The House and Senate Homeland Security Committees held their first joint hearing on the threat of homegrown terrorism to military communities.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard from two panels on the risk from active military personnel and the threat existing from outside the armed forces.
Witnesses include Paul Stockton, the assistant secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, along with Army counterintelligence advisor Jim Stuteville. Other witnesses military terrorism experts and the father of an Army soldier killed in a 2009 attack on a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkanas.