So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is
So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is
Consumer financial Protection Bureau. This portion is about an hour and 15 minutes. Okay. Well call the hearing back to order. Well be respectful of the directors time here. We do have a number of members that have returned. So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington, mr. Heck, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite sometime ago about what the best thing that could conceively happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announcements. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases,
Internal history they had written of the u2 spy plane program, written back in the 1970s if i recall correctly. One of the findings was they had gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with then classified u2 flights and discovered there was an extremely high correlation. [laughter] this is actually true. A lot of the ufos that people were seeing was the sun glinting off u2s but could not the explained at the time. It is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and by the turnout today. Thank you so much to the Truman Library is to do. Today, we will talk about intelligence. American intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the cia, and the cia is an agency whose creation truman oversaw, but it has dominated history to the point where you will hear people who should know better say nothing important happened in american intelligence prior to the cia or its immediate predecessor. This is actually drivel, of course, and nothing many of the mai
Explore the history of espionage during world war i, focusing on four american agencies that participated in spying. Including the u. S. Army. Public library and Truman Library institute cohosted this hourlong event. Thank you for the warm introduction and warm welcome. I was not planning on talking about ufos. When the topic comes up, its irresistible. Recently let me say that in the 1990s the cia declassified a u2 Spy Plane Program written back in the 1970s, if i recall correctly. Thatf the findings was they had carefully gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with classified u2 flights and discovered an extremely high correlation. This is true. A lot of these that they had seen where the sun glinting in a way that cannot be discussed at the time. All right. Down to business, it is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and turnout today. Much so much. Lets talk about intelligence. Intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the creationge