we watched the tape with john slattery, the f.b.i. agent at headquarters who oversaw the case. he recently retired as a deputy assistant director. what's happening there? >> slattery: information has been passed prior, and this is reward for that, or there is expectation that passage of information is forthcoming, so that's what's happening here. >> pelley: how much money is he holding in his hand? >> slattery: i think we're probably looking at about $2,000, thereabouts. >> pelley: tai shen kuo's money and contacts came to the f.b.i.'s attention while the bureau was investigating a different chinese espionage case. they followed him, tapped his phone, watched his email, and all of that led to bergersen. in the car, the pentagon employee and chinese spy were plotting the hand over of secret documents that listed future weapons sales to taiwan and details of a taiwanese military communications system. >> bergersen: i'm very, very, very, very reticent to let you have it, because it's all classified. >> kuo: oh, okay. >> bergersen: and...

and the c.i.a... >> ...whose brother-in-law is linked to a terror group... >> ...and the f.b.i. ven that information to terrorists. >> prouty: my family was destroyed. neighbors wouldn't talk to us. when my daughter would go out in the neighborhood, her friends would scatter away. they told her, "we don't want to talk to you because your mommy is bad." >> pelley: one of the new york papers called you "jihad jane." >> prouty: that's the jane that went to iraq and put her life on the line. >> pelley: before she was sentenced, the c.i.a. launched its own investigation to find out if nada prouty was a hezbollah spy. bob grenier, the c.i.a.'s former head of counterterrorism, told us what they found. >> grenier: there was a full investigation, which included multiple polygraph examinations. >> pelley: what was the conclusion in nada prouty's case? >> grenier: she was completely exonerated. >> pelley: the c.i.a. wrote this letter to the prosecutors saying, "the agency did not identify any information that mrs. prouty cooperated or engaged in unauthorized contact with a foreign intellige

the f.b.i. bust ago michigan in the midwest which planned to kill police officers in an effort to spark a uprising against the united states government. the feds arrested three members over the weekend. seven arraigned in detroit today. the other suspect is on the loose. the raid took place in three states, michigan, indiana and ohio. the group calls itself hutaree and members were preparing for the anti-christ. according to federal documents the plans included ugly stuff, including killing police officers and attacking their funerals with bombs luring officers to their deaths. david lee miller is live in the newsroom here in new york. >> they called themselves christian warriors but there was nothing christian about their alleged plot. according to a federal indictment, members of the hutaree had a plan to kill anyone connected to law enforcement. first to get the attention of local police through a fake 911 call or killing an officer's relative. step two, attack the funeral and law enforcement

the f.b.i. is a better resourced organization. but for state or local police officer, who for example, has an arrest quota to meet that month or that quarter, or who is rewarded based on the potential high profile nature of cases, when an informant comes to them and says i can help you meet your goal, whether it's the quota for that month or whether it's the high pro foil case, we've put pressure on that officer to use that informant. american police departments are famously underfunded and understaffed. they may have not have surveillance capabilities. the state of american forensic investigations is in shambles. but we give them snitches. we might not have given you a good laugh or an extra squad car, but for free, off the record, with nobody watching, you can cut a deal with any suspect that you want to. and so it's no wonder that i think that institutionally, we're shoe horning, we're pressuring our law enforcement institutions into using the cheapest, easiest tool that we give them. so there are institutional pressures to use

for years i've been seeking internal justice department e-mails related to the f.b.i.'s use of so-called exigent letters to gather telephone records of americans without a subpoena. and even when there is no legitimate emergency. at first the excuse was that the congress had to wait for the inspector general to finish a review. but that review is complete at long last, and yet the documents that were supposed to be provided are still being withheld. congress is not the only one that the executive branch is withholding information from. i asked the government accountability office in september about its difficulties in obtaining access to records and other information from the federal agencies over the last year. and as an investigative arm of congress, the government accountability office investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers' dollars. and in order to do that work, the g.a.o. requires access to agency documents. so what has been the record of the government accountability office? they have told me that it generally receives good cooperation, but it ha

