Britains Prime Minister David Cameron is on a surprise visit to afghanistan in the past hour he met the new afghan president at the president ial palace in kabul. Cameron is also due to visit british troops later. Lets go live to Jennifer Glasse who in kabul live for us. They have held a press conference not long ago. What have they said . Reporter thats right. David cameron on his 13th visit here to afghanistan mentioning that there is still there is only one British Force troop base left here. He will visit those troops later today. In three months all of the british combat forces will be leaving afghanistan, he says just because the combat force are leaving afghanistan that doesnt mean that britain wont support afghanistan. In the president conference he outlined some of britains accomplishments here. We have been very clear about what we have been trying to achieve in afghanistan. And that is to build an afghanistan that is capable of looking after its own security without the need
Former congressman bob ney. In a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert, manipulative, cunning, stealth vicious coldhearted instrument of evil that karl rove and the Bush Administration had. What is pretty alice . Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin in particular and that basically went away as i explain in the book. But alice fisher had never particularly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the Criminal Division 2001 to 2003. Went over to work for chertoff. An extreme political optrative and in the bushcheney campaign i dont want to call her a political hack but ill say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzales was attorney general for the United States. Ran afoul of senator levin and the reason it did is because he said a, she was close to tom delays defense team. She had dealings with his defense team. B, she didnt have a lot of experience trying cases, was g
Standards. In setting minimum standards, we need to be careful not to hamstring our states and federal regulatorss ability to adapt and strengthen protections for consumers. Otherwise, well limit regulatorss ability to keep up with Technology Change and reserve a private right of action for consumers and for Financial Institutions to ensure that affected entities and breach victims have further recourse. Further, consumers must be consistently provided with clear disclosures of the rights and remedies available to them so they are aware of the various ways in which they can protect themselves from Identity Theft and fraud and other cyber crimes. Mr. Chairman efforts to guard against Cyber Threats are critically important and shouldnt deval of into the same partisan fault lines seen on far too many other issues before this committee such as the basis attacks on watchdogs like the cfpd and blocking efforts to reauthorize the charter of the import export bank that expires in 22 legislativ
Regulatorss ability to adapt and strengthen protections for consumers. Otherwise, well limit regulatorss ability to keep up with Technology Change and reserve a private right of action for consumers and for Financial Institutions to ensure that affected entities and breach victims have further recourse. Further, consumers must be consistently provided with clear disclosures of the rights and remedies available to them so they are aware of the various ways in which they can protect themselves from Identity Theft and fraud and other cyber crimes. Mr. Chairman efforts to guard against Cyber Threats are critically important and shouldnt deval of into the same partisan fault lines seen on far too many other issues before this committee such as the basis attacks on watchdogs like the cfpd and blocking efforts to reauthorize the charter of the import export bank that expires in 22 legislative days. With that, i look forward to hearing from the witnesses today, and i yield back the balance of
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