I note this is presence of mr. Isa from california. I ask that he be able to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection, it is so ordered. On september 11th, 2001, radical islamic terrorists killed thousands of men, women and children. Aided and abedded by the taliban spent years in afghanistan plotting, waiting for the moment to strike us at home. Throughout the 90s the United States suffered terrorist attacks at the cobart towers at our embassies in east africa and our uss call. The failure to act, emboldened al qaeda and threatand far more devastating attack. The useful staging ground for al qae qaedas malevolent designs. They responded with a roud of both al qaeda and taliban forces. Yet today, after more than 16 year ins afghanistan, its not clear things are much better than they were after the taliban first fell. Is the taliban on the brink of becoming a terrorist dream all over again . We should just be done with this entire god forsaken place or should we be concern
Afghan government is taking to identify trends among Afghan Military personnel being trained by the u. S. This House Oversight subcommittee hearing is just under an hour and a half. I would note for the record, the mysterious tax reform bill is still not unveiled to us. We are waiting breathlessly for that. I would like to ask, i note the presence of our colleague from california, and ask unanimous ssa be allowed to fully participate today. Radical islamic terrorists killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children. These terrorists used afghanistan as a safe haven and refuge. These terrorists spent years in afghanistan plotting, waiting for the chance to strike us at home. Throughout the 1990s, the American People watched as the United States suffered terror attacks in new york city, in east africa, and against our uss cole. The failure to act in the runup to 9 11 caused a more devastating attack. It had become a useful staging ground. American forces responded to the al1 attacks
Others have been our guest. Medea benjamin of codepink women for peace has been here and lynne cheney and tom hartman as well. Those are the authors we have had on this year. You can go to booktv. Org and watch the full interview with any of these authors. Tonight we will show you with Medea Benjamin and lynne cheney. We will begin with ms. Benjamin. Host Medea Benjamin, when and how was codepink founded . Guest peter, we were a group of women environmentalist that were sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how we could deal and we g about the attack and the u. S. Invading ask and we were talking about how horrible it was that the United States was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11. We started laughing about the color coded alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts with the yellow, orange, and red saying how it was to keep people in a state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alert to say there is a different way of dealing wit
Who were working Identity Theft cases who are working to help Identity Theft victims and literally having these individuals stop in midstream and move to telephone answering how do you complete a return and what have you, and which causes immense delays in helping victims of Identity Theft which as members of this committee know is a massively growing problem and especially if youre the subject, if youre the victim involved is very frustrating. And so its just a point, again, of its a zero sum game. They need resources to do it all. This aca most americans have no idea of the massive role that the irs is going to play in the implementation of the Affordable Care act. And the irs, once again, will have to make some tough choices as to what to focus upon. Thank you. I dont have any further questions. I want to make a couple comments. One, mr. Yoder, you asked about when could they finalize this rule, and if you look at the administrations procedure act, theres nothing to stop the irs fro
An agreement before the new years deadline. The house is due tomorrow as well. We do not have an agenda and there. With the fiscal cliffhanging out there heading into the year 2013, do you have optimism or pessimism heading into the new . You can also send in your comment via twitter, a post a comment on facebook, or write us an email. The theme of optimism or lack of it is prevalent in the papers. Wednesday with congress and the president heading back to washington. Here is a headline on usa today. In the wall street journal if the in the washington post. We welcome your phone calls. We will get to them in a moment. We did find another piece at politico. There you have it in the papers this morning about people being optimistic or pessimistic about things. I want to dig a little bit deeper into the wall street journal piece. I we will probably see some what of a flurry of activity tomorrow. If first call. What is your name and where are you calling from . I think that caller is gone.