they're depending on the f.b.i. and local police to investigate. >> roz plater tonight. >>> the health care bill passed. doesn't mean it's all over. senators spent the day wrangling over the fix it phase ever the bill. more than two dozen amendments to hammer out. things like fines for businesses with more than 30 employees who don't provide insurance. today's vote on all those amendments produce exactly what you might expect on the floor. opinions divided along party lines. >> it will get rid of the nebraska cornhusker kickback and the other special deals that never should have been in the bi in the first place. >> a small business person, you're going to get fined if you don't give insurance to the people who work for you. what does that probably mean? it probably means you hire less people. >> tonight virginia governor bob mcdonnell is backing a lawsuit filed by the commonwealth's attorney general that says the health care bill is unconstitutional. virginia has already enacted a statute that would keep individuals

senate and to the f.b.i. rder to obtain his federal office deprived the senate and the public of information that would have had a material impact on his confirmation. accordingly, i urge the house to approve the articles of impeachment included in house resolution 1031. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentleman from michigan reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield seven minutes to mr. goodlatte, who is the ranking member of the impeachment task force. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for seven minutes. mr. goodlatte: thank you. i want to thank our ranking member, the gentleman from texas, for yielding me the time and for his active engagement in support of moving this process forward. article 3 of the constitution provides that federal judges are appointed for life and that they shall hold their offices during good behavior. indeed, the framers knew that an

she is suspended with pay until the investigation continues. >>> f.b.i. rol boats and divers hit the water of the potomac not responding to a crisis but a drill for a disaster we have seen here once before. a practice to show how federal and local crews would jump into action if a plane taking off from reagan national crashed into the potomac. fox 5's karen gray houston has details. >> reporter: it was a major exercise. dive teams gathered along the southwest waterfront from all over. the f.b.i., mpd and police from prince william and fairfax counties, d.c. fire, the fairfax and loudoun county sheriff's offices and maryland state police. >> if you don't train together, you're never going to be to believe work together when the really thing does happen. >> reporter: the washington channel is right near the flight path from reagan national. flights were flying overhead as the teams dove to retrieve items donated by the national transportation safety board. >> there's i believe two black boxes down there. we have some dummies to simulate persons in the water

the bill is more significant since this building will house the f.b.i. field office created at the behest of president lyndon johnson as a result of this time. it's fitting we honor the memory of these young men in designating the federally occupied building at 1220 echelon parkway in jackson, mississippi, as the james chaney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner federal building. i urge my colleagues in supporting this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i want to thank the gentleman for his explanation of a moment in history that changed this country of this history forever. these three individuals, james chaney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner, their blood was spilled and it became part of a wave of change that swept our country. toward civil rights. others also sacrificed a lot for those efforts. it's fitting this that this building will be named for them. it will be a memorial. not only f

roz plater has more on the f.b.i. reporter: on tuesday a propane gas line is cut at the home of the brother rf virginia congressman tom perriello after tea party activists post the address online. monday a brick thrower smashes a glass door of congresswoman gabriel gifford's arizona office and friday someone hurled a brick through the window of congresswoman luis lawsuiter's upstate office. >> the blogs we read was quite devastating. basically you shape up or we're going to have a civil war. >> reporter: the f.b.i. is investigating but the incidents are believed tied to the passage of the health reform bill. democratic leaders are calling on republicans to condemn the violence and threats. >> when people start talking in the rhetoric of putting people on firing lines, that if they don't do something they'll have physical harm done to them, that other rhetoric of that type or they put a target on their faces with crosshairs, that activity ought to be unacceptable in our democracy. >> there are a lot of angry americans a

that's not something that's actionable by the f.b.i. so, in fact, that's one of the reasons why my organization, the investigative project on terrorism, was created, so we could track the rhetoric, the extremist hate rhetoric coming out of various islamic leaders, but the f.b.i. could not track, could not use, could not correct because it was protected speech. the f.b.i. can only get involved if there's a conspiracy to carry out acts of violence. and it's my belief that we need to track some of the statements made by some radical leaders in order to show that they're not as peaceful as they would be portrayed in the regular american media when they make statements that were against terrorism, but behind closed doors, they make other statements that are totally contrary to that message. host: how much of your work is done on the computer? all of it? guest: no, no, we're operational. i'd say we collect a lot of material from the internet, and we do a lot of analysis on the computer, but to be honest with you, the real material, the heart a

you want to cut the f.b.i. agent? you want to cut the secret service? how about the irs? how about the doctors in the v.a. hospital? it doesn't work like that. i think government people actually work hard, but i'm agents biased. my wife works for the city of san francisco in a library. maybe you don't like libraries, i don't know. this week, she got laid off. 20,000 people in san francisco got laid off. they're going to get rehired. they're going to have their pay cut by 6% and the city is going to figure out procedurally how many they got, how many leave and where to go from there. the budgets are too big. >> how about the irs, i'd be all for cutting the irs folks back, wouldn't you? >> i don't know. we probably got a pretty good bang back if they go after tax cheats. i think that we are living way beyond our means right now and one of the ways we're doing that is spending. a big line item on the government's budget is salaries. i don't know that going down to four days is a great idea because the problem is everyone is going to get benefits. right now benefits are a hug

