Monetary stimulus so i think the fed will not be raising rates for quite some time. One of the core dimensions is the fact that last year the economy grew 1. 9 with fiscal drag from higher taxes and Government Spending cuts reducing growth by 1. 3 Percentage Points so without that fiscal tightening the u. S. Economy would have been growing over 3 . Yes you know cbo does not make policy recommendations and thats very important. Policy choices depend not just on the analysis of the consequences of different courses of action but also in how one waives those consequences and what values one applies. Theres nothing special about our values. Its up to our elected leaders youre in my elected leaders to make those policy judgment. Our job is to help congress understand the consequences of alternative courses of action. I had a good job and i found the atmosphere of the treasurery to be not what i wanted. I was young and just restless. The Church Committee hearings were being televised at the
The air force aspirated fees air force aspirated these and their unfunded requirements. It was not under dana chairman smark where the base bill so what i have done because there is such limited funding has gone into operations and maintenance for the Defense Contract Management Agency the Defense Information Systems Agency the defense media activity, the office of the secretary of defense, the Washington Headquarters services, the executive general and special schedules, printing and reproduction purchase communications, in management professional support services. Hitting all of those we have come up with 120 million which is the cost for the eight unfunded reapers that the air force has requested. This is a choice by thing for us between good graphics at the pentagon or a uav that is tried and true that has led the uav boom that we have had in this country. It is the predator which is the reaper. It doesnt need any more development. Our soldiers sailors and marines use it every sing
[000 00 00;00] a ah, [000 00 00;00] a to International Peace and security. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with rules, 37 of the counselors provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of ukraine to participate in this meeting. It is so decided in accordance with rules. 39, ill see counsels provisional rules of procedure. I invite mr. I did a g, a bow director and deputy to the high representative for Disarmament Affairs to participate in this meeting. It is so decided the Security Council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda and ill give the flaw to mr. A. Did a g eval mister president distinguished members of the Security Council. We are aware that the Russian Federation has filed an official complaint in line with the provisions of optical 6 regarding allegations of biological weapon programs in ukraine. As high representative when i commit to inform the council in march and may of this year, United Nations is not aware of any such biological
The first dispute will be colonel morris davis. He retired in 2007 and now teaches at harvard law school. And then we have andrew worthington, he went to new college in oxford, and we have known each other for a very long time. He has been at the forefront of investigating who was at Guantanamo Bay. He wrote a book called the guantanamo files. It talked about the stories and he has codedirected a film about it as well. Also we have tom wilner and he has established the right of habeas corpus for prisoners at guantanamo. Its an incredibly important case. So we are going to start with mr. Morris davis. Thank you. I would start off by saying that it is a pleasure to see you. But i would be lying to you. I know a number of you, as i look around the room, were here last year and the year before that. And i keep hoping that we will take a historical look back at this regrettable but not in our nations history rather than an ongoing chapter in our nations history. I do appreciate you coming o
Announcements. Name one, pat buchanan. One, theres the possibility that all this metta data that is out there with the National Security agency may be left with aol and the other telecommunications operations. But john, the National Security state is alive and well. The president has responded to mr. Snowden in the sense that weve got to find a greater balance between rights of privacy and National Security. Hes recommending that there be an advocate before the fisa court and things like that. But overall, this extraordinary capacity and capability the United States has, he wants that accessible to our security people, but he wants greater restrictions against its use, against foreign leaders and others. I think he struck a pretty good balance. Eleanor . I would agree with that. I think his main goal is to restore confidence in the governments ability to surveil and monitor communications of principally american citizens, but also foreign leaders. And he traced the history of intellige