John you appropriately note in your Opening Statement this hearing takes place against the of a heinous act of violence perpetrated by a troubled and evil person. Been assistingas conduct and has been provided a great deal of information on the status of the investigation. I know that your team, along with the Intelligence Community partners are also working to determine if the killer had any connections to a Foreign Terrorist Group like isil. Let me thank your officers for what they do and for the long hours that they are likely putting in to understand this tragedy while also focusing on a wide range of threats facing our nation. Director, i know your organization stands understands the threat posed by isil and theres been much public discussion about progress, the u. S. Led coalition has made to contain isil geographically, to degrade its finance in Media Operations and to remove its fighters from the battlefield, however, while progress may have been made against those goals you no
Are not up to the job, and a diplomatic agreement to do the job is not worth the paper it is notten on if a country does have the resources, does not have the training, to keep committed terrorists from returning to the about to the battlefield. The administration has sent guantanamo terrorists to these countries anyway. Andeceive this committee the American People is deeply disturbing. When given the opportunity to correct the record for the committee, they ignored us. I appreciate that the administration finally responded on tuesday, but it should not take the calling of a hearing to elicit a return letter, especially on something as consequential as this. This committee has an obligation to conduct oversight. While we have differences of opinion over guantanamo policy, i do not read anyone here finds of the administrations business acceptable. Should anyone think the committees concerns are theoretical, and specifically, i was pressing on these terrorists who had been transferred to
The three leaders hold a joint News Conference wednesday, live at 3 00 p. M. Eastern in ottawa. You can see it here on cspan. Later our coverage continues as president obama i just as the canadian parliament. That is at 5 45 eastern here on cspan. This weekend on cspan citys tour, along with our Comcast Cable partners. We will explore the history of utah. Who has we will been collecting rare books for the past 30 years, showcases many of his great finds including Brigham Youngs copy of the book of mormon. Thomas payne went to robert bell and wanted to have this printed. Buyanted to proceeds to soldiers mittens. After it went through three periods, they had a falling out. Thomas payne allowed anybody to printed. To print it. That is why the book is so well known. The author of a peculiar people talks about antimormonism in america since its founding in the 1830s through its current troubles and the origins of the animosity. Kind of properly in that because not only are they a minority,
Who led the marine corps in the late 1980s and a former cia official. This is just over two hours. It is 12 00 when i say it is 12 00. It is time to get started. On behalf of our ceo and the Potomac Center for policy studies, i want to welcome you to our seminar today. We certainly have a superb group of analysts. We could not ask for a better type of group to talk today about some very tough challenges we face throughout the globe. S is miss of the lone wolf business of the lone wolf terrorist, you have read about that. Complex situation we face in global strategy today with the socalled conflicts and wars, if you will, below the nationstate conflicts that many of us are used to and many of our organizations have been trained to do and the United States and our allies have been good at that. This is a new environment below that level. Some people call it the gray zone of conflict and the like. Others say we are in a new generation of warfare, the fourth generation of warfare. They tal
I wont go into details, its up to you, but at any rate, what is very important is that she contributes now on asian issues of National Security and form policy on the Heritage Foundation. Next to her is [inaudible] on the middle east Media Research the middle east Media Research institute. I would like to mention that he has extensive experience with the world bank and focusing on the middle east and elsewhere. Then to the left of him, is professor alexander. He is currently director of Homeland Security Research Program and professor at the school of Law Enforcement and justice and i vividly recall his First Research and publication was ten years before 9 11 and im glad to see that he continues with his work and as always, as i mentioned before they will bring in much insight on the rule of law and also in terms of balancing security concerns with privacy and the role of human rights and so on. I would like to also welcome the audience which includes academics, colleagues from differe