With partners to provide humanitarian need for the desperate situation of millions in the region. We look forward to working with you, mr. Secretary, on our mutual goal. Welcome you back. Thank you. I want to thank the secretary for being here. In fact, im pretty sure this is not where he would like to be this afternoon. I thank you for coming before the committee. I want to thank the chairman again to try and set up a process this week that was thorough. That has not occurred. I think everyone understands, some of the things we will discuss are obviously like the ground yet, we have no defense presentations here. We have no intelligence presentations here. I want to say, on the syrian half ago e year and a were authorizing something that was, these are my words, one last 10 hours. We were able to go through a process that was much more serious than the one we will have this week. I think all of you will know, what passes in the committee this week will not become law. The comments tha
Passes, it is resolution passes, with the president signe tjhahat . \ i havent asked the president because he is hopeful we can work through the differences that do exist and the president wants to have once the preserve the flexibility that he believes we need and within the prerogative of the president but he is prepared to work with you to say we are all prepared to work to try to arrive and understanding of how we can do that. We have some disagreements in that regard. If he believes the 2001 solution gives him the authority, we have a basic disagreement and thats why i think it gave us the first branch of government to do this. I guess the question, what would be your opinion as to whether or not the president signed the senators resolution if we pass this this week . Im not going to suggest that i share the advice with respect to what his choice is if it came to the president. I think we are missing the point that thats the road we go. From the moment i opened my mouth, and i mea
Period, abu zubaydah got less than 10 hours of sleep yet the majority does not acknowledge this was an enhanceed interrogation. In light of these facts, the studys claims that the f. B. I. Was exclusively using rapportbuilding techniques is nothing short of being dishonest. More important, the actionable intelligence gleaned from the enhanced interrogation of abu zubaydah that started in april of 2002 served as the foundation for the capture of additional terrorists and the disruption of the disruption of the plots those captured terrorists were planning. His information was also used to gather additional actionable intelligence from these newly captured terrorists which in turn led to a series of successful capture operations and plot disruptions. By the studys own count, the numerous interrogations of abu zubaydah resulted in 766 solesource disseminated intelligence reports. Thats an awful lot of actionable intelligence collected under the c. I. A. Program that this study tries to qu
First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improving that and also taking responsibility from commerce and obviously e we wouldnt do that until such time were prepared. We went through that process with our finance organization. Initially, they provided support for us. Today we do a lot of that work ourselves. So i think we have demonstrated we can bring in the right resources with the right talent and training, put the controls in place to cause people to feel comfortable to fullfill that. Id love for you to submit more of that for the record
Them. And particularly in light of the force structure reductions, which are going to take place, weve got to make sure that we provide them the support system so they can return to their communities and to their families and be able to reestablish their lives. All of that is out there and all of that are issues that we have to think about and we have to be prepared in order to protect the National Security of this country. We have to be prepared to deal with. But tonight, i wanted to focus on the goal that still remains at the top of the priority list, as it must. Goal that the president made very clear, that we have a responsibility to disrupt, degrade, dismantle and ultimately defeat those who attacked america on 9 11. Al qaeda. Since september 11, 2001, our country has worked relentlessly to bring those responsible for the worst terrorist attacks in our history to justice. We have made very clear that we are at war with al qaeda. Weve also made clear in going after Osama Bin Laden