The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. Yet when the ic and dod do not integrate effectively, we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. Were here today because the dod and ic have failed to adequately respond to the concer
It was left out of the platform in 2012. There was a big campaign with it. They tried to get the people to vote for it. It took three votes. All of them were saying no, no, no. Finally, the chair said, i say it was yes. It was an oral vote. I dont have too much time. I am not going to go through all the members. There were polls. When 60 members of congress skipped the speech of the israeli prime minister, that was sanctions israel. It was because of bds that it made it possible, because there were movements out there. The policy again has not shifted but the political shifts press forward the work of those movements that have made these broader shifts possible. Why now . Because the israeli violations are more violent, more visible, partly because of social media. More people are aware. The political situation of the world is different. Young people, not only young jews, young palestinians, young people in general are not accepting the socalled conventional wisdom that led to single m
It was left out of the platform in 2012. There was a big campaign with it. They tried to get the people to vote for it. It took three votes. All of them were saying no, no, no. Finally, the chair said, i say it was yes. It was an oral vote. I dont have too much time. I am not going to go through all the members. There were polls. When 60 members of congress skipped the speech of the israeli prime minister, that was sanctions israel. It was because of bds that it made it possible, because there were movements out there. The policy again has not shifted but the political shifts press forward the work of those movements that have made these broader shifts possible. Why now . Because the israeli violations are more violent, more visible, partly because of social media. More people are aware. The political situation of the world is different. Young people, not only young jews, young palestinians, young people in general are not accepting the socalled conventional wisdom that led to single m
Some of his points about how important it is going to be moving forward i want to really hold that up because you know, palestine and my view will continue to be a central issue, but we are going to see so many communities under direct attack and what has happened with the Real Movement for a cognitive real organizing between communities will demand this kind of support, this kind of standing up for the most vulnerable among us. And finally common you know, eds is a tactic i shifted the way folks here are active on the issue of palestine. So i will talk a little bit more about bds specifically in the u. S. Its global and theres a lot going on all over the world. We know that boycott are not a new tactic necessarily. Palestinians have used it before and during the british mandate during the first thing to fontana, et cetera. The bds movement which dates to 2005 in the calls from over 170 Palestinian Civil Society organizations to the International Community has created an a new level of
Or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90 of its victims in some past outbreaks. Since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. This time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55 , ranging 74 in guinea 242 in sierra leone. Ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and Capita Health expending by effective governments. There is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the United States. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. A person who had traveled from west africa Begin Manifesting symptoms including a high fever. He was put in isolation. Thankfully it was not ebola and the patient has