Erm its of providing capabilities. Is that something you can share with us . I think what can share is we have a good and close and productive information sharing relationship with qatar. And obviously as secretary kerry said, it wont be the only one with eyes on the individuals. I think its probably best to leave it at that. Can you give us your indication or feelings about the capabilities of our government to carry out the obligation committed to . Its my understanding they have the capacity to do this. That we have a high degree of confidence in their capacity. And we also assess they have the will to do this. They gave the president personally his assurances and personal commitment to upholding the agreement, so we are cautiously optimistic that there is the ability to do this. Of course, i think it wouldnt be an effective way to enter into it with blind faith. Well be working constantly to verify and assess from our standpoint. What is your view in the aftermath of the swap as to
Preparing capabilities for terrorism, operational coordination, Situational Awareness we would consider that an allowable expense. Are you aware of local Police Department that is purchasing an mrap with their own funds . Im not and nt i couldnt answer that question. The local Police Department buys it. I was around here but according to my briefing here, the First Program was authorized in the Defense Authorization bill. Primarily about the drug wars. Is that correct . Thats correct. What were local Police Departments missing that they needed to be funded or given from the Defense Department to combat the war on drugs. Let me be clear. We do this because were asked to do this. I understand. What what equipment were Police Departments were outgunned by drug gangs so they were looking for protection and fire power. This was expanded in 1997. My note says based on lobbying from Police Organizations. I cant answer why the authorization was expanded. At the time it was for counterterrorism
Interpretation would have serious effects on Small Businesses and other legitimate business conductsuch as routine maintenance and disposal of inventer to. Shy of of offer an opportunity for response . The government has come in for a fair amount of teasing for this case, and so don you know, thats one side of the story. [laughter] heres the other side of the story. That the fisherman is a commercial fisherman. Out in the gulf of mexico and he was visited by a state inspector, and the stay inpicket juror looked at his load of fish and said, gees you got a bunch of group here below the limit that you are allowed to catch, and so i am going to instruct you to take house undersized grouper aside in the box and tape up the box and then when you come back to shore you have to turn it in and well have a proceeding whether you are obi organize vie laying the law lamp the commercial fisherman did after the state inspector left was to instruct one of his employees to take that crate of fish and
Perhaps saying the first thing that we would fund before we begin to Fund Anything else, not a federal mandate but first on your list must be body cams . Has that been discussed at doj or Homeland Security that these officers using this equipment that the best way to check whether or not it is being used appropriately is for every officer to wear a camera . Senator, the office of Justice Programs funs are available for Law Enforcement agencies to use to purchase body cameras and we see value in it. Our National Institute of justice is studying the effectiveness of body cameras and appropriate use of body cameras. But they can buy them now . Yes, maam. It wouldnt be hard if we decided before you get anything else we are going to insist you use our money for body cams before you buy other things like full blown battle gear or camouflage uniforms or grenade launchers. The money is formula money and we do not control how state and local jurisdictions use the money. Video cameras are on the
No one is the lady in the middle there and ive got one how about the end here on the left side. We have two on the left side. Sorry about that. I think that is all well be able to do between now and 3 20. Lets go ahead with the question from over here. Okay. Please. Do i need to standup . Im a student in Global Health law so im taking this class. I would like to for inside out approach to the treatment of this epidemic. Im just wondering why, if we are not already doing it, we are not going from the already existing experiences we have with hiv and that we have had in africa. I watched a clip yesterday on bbc circulating in the social media about how the medical staff were recapturing a patient that had escaped from the facility and it seems to me that the approach needs to be implemented because you could see that the patient didnt understand what they had to be inside the facility and if people dont understand it, they dont realize how much of a danger they are to the community and b