[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27457]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     UPDATE OUR INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in this day and age of new 
technologies and vicious unconventional terrorism, we need to provide 
our intelligence community with the tools and resources necessary to 
protect our families. That is why we must pass a permanent update to 
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that will protect the privacy 
of Americans while restoring our intelligence-gathering capabilities.
  Unfortunately, the RESTORE Act, the Democrat FISA bill, jeopardizes 
our intelligence capability and provides unprecedented protections for 
terrorists. It is a step in the wrong direction. The Protect America 
Act signed into law in August made critical changes that help 
intelligence officials properly track our enemies. It should be 
extended.
  The National Intelligence Director, Mike McConnell, said this law was 
urgently needed by our intelligence professionals to close critical 
gaps in our capabilities and permit them to more readily follow 
terrorist threats. We should keep American families safer and make 
these changes permanent.
  In conclusion God bless our troops and we will never forget September 
the 11th.

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