[inaudible conversations] good morning. The committee will come to order. Welcome one and all. On monday september 16 a horrible tragedy unfolded in the navy yard in washington d. C. A very troubled individual took 12 lives in a senseless act of violence. The circumstances that led to this tragedy are multidimensional. The issues raised by this tragedy such as the adequacy of our gun laws and the quality of Mental Health care are outside the purview of this committee. But as we have learned more about aaron alexis a number of my colleagues and i have been asking each other why such a troubled unstable individual possessed a security clearance from the United States government. Why was he originally granted a security parents when he did not disclose his arrest record on his application . Why did the investigator responsible for looking into that arrest rights quote retaliated by deflating someones tires instead of disclosing alexis had shot those tires. We also wonder how such violence
Is there anybody in the right mind who believes that as an unforeseen circumstances with the current market is anyone who believes you would utilize the entire 48 billion in the coming fiscal year . Not that i know of. Not that i know of either. So you have 40 billion sitting in the bank, and because of some stupid federal law, you have been required to access taxpayer money. By the way, are you going with h. R. 1028, acted and unnecessary are opening 2013 . You think its a good idea . You dont have to say. Its complicated. I know you do. That act which stops this stupid bark at get us off the treadmill. If you were in trouble i would be happy to jump on you. Hound you pretty good. Because 48 billion in the bank and you dont think you have to use it, and yet we are having another hearing today. I have a friend who just bought a 200,000 condo. It took 50,000 down. Thats pretty good, right . They had to borrow 150,000. They have an auto loan, credit card, they owe about 175,000 have abou
About her perspective of where we are on cyber, and she work for the Bush Administration and the obama administration, and core author of the comprehensive National Cybersecurity initiative, which many of you are familiar with, and her plea, what she talked about was shes been at this since 2008, like many of us, and shes been kind of taken aback by the lack of an International Strategy that the United States seems to be pursuing, and i think its intriguing to hear what you have to say, what you guys think as a group. You raised the i. T. Issue, sort of like the quiet negotiations that jims been involved with, but what do you, as a group see, as the best mods model for an international set of standards, norms for Convention Heading towards as part of the information sharing. If youre a fortune 25, youre acting all over the world under a range of information sharing issues, not just the United States. Curious to see what the brain power on the panel thinks. I hope you look at the cyber
National captioning institute] committee. Performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] the circumstances that led to this tragedy are multidimensional. Many issues raised by the tragedy such as the accuracy of our gun laws and the quality of our Mental Health care are outside the purview of this committee. As we have learned more about aaron alexis, a number of my colleagues and i have been asking each other why a troubled unstable individual possessed a security clearance from the United States government. Why was he originally granted a security clearance when he did not disclose his arrest record on his application . Why did the investigator responsible for looking into that arrest write up that alexis had, quote, retaliated by deflating someones tires instead of disclosing that alexis had shot those tires . We also wonder how such violence could have taken place in the navy yard which is more secure than just about any workpla
And we will start with general alexander, would there be any arm sources and methods of i am notchange . Familiar with this. Not that i know of. Least, the way you have described it, giving access to the committee on certain things, it is our intent, any time we see something significant like that, to report it to the committee. It seems to me they have a different window a better window on what is going on, and anything they see as an issue should be shared with us. So if there need to be changes made, we could do that. Mr. Cole . Congressman, think the real issue comes down to what is in the application, what is in order, what is in the filing in the fisa court, and that may implicate sources and methods, and the nature of that disclosure is going to be unique to each different document that we are talking about. Ways for us to keep them classified, not allowed them to be public from the things of that nature, we are the Intelligence Committee. I understand that. Number of fisa a ord