P. M. , at veteran walking to the Veterans Building, very distraught. His face in the present in the Veterans Building on a number of different occasions. Yesterday he opened up his wrist, and bled out all over the hallway in the Veterans Building. To me this is a travesty. The believe in the community where this happens. The Veterans Building has over 30,000 square feet of space allocated towards veterans uses, for the most part it is empty. There is a milestone in front of us, the building will be closing down four two year seismic renovation; during that time the American Legion we relegate the temporary headquarters. With the building opens up we are still faced with a similar problem. I will make it a priority of mine to help establish suicide and Homelessness Prevention programs that dovetail with the va efforts. Right now the city is overtaxed. I read somewhere that 25 Million Dollars are spent on veteran alcohol issues. I dedicated nearly my fulltime. I sacrifice my own directi
Theres a deter warning to airlines are being told to look out for explosives being smuggled on a plane in toothpaste tubes. Theyre telling people that are going to the Olympic Games to be on alert. The toothpaste tubes could contain ingredients to make explosive. This is the type of threat that is very concerning. I cant go into detail but i can tell you that our intelligence people are working on issuing and working on with departments. theyve been on alert with threats of with islamic extremists. with the talk about with sochi and conditions. coming up. Let our us a lot of People Police raid a joint operation done with the c h t Oakland Police and tell me the share of an homelands security. All happening this morning agencies served a search warning from eighth the ninth street and 36 ave. They say they recovered at least seven guns stolen vehicles and is the lot stolen auto parts. happening now Police Searching for the driver who hit and seriously hurt a person outside of San Franci
Because of the landscape also self carolina and virginia. Host remember it was pretty hard to get to the north. Almost all fugitive slaves from a the number four kentucky or maryland those that would border on free soil. If you were an alabama it would be pretty hard to get to the north. Either you become a maroons or go to the citys to blend in with fatfree black population there because getting any further north would have been difficult. We have time for a couple more questions so sylviane can sign books then the rest can ask while she signs your buck book. Your presentation is very interesting. I am curious about the maroons in the swamp and their relationship to rice growing. Rice is something that is grown in the swamp santry know that many slaves k with that knowledge from africa then going out to the swamp would have been attractive from the agricultural standpoint. Guest when i was looking at the communitys growing their food, into louisiana and South Carolina where people use
Im not sure if it was classified, but how Many Americans that were at locations actually save based on the training in each partys of the ca Security Force you always have seen, from what i have seen in the chair and i have traveled a lot of members of the committee all of the world and understand to the security is and what they do and what theyre trained for. I want to answer the question, does the cna feel abandoned by the u. S. Military in the situation . No, we did not. Explain what the security is, how many they are, and if its not classified, how Many Americans were saved because of their training and expertise . I dont think that i can go into specific numbers. While i will say is something the chairman said earlier. I have no doubt, there is no doubt in my mind that had the cia Security Officers from the benghazi base not responded to the state Department Facility that we would have lost many more state Department Officers there. There is no doubt in my mind. Theres also no do
I thank mr. Morell for volunteering to testify once again. A terrorist attack against u. S. Facilities is a serious event and this committee has been conducting a thorough and detailed investigation for the last 19 months to understand exactly what happened. We have held over 17 member events reviewed thousands of documents mostly classified interviewed the men on the ground that night. I want to focus on how this Committee Received inaccurate talking points and how the administration used those talking points to perpetrate a false narrative about the attacks. After the attacks this committee immediately sought the truth. We received a closed briefing with nctc folks and then petraeus on september 1 and september 13 respectively. After the director then petraeus briefing some members of this committee sought guidance about what could be said publicly in an unclassified forum. We knew that our constituents the American People certainly needed to know the truth about the attacks. Unfortu