[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16927]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



           INTELLIGENCE NETWORK A WASTE OF CONGRESS' FUNDING

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union, the 
invasion of Kuwait, the Oklahoma City bombing, Pan Am 103, our World 
Trade Center, two times, now the Pentagon, and on and on. Let us tell 
it like it is: America gives $60 billion a year to the FBI and CIA for 
intelligence, and the truth is we learned of every one of these 
tragedies from Fox News and CNN.
  Tell me, after all these years, you mean to tell me our intelligence 
network cannot locate and infiltrate Osama bin Laden's organization? 
Tell me, Congress, when are we going to tell Afghanistan, when are we 
going to tell Iran that if they are housing bin Laden we will declare 
war against them?
  The truth is we have an intelligence network that is so dumb they 
could throw themselves at the ground and miss, and Congress keeps 
throwing money down a black hole.
  I yield back the fact that this is another tragedy that could have 
been prevented, that everybody knew was coming, and it will not be the 
last.




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