In addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. They also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. Its no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as Speaker Boehner did before him. Its also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. Chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. He told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. I think its time to move on, into quotation. Senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in impeachment activity
Using our property free, the public airwaves. Tomorrow will be the most coordinated, informed, diverse critique of the mass commercial media ever brought together in one day. And one of them [ applause ] and one of the presenters will be arguably the greatest promoter of the First Amendment in the 20th century, phil donahue. Nobody [ applause ] nobody demonstrated a belief in the First Amendment like phil donahue. He brought on his show, again and again, people who despised him, who disagreed with him, who assailed him, thats the ultimate test of the belief in First Amendment. He will discuss how he broke through one taboo that was conventional taboo for most of the other media after another, and opened huge areas of American Life and voice to expression. Day three will be waging peace over waging war. We want to get rid of this idea that peace is something weak but wars something strong. Our wars have failed again and again, and you will see the documentation of that by some of the mo
The forces of the level were starting to come down and the Afghan Forces were not operating along the border because they had bigger issues to deal with deeper into eas in the east ande south. And so, while we had had Excellent Partnership across the border in 2009 and 2010 and some that stand in 2011, that partnership basically ended at the end of november and didnt pick back up again actually it still hasnt picked up again. The other issue was ultimately to attack the insurgent elements on the eastern side of the frontier that we needed for them to go after. And i ran as you may remember in the media i didnt spend a lot of time talking about but we ran a very concentrated operation against the knifes edge and being an partnershi in partnersf afghanistan that committed large numbers. It proved to be quite good as the troops and gave me the sense that we could accelerate the afghans moving into the lead of the crossborder coordination is a very serious issue. Its a major security issue
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