The committees meeting today to receive testimony on worldwide threats to homeland. Without objection the, chair has authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning, today the committee is holding its annual hearing to examine worldwide threats to the homelands. We are pleased to have secretary Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, fbi director Christopher Wray and and cpc director christine abizaid. Two years ago that committee convened its worldwide threats hearing during some of the e darkest days of the pandemic. Last, year the panel testified for the committee and the immediate aftermath of the attack on the u. S. Capitol. No matter the circumstances, the committee in the American People have benefited from the witnesses frank assessment of the threats facing the homeland both foreign and direct domestic. More than 20 years after the terrorist attacks of september 11th of 2001, 20 years this month since the department of Homeland Security was established i
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The first dispute will be colonel morris davis. He retired in 2007 and now teaches at harvard law school. And then we have andrew worthington, he went to new college in oxford, and we have known each other for a very long time. He has been at the forefront of investigating who was at Guantanamo Bay. He wrote a book called the guantanamo files. It talked about the stories and he has codedirected a film about it as well. Also we have tom wilner and he has established the right of habeas corpus for prisoners at guantanamo. Its an incredibly important case. So we are going to start with mr. Morris davis. Thank you. I would start off by saying that it is a pleasure to see you. But i would be lying to you. I know a number of you, as i look around the room, were here last year and the year before that. And i keep hoping that we will take a historical look back at this regrettable but not in our nations history rather than an ongoing chapter in our nations history. I do appreciate you coming o
So the real question is for all of that is, how did they manage to so marginalize, it are, take no account of women in the midst of the most serious right now Armed Conflict that is engaging so many governments . I dont have the answer to that, but what i do know is we better understand how it even works. It not just about denying both to 1325. They probably also did 1325. Lipservice is a very interesting thing to study. And we have that work now a blatant example of saint lipservice to a major u. N. Was aleutian that they are obligated to abide by and many of them voted for and yet, without seeing any embarrassment to help negotiate a process that shut women not to room. So i am going to and at that point and we can have a good conversation. Yes, please stand. [inaudible] we need mics. There you go. Jump ahead here. I work for a Womens International league for peace and freedom and cynthia has been a longtime member and influencer of our work. For almost 98 years old of a womens Peace
Fruition. We have a huge business in asia growing thats probably the single largest opportunity over the next decade or so. We intend to lead that market like we do in so many others. But again i come back to the point that its likely that a lot of those countries a number of those will give agreements with or without us if we dont get tpp done and we will be looking at a market that we ought to compete with. Theres another 1i will move to africa because im kind of passionate about this. We watched the chinese really take over africa. They come in with their own financing and engineering, sometimes their own workers to take over Minerals Come extraction, hydroelectric power across africa. And i feel we can do better in this country and i know that is on your agenda and all of our agenda but i am so pleased to hear the crossover between commerce and state because that is what we really need. That is what china and others do so well when they work on the market they combine all of their