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Professor wallace recording the cooperation or the International Cooperation in fighting even an epidemic like ebola and terrorism still very low. And i believe actually the cooperation in fighting terrorism is much lower than cooperation fighting the epidemic disease and so on. What isis is really doing in iraq and syria is not only contradict with the islam but also contradict with human values which all actually believe in and so on. The Egyptian Government, for example, have been calling for International Support to fight terrorism in the region. Every single western country were reluctant in cooperating with this regard until a few months ago when the foreign fighter problem emerged and just like, to give you an idea, what really will happen if the changes in egypt didnt take place lately, Washington Times i think a few days ago, a few weeks ago, published the statistics about the foreign fighters in middle east and iraq and syria and they mentioned a little thing, very interestin
Out of. If you could perhaps speak to that issue, protecting and hardening it to our terrorisms. Thank you for the question, chairman smith. I will defer to my colleagues specifically in relation to power africa and those engagements. I can tell you the recognition that we encounter from Energy Companies and energy agencies, ministries in our International Engagements to an everincreasing degree recognize the importance of protecting infrastructure. One of the things the department of energy does is to enter into cooperative engagements with Key International partners. We do this at their expense, at the expense of the host country to help them identify older abilities, vulnerabilities. Plan their systems so there is resilience to in the threats, at all hazards approach whether one is talking about severe weather, cyber attack or physical attack. We have found that this is an area where the United States is in a position to add tremendous amount of value from our experience. I will hav
Mornings america at war people would go we shot tomahawks, we are not at war. If you talk to people near the receiving end of those tomahawks very different response. So the danger is you have different thresholds. You are shooting at someone and they say it feels like were to me and when youre in another position you say well we are just doing surgical operations. You can get this resentment in american arrogance. Americans can be perceived as we are arrogant because we can stand up from the heavens and throw thunderbolts. Although militarily it may just read the right move if you are building up massive resentment than theres a negative cost to it. Its one of those technologies that has to be very carefully balanced as we use it. Pretty soon everybody is going to happen. A lot of countries have them now. I dont know how we will feel when somebody does it to us but i can predict. Thats a great question. Thank you. With that i want to thank bank of america for hosting this and thank yo
Been reduced by half said is the only changes and though lot. It did not grant any type of new power to give me the ability to walk into our room to fire people . It is clear the secretary and those advising him remain confused about what the law actually does, which is much more than simply reduce the appeal time. The secretary cannot simply walk into a room and fire without evidence warranting faction. But the law does give him the authority to remove that employee for corer performance or misconduct. The secretary has cited a plethora of numbers he says illustrates the commitment to hold individuals accountable. For example, he says there is one list of 1,000 names of employees being removed and another list of 5,600 names of employees being removed and another list of 42 names of Senior Executives the v. A. Is proposing action on. But may take a moment to set the record straight. Based on their briefing that v. A. Provided to staff yesterday covet v. A. Only has one year of aggrega