you will see it in a second. peach cobbler still on the oven that his wife had cooked. how about that? hadn t moved an inch. there may be one thing that this tornado touched the most and that is jacky sing, the man. i want you to watch what he told me when he got to his backyard. me and my wife, we talk about it, the word surreal, the word surreal is beyond that. it s i don t know if the lord has it that way but you have all of these things in your body that he s waiting to open up that can to let you feel them. i think there s a lot of emotions in our life that we don t understand until things like this happen and you re actually effected. you can see it on tv all day. but until you actually feel the experience, it s a life-changing event. so your life is forever changed. yes. you have been here all your life. yes. will you be rebuilding? not that you have to rebuild, but will you stay here? will you fix it up? this is your neighborhood?
the balance we strike between interest of security and our value of privacy. in some cases i believe we compromised our basic values by using torture to interrogate our enemies and detaining individuals in a way that ran counter to the rule of law. so after i took office we stepped up the war against al qaeda but we also sought to change its course. we relentlessly targeted al qaeda s leadership. we ended the war in iraq and brought nearly 150,000 troops home. we pursued a new strategy in afghanistan and increased our training of afghan forces. we unequivocally ban editor chur, civilian courts, worked to align our policies with the rule of law, and expanded our consultations with congress. today osama bin laden is dead, and so are most of his top
who shares my concerns. so he s agreed to review existing department of justice guidelines, vernings investigations that involve reporters and he ll convenient a group of media organizations to hear that. i directed the attorney general to report back to me by june 12th. now, all these issues remind us that the choices that we make about war can impact and sometimes unintended ways. the openness and freedom on which our way of life depends. that is why i intend to engage congress about the existing authorization to use military force, or aumf. to continue to fight terrorism without keeping america on a perpetual wartime footing. the aumf is now nearly 12 years
every terrorist. even when such an approach may be possible, there are places where it would pose profound risk to our troops and local civilians. where a terrorist compound cannot be breached without triggering a firefight with surrounding tribal communities, for example, that pose no threat to us. times when putting u.s. boots on the ground may trigger a major international crisis. to put it another way, our operation in pakistan against osama bin laden cannot be the no norm. the risks in that case were immense. the like lihood of capture, although that was our preference, was remote given the certainty that our folks would confront resistance. the fact that we did not find ourselves confronted with civilian casualties or embroiled
freedoms. so now you know this as well as i do, jake, the minute that you say there is an inquiry and a study under way, now whenever we re going to ask the question in the press briefing room about this, they will say, you know there s a study under way so we ll answer that question once the results of that study are complete. so i bet that will kick those answers down the road and we won t get those answers any more. so i think dlr a lthere are a l questions that this still leaves unaddressed and some of his critics on the left will still be unsatisfied. but at least he s on the record trying to address his policy and define it before the books on this administration are closed, jake. we have to wrap up but i want to go to congressman thornberry for one last thought. i found it interesting, congressman, you re on the intelligence committee on the house of representatives so i m sure you were aware of some of these details already. but there s been no little that has been publicly s