Mr. Hanna, it strikes me in your response to some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle, comments with your role about Vice President cheney and the agreement or the decision to invade iraq is it was a mistake and you apologize for that in your own way. But we should just move on from that. Is that a misrepresentation of how you view your actions . Its senate more complicated than that. Of course. And too long to explain. That, yes, if the case depended on weapons of mass destruction in iraq, that was false. And the American People didnt understand the grounds on which we were going to war to take out a guy who is a horrible dictator and a major strategic threat to american interests that the American Congress in 1998 passed a law almost unanimously saying the iraq liberation act saying weve got to doing . To get rid of this guy. Didnt say war necessarily but it says weve got a big problem with iraq, we need to doing . About it. But it was based, wouldnt you say, on the assumption
And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
Disruption of the plots and the arrest of the al qaeda operatives here. Socalled incidental collection led to the initial identification of these men and enabled the government to use other investigative tools including traditional fisa to vag advance the investigations. Its an invaluable tool in supporting the counterterrorism efforts of our allies around the world. In describing the value of 702 its important to explain why its uniquely important as the Deputy Attorney general from 2006 to 2009 i experienced first hand the consequences of the prefaa approach in some cases it simply was not possible under that prior approach to demonstrate probable cause that a foreign target overseas was an agent of a foreign power. It authorizes the government to obtain critical intelligence about terrorists and other targets that it cannot obtain by other means. In conclusion, i would say that the Authority Congress established under section 702 has played an indispensable role in protecting the na
Wanted to do it in a way that respected the individuals who had been under surveillance. Thats a difficult thing to do. Kate scott thank you very much. Thank you. Our coverage of the Church Committee 40 years later continues. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. Real america is looking into the activities 40 years ago of the Church Committee which did a broad examination of the work of the fbi, the cia, and the nsa. Today as we continue, were going to be looking at testimony of two fbi informants before the committee. From december 2nd, 1975, were going to show you a clip of a ku klux klan by the name of thomas rowe. Lets watch. In connection with the freedom writers incident that you mentioned, did you inform the fbi about planned violence prior to that incident . Sir, i gave the fbi information pertaining to the freedom writers approximately three weeks before it occurred. What did you tell them . I stated to them i had been contacted by a Birmingham City detective who in tur
But in particular with regard to underground Natural Gas Storage, theres a very collaborative atmosphere over the course of two decades already worth of information study and sharing, and now with the recommended practices that have been developed, the question now is how do we best set the minimum Safety Standards that could be national in nature and then recognizing that any state could of course go beyond those minimum Safety Standards and advance whatever additional Safety Measures they would want to undertake that are specific to their particular operating atmosphere. We have two more and then well come back here. We have about five minutes left so maybe if i can take all four quickly but you have to be quick. I want to see, are you issuing like a notice of proposed rule making for these underground gas storage standards or is it something else. If it is a notice, are you trying to finalize it later this year also . Hold on. Raise your hands if you had one just so she can find you