This period of the subcommittee on civilian, security, democracy, human rights and global womens issue sz going to come to order. And the u. S. Tax on cuba oversight. We have one Government Panel testifying with it following three witnesses here. The acting assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. International programs that department of state and dr. Charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. Thank you all again for being here on this important topic. There are two goals. The first is to establish the facts. And of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. In late 2016 staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to
This period of the subcommittee on civilian, security, democracy, human rights and global womens issue sz going to come to order. And the u. S. Tax on cuba oversight. We have one Government Panel testifying with it following three witnesses here. The acting assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. International programs that department of state and dr. Charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. Thank you all again for being here on this important topic. There are two goals. The first is to establish the facts. And of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. In late 2016 staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to
Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
Conversation. At some point i asked him how do you deem your enemies . How do you classify your enemies . You always talk about your enemies, rivals, competitors. And he said there are two categories of foes. There are foes and traitors. Foes are those with whom you fight the war, against whom fight the war and then conclude armicist and then peace and then you divide what you conquer and then you start the war again. They are foes. And we look and see. Because these are people who were inside and then struck you from behind. I have no murzy for them. Mercy from behind. I said where am i . He said you are just an enemy. Whos barack obama . Translator i know he is a rival. He is a competitor. He is an enemy. And any american president is a rival in this black and white picture. He is a foe. One can fight if you look where there is so much tension over ukraine and sharp nationalistic turn in russian politics and sharp isolation of russia from the international community. Do you feel that
The technical means. The telephone bills, pictures video, records listening devices, they were everything is proven by the material and the elements that people who were arrested were those who killed and reported to president putin. The second level is for the organizers so there were perpetrators and organizers. The investigation delivered defined the people who this is also was proven by technical conversations filming and checking the bills but the organizers some managed to leave the country and some have immunity as the legislators of the russian government. And this is a complicated job because this moment the political element these people very close to the who publicly defends them and protects them both for the president and in the eyes of the public. Despite that the organizers were declared a search for the organizers and for those who are not legislators. Regarding i value such a person because if he did not exist in the case of when there was terrorist there was not there