Good morning and welcome, everyone. This is joint hearing of the subcommittee on disability assistance and Memorial Affairs an oversight and investigation will come to order. I first want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, chambering man. Ranging member esty who should be along this morning and Ranking Member Kuster Holding the hearing on important issue were facing helping gulf war veterans get benefits they earned. It should go without saying we have a duty to take care of the men and women who have been wounded while serving in our military. Unfortunately too many injured gulf war veterans are not being taken care of. Va estimates 44 of gull war veterans develop gulf war illness, yet 26 of those veterans are receiving benefits. Something doesnt add up. On march 15th, 2016 during a similar joint hearing on gwi claims va, va testified that it was taking steps to improve service for gulf war veterans. Yet one year later, gao found va is still only approving 17 of claims of gulf w
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So this court has routinely cited cases under those customs statutes as illuminating the meaning of the probable cause standard and is therefore illuminating so you disagree with justice storey when he looked at those cases and made the point i just made . You think he was wrong . Theres no doubt in those cases the question the court was ultimately answering is are those customs officers liable . But the way it was answering that question was by determining whether those officers had probable cause. And probable cause is the constitutional standard. Thats why they have subsequently relied on the cases. Can i ask you a question id like you to address for a minute. Assume for the sake of argument i agree with you that a reasonable mistake of law is an excuse but what is a reasonable mistake . Thats what i would like you to address and in particular would you have objection to, it has to be, one, exceedingly rare, two, objective, three it has to be that the reasonable lawyer would think t
Told the Armed Services committee that the basic the most important fact in this strategy of defeating isis is to give some moderate sunni tribes to join the coalition against isis. On october 53 new plants in iraq in syria pledged allegiance to isis, which tells us that the tribes so far do not seem to be betting on the United States or its allies. Then, so many reports and criticism against the Syrian Opposition, the tribes, we call them cops. Theyre not up to the fight. So the question is, how come all of the tribes who fight on our side are the losers and the tribes to fight on the side of iran and has block are the winners . Here you have it iraqbacked fighting and winning. The air power to take them down. The answer to this question is that we do not pick the tribes. They picked us. This is important because this goes back to how the tribes behave. Their is a tribal code, and a tribal structure. A tribe is usually known by name and by genealogy, and even the horses have a genealo