The one. And said to myself is why the president put you here. So i recognized common even with the large staffs that we have around us that we surround ourselves with, every once in a while you have to take an independent look at something and not be afraid to realize that maybe they bureaucracy has got this wrong and you happen to be right. And i did that on a number of occasions at the pentagon. Okay. As i prepared to yield to dr. Coburn im reminded of the many definitional issue. One of my favorite, it goes Something Like this. Leadership whenever else is marching to the wrong tune. Leadership also requires folks to lead. And help you leave the department. My colleagues and i know that we, as you said his position has been vacant for months. The deputy position, deputy secretary for over half a year and there are a number of positions they need to be filtered the administration has obligation to nominate many people and we have an obligation to act on them. I hope we will probably
This morning the speaker when asked about the plans asked about the details and i believe he said blah blah blah. [laughter] do you feel like you are begin their cut before you unveil your plan and giving the remarks where does this stand . I dont think we cannot afford to wait. I cant settle for an economy that grows at 2 , settle for high employmen unemployment andt able to live on their own. A declining wages for the middle class. We need to be the party of growth and opportunity, restoring the American Dream and this is something americans have hunger before. We have an obligation. I put up this draft so that we could engage the American People on this and i think this is some of that as i travel the country and through the hearings ive had this is something that is very much to move forward. The new cspan. Org website makes it easier than ever to keep tabs on washington, d. C. And share your findings via facebook, twitter and other networks. Easy search functions let you access da
Exhaustive list where personally identifiable information exists, i think that would be very helpful. I think we may have done that. But im happy to have my staff work with viewers or if theres questions for the record here to, again, always be as responsive as we can. Thank you. Senator, one more question . Thank you, mr. Chairman. And i just want to follow up on the question that senator ritter just asked. Let me tell youmy understanding is, director. There are approximately nine institutions required by the cfpb to submit invest on credit card transactions. Weve estimated that thats about 900 million. Im not asking you to confirm that number, unless you will, today, but as that data is clerkted, it is not amoanonymou not deidentified. Its the whole story. That information is then transmitted to a third party who you have contracted with who then goes in and deidentifies it or makes it anonymous. And they create a personal identifier for each one of those accounts that is not its a n
Decade. So the work will continue. Are you getting cooperation from libya on this issue of capturing and seeing that those who committed the attacks on our conflict are brought to justice . I dont want to talk in particular about particular operations or particular conversations, but as we have said publicly the leaving government has been cooperative with us in this investigation. We expect them to be cooperative with everything weve done and the support weve given them. Let me ask you, in terms of the al libi capture on october 5, as i understand he was captured on october 5, placed on ship and then was interrogated for, this is going to all public information, now hes been publicly indicted, until the 12th in which is brought into civilian custody, is that right . I dont know the exact dates spent just about a week of interrogation . Sounds right. Mr. Beers, identify the beginning of al qaeda as the attacks on our embassies in africa, and, of course, al libi has been charged with th
As soon as they experience it. Them as quickly as possible and we can protect others as quickly as possible. Protection liability is constructed i am not a lawyer, i cannot do find that in the legal terms that you all need to put into the law, but i we arewould be ready and willing to help with ethical assistance on trying to define precisely what it ought earlierlike as we tried with the last attempt to write the legislation in this body. Mr. Olson . I dont have anything to add on that cyber legislation. Thank you. Lets talk a bit about the lone wolves, american citizens, in many cases, that become radicalized, in some cases by traveling abroad and being exposed to jihadist activities and other cases being radicalized here, yogurt over the internet and in no communities. I worry about that, and i know you do, too. Share with us what you are doing in trying to address that threat and how you are working together and how we can help you. Let me go ahead and start. In addition to the gre