Have five legislative days in which to submit material to the chair for inclusion in the record. This series hearing is entitled evaluating the effectiveness of us section programs and i recognize myself for a opening statement. Im pleased to welcome our colleagues and witnesses to the subcommittee hearing on us sanctions. From iran to north korea to russia and venezuela got sanctions are used as the instrument in our foreignpolicy toolkits and Congress Must ensure that they be held accountable for results. This hearing will examine major Sanction Program as we seek to evaluate their effectiveness. Let me highlight three points that may provide context. First, sanctions are key to bringing about behavioral change abroad and in this committee its designed accordingly. That means calibrating sanctions and the sanctions relief based on specific and achievable actions we wish to see from a foreign actor. Tailoring sanctions in this way is especially important for secondary sanctions given
And for that, we are most thankful. She has a Natural Inclination to reach out across party and ideological lines. That is not all that common today. And in the process of the final rule, many of you participated in conversations with the administrator. You know she was try to get the most effective, efficient rule possible and a rule that would be longlasting. Before i introduce the administrator, lets talk about the flow of the event today. The administrator is going to take the podium and speak and then she and our lead expert on the Clean Air Act will take the stage and engage in a bit of q a. You have on your seats a card. If you would like to pose a question, please write it as clearly as you can and legibly so our folks can read that. As soon as the administrator is done speaking, we will collect the cards and they will be passed on to dallas. For those who are viewing this online or some other medium and have access to twitter, you can send a tweet to us in terms of a question.
Most effective job but it does come back to something that general keane said which is whole of government is a better approach to this end kinetics only and i would just suggest with respect mr. Chairman that calling all of these different groups al qaeda emboldens al qaeda. That is something we dont want to do. If we can separate them, and have strategies that take some of them out, which we do, not just with kinetics. I support the limited use of drones but i also support other strategies, think we will give further. Finally the world is extremely dangerous but viewing this set of threats is the only threats that i dont think are going to help us get to a place where the u. S. Can project our power, all of our power, our smart power in the way that we need to. Looking at failing states in how we can support them is a high priority. Helping a transition to democratic with a small d regimes is another high priority and building modern world structures. Some of the structures we deal w
Testified and said to me and started to become pretty clear quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack, not just something sporadic check. I believe leon panetta was a part of this as well. Again, theres been the response was not that this is a al qaeda attack but some blame on some video and a protest over what do you make of that . Chair. A couple of things. The first is that it was obviously a terrorist attack, by any generally held definition of terrorism which is its use of violence to achieve a political end or convey a political message. These are people who are attacking the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. They obviously were not there just have a good time or profess they did not like that the consulate was there. There were there to make a statement against america. Classic terrorism. Why there was a hesitancy to do that at the beginning, frankly even if it was as some white affected by the video which i ended up concluding that it was it was only that the terrorists saw
Today they are one of many. They are called the old guard al qaeda. I have no doubt right now, somewhere they are planning attacks against the United States. I have no doubt that they are trying to communicate with affiliates all over the world and im sure they are, but the way that is perceived today versus the way that was received is wildly different. When bin laden was in charge, is wildly different. Still focused on far in any attacks against the u. S. I try to be as specific as possible because you will see when i get to the fifth part, this is what i talk about how we have to focus our strategy. A couple dozen old guard committed operatives in pakistan and afghanistan, al qaeda central. Al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the most important element in the world at this point, they have a repeated capability and they have tried on three occasions to do next journal operations attack in the u. S. I have no doubt they are planning an attack against us right now. A are the Decisive P