Allegation occurs of misconduct, we investigate it. And as agent sullivan or director sullivan specified, one of the things that occurs on many investigations is the investigation does not find any wrongdoing. When it does, we take appropriate followup action to hold the employee accountable. Well, i would like to point out that this is not the only affidavit like this. There are several others. And you know, were not going to release them, not going to enter them into the record or use their names at this time. But do you believe it is appropriate for the epa personnel to pressure and intimidate citizens into endorsing the epas agenda . Congressman, im not familiar with the specifics that youre referring to. I will be happy to the specifics here are the epa employee forced this renter to give access to property they didnt have legal access to in an intimidating manner, and then afterwards told them that the whole point of the investigation was to shut down a legal business. Is that ho
Sunni, become head of the country, all the minorities will be slaughtered. So long as there is zerosum game in the middle east, the sum will always be zero. And i often say in game theory theres also whats referred tos two as a variable sum game saying there can be many , winners. Whatever we do there, however much humanitarian aid we provide there, however much military support we provide in the middle east, internally, the leadership that we get behind, the United States, the leadership that we support, have to embrace, they have an obligation to embrace the Minority Community because well be sitting here five years from now, ten years from now, 20 years from now, well be having the same discussion with no progress whatsoever. Again, thank you very much for your testimony. Ill yield back. Rep. Royce go now to mr. Chris smith of new jersey. Christopher h. Smith thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you for calling this very, very important hearing and our distinguished witnesses fo
Of the future. Weve adopted that as a way forward. We interact quite a bit with leadership and Law Enforcement, and the stone Garden Program that Congress Gave us several years back after the department was created is a very useful tool for us and is very well thought of by state and local. Could you give me your assessment of Border Security in the indian reservation, for example. I dont want to single those out. With the reservation compared to others, areas on the northern border, would you say its equivalent, better, worse . Im not aware of any deficiencies we have specifically. How about with the park . Glacier National Park . Same. We have an ongoing working relationship to be present and understand their concerns as well as being present on the border and patrolling. So the need for additional tools and i dont want to put words in your mouth. Need for additional tools, youve got it with operation stone garden, with the park service relationships, memorandums, whatever . Correct,
Way to move the ball forward. Other members of the panel i dont know if anyone would like to comment on the clarity of the language. I would say while we recognize the preventy of it to simply say, go act reasonably, thats a negligent standard. Were all under a duty to act reasonably in our daily lives and not be negligent. When youre facing a threat of this nature, to have the congress say, hey, act reasonably, i think thats underwhemg as a standard and expectation as we enter the age of cyber battles. I would agree, particularly when youve got a road map thats worked for 16 years in another industry that you can lean on. Id like to talk a little bit about how unreasonable delay works in the real world. Theres talk about whether a notice should be immediate could you put some specific time frame on when a reasonable notice would occur. Could anyone on the Panel Comment on whether its realistic to require a company to notify consumers within a specific set of days . I think the challen
Yes, sir. What im trying to say is its a challenge in a sense that that in the way the budget is structured. Uh just talked in my opening remarks. These are undergoing operational assessment right now. Our two organizations sat down, and tried to put in the budget on my side ready for acquisition in that time frame and delivered in that time. And the cost is the acquisition and maintenance of that. I frankly doubt that the budget that he put in will get get approved. Its the way the structure, the budget is structured. Being an operational department, cbp have many urgent needs. And if otaa come up and ask for budget for a possible technology that may or may not be successful three years from now, it doesnt come as a very strong argument against other very urgent needs. So the problem of what we call wedging the budget, if we dont do that, then, of course, theres no smooth transition. To deliver a technology in fy 18, if by that time we pass all the assessment, and lets say obp asks, m