very serious statements. this is a very serious subject. there are thousands if not millions of lives at risk. the stability of the world, really. how responsible is it for the president or what s the strategy for him to come out and be as bombastic as we are hearing him be? his strategy pretty clearly is to raise the level of rhetoric to put pressure on north korea and china. he s doing this on purpose. there may be an emotional component. let me add this is a really serious time. north korea was considered one of the crazy yegs wildest places in the world. they now have an icp and virtually r one feels they re going to be able to hit the united states in two years time, one years time. who knows. so the rhetoric is going up. is this a wise thing to do? it s too soon to tell, but we are really in a new ground here. it s a very dangerous environment. this is you know, i have covered this man for a long
but third, remember, the state department and the u.s. government is a giant bureaucracy, and it wouldn t work if every ambassador was e-mailing the secretary every day. instead what you have is an interagency policy process. it starts with, i m going to use a lot of acronyms here, the icp, the interagency policy committee. for me, that was russia. then the deputy s committee, the principal s committee. and you interact with your colleagues to formulate policy and deal with issues, including diplomatic security issues, which were an issue for me as ambassador out in moscow. that s a chain of command, if you will, that then goes up to the secretary, up to the president ultimately for them to make decisions. that s the way the system works. maybe it should be changed. but then we should have a debate about the system of communication in the u.s. government, because i m sure it worked this way when i was in government for five years, and i know it probably worked the same
appointed by the president of the united states. so you also have a channel to the president and to the national security staff. but third, remember, the state department and the u.s. government is a giant bureaucracy, and it wouldn t work if every ambassador was e-mailing the secretary every day. instead what you have is an interagency policy process. it starts with, i m going to use a lot of acronyms here, the icp, the interagency policy committee. for me, that was russia. then the deputy s committee, the principal s committee. and you interact with your colleagues to formulate policy and deal with issues, including diplomatic security issues, which were an issue for me as ambassador out in moscow. that s a chain of command, if you will, that then goes up to the secretary, up to the president ultimately for them to make decisions. that s the way the system works. maybe it should be changed. but then we should have a debate about the system of
as a direct result of inn u.n. sta indiana state police initiative this investigation would not have progressed to where it is today. i m grateful for that and, again, just echoing the superintendent s words, the partnership we re able to bring to investigations like this between us, icp and indianapolis metropolitan police department is equalled by none. as with all child pornography case, the fbis investigates these matters with a sense of urgency due to the extreme you will haver in tonight the victim involved, our children. this case demonstrates our commitment to investigate those who poe poe says and distribute child pornography. the fbi looks forward to continuing its work on such matters with the united states attorneys office, indianapolis metropolitan police department and indiana state police and we look forward to continuing on with these cases in that type of
when someone is exposed to poison, it goes through the body and is usually excreted. but it also gets deposited in the hair root at the time of the exposure. when the hair grows out, the shaft becomes a historic record of when the exposure took place. when phil s hair grew longer, a strand was sent for an icp test which tests for 22 different metal components at the same time. the hair was cut into quarter inch pieces and marked and mixed with water and boiled for seven hours. this cocktail was then put through the icp. the test results were startling. when he was in the hospital, his hair showed no exposure to poison. prior to that when phil was