Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighting and they are actually leading and doing some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations Type Training of some of the syrian forces. Hezbollah is involved in yemen. Hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. And hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. So members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what
I will put it in different terms and nonetheless the question. The nation to me seems to be identify and disrupt the sources of money that enable sustaining the ongoing violent behavior. We went to eliminate bad behavior can find the money sources and hopefully eliminate. That seems like the mission. So the question is what about russia . What about putin . What about the financial sources that come out of there indirectly sustaining the violent behavior or directly or the criminal element that operate out of russia and what about the umbrella countries around russia to support that kind of activity. Whos following it whos tracking it, whos disrupting it . Great question. Appreciate that. Just to clarify earlier statements with regards to the money and Financial Intelligence is one aspect of it. We are not simply looking at a Wire Transfer or a transfer between two Different Bank accounts. But the other intelligence we have been simply not just focusing on the dollar amount, im what it
In colombia, a great allies ally of ours. There seems to be a real situation in colombias largest port and the scent of its population were over half a million inhabitants, over 90 of them are black. They are mired in crime and poverty, and over 80 live below the poverty line. 30 are unemployed and virtually none have access to supplies of electricity, water or basic wrote infrastructure. This violence thats going on, i know we want to make sure we are able to address underlying social problems so if theres anything that what were doing there. And, finally, on the lines of what Ranking Member engel had asked, he talked a special about tuberculosis, but thanks in huge party was investment in Global Health, the world has cut by 50 the number of children who die before age five whether its pneumonia, malaria or tuberculosis. The leading killers of Children Worldwide. Were on the verge of some exciting breakthroughs and lifesaving potential. For example, another Usaid Youtube to prevent an
Perspective of our operations officers and from the perspective of our analysts and i was most interested in knowing that they were okay from the perspective of the director of ota who you know and you and i both have Great Respect for. Lets go down the names. Robert trujillo was and is the number three in the office of the director of national intelligence. He represents the dni and deputies views. Alan p. Know was the Intelligence Officer for the middle east. He was at that deputies meeting. Mats olson was and is the director of the National Counterterrorism center. Jake sullivan was then the head of policy planning at the state department and is now the Vice President S National Security adviser. Mark juliano was head of the fbi S National Security division. Lisa monico was head of the department of justice National Security division and ben rhodes was the National Security staff. During any of those conversations with anyone on that list no one including the spokesperson for the Na
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