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Committee will come to order. Welcome to todays commerce, justice, and science subcommittee hearing examining the department of justices disco year 2016 budget request fiscal year. Let me welcome Loretta Lynch to her first hearing before this subcommittee as she assumes the important spots ability of serving as our nations chief Law Enforcement officer. Welcome. As you begin your twoyear term as attorney general, i believe it is critical for you to return the office of attorney general to its constitutional purpose which is to enforce the laws of the land, not the degrees and winds of the president. The president has a white House Counsel and pretty plenty of attorneys arguing for his point of view on immigration environmental regulations and more. The attorney general, i believe, is the servant of the loss and citizens of the United States, not the president. I want to encourage you, madam attorney general, to consider this perspective carefully as you begin your service in a job that
Today. Well take you to zurich for the vote. This is alJazeera America. Good morning. Right now flood ravaged texas is getting more severe thunderstorms. The forecast for big storms this weekend is an even larger concern. High waters near houston have prompted evacuations. Residents of 300 homes in the southeast also forced to evacuate in wharton because of the rising Colorado River. Historic flooding earlier this week killed 24 in texas and oklahoma. We have the latest from houston. Six months ago the people of texas were hoping for rain, but they werent expecting as much as theyve gotten in the past week. In fact, in may the most rainfall the state of the accident has ever endured houston, many of the neighborhoods have been underwater as people cleaned their belongings, put them to the curbside, the city of houston trying to assess the damage as thousands of homes around businesses have been underwater now more rain and storms on the way this morning and throughout the weekend. One
As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly clear that he is thinking about the 702 program when he talks about not wittingly collecting. After this hearing, i went to him and said, you know, you were wrong. It was perfectly clear that he had absolutely forgotten the existence of the 215 program. This is not an untruth or falsehood, this was a mistake on his part. We all make mistakes. I would say i made a mistake as well thereafter because i did not think to counsel him that we should immediately send a classified letter to the committee c
Is the balance that has to be struck in any kind of legislation like this. Mr. Vitka i would think the most informative part there, for policy makers, would be the number of americans who are affected, and i do not mean the numbers who are targeted, that it would indicate a pretty broad number that would not drive down to something that would compromise surveillance operations. Bob, is that the case, or am i mistaken . Mr. Litt it is difficult for me to answer that. There are other considerations that go into the issues of exactly what we can and cannot report beyond is it a good idea to report this or not and those are the kinds of things in many instances that i cannot talk about in this kind of a session. Mr. Vitka would you agree it would be exculpatory for the community to say that 100,000 americans were affected versus 300 million americans . Mr. Litt i am not comfortable with the word exculpatory. People would be happier if there were smaller numbers than if there are larger num