. >> reporter: that's right, maggie, the f.b.i. is even investigating and democratic leaders tell us at least ten of their members have received serious threats. >> you will rue the day you did this, mr. stupak. >> reporter: death threats from pro-life callers started pouring into the office of michigan's bart stupak as soon as the anti-abortion rights democrat announced he'd vote yes. >> i hope you die. >> there are millions of people across the country who wish you ill. >> you are a cowardly punk, stupak, that's what you are. you and your family are scum! >> reporter: democrat louise slaughter received one call threatening to "kill the children of the members who voted yes." her headquarters in niagra falls new york, is one of four democratic offices around the country that had been vandalized. among them, the tucson, arizona, headquarters for congressman gabrielle gifford's, where windows were smashed. >> we've got to take a time out, folks. we've gone too far in certain areas and this should not be tolerated. >> reporter: democr

. >>> the f.b.i. rginia tech police say there is no danger to the campus after threats were made this week. they say someone from italy sent threatening e-mails and internet postings. officials say even though the threats have been taken very seriously, the person making them is not in a position to cause any danger. >>> the fee limit in parts of virginia going up. they would be 70 miles per hour in interstates in rural or less populated areas of the state. the law will take effect on july 1 but transportation officials still have to sign off on whether it would be safe. governor bob mcdonnell supports the change. the vote passed the virginia house and senate this week. >>> spring has sprung. today is the first official day of the season and we're all happy to see that what an absolutely gorgeous day it was. the flowers starting to come out. the trees starting to bloom a little bit. a picture perfect day. a great day to walk around the mall, maybe take a picture. not complaining one tiny bit at aw. gwe

the f.b.i. helped track him down overseas. they say his targets included president obama and celebrities like britney spears. so far he's only been identified by his internet name. he faces up to two years in prison if convicted. >>> vehicles used as weapons. new charges and new details on a wild road rage incident on i- 95. plus, we'll -- we're going to walk you through this dramatic video of a teacher under attack, beaten so bad she says she can't remember it. >>> and in your top five tonight, there's a good chance the next movie out is going to cost you more. sue, you're talking about change, right? >> big changes, will. we're seeing some of them tonight on radar. you can see the rain that's moving in but boy, the temperatures are really going to be dropping. as i widen out this picture, check out the snow they're seeing up in ohio and pennsylvania. will we be seeing any of that? i'll have your forecast that's coming right up. >>> disturbing individual crow of a teacher being -- video of a teach her being attacked in russia

get the picture to f.b.i. in philadelphia . it to the violent crimes division . >>> and they are continuing to analyze the photo. you spoke with the holloway family. you would like them to have closure. what did the holloway family tell you. >> i talked to mr. holloway before we went to cnn . we weren't going to do the interview it if it would make them peel bad. >> no, no . go on that brew. any publicity we can keep on this case is great. >> that's what woo are doing as limp hoping it opens the case again. let us know if you hear back from the f.b.i. about >> they will keep me posted now. >> thank you, john. >> coming up, you twit are or book, cumake money off of it and we'll tell you how to do it next. but nothing works like this. [ female announcer ] new neutrogena® clinical skincare, with 10 breakthrough patents, goes beyond lines and wrinkles for a firmer, more uplifted look. exclusive ion2 complex combines with the activating cream to boost collagen depleted skin. 100% of women showed improvement in wrinkles, firmness, or

that's not something that's actionable by the f.b.i. so, in fact, that's one of the reasons why my organization, the investigative project on terrorism, was created, so we could track the rhetoric, the extremist hate rhetoric coming out of various islamic leaders, but the f.b.i. could not track, could not use, could not correct because it was protected speech. the f.b.i. can only get involved if there's a conspiracy to carry out acts of violence. and it's my belief that we need to track some of the statements made by some radical leaders in order to show that they're not as peaceful as they would be portrayed in the regular american media when they make statements that were against terrorism, but behind closed doors, they make other statements that are totally contrary to that message. host: how much of your work is done on the computer? all of it? guest: no, no, we're operational. i'd say we collect a lot of material from the internet, and we do a lot of analysis on the computer, but to be honest with you, the real material, the heart a

