Why do you think a lot of those recommendations were ignored . I think the service itself has noted it has not always done what it needed to do in terms of following through on recommendations. The hope is coming out of this report, that there will be a real opportunity to focus on these specific recommendations and follow through with tracking to make sure actually get implement it. If there is a real process, and i am sure this committee will have a role in it and others will have a role in it to ask of the service, and where is that going, and i also assume that this at future president s will hold them accountable as well. The last question, how do you define that success if you have implemented recommendations properly . From our perspective the kind of cultural change in leadership change weve talked about, that really defines the commission paired we talked a little bit in the report say it has been five years that the service submitted to congress looks about the same with litt
Did you look at that and what sort of assessment did you give that . We did, and our views on that are that theres certainly some benefits to be gained from the investigative mission, to some extent. Now, theres a continuum in those investigative activities. To the extent for example, that cyber investigations involve the safety of the first family, of the president , thats probably going to be part of the core mission of the secret service. To the extent that cyber involves looking at whether a movie studio has been act or a Health Insurance company or a multinational retail type into the, that might be further afield in other parts of the federal government that are involved in cyber activities might be better positioned to handle the lead on them. Again, all through the core prism of what the main mission of the secret service is. We had a couple months to look at this. We dont purport to have the final answers but we think the guidepost on this will be whats the core mission of the
With the black Emergency Managers association. I think she summed it up in terms of disaster management, in terms of the Emergency Management network. Guinea liberia sierra leone for the west african nations that needs to be established. I think your ims system was outstanding, setting that up, the coordination with stakeholders involved and thats going to be a key to rebuilding your Health Care Structures especially from the Community Level level. I want to commend you for all the work youve done. One other thing with dr. Lacy that he mentioned with the response to that and usually response worldwide is how are volunteers getting reimbursed and paid . I think youre leading towards that. I met with him at georgetown and we discussed that. I didnt talk to you yesterday at the world bank but you mentioned that those plans you have in place, youre at that stage to build the Liberian National Emergency Management system or agency. Thats all i want to say. Thank you. Why dont we come back t
Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that theres some problems with leadership resources. Were also entering a period where theres going to be additional demand. My background is in hr and i know that when you start hiring and training, there is a gap in your resources. So we have to be realistic about that. For us to get to where we need to be, were going to have to pull resources that we already have. Do you agree with that . I think thats right. One of the concerns that the panel had, and again, pointing to the chart that the chairman put
From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the existing concerns, then my concern is that were going to see additional gaps. And thats my concern right now. And i wanted to be clear that in the proposal, that we dont come back later and say, we still dont have the resources to do the job, knowing that all these additional things and the gap is going to be added. As an answer to that question, the proposal we made in terms of specific numbers was what we thought would address an immediate need. It was not intended to estimate how much the 201