Think i would have voted for tpa. But its a fair point. I think its unfair to say the critics were entirely protectionist or unfriendly to free trade because, of course, its a funny kind of free trade deal. Im old enough to remember that free trade deals were simple everyone got tariffs and they were eight pages long and they were free trade deals and now they are 500 pages and i dont know if its a free trade deal. Its a new version of managed trade and one can make a responsible argument perhaps that its not clear on net its actually freeing up that much trade with all these countries, but i guess that will be a debate you all will have in congress. Theres more transparency requirements in this tpa than in any previous tpa vote in congress. Its required to be public for 60 days so that the American Public has an opportunity to weigh in so that different stakeholders can share their views and i think youll have a robust discussion on whatever the final tpp is presented before the Ameri
In your view, does the Russian Administration from putin down genuinely believe in an analytical way they can somehow manage the situation whereby assad hate ad across syria can somehow win this war . Or do you think that actually they share the analysis the british government, american government, french government until assad is gone, well never defeat isis and the rest is just theater. Its about saving face. Its about not setting precedent that people can be removed by external factors. Deep down, is there an actual acceptance he really does have to go for this war to be over and beat isil or do they truly believe they can engineer a South Vietnam style victory in syria . Who wants to address this first . I can take a stab at it first. Yeah. Its hard to tell. I think that the conversation thats ive had with those around russian circles indicates to me that the putin government now sees assad as the basis for a whole country solution. Now, that is the rhetorical position. Primarily i
Spend those fees on and if you use fees to expand dramatically the number of refugees from syria or other places in the middle east, that does tend to drain the money, does it not, ms. Strike, that you would otherwise have for other needs of your agency . Yes, sir. In order to reprioritize fee funding to the Refugee Funding Program in fy 16 that will come out of other uscis priorities. Follow up on this question, mr. Bartlett, if we go to 100,000, are you aware of how many of those over the 75,000 this year, thats 25,000 more, how many of those would be coming from the syrian from syria and or the region . We dont have a projection. What it would look like when we bring 100,000 in. What i can tell you is that we traditionally respond to the humanitarian crisis of the time. And so in the last five years, we have resettled a number of burmese, bhutanese, somalis, iraqis, some of those who worked for us, now increasingly syrians and Congress Goal lease and we have had a very big problem b
Well, it didnt affect a National Security entity but it did cause damage to a company. In that case and this is an important illustration of when we could attribute. Very clearly there was agreement across the Intelligence Community to attribute that attack to the north koreans, and we did sanction them. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for your service and for joining us here today. And director clapper, before i start on ill begin to focus on cyberpolicy, i think were all very concerned about the allegations that leadership at Central Command deliberately distorted the assessments of Intelligence Officers related to the fight against isil. And i understand that theres an ongoing investigation, and im going to wait for the results of that investigation. But i want to say that as a member of both this committee and the intelligence committee, i want to in the strongest terms possible impress upon you the importance for all of us to re
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