>> reporter: it's not entirely clear how the f.b.i. got on to her but it's quite clear from reading the charging documents that they had been monitoring her electronic communications, her page on myspace, video she had posted on youtube, e-mail she had exchanged with people across western and eastern europe and south asia for many, many months. >> ifill: now, we know that she was arrested or charged or held. she's been in custody since last october. why are we just hearing about this now? >> reporter: she was arrested in october in pennsylvania on a single charge of stealing her boyfriend's passport and takeing it with her overseas when she traveled to europe. she was arraigned in the courthouse in pennsylvania at that time but it attracted no notice. and since then, she's been held very quietly while f.b.i. agents and investigators around the world5.ave tried to track down communications she exchanged with other people. >> ifill: you're talking about tracking down leads around the world. do we know whether she was acting alo.ó0@6cj& >>

but the f.b.i. said there is no information the victims were targeted because of their u.s. connections. president obama, secretary of state clinton, and mexican president calderon all condemned the killings. the state department authorized consulate workers to evacuate families to the u.s. >> this is a common challenge. there are violence along the border at various times it has spilled across on to the u.s. side of that border, but i think we are determined, as are mexican authorities, to get to the bottom of this particular tragedy but also do everything we can to restore the rule of law in mexico. >> ifill: the focus is a series of cities along the 2,000-mile u.s. slash mexican border where cartel-driven violence has ex-poded from tijuana to jaurez and also near the gulf. mexico's drug war has killed nearly 20,000 people since calderon put the army in the streets in 2006. jaurez stands out with more than 2600 murders just last year. hundreds more have died so far this year. but jaurez is not alone. at least 27 people died in the pacific vacation spot of acapulco last wee

i've received threats and had to make referrals to capitol hill police and to the f.b.i. in the past. but i'm pleased to see leadership in both political parties condemning threats, vandalism, and acts of violence against democrats and republicans' offices. >> brown: but what do you see going on out there in the country? is the rancor, the anger, the divisiveness in some danger of spinning out of control? >> well, you know, i... i don't believe it is. look, the american people don't support a government takeover of health care. they don't support this bill. the president probably should have taken rahm's advice and tried a more incremental approach rather than ramming through with back room deals this massive expansion of government into one-sixth of our economy. i think there are millions of americans that are angry about what's happened and on the far fringes of that frustration you have people that are expressing themselves in improper ways and you have one or two people apparently who have taken improper if not illegal actions. but i want to be very careful here about

but you can't do a search that goes out against the f.b.i. stuff and the c.i.a. material and pull things back. they are born of privacy, policy and security issues. cia material and pulls things back and so those technical limitations are born of privacy and policy and security issues. >> if i may add the challenge is also has mr. travers pointed out, trying to identify these terrorists there is no driver's license bureau where bin laden goes to and says i need my terrorist card. these individuals are identified by fragments of information. they are identified by a source saying this guy is involved in it so it's not a black-and-white system. it is a system we continue to search and try to identify these nuggets of information to these individuals are watch listed. it is a balancing act between civil liberties in the protection of the american people so it is a challenge and because of the naim based system it is always going to be a challenge. some cases you need on the no-fly list unit name and date of birth. the reason is that is how we identify people. so it

the f.b.i. has joined mexican authorities in investigating the murders. protesters in thailand used their own blood today in a bid to force new elections. members of the "red shirt" movement poured gallons of blood in front of the prime minister's office in bangkok. the group includes supporters of the ousted prime minister thaksin shinawatra, and pro- democracy activists. thailand has been in political turmoil since 2006. more than 100,000 people marched in bangkok on sunday. u.s. troops in afghanistan face a major restructuring. a spokesman said today u.s. general stanley mcchrystal will have firmer central control. he's the overall nato commander in afghanistan. "the new york times" reported mcchrystal wants to rein in special forces, mainly to cut down on civilian casualties. the nato spokesman denied that report. pepsi-co announced today it's removing all full-calorie, sugary drinks from schools around the world in the next two years. it would be the first soda maker to do so worldwide in both elementary and high schools. coca-cola has said it will n

