Afghanistan, you hit the kabul crud in winter. I will try to speak through that today. It is an honor to be here at csis. In many ways it is a bit of a homecoming. I see old friends of mine. I worked for over 15 years for the chairman of the csis board of trustees. He has been a tireless leader since 2000. In many ways, those 15 years that i spent help prepare me for my current job. I saw firsthand what congressional oversight can do to improve policies of the United States government. This was later reinforced when i had a great opportunity to work with who i think many people have viewed as the father of oversight. From both of them, also learned the Important Role of an independent and aggressive Inspector General. The statue in 1978 was to treat Inspector General who told the truth to power. Both of those men fully understood the role and importance of the Inspector General and improving the operations of the United States government. Those men have brought me to where i am today.
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Since russia took over crimea and masked gunman with a familiar look. Taking over Police Stations in Eastern Ukraine city of slide. Dont ignore and gives ultimatum moscow denies once again that direction. Were all russians one of the gunmen told the Reuters News Agency adding that borders are artificial. Pro russian separatists in control of buildings elsewhere. Theres even a new hotspot at least a hundred of them attacking the Police Headquarters of the city of puerto rico. Once again European Union scrambling. When i scheduled a meeting in luxembourg this monday eu Foreign Ministers from the focus might be on next tuesdays talks in geneva with russia and ukraine. Instead they came out of the meeting by themselves considering stepped up sanctions after cranny of his moscow really making a move on Eastern Ukraine. What should the west do. Today in the halls and get to be mccain escalation in Eastern Ukraine. This is a former advisor to german chancellor of mcallen an ex german ambassad
Julia loved her time in the white house. She said in their her memoirs it was like a bright and beautiful terrain. The most wonderful time of my life, so i think they get you some idea of how much she enjoyed eating first lady and how she felt that her husband had finally achieved the recognition he deserved. See the federal government appropriated almost 90 billion to rebuild afghanistan. Monday special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, john sopko delivered a report on you for spending so far show in the u. S. Government spent over 7 million on a largely unused building. His remarks from the center for strategic and International Studies in washington d. C. Rfid the minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Thanks for coming today. My name name is robert laman and director of the program in crisis conflict and cooperation here at csis. Welcome. It is my pleasure today to be hosting john sopko who is the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction kn
The opportunity to talk a little bit about what we have been doing on the Energy Committee for the past year in an effort to really focus on where we have been with Energy Policy and really helping to move forward in a way that is not the same old same old, but really real imagining and refocusing where we should be has been an important opportunity for us to really put some considered thought into the proposal. What you have in front of you is better than airplane reading. There are some suggestions in this energy 2020 document that people will look at and they will argue and they will say that is one persons view. That is true, that is true. But while we are trying to do is not give you a legislative package starting with initiatives that we are going to kind of clicked off as we move forward. This is really designed to be a discussion blueprint. We want to try to change the conversation. One of the reasons we have to think about changing the conversation is because the Energy Paradi