services committee this morning considered the nominations for air force general to head the u.s. strategic command and army general to lead the u.s. africa command. the generals these questions on a wide range of issues including don t ask don t tell policy, national missile defense and the start missile treaty. this is just over two hours. first let me put this to the witnesses and the people attending this hearing. this has been an incredibly busy week and i got caught up in a meeting and couldn t get out so i apologize for being a few minutes late. the subcommittee on contract and oversight of the u.s. senate committee on homeland security will come to order and i will have an opening statement about the hearing today and dever to my colleague senator brown for his opening statement and then we will have three panels of witnesses to get at th
contracting. that was followed up with the hiring of mr. john brennan as my principal auditor. wended that higher occur? that hiring actually occurred the first week of january of 2009. that is when mr. brandon actually came aboard. we commence the process of bringing him to avoid much earlier that. to make you abandon the agency held on when he joined the agency? i had been at the agency since july 2008, correct? that s when i was sworn in, correct. now, the audit plan the love requires and i m sure, i hope the person you did was to look at public law 110 and 181, 122, statute to 35 and look at the statutory requirements of the job. the plan that was required to lease out that it must be consistent with the requirements of subsection h. which are the audit requirements that the congress placed on sigar. are you familiar with the audit requirements in subsection h., general? in general, yes i am. could you tell us what those requirements are? that we would