patriot act which allows the f.b.i.go into researchers' laboratories and to make it a penalty for any faculty anybody who allowed an iranian student-- regardless of whether or not there was any evidence, a scintilla of evidences that they were a security risk to stab step into that laptory, that've could face criminal penalties. a cornell, a nobel prize winner robert richardson said... a great immunologist, by the way, trying to find vaccines for plague... against plague, all kinds of terrible diseases said that after the patriot act, just two years out of the patriot act, the number of laboratories at cornell that were working with sort of select agents, these viruses, toxins and back year that were potentially harmful, the number had dropped from 40 laboratories to two. we had, in effect, decimated the laboratories in the united states, at least in one university, and others, because of fear of the government intrusions into their activities. there were other ways in which the government intruded. that is trying to ge

the heroism on the part of the austin police department, fire department, f.b.i., the first responders in responding to this tragic scene and saving so many lives, when we saw this massdzive destruction, the great miracle that day was that more people were not killed. those first responders saved countless lives and we owe them a debt of gratitude for their great, great service, service to -- not only to the city of austin but to the american people, so with that, i thank the gentleman from austin for introducing this resolution, it's very timely we do share that city together. we work well together. and i think again we share the grief of loss, we share the tragic event, and we also share the belief that this was really an intentional act, an act of terror that we need to stop in this country. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. lewis: madam speaker, i'd like to inquire of dr. boustany, do you have more speakers? mr. boustany: we have no speakers on our side speaking -- seeking time. if my friend is

and while it is my understanding that the f.b.i. and mexican authorities were investigating his case, his family has yet to gain a better understanding of exactly what happened to mr. batista on december 10, 2008. the tragic disappearance of mr. felix batista and so many other who have been victims of violence in mexico demonstrates that the security challenges facing our neighbor in the south also poses a threat to the safety of our nation and our citizens. it is critical that we continue to work with mexico and of the democratic partners in the region to present a united front against narcotraffickers in our hemisphere. we especially must not forget our partners in colombia. and while there is no doubt that tremendous advancements have been made, the premature reduction of assistance to colombia would undoubtedly put these great fwains at risk. much hard work remains to be done in colombia and throughout the region. together we can -- gains at risk. much hard work remains to be done in colombia and throughout the region. with that,

that controls the airplanes, the national parks, our embassies overseas, the f.b.i., all of our law enforcement, the border security, everything -- every single dime that we spend in government other than mandatory spending in fiscal 2010 had to be borrowed. we didn't have a single dime of tax revenue available to pay for anything in government because it was all taken up in mandatory spending. all right, what does this do to us long term as a nation if we cannot get this under control? people keep talking about the national debt and how it is growing and growing and growing. actually the national debt has not been growing and growing and growing over the years. here's a chart that shows the national debt measured in the way it should be measured as a percentage of the gross domestic product. the size of the national debt with respect to the size of the economy. to illustrate why this is the way to do it, i've often used this example here on the floor. i ran a company before i came here. when i became the c.e.o. of that company, it was very small. it had a debt of $75,000. when i stepped down t

and i had hoped today to bring the f.b.i. director with me, bob mueller, who has just come back from an important trip to afghanistan and pakistan. he had a conflict and i apologize if there's interest maybe we can bring him over at another time. i would recommend p.j., that you consider that because i think mueller's trip -- p.j. and i heard a detailed discussion by him yesterday. it was in furtherance of our trilateral meetings last year which we are going to resume in a few months here. and in that -- in his trip he put together a meeting between the two ministers of interior. of afghanistan and pakistan. this is really important. a coordination between the two countries is at the core of the policies that we have been developing over the last 13 months. we really think director mueller's meetings were important and moved things forward. with that outline of what we did, i'll be happy to take your questions. thank you. >> in your discussion -- let me rephrase that. what's your assessment of how president karzai is doing at

some of the suspects from the f.b.i.'s weekend raids in indiana, michigan, and ohio are expected in court today. federal warrants are sealed, but a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says some of those arrested face gun charges. open officials are pursuing other suspects. a militia leader in michigan says the target of at least one raid was a cris yn militia group. and south korea's defense chief says north korea may have intentionally floated a mine to damage a naval ship. the remarks come as rescue divers got no response today when they hammered on the wreckage of the south korean navy ship that exploded and sank nearly three days ago. 46 crew members are missing and believed trapped. another 58 were rescued. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> which president was buried wrapped in an american flag and a copy of the tugs under his head? andrew johnson. find these and other presidential facts in c-span's newly yurp dated book "who's buried in grant's tomb"? >> a guidebook

