mr. chairman , the cold war is over and the world is a more dangerous place .  the strategy that we used to have of containment , react and mutually assured destruction went out the window on 9/11 .  lord , it probably went out earlier , we just did not get it .  we need now to be able to detect in order to prevent , and our intelligence community needs the capability and the tools so they can detect and prevent .  we are not going to be able to harden a subway site , a bus station , a train station .  we can have more people , dogs , cameras , lights , we can do a lot of things to help , but we can not stop it unless we have the tools .  we do not want to use the criminal means to go after terrorists because you have to wait until the crime has been committed .  we want to prevent not a crime from being committed ; we want to prevent a terrorist attack from being committed .  so give them the tools .  the patriot act does it .  we have seen it operate for 4 years .  it has been amazing how well it has operated .  when people talk about libraries , why in the world would we want to make a library a free terrorist zone ?  we allow our forces to go in for a crime in a library .  why should they not be allowed to go in for a terrorist issue ?  