And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
It would limit our ability to train, advise and assist, yes, sir. Okay. Mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Can you talk to us in general about the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan and the various groups that are involved there . I guess related to that is the conversation about reconciliation talks between the taliban and afghan government. First of all, what hopes do you have for that . Second of all, no matter what comes out of that, there will always be groups on both sides of the border that arent part of it. Whats sort of your tell us a little bit about the groups who might be involved, who might be reconcilable who we might still have to fight and how the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan factors into those negotiations . Thanks for the question. As you know, very conflicted between pakistan and afghanistan. I do try to maintain ties with pakistan. I talk to general sharif probably once a week. I try to get to pakistan once a month. We really work hard t
Screeria nigeria. At a press conference president obama and british Prime Minister David Cameron. They also urged congress to hold off on implementing new sanctions on iran in the midst of nuclear talks. Here is some of what the president said about that. I take this very seriously. I dont question the good faith of some folks who think this might be helpful. It is my team thats at the table. We consult closely with allies like the United Kingdom in making these assessments. I am asking congress to hold off because our negotiators, our partners, those who are most intimately involved in this assess that it will jeopardize the possibility of resolving providing a diplomatic solution to one of the most difficult and long lasting National Security problems that we faced in a very long time. And Congress Needs to show patience. So with respect to the veto i said to my Democratic Caucus colleagues yesterday that i will veto a bill that comes to my desk. I will make this argument to the Amer
The idea was to similar late a cyber attack at the National Security council or cabinet level and see how the United States would react. Stuart baker who was always selling his book skating on stilts, which is a great book if you havent read it, who was playing the white house cyber czar started pounding on the table saying if the attorney general doesn have the authorities, should go and find the authorities four yearings late later, im not sure that weve gone and found the securities. But something has finally changed. The president pushing new proposals seems that maybe we turned the corner and were going to see changes when it comes to Cyber Security. I know in trying to move it it took a cyber attack on a show to get things to start changing. Youve surely read and learned from hr art kal. She knows more on cyber issues than 95 of the policymakers in washington. Its probably 96 . With that, let moe turn it over to ellen. Thank you very much, blaze. And thanks to the Bipartisan Poli
Philosophically, but i trend back toward the chairman here, there are a lot of practical issues that could turn this into a free fire zone which is not beneficial to anyone. When you are shooting, they may not shoot back to you. That is the problem. And i am not necessarily opposed to offense the government has a very good offensive capability. We have not decided as a country how to use it or has a government policy body, no one has decided to use it, so we do not. The problem you are asking a corporation where you will get these mixed capabilities, and i cannot tell you how many cios i have met who say this is not a problem. You are going to have somebody come in and say i can figure this out. I have never seen such confidence as i have people in cyberspace. Somebody is going to misfire and it will not be that particular company that pays the price. It will be a swath of people who pay the price. A foreign nation state like iran or russia or china or north korea will not say it is fr