the hour. we've got other headlines on this monday. several suspects are due in court this morning after f.b.i. ohio and indiana over the weekend. at least three people were arrested on gun charges when agents swarmed a number of houses. witnesses say they took out dozens of guns. the target of one raid is believed to be a christian militia group. this man is a member of a different militia group. listen to him. >> they're convinced that the earth is in its last days and that they must rise up to rebuild a christian kingdom in the ashes of our country. >> steve: okay. more arrests, we understand, could be coming shortly. >> the most important time of the year for christians has begun, holy week is a celebration of christ's death and resurrection culminating sunday on easter. it started with palm sunday which commemorating jesus' entry into jerusalem with his disciples. >> gretchen: barbara bush in the hospital. she was admitted to houston's methodist hospital because she was not feeling well. she had heart surgery in 2009 for a narrowing heart valve and treated in 2008 for a perforated ulcer. >>

the hundreds of f.b.i. and justice department lawyers who have been working on that case have tried to build a case that does not use that evidence at all. it takes it off the table for the very reason the caller raises. but they don't want to defend the united states government. they want to prosecute the defendants. military prosecutors and the case that they have built have tended to rely more on statements obtained while in military or government custody, partly because they have, they hope, a broader leeway in introducing evidence. also, they may be less familiar in the justice department with prosecuting cases like this since the justice department has done a number of similar cases. host: jess bravin, thank you so much for being with us. guest: sure. host: let's take a moment now and talk with peter kiley, c-span's vice president. you're here to announce the video library. tell us about it? >> thanks, lib bism it's an exciting and historic call day in c-span's history. i'll take you back just for a se

the agency. n.p.s. rangers, forest rangers already get full background checks and full clearance. they already get full f.b.i. checks. the minority failed to raise this issue during committee, or at the committee on rules. and the other issue is the issue of due process, to prohibit an individual, organization from being able to seek redress in the court of law, i think is not only undemocratic but sincerely wrong. the motion to recommit basically hamstrings the legislation, prevents it from being effective. it's a hodgepodge of items thrown in that were not before the rules committee and were not before the discussion on the full committee. i would urge a no vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. members and staff will please remove their conversations from the floor. members to my right at the back of the chamber will please remove their conversations to the floor. from the floor. the gentleman will resume. mr. grijalva: thank you. let me point out thus far only 7.5 million has ever been appropriated for public land corps and all that money was earmarked forest health. under the -- this

the hundreds of f.b.i. and justice department lawyers who have been working on that case have tried to build a case that does not use that evidence at all. it takes it off the table for the very reason the caller raises. but they don't want to defend the united states government. they want to prosecute the defendants. military prosecutors and the case that they have built have tended to rely more on statements obtained while in military or government custody, partly because they have, they hope, a broader leeway in introducing evidence. also, they may be less familiar in the justice department with prosecuting cases like this since the violence on the us-mexico border among other topics. this is just over two hours. >> the senate will come to order. good afternoon. the subcommittee would like to welcome robert mueller director of the federal bureau of investigation to discuss the guise 2011 budget request and related issues. we are pleased to have you here, director mueller and thank you for your appearance.

tracks as they go along, often with the help, perhaps unwittingly, of their lawyers and accountants. assistant attorney general lana brewer, kazami and assistant f.b.i. director kevin perkins all emphasized at the hearing the difficulty of prowfg these cases -- proving these cases from the historical record alone. the strongest cases come from the help of insiders, those who have firsthand knowledge of not only the conduct but also the motive and intent. that's why i've applauded the efforts of the s.e.c. and the d.o.j. to use both carrots and sticks to encourage those with knowledge to come forward. at the conclusion of the hearing in december, i was confident that our law enforcement agencies are intensely focused on bringing to justice those wrongdoers who brought our economy to the brink of collapse. going forward, we need to make sure that those agencies have the resources and the tools they need to complete their job. but we are fooling ourselves if we believe that our law enforcement efforts, no matter how vigorous and well-funded, are enough by themselves to prevent the types of destructive behavior perpetrated by today's too big, too powerf