I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.
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The government investigations into the extra Sensory Perception and psychokinesis and surprise till vanish. Please help me welcome Annie Jacobsen to politics and prose. [applause] politics and prose, thank you for having me. It is always wonderful to be here. Thank you everybody for coming. I am here tonight to talk to you about surprise, kill, vanish and its about the cia paramilitary capacity, which is something that many people are not even aware exist. Im often asked how to get the idea from ibooks and this one began for me ten years ago in 2009 so i had a source visiting me at my house. On the other side of said u. S. Department of state. And my source has nothing to do diplomacy. He is weapons trained so i had an idea while he couldnt say what he was doing in the middle east, it was clear to me that it was some kind of an intelligent organization. They said listen, if its okay with your mom and dad i will show you a weapon. Now i know he is a safety instructor, so i said that was
Surprise, killed, vanish. Good evening on behalf of staff and before we begin please silence your cell phones you dont want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of a talk but doing q a please ask your question into the microphone books are available fore purchase at the registers to be the investigative journalist from area 51 and that uncensored history of darpa. And that act espnti psychokinesis also the paramilitary operators. That has a page turning narrative on the covert actions abroad. With a well sourced and well paid full of surprises. Please help me to welcome Annie Jacobson to politics and prose at the wharf. [applause] how is my sound . First of all thank you for having me. And thank you for coming i am here to talk about surprise, kill, vanish about the military capacity which is something that many people are not even aware it exists. So how i get ideas for our my books this began in 2009 so i had a source visiting me in my house. He was on his way back from t