The Potomac Institute brought together former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the growing strength of the terrorist group isis. Groupsmine the evolution and discuss why the International Community did not detect them earlier. You can see the discussion today at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now, New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg on afghanistan. He was expelled from kabul recently after the publication of his story on the formation of an interim government. The two candidates now vying to be providence president s say they welcome the reporter back to the country. This is 50 minutes. I am the president of the National Press club and host for todays newsmakers news conference. First, as we always do, here are the guidelines. After this biggest presentation, open the floor for q a. When you are recognized, please identified yourself and your organization before asking your question. No speeches please. Just a question. Our guest today is Matthew Rosenberg who was e
You to be lulled into supporting, gutting this while we pay 614 billion in corporate welfare. I do have a question for you, ms. Reynolds, about the mind set of the individuals. Dont you think we have to change the mind set of the community too . An example i come up with. If you run into a client, for example, who found themselves in the county jail because they had a bar fight and when they come out, dont we have to get the Business Community to hire people who might have a public record, for example . We in fort worth have been very fortunate to work with the Business Community. We have developed a living wage tool kit at our organization. Everybody we Catholic Charities fort worth makes a living wage. Several of our local businesses have made a choice. Ok. I dont have 10 minutes like the chairman did. Its not changing the individual minds. The community has to embrace it too. Otherwise you have permanent unemployment. Im so happy that people get Educational Opportunity through your
One has the privilege of having an attorneys help if he can pay , or if he is fortunate enough to find a willing volunteer. This is true, even though all respondents have the burden of proof. That is the legal obligation to prove they are able to remain in the United States or qualify for benefits under complicated immigration laws. The last fiscal year, only 40 were unrepresented, a figure that froze to 85 if only detained dockets are considered. As you look around our courtrooms, you see the Immigration Judges are doing so many things that we look like the guy behind the curtain in the wizard of oz. Instead of a court reporter, judges and Immigration Courts operate Digital Audio recorders to create the formal record. Most of us do not have bailiffs or clerks to maintain security, and we mark and archive the evidence we receive by ourselves. Last year 83 of the cases we heard require the use of a Foreign Language interpreter. And one of more than 200 exceed different languages. Even m
Says, i dont know who that is. So i published this in the daily beast that the foreign minister doesnt know one of irans most famous Political Prisoners. And it got picked up from there. Thousands wrote him on facebook a lot of pressure they released him on furlough for about a week. And then when the media pressure died down he was put right back into prison. 15, k interesting was my 20 minute debate confrontation with the u. N. Ambassador at the time when i approached him about the same issues, i said why is it that the foreign minister gets to post on facebook when its banned in iran and he said, word for word, are the facebook and twitter band in iran . I assured him that they were. And i list add whole bunch of Political Prisoners. And i said when will they be free . And he says i dont know who that is. Then i sad have you heard about this one . And he said shes the only one ive heard of because her name is in the media. I think hes lying about the others but its a testament to th
They fail to identify shortfalls in resources and take action to obtain the Additional Resources they have needed. And they fail to set the standards for honesty and integrity and quash the culture of self protection and retaliation. As you would expect, weve made a number of leadership changes in the field and at the Central Office. To help address our immediate concerns, we brought in former v. A. Undersecretary for health, dr. Jonathan perlin, for a short tour duty as senior advisor. And we brought in v. A. General counsel lee bradley to help sort through v. A. s responsibility in taking action against those accused of god wrongdoing or managerial negligence. Since may 1, 2014, we have taken over 30 personnel actions, and investigations are ongoing. Two members of the Senior Executive service have resigned or retired. Three members of the Senior Executive service have been placed on administrative leave pending the results of investigations. Over two dozen Health Care Professionals