Congressional Terrorism-Related Hearings Include Testimony by Michael Cutler
By Andrew Cochran
The schedule of open Congressional committee hearings this week on terrorism-related matters includes a House Homeland Security Committee hearing at which Michael Cutler will testify on the topic, ""DHS Intelligence and Border Security: Delivering Operational Intelligence." Other hearings will review the status of the Afghanistan campaign, the crisis in Somalia, and the Iraqi WMD issue. The full schedule is below:
June 28, 2006
House Armed Services Committee
Afghanistan Security and Stability
Full committee hearing on the status of security and stability in Afghanistan.
Witnesses: Karen Tandy, administrator, Drug Enforcement Agency; Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, commander of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan; Jim Kunder, assistant administrator for Asia and the Near East at the U.S. Agency for International Development; and Mary Beth Long, principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs at the Defense Department
Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m. (June 28, 2006)
Contact: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675
House Homeland Security Committee
DHS Border Security Intelligence
Full committee hearing on "DHS (Homeland Security Department) Intelligence and Border Security: Delivering Operational Intelligence."
Witnesses: TBA
Location: 311 Cannon House Office Building. 10 a.m. (June 28, 2006)
Contact: 202-226-9600
June 29, 2006
House Armed Services Committee
Reports of WMD in Iraq
Full committee hearing on reports of weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.
Witnesses: TBA
Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. 9 a.m. (June 29, 2006)
Contact: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675
House Armed Services Committee
Special Operations Command Missions
Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities Subcommittee hearing on assessing U.S. Special Operations Command's missions and roles.
Witnesses: Retired Army Gen. Wayne Downing; Michael Vickers, director of strategic studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; and Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Location: 2118 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m. (June 29, 2006)
Contact: 202-225-4151 recorded schedule 202-225-2675
House Homeland Security Committee
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism
Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity Subcommittee hearing on H.R.4999, the "Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006."
Witnesses: TBA
Location: 311 Cannon House Office Building. 10 a.m. (June 29, 2006)
Contact: 202-226-9600
House International Relations Committee
Somalia Crisis
Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations Subcommittee and International Terrorism and Nonproliferation Subcommittee hold a joint hearing on "Somalia: Expanding Crisis in the Horn of Africa."
Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer in the Bureau of African Affairs; John Prendergast, co-director of the Africa Program, International Crisis Group; Peter Pham, director of the William Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs, James Madison University
Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. 2 p.m. (June 29, 2006)
Contact: 202-225-5021
House International Relations Committee
U.S. Security Policy in Afghanistan
Full committee hearing on "United States Security Policy in Afghanistan."
Witnesses: Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, commanding general, Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan; Karen Tandy, administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration; Anne Patterson, assistant secretary, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, State Department; and James Kunder, assistant administrator, Bureau for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development
Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m. (June 29, 2006)
Contact: 202-225-5021