Government and you are part of the u. S. Government who seem to think that its not that important in to the extent that its important it is not prepared to be very helpful. Do we need partnershpartnersh ip with russia and if so why . Guest we certainly do need partnership with russia and russia is still, i mean the United States and russia are the two remaining the rear superpowers in between us we cannot really resolve a number of the worlds major problems if we dont Work Together. We are seeing that now in terms of syria, in terms of iran, in terms of even issues like terrorism and counterterrorism so russia is not always an easy partner for the United States just as the United States is not an easy partner for russia but we have to Work Together. We are fated to Work Together and we have seen that this year when there were plenty of reasons why the relationship deteriorated but in the end we are working together and we will continue to Work Together and those in the u. S. Political
From parts of this process. Having the commander, the convening authority at the front end, it creates a potential barrier to sustaining those convictions Going Forward. It is a very cognizable conflict. The other point about perception, the thing we have to do is to increase reporting rates. The biggest problem is not the failure to investigate and prosecute. The biggest problem is the failure to report. That is all about reception. The perception of how my case will get treated when i come forward and say this is what happened to me. The first person to hear that is the one we need to make the right choice about how to receive that report. I want our commanders to be fighting wars, winning wars, taking care of their people, and educating everybody within the military community, over which they have far more control, so that everybody will say the right thing that will lead to an unrestricted report. It will get the perpetrator out of commission. This is all about perception. In may s
Another longer, monograph coming on the north caucuses with the u. S. Army war colleges looking in depth at the military and security aspects and the history of the cob conflicts in north caucuses. But as he mentioned, this is now a conflict not just in the russian context, not just in the regional context of the north caucuses, not just in the russian statewide context but it has global connections. Just recently, a salafi cleric issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, justifying in the in vol ct the attacks fwmbings enbrad and exchanging that attacks on the russian civilian population is justified because the population is not standing up against the russian government when its persecuting muslims. Therefore, he says, any russian citizen, and he doesnt even he mentioned christians, orthodox, but doesnt distinguish the probably 20 million russian citizens who happen to be muslim, that these civilians, women, children, and be ly, are all allowed to murdered in terrorist attacks. Before tha
, want to plug my colleague senator rockefeller for making significant efforts to bridge the chasm between the committee and the director on some of these issues. It does not appear to be in the directors nature to accept these overtures, frankly. I think that is incredibly unfortunate. I am fully confident in the factual accuracy of the report and nothing in your response so far has persuaded me otherwise. Director brennan, let me get to a few questions. On march 16 2009, 1 of your predecessors leon panetta announced the creation of a directors review group for rendition, detention, and interrogation. To be led by well respected senior cia officer and supervisor supervised by senator [inaudible] who passed away. Do you know when and why the pen review group was disbanded . First of all i respectfully but vehemently disagree with your characterization of the cias cooperation with this committee. I am fully prepared to come forward to this committee any time it requests my appearance. I
Since that would be a good place to start and he has been identified in the report, has he agreed to engage in these discussions . We met him i think twice, but at one point of time, the process got stopped and we never got to his successor. Madam chairman, i hope later in his responses, he might be able to speak to elaborate on the comments that in 2003 there was much greater access provided than there is today. Can i add one thing . There are lists of names that have been made public. And i dont think any of them have ever talked about anything to do with the military dimensions. One talked about work he did as a professor at a university but didnt talk about the Physics Research center. Thank you, mr. Deutch. Judge poe, its just the way it is. I want to say amen to your comments about the deal being public, not only for members of congress, but for American People as well since it affects us. Im perplexed why its not. And i still dont know why its not. Iran is the mischief maker in