Well, again, Mr. Holland, the action plan says that the government is committed to “enable the review of national security activities involving multiple departments and agencies, and create an internal mechanism to ensure accountability and compliance with the laws and policies governing national security information sharing”.
The bill you have before you is very specific. As I indicated in my opening remarks, and as I'm sure you have discovered in your examination of this, and as will be confirmed by others who will appear before you, there are safeguards all the way through, and safeguards for the use of both provisions, including the consent of the Attorney General and judicial oversight for that. These sections are very specific with respect to containing and investigating possible terrorist activity in this, and they stand on their own, and they should be. They were on their own from 2001 to 2007, and they should be enacted again.