Blue, declaring that the victim has want a lottery. In order to declare the winnings, they must first pay the tax to the irs. The lottery scam often, but not always, originates from outside of the United States. In the end, the victims pay the money, but they never received any lottery winnings. Just as serious as these scams the risk of taxpayer refund Identity Theft. The irs has made improvements in identification of Identity Theft returns before fraudulent tax refunds are released. Continued attention is needed to effectively combat this crime. For example, the irs still does not have timely access to thirdparty income and withholding information. Most of the thirdparty information is not received by the irs until well after the taxpayers begin filing returns. The deadline for most information returns with irs is march 31. Yet, taxpayers begin filing returns, this year, on january 20. This gap in time prevents the irs from conducting validity checks. Legislation would be needed to a
Some russian making a mistake, a loose nuke idea. Do you lose sleep over that . Director brennan it has the potential for some type of cycle that was not the intention of either side. When there is a lot of violence going on that will provoke a reaction. And just a quick series of reactions to that. Whether we are talking about ukraine or the situation between north and south korea, that spark has the potential. That is why it is important to call attention to these issues. This is the time to try and keep those a bay. Charlie how do you do that . Director brennan very active diplomacy. Sometimes you need to bring to bear various tools of power. The u. S. Has a lot available to it. There are sanctions and other types of international activities. The u. S. Recognizes rightly that there are not unilateral solutions. It is important for us to work with our partners and engage in those multinational countries. Charlie can we include in our partners china . Director brennan absolutely. Chin
Has said information and intelligence are the fire and maneuver of the 21st century. Those of you who are familiar with more fighting back since with pakistan, iraq and afghanistan know how important this has become but though one raid did iraq where operator seized the computer equivalent of the rolodex negative a rolodex that tracked 500 al qaeda suicide bombers or terrace filtered into iraq through syria. But the database of 500 individuals that were recruited to blow themselves up was critical with the effort to take al qaeda at it is in mesopotamia apart inside iraq. The mother lode of documents seized that has been known as the sinjar parade illustrates the point nicely made by lt. General lewis, or flynn six years after a 9 11 attacks that intelligence committees representing a wide variety of agencies, but notorious and secret, had been collaborating on the unprecedented capability to crush the terrorist networks. Addition to the special ops they used supercomputers and Custom
Years here in our community. [applause] we are very grateful to art software in particular, American Airlines and always shall. Id also like to recognize the friends of the fair, many who are here in our first couple of rows. Thank you so much for your generosity in support. We look forward to your continuing to be a friend for many, many years. Miami Book Fair International and Miami Dade College work handinhand to bring this book fair to us every year. Its a wonderful, this wonderful cultural affair that thousands and thousands of fairgoers are enriched by each and every year so thank you all. Come on and have a seat, please. And as you know, our sessions are being streamed live by cspan. Please help us to keep the fair going for another 30 years and we usually ask you to turn off your cell phones that we are going to ask you to keep them on and actually take them out and make a donation if you are so inclined, a 30dollar donation to recognize that 30 years that the book fair has bee
[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after