Why do you think a lot of those recommendations were ignored . I think the service itself has noted it has not always done what it needed to do in terms of following through on recommendations. The hope is coming out of this report, that there will be a real opportunity to focus on these specific recommendations and follow through with tracking to make sure actually get implement it. If there is a real process, and i am sure this committee will have a role in it and others will have a role in it to ask of the service, and where is that going, and i also assume that this at future president s will hold them accountable as well. The last question, how do you define that success if you have implemented recommendations properly . From our perspective the kind of cultural change in leadership change weve talked about, that really defines the commission paired we talked a little bit in the report say it has been five years that the service submitted to congress looks about the same with litt
The tea as a is a new creation of that but obviously there was a coast guard before that. The secret service and interaction with the coast guard and the coast guard provided, and the department of Homeland Security. My sense is the cooperation is enhanced with in the same agency. I would like to add the panels conclusion is we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform. For those issues we didnt think moving from one agency to another would address any of the issues we identified and so while we understand that was a serious debate, the focus needed to be solving the problems we had. If i could say one interesting piece on treasury was being an older guy, i remember well a lot of discussions treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys dont understand the Enforcement Mission well, and wherever we are you think it is somewhere else. I believe it was correct to say at that point of the director of the secret service reported u. N. Assistant secretary or undersecr
Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that theres some problems with leadership resources. Were also entering a period where theres going to be additional demand. My background is in hr and i know that when you start hiring and training, there is a gap in your resources. So we have to be realistic about that. For us to get to where we need to be, were going to have to pull resources that we already have. Do you agree with that . I think thats right. One of the concerns that the panel had, and again, pointing to the chart that the chairman put
That question. You dont have a personal my sense is that the service has the cooperation has been enhanced by being within the same agency. I guess id like to add that i think the panels conclusion was, we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform at the service. For those issues, we didnt think moving them from one agency to another would address really any of the issues that we identified. And so while we understand that that was a serious debate, we thought that the focus really needed to be on solving the problems that we found. If i could say one more thing. I think one interesting piece on treasury was that, being an older guy, i remember well a lot of the discussion back in those days from within the service about, you know, gosh, treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys, they really dont understand the Enforcement Mission well. So over time, youve had complaints about, you know, wherever they are, people are going to think its better somewhere else.
From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the existing concerns, then my concern is that were going to see additional gaps. And thats my concern right now. And i wanted to be clear that in the proposal, that we dont come back later and say, we still dont have the resources to do the job, knowing that all these additional things and the gap is going to be added. As an answer to that question, the proposal we made in terms of specific numbers was what we thought would address an immediate need. It was not intended to estimate how much the 201