[国会记录4月12日，2011（扩展）] [第E695-E696] B队ACT ______ HON介绍。弗吉尼亚州的弗兰克R. WOLF在周二，2011年4月12日WOLF先生众议院。议长先生，我今天介绍的B队行动，以应付国内激进化和自产自销的恐怖袭击越来越大的挑战。我认为，我们必须重新审视我们如何才能阻止国内激进。我一直关心和一直关注激进的伊斯兰恐怖主义的将近三十年的问题。我在黎巴嫩继1983年轰炸，炸死241美国军人参观了海军军营。我紧随其后于1993年，与各地对我们在坦桑尼亚和肯尼亚，另一个我的选民被打死大使馆致命攻击20世纪90年代与世界贸易中心的第一次进攻恐怖主义的问题。其结果是，在1998年我撰写立法建立关于恐怖主义的全国委员会，也被称为布雷默委员会，并强调了本·拉登的威胁在我的开场白 - 年前，我们的许多政府完全理解他带来的威胁。我是众议院拨款小组委员会的资金联邦调查局和司法部于2001年9月11日，我与局长穆勒和他的领导团队2002至2006年密切合作，以改变它的使命，应对恐怖主义威胁的主席。我现在再次证明小组委员会主席和接收恐怖主义定期通报和新的威胁越来越大，[[页E696]国内激进化和经常访问的国家反恐中心，它位于我区。 According to the Congressional Research Service, there have been 43 ``homegrown jihadist terrorist plots and attacks since 9/11,'' including 22 plots or attacks since May 2009. Director Mueller and the men and women of the FBI should be commended for their exceptional work in intercepting would-be terrorists before their attacks. They work tirelessly to protect our country and their record over the last decade speaks for itself. But despite the FBI's success at disrupting plots under way, the U.S. does not have an effective or coherent policy to prevent domestic radicalization. According to a recent report by respected counterterrorism experts called Assessing the Terrorist Threat: ``The American melting pot'' has not provided a firewall against the radicalization and recruitment of American citizens and residents, though it has arguably lulled us into a sense of complacency that homegrown terrorism couldn't happen in the United States . . . By not taking more urgently and seriously the radicalization and recruitment that was actually occurring in the U.S., authorities failed to comprehend that this was not an isolated phenomenon . . . Rather, it indicated the possibility that even an embryonic terrorist radicalization and recruitment infrastructure had been established in the U.S. homeland. That is why I am introducing this legislation to create a ``Team B'' to bring fresh eyes to U.S. domestic radicalization and counterterrorism strategy. The team would represent a new approach, which focuses not just on connecting the dots of intelligence, but to rethink the nature of threats to stay a step ahead in understanding how to break the radicalization and recruitment cycle that sustains terrorism, how to disrupt the global terrorist network and how to strategically isolate it. During the Ford administration, then-CIA director George H.W. Bush created a ``Team B'' composed of outside experts to reexamine intelligence relating to Soviet capabilities. Their conclusions were markedly different than those reached by agency officials. Many of their assessments were used in the Reagan administration to deal with the Soviets--ultimately leading to the end of the Cold War. Today, our intelligence community and federal law enforcement are so inundated with reports and investigations that they do not have the time or capacity to step back and strategically reevaluate the threat before us. I believe a ``Team B'' would provide a tremendous service to both the agencies and the Congress in making recommendations on how we can disrupt domestic radicalization. For more than a year, I have written numerous letters to the President and members of his national security team urging them to implement this proposal. They have not. As respected Georgetown University professor Dr. Bruce Hoffman wrote for The National Interest in October 2010: The logic behind Congressman Wolf's idea is simple and makes eminent sense. Since both the U.S. intelligence community and our national security and law-enforcement agencies are overwhelmed with data, information and a multiplicity of immediate ``in-box''-driven issues that continually challenge their ability to think both strategically and in terms of a patently evolving, dynamic, multidimensional threat, the red team concept would represent a new approach to counterterrorism that would potentially enable the United States to stay one step ahead of our adversaries' own strategy and tactics. First, it would have a broader remit than the red team exercises currently employed by individual agencies. Congressman Wolf's idea is that this red team would have a strategic counterterrorism mandate and would therefore look at general, global patterns of terrorism rather than the use and effects of individual tactics. Second, it would be composed of nongovernment specialists and experts representing a broad array of different perspectives, backgrounds and opinions--the type of ``glorious amateurs'' described by General Donovan who once populated the OSS but who would now be enlisted in the war on terrorism. Under Congressman Wolf's formulation, these persons would advise and help inform the assessments of both the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence by providing broad strategic analysis of terrorism trends and patterns and their possible future implications. In this manner, alternative assessments and strategic counterterrorism analysis could be provided to the Intelligence Community that would also help to avoid ``group think.'' Mr. Speaker, for these reasons I believe this legislation would be a constructive step to address the evolving terrorist threat and I urge my colleagues to support it. ____________________