This afternoon because this is my area of concentration and focus. Prisons, criminal justice. We had scholars here. Real scholars. Isnt that interesting . Guess what . They are muslim. Amazing. I think god for the opportunity, just for me being here. Before i introduce panelists, just a couple of thing. What do you call them, housekeeping notes . You will have some q a cards on the table, and we ask as we move that youthe panel, post your questions and write a but ace, not a paragraph, sentence on the cards. The cards will be collected. Hand it to me. I will then read the question or the statement. Does that work . Then refer it to the panelists. Does that work . Ive been in the criminal justice business for 47 years. Spent most of my time in corrections. Introduction to slims, was a case called full wood versus klamath. It had to do with the Police Chiefs brother who was incarcerated at the lard and reformatory. Reformatory. The issue was the right to practice his religion, which was
consequences of this policy. on surplus, when i first came to this committee, is explained to me as walking around money for people on the ground to health. i remember if you help fix the store front in baghdad, that can do more to stabilize i never could than many of the things we could be doing great to do that quickly and efficiently is great. what has happened in afghanistan with the $1.6 billion, 67% is on projects that are bigger than $500,000. that is big stuff, and i am worried that we do not have a single data base on this. it s not monitoring and oversight on these large projects. who is in the command who is the person that signs off on sometimes multimillion-dollar projects, much bigger than fixing a window in the storefront or what i believe surplus was intended to do? inside my command now, it goes by levels of spending. i signed some, others have to go to general petreaus for approval, but i absolutely agree that there is a need for walking around money a