You have it as 4 February.
Should be 4 March.
Federal News Service
March 4, 2004 Thursday
CAPITOL HILL HEARING
HEARING OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005
CHAIRED BY: SENATOR JOHN WARNER (R-VA)
WITNESSES: GENERAL JAMES JONES, JR., USMC, COMMANDER, UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND AND SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER, EUROPE; GENERAL JOHN ABIZAID, UNITED STATES ARMY, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND
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GEN. ABIZAID: Thank you, Senator Roberts. The single most important thing to General Sanchez in Iraq is having good intelligence. With good intelligence, you can get precise targeting. With precise targeting, you can start to unravel the enemy cells. And as you recall, back in the September-October period, where it was clear that the insurgency was spreading, it became obvious to us that we really needed to fuse the intelligence system and improve it, and ensure that the wonderful intelligence that was being developed at the tactical level made it all the way up to the operational level so that we could make the battle one of the entire force versus just platoons and squads that were out there operating in their own individual areas.
And I think largely with the help of our various intelligence agencies, with wonderful work by my J2, John Custer, and General Sanchez's J2, Barbara Fast, we managed to get an intelligence system working that has given us great insight against the insurgents, and has allowed us to unravel their organizations in a way that I think will be viewed as a model when people have a chance to look at it.Now, this doesn't mean that the enemy does not adjust their tactics, because they do. And they are adjusting their tactics, they are adjusting the way that they conduct their own operational security. You could see from the letter by Zarqawi, for example, how concerned he was how many eyes were out there and how dangerous the operation was. But this was is a war of intelligence and perception. And it is just so important that the intelligence part of the battle be adequately organized and that we think out of the box about who was doing what and not worry about turf. And I'm happy to report to you that I think that the relationship that's developed in Baghdad with the Central Intelligence Agency and the one that we have between CENTCOM and the agency has been one that has allowed us to get up at this problem in an important way.
However, I would like to say one thing, if I may, Senator, because I know it's so important to you. We do not have enough intelligence professionals in our nation. We must increase our HUMINT capacity. We must increase our ability to have translators and interrogators in the field. And to me, as we fight this global war on terrorism, if we don't do that, we are putting the nation at risk.
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Feb. 4 Witness listhttp://armed-services.senate.gov/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=1039Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
General Peter Pace, USMC
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mar. 4 Witness list http://armed-services.senate.gov/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=1043General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC
Commander, United States European Command and
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
General John P. Abizaid, USA
Commander, United States Central Command