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The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. Yet when the ic and dod do not integrate effectively, we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. Were here today because the dod and ic have failed to adequately respond to the concer
Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough than
And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough thank you, dr. Coles. Thank you all for being here and for inviting me. So extend the last speaker eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, id like to with that. That
But decided this morning, without ted cruz, there was no path forward for him in the republican race either. His concession speech ended a few moments ago. It was mostly thank you to his staff and to the people he met long the way. But he did make a bleak reference to the race and what kind of government he would like to see. Take a listen to this. I can tell you that Economic Growth can be achieved by Public Officials if they just do their job. But they have to ignore polls. They cant focus on focus groups and they have to overcome the fear of re election or criticism. Reporter now, some tea leave reading there. But what you dont hear there or any other point in the speech, was any mention of donald trump, now the partys presumptive nominee. It will be interesting to see how kasich and the rest of party react to trump Going Forward. Donald trump said he would be interested in kasich as a possible v. P. You can expect to hear a lot of these names get floated over the next few weeks as