on an observation post just outside. and we were conducting mainly kill capture operations against high value targets, al qaeda and taliban and vehicle interdictions as well. when he walked off the base we iven the intelligence we had a deserter we were going to get him back we stopped everything we were doing. the war stopped from very highest levels of special operations and we started hunting him. my team and i would say 20 operations trying to find this guy. we got so close to him at one point we had the ransom money where he was turned over to the taliban. and we tried to pursue all the way to the border of pakistan. we were unsuccessful. we were willing to pay for him? no, the ransom from where whomever turned him in sold him to the taliban. one of the things the platoon mates said they heard radio transmissions saying locals saying this american guy walking around seeking out the taliban. he wanted to find them. it was something like that. you did hear that too? the
cuts reduce operating cost 25 percent. and threatening efforts to roach the president s goal of intercepting 40 percent of the drug shipments by 2015. we deal with the assets and hours and try to use them best as we can to stop the smuggling threat. the boats are more sophisticated and the area of operation tripled in size last year and similar to the size of montana. some of the smuggling boats have three enemyings and tons of drugs. it is an irpt diction of the vessel before they make shore. our investigations are largely based upon those interdictions. those are so important, bill to give you an example they go five or sen days to find the drug smugglers and some case s they are down 2 or 3 days in the
creating search as we know it. she was one of google s first employees. first female engineers, and also responsible for the look and feel of the popular search engine that we use every day. oh and let me add two more impressive stats. marissa marissa mayer i 37 and about to be a mom for the first time. i wonder what s going to be harder, yahoo! ceo or first-time mom. you tell me. i m not a ceo or mom. you re a mom. i n t know. i think having a baby and running a company and trying to put on a massive turnaround is going to be pretty challenging. look this is a woman that i ve interviewed a number of times since 2009. she s incredibly impressive. she manages down to the detail, kyra, so if anyone can do it she can. yesterday was a huge day. i want to show you two tweets from marissa mayer she tweeted out. another good piece of news, zach and i are expecting a new baby, going to have a son in a few months and tweeted this, i m incredibly excited to start my new role at yah
reintegration and reconciliation programs. they want to feel that they will get their lives back, and that means emphasizing agriculture. it s an agricultural country. they used to export ag products until the soviet invasion in 1978. and we need to help restore gural. we made gur the top nonsecurity priority in this administration. in the previous administration they were spending more money destroying poppy crops and agriculture. you saw that yourself in the south how we re not going after the poor poppy farmers anymore, we re going after the big drug lords and interdictions. so we had to make all these changes. the people see these changes. we also have to produce the most critical issue there, which is security, and security is the key. i was really struck in prepping to talk to you today reading a lot of your briefing transcripts and your interview transcripts with other people, and you are you are combative
becomes a huge issue and we focused on that. and president karzai has agreed and he has upgraded the office against corruption in the government. they want to feel this is not a war without end just like americans. hence, the enormously important addition of the reintegration and reconciliation programs. they want to feel that they will get their lives back and that means emphasizing agriculture. it s an agricultural country that used to export ag products until the soviet invasion. we made agriculture the top nonsecurity priority in this administration. in the previous administration, they were spending more money destroying poppy crops than agriculture. you saw that yourself when you were down in the south, how we re not going after the poor poppy farmers anymore. we re going after the big drug lords and interdictions. so we had to make all these