Senate Homeland Security Committee Held Hearing on C-TPAT and CSI
On May 26, 2005, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT).
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According to the Subcommittee, this hearing was to examine how U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) utilizes CSI and C-TPAT in connection with its other enforcement programs and review the requirements for and challenges involved in transitioning CSI and C-TPAT from promising risk management concepts to effective and sustained enforcement operations. The Subcommittee states that these important CBP initiatives require sustained Congressional oversight and, as such, the May 26, 2005 hearing is to be the first of several hearings it intends to hold on the response of the federal government to terrorist threats.
Appearing at the hearing were the following witnesses:
Robert C. Bonner, CBP Commissioner
Richard M. Stana, Director of the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Team
Stephen E. Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations
C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., Former Assistant Secretary of Border & Transportation Security Policy, Department of Homeland Security
Webcast of Hearing Available
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has made available on its Web site a webcast of the May 26, 2005 C-TPAT/CSI hearing.
(See future issues of ITT for highlights of hearing oral and written testimony.)
Links to the webcast and individual witness written testimony available at
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=229.