Always a way to keep learning even in a job you have done a long time. That is incredibly important advice i am just in all of my colleagues they have little the court for a law of years but they still think hard about every case i think everybody on the court does that even those of them there long time. I am a huge fan of my colleagues for that reason. There is nobody there on autopilot. It could be the 23rd time i have seen the issue by will think there is hard as i did the first time. I said she talked about her parents to remind her everyday of the impact of Public Service to pray every day she will live up to that example i think we can all agree she has exceeded that example with those expectations to have a huge impact on public education. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] good morning to the third offset conference here holding today to talk about what the third offset is the progress and the challenges Going Forward and what baby in storer for that third
Against the terrorist threat. So the idea is we sit together almost every day in the National Security council in the situation room x youll have a terrorist or terrorist group, and well each go around the table with all of the different authorities and expertise we bring to bear and say how do we disrupt them, stop them overseas before they can do an attack. For us though, when we realize looking at some of the success we had against the terrorist threat, that we needed to get better to applying that model when it came to cybersecurity nets. So over the last several years, weve reorganized in the division to do things like train prosecutors in every u. S. Attorneys office across the country to, on the one hand, handle that which is on the classified side sensitive sources, methods, what threats are and on the other hand, learn about bits and bites and the specific laws that apply to computer hacking like the Electronic Communications privacy act. And then send those trained prosecutor
Try to do a better job internationally, pulling people together to do more, not just in terms of money, which is part of it. But certainly in terms of resettlement, work visas, family unification, humanitarian visas. Trying to get permission for refugees to work in the places that to which theyve fled. Trying to get kids in school. Trying to get Development Assistance off the tap to help governments like lebanon and jordan, whose societies are really strained by having done the right thing. So thats that gives you a little flavor for the kind of International Diplomatic exchanges were having right now. Thank you so much, miss meng. Mr. Deutch . Thank you, madam chairman. I appreciate it, thanks assistant secretary richard and deputy administrative minister sta al. We appreciate your willingness to keep a dialogue with the subcommittee. Ive been clear where i stand on the need for increased humanitarian aid, the support by our allies around the world, the tension and the need for action
Many of our adversaries spent the decades to reshape their militaries and developing technologies to thwart americas military advantages. As well hear today, many of the technologies that made america the unparalleled Global Military power just 15 to 20 years ago, they are pro proliferating to others. Our adversaries are fielding new technologies from cyber to space in order to defeat our military advantages. At the same time, we face growing networks of violent islamic extremists that will engage us in a low conflict of technology and will for decades to come. As the Bipartisan National Defense Panel warned in future, quote, conflicts are likely to unfold more rapidly, battlefields will be more lethal. Operational sanctuary will be scares and fleeting. Conflict will be the norm in this rapidly changing environment. U. S. Military superiority is not a given. And yet since the end of the cold war a quarter century ago, the United States has maintained a similar but ever shrinking versio
Typically receive from American Military personnel that remain in afghanistan. Drawing thism analogy is because it is consistent with the broader strategyerrorism that the president laid out, i believe in his west point speech, in which you said that the United States needs to develop more capability when it comes to enhancing the capacity of local forces around the world to prevent extremists and terrorists elements from establishing a toehold in their country. We have talked about how this is an important part of our relationship inside afghanistan building the capacity of Afghan National security forces. A long debate about the situation in yemen. Previously, before that country was assumed by a civil war, the United States was able to partner effectively with your many yemeni National Security forces to take strikes, or at least mitigate the risks posed by opposition forces, operating in yemen. It has been diminished because we do not have a Central Government with whom we can orde