i think ten years, i think five years would be completely undoable. what evidence do you have that it's too large other than to say we need to make it more efficient and more professionally trained? >> well, by no means do i want to quarrel. but based on the public discussion we're having, in my opinion from a terrorist's point of view with surveillance, reconnaissance, being able to find out the aspects of technology being used by transportation security administration personnel, by finding out the typical security procedures that are deployed and employed, it's only a matter of time before these can either be exploited or folks can go around them. i don't think terrorists are impressed by organizational charts, by bureaucracies, by bureaucratic cultures. by studying terrorism in the last ten, 20, 30 years, they take what they -- what's in front of them. anything that's a security procedure can be exploited or gone around. whether it's technology or human practice. >> my time is out. i thank you for that. you've helped clarify for me your comment, wh

but everything we have accomplished in this internet age is now vulnerable and in starker terms undoable. we have built a castle in the sand and the tide is approaching. our systems are too fragile, too critical and too vulnerable. it's a recipe for disaster and it's time to do something about it before it's too late. we've all known about the seriousness of our cyber situation for years. our national security experts know it. our law enforcement experts know it, and there's a bipartisan agreement that something needs to be done. but that dent tell you a lot to make that statement in the senate. in m.i.a. capacity both as chairman of the commerce committee and former chair of the senate intelligence committee and still on that committee, i've become very familiar with the threat posed by cyber security. and i've been working with my colleagues to address it. for the past three years, a number of us have been working with both republicans and democratic senators to find common ground on these issues so we can have a bill to get control of this. we've held hearings, we've held markups. we'

that has proved to be impractical and undoable at this point. so it's a very volatile situation.e do have trade going on with iraq now. we're more than 30% of imports are up more than 30% with iraq this year over last year. but there's no easy solution here. >> we're out of time, congressman. one final question. give me a yes or no. looking back with hindsight, did the bush administration blunder, a, by going to war in iraq? and, b, by developing this massive embassy compound there? >> two different questions. a, i think we look back we should not have gone to war though we did. that's my own personal opinion. and i think this embassy is too massive of a mission. there are core things, focus, do those things right. i'm tired of giving them aid when we can't get through a checkpoint. >> especially when they have a budget surplus of billions and billions thanks to oil exports. congressman, thanks for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. >> a lot more on this critical issue coming up in our brand new 6:00 p.m. eastern hour. standby for that. >>> on one vitally important front of the 2012 pre

i think ten years, i think five years would be completely undoable. but what evidence do you have that it is too large other than to say that we need to make it more efficient and more professionally trained? >> well, by no means would i want to quarrel. but based on the public discussion we're having, in my opinion, um, from a terrorist point of view with surveillance, reconnaissance, being able to find out the aspects of technology being used by transportation security administration personnel, by finding out the typical security procedures either deployed and employed it's only a matter of time before these can either be exploited or folks can go around them. i don't think terror is are impressed by organizational chats, by bureaucracies, by bureaucratic cultures. i think we have by studying terrorism in the last 10, 20, 30 years, they take what's in front of them. anything that's a security procedure can be exploited or gone around. whether it's technology or human -- >> my time has run, mr. bloom. i thank you for that because you've helped clarif