President Obama Needs To Direct Intelligence Team, Says 9/11 Commission Vice Chair

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), member of 9/11 Commission, stated Wednesday that President Obama needs to "clarify who’s in charge of the intelligence community." (0:21)
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Bombing Attempts Show Need To Enhance Threat Detection, Says 9/11 Commission Chair

Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (R) and former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the challenge of evolving terrorist threats and the need to re-frame the nation’s watchlist.

“I think the Christmas Day bomber, and perhaps the Times Square bomber, did us a huge favor. It got us to look again at the watchlist and the problems with it,” Kean said. (0:20)
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Terrorist Watchlist Needs To Be Updated, Says 9/11 Commission Vice Chair

Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (R) and former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the challenge of evolving terrorist threats and the need to re-frame the nation’s watchlist.

Hamilton argued that the U.S. should have a single terrorist watchlist available to the entire intelligent and law enforcement community. (0:14)
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Dr. Anthony Wilhelm and Rick Chessen Discuss Why the U.S. is Transitioning to Digital Television at Progress & Freedom Foundation Event

Dr. Wilhelm, Director of Consumer Education, Public Information, and the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for the U.S. Department of Commerce, describes the benefits to emergency and social services and expanded consumer technology and communications uses that the switch to digital broadcast television on February 17, 2009 will provide. Mr. Chessen, a Senior Legal and Media Advisor, emphasizes the new capabilities provided consumers by the converter box that is needed to update analog TV sets to digital, which is available through a government coupon program from www.dtv2009.gov.
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