Inouye says Congress U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye says Congress has a new and firm resolve to see those responsible for yesterday's terrorist attacks punished.
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The senator says U.S. intelligence
groups should not be faultedBy Richard Borreca
rborreca@starbulletin.comAfter receiving classified briefings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency and other federal agencies investigating the attacks, Inouye says the nation's intelligence community should not be faulted for not providing enough warning to prevent the attack. He added that more money may be needed for those agencies.
"There has been resistance in the past for spending too much for this and too much for that," he said. "I know colleagues who in the past who have been rather tight-fisted, but now they are saying 'Tell us how much you want.'"
Inouye added that the mood among his Senate colleagues is anger and also determination to see those responsible punished.
"There will be action on a broad front, there is the will to do it and the resolve. They are sufficiently angry," he said.
"In the cloak room, where they can speak, you should see some of their faces and the anger in their voices," said Inouye, who is chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense.
But, Inouye added, that he hoped the nation would not use the attacks in New York and Washington as an excuse to find ethnic scapegoats.
"In times of crisis we react harshly on people who look like the perpetrators, let us not use the same paint brush -- there are millions living in the United States and they are good citizens.
