Will be shot, but understand you may very well be back again and again as the documents that were requested finally come in. For that, i am truly sorry that you may have to come back here again and again, but if we do not receive documents that were requested in plenty of time, then many of your testimony today will be a first round and not in fact a definitive oversight that we expected to have. With that, i recognize the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this very important hearing, and i thank you all of our witnesses for being with us today. The horrific bombings of our embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 were a watershed moment for our nation. Following those attacks, the state department reported that 80 of its overseas facilitiy i did not i repeat, did not meet Security Standards. Congress authorized billions of dollars to expedite Embassy Construction around the world. As part of this effort, the state Departm
Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me that you can build under Design Excellence as quickly and as costeffectively as we did under standard Embassy Design. You pull a design off the shelf and build it and adopt the facade in a way that is fitting with the local the country as opposed to going through a design bid build with architects and builders, it just doesnt make sense. Now, if you can show me with facts and figures that it does
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