Information on the contest, the three branches and now. Today the Defense Department honored michigan senator carl levin and buck mckeon with a military parade. Theyre the chairman of the senate and House Armed Services committees, and both are retiring from congress this year. Defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief chairman Martin Dempsey spoke about the legislative careers of the two chairman. This is just under an hour. Please be seated. Block [inaudible conversations] the department of defense medal for distinguished Public Service is awarded to the honorable carl levin for distinguished Public Service as plane of the United States senate from january 1979 to january 2015, and as chairman and Ranking Member of the senate Armed Services committee from january 1997 to january 2015. Senator levin has consistently been leading the a leading proponent for the Strong National defense, an advocate for Service Members, veterans and their families. That spans from the cold war to the
Should have access to my do you think that he supports what croatias believes that they are a defacto Law Enforcement organization . You know, i do not want to put words in the ministers mouth, but the end result is that the status quo continues. I can only infer that the administrator agrees with that. To the extent that this committee in the staff can be of assistance to address this impact. Thank you for the work did you do. I yield back, mr. Chairman. Think you, mr. Chairman. Congress and the American People established all of these agencies. Existed not appear at a desk and one day of responsibility. Congress created these agencies and as the overseer responsibilities. The office of Inspector General brings transparency to the american taxpayer. With that. Owed as soon as everything. Requiring all these pages to be turned over. We discussed it as an is see. I have an issue with that. Any combination. A step up and say we dont choose to get it. I dont like it when i read reports of
That refers to the United States, united kingdom, and others. To say that they were together is a massive understatement. They are joined in intelligence in a way that profoundly affect their approach to National Security. They agree not to spy on each other. They integrate and align the Foreign Policy basically. This alignment exceeds any popular understanding. You can say all that, but until you see it on you do not understand how closely they are linked. I was once at a download station which is a facility from which information from the satellites are made available under sent on to the people to receive it. About 15 people, most of the military, came onto the new shift. I noticed the new guy in there lining up and giving everyone orders. Clearly not an american. He was an aussie. I watched them. I could tell by his uniform that he is a major in the Australian Air force. I watched him operate. He lined them up. Do this and do that. One thing or another. I asked somebody, what does
Situation you just described. When that is happening on the streets of an american city, even along the border, that is a local Police Matter where they have a responsibility to protect the public from harm and to address that immediate threat. We work closely with them to prevent that from happening in the first place through the relationships we have not only throught the fbis work but also the state department. We have reached the hour that we have put aside for this. It has been a tremendous conversation. I would like to turn it back over to greg. I think i will stand around for a bit. If you have questions. I am bound to say the big issues we have talked about today are wonderful randlike issues. Data and analysis help. Two as i see it technology and privacy. Google knows a lot more about you and me than the federal government does. Do we care about that if their only point is to make sure they know before we do what i want to buy . The other question is more complicated. Technolo
Wisconsin, illinois, indiana university, all the president s of those universities will be joining us here on washington journal. Up, the Brookings Institution is holding a Panel Discussion on the independence vote in scotland. I believe september 15 is when the vote will be held. All indications show that the vote is close. Two administrators from the university of edinburgh there. It is just Getting Started now. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] i want to welcome you to one of our first event in our revamped brookings conference space. I am thrilled that the microphone works. It seems fitting to inaugurate our new facility with the big question of certainly next week, the prevent potential revamping of the United Kingdom. If the referendum moves to a yes vote, the renovation will be an overhaul to a system that we have known for 300 years, and many of us here on the panel are a product of. Welcome toghted