On December 9, 2009, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the US Senate held a hearing on the subject Five Years After the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA): Stopping Terrorist Travel. Though the hearing was not specifically related to the frequent travels of David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) to India before the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai and his role in allegedly collecting operational information about the various targets which the LET intended attacking, there was a reference in passing to his travels to India before 26/11 and his role.
In his prepared introductory remarks, Joseph Lieberman, the co-Chairman of the Committee, said: