So ordered. I ask unanimous consent that representatives join the hearing to ask questions of the witnesses. Hearing no objection there, so ordered. Without objection, the chair may also declare a recess subject to the call of the chair. As described in the notice of statements, documents or motions must be submitted to the repository at hnrc email. House. Gov. Members can be muted by staff only. Finally members or witnesses experiencing technical difficulties should let staff know immediately. [ inaudible ]. The Interiors Office issued a report about the policies that governor the use in the doi. They issued a draft policy. The Leadership Conference for civil and human rights and dozens of other organizations came together in 2015 to release basic civil rights principles. They turned those principles into eight criteria from which to evaluate policies. We measured the Department Interim policy against the criteria. The draft policy only fully met one of the eight criteria. Thats an 88
Operations in this se this despite em. Us saying that it was ready to accept as these 5 deal of the intense bombardment to very, very intense bombardment. Error strikes, rockets, artillery, shell, a tank shelling drones off firing at us. Never in my life. I am 69 years old. Have i ever seen bombardment like this . And i have witnessed several wars. I have never seen a war like this one on highway, and i really wanted to leave to evacuate, but i couldnt. The reason was that i found this injured young man. We rescued him, but the whole area is completely and utterly destroy. As i said, it had accepted as these 5 deal just hours before israel randolph. Its a tax on rasa virtual. Wow, patterson isnt garza thought the whole might be over . But the celebrations were brief, as israel said, the agreement did not meet its requirements. The deputy head of the mice and gaza honey. The highest that the group had received assurances from mediators about the potential deal was about. The mediations
Undermines to some extent our credibility when we seek to advance human rights. They feel like there has been too much in the way of like it surveillance, that perhaps shouldve been more targeted or more carefully focus on people who are actually suspects . Well, first of all youre making some assumptions that are not fully qualified anymore to comment on. I guess i probably wouldnt any weight even if i knew what the Current Situation was. But i think you should assume, i think its fair to assume that we have collection priorities. We know what we want to collect against. These are targets where we think some threat may emanate. You will quickly say, what about Angela Merkel . My answer to you on that would be it seems to me that anytime somebody in the Intelligence Community is thinking about collecting against a friendly foreign leader, that kind of activity or proposed activity needs to be reviewed by people at a high political level and its not clear to me that that was done in the
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I think there are a lot of people who represent the same thing. Im very much hoping that one of those people come along soon and, you know, who understands the constitution, who understands freedom, what true freedom is all about, who understands how to empower people, who understands economics and the importance of taking the heavy foot of government off the neck of business and industry, and who understands that this is, in fact, a judeochristian nation with real values. [applause] political pundits have defined you as a conservative, particularly following the prayer breakfast. How would you define yourself, politically . That easy. I consider myself logical. [laughter] you know, as far as im concerned, common sense should be in both parties. Thats why its called common sense. So you know, you look at something that has been politicized, you know, like benghazi. Now, whats the big issue there . A big issue as far as im concerned is that we are telling our troops that if you get into