Doneford testifying on a military strategy on south asia that includes india pack tan and afghanistan. This hearing is just getting underway. These fundamental issues do need to be discussed openly for the American People and for those who have sacrificed over the last 16 years. Thats the reason we are here today. Mr. Smith. Thank you mr. Chairman. And i think the chairman raised all the questions that need to be raised. This is offense a revery difficult part of the world. We clearly have National Security interests in how afghanistan is governed and pakistan as well. Going back to 2001 when the then Afghanistan Government led by the taliban allowed al qaeda to have safe haven to plot and plan terrorist attacks against the u. S. , including 9 11. Making sure we dont return to toes days is clearly in our National Security interests. What is not as clear is how we do that and what the cost is of our current effort. Afghanistan is a very difficult place to govern. I think one of the thin
General dunford thanks on behalf of those military Service Members and veterans for your dedication and your persistence on behalf of victory with the global war on terrorism. And what we would like each of you to address our rules of engagement during the Previous Administration to introduce that resolution with those existing rules of engagement in the effort in that complex environment glutted the status of the new rules of engagement . Those old rules included rules of engagement and operating principles including the requirement for proximity of the enemy to be engaged. President trump has told me i have the authority to change that so that opens the enemy were ever found it to the nato air support. So first we have had a reduction in the number of deaths as a result of the coalition and operations. We will take every human possible step but the rules themselves permit being gauged forces to bring air support by extending which units are advised that mean they had a convoluted way
President trumps new military strategy in afghanistan. This House Armed Services committee is just two hours. One of the primary concerns i would like each of you to address are the rules of engagement in afghanistan. During the previous administration, i introduced a resolution calling to the revision under operation resident support in afghanistan in an effort to succeed where combatants face. What are the standard rules of engagement for efforts in afghanistan . Includedhe old rules both rules of engagement and operating principles, including a requirement for proximity of the enemy to be engaged by our air forces. President trump has told me that i have the authority to change that, so i removed proximity and opens the itself enemy whenever they are found to nato air support under the nato hold plant. The first thing is, we have unleashed that. We have had a reduction in the number of deaths by innocent people has a result of coalition operations, not taliban. My point is, we will
Authorities there. As for the russian spies, they work for the fsb which is a russian intelligence and Law Enforcement agency. Here is the d. O. J. s mary mccord. The center for Information Security also known as center 18, is also the fbis point of contact in moscow for cyber crime matters. The involvement and direction of fsb officers with Law Enforcement responsibilities makes this conduct that much more egregious. Now, arresting those suspects from the fsb may never happen. There is no extradition treaty with russia and officials have no reason to believe that the kremlin will hand over its spies. Now, those hackers are accused of stealing data from. 500 million yahoo users. You may be one of them. Nbc bay area sharon is live at the offices of the fbi in San Francisco. Sharon, what are officials telling you about that today . Reporter well, kris, i just stepped out of the News Conference minutes ago and the fbi San Francisco led the investigation. They had a lot to add to the Justi
Around us at all. And maybe the heaviest could go neither and south. Okay. Well get the fair share. I think you will notice the wind before the rain. And already out there. We saw flags blowing around. You wait. Okay. Just you wait. And we have a lot of high clouds over us. It will be all right. In fact, kind of mild and muggy. Dare i say, dare, dare, and i didnt feel tropical into the santa clara valley. We get the south breeze to kick in. Fiftys, 60s, 60s and 70s, 60s to upper 70s. The higher clouds continue to be with us and a mild, warm pattern. The peninsula east bay, south bay might get the jump here and the north bay might struggle because of too much cloud cover. Were waiting on the system, the first system to come through a ridge of high pressure. We have had that for awhile. And usually sets the stage for the second system. That is exactly what that system is going to do. This will weaken considerably but its back here. That is digging down. A lot of cold air sent, the jet st