Is kenneth fine berg, from the Victim Compensation fund and author of the book what is the life worth . The unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9 11. Kenneth fineberg, why did you call the book that you just wrote what is life worth . Because congress in setting up this program after 9 11 delegated to me and really to me alone the requirement the obligation to try and calculate what each death caused by 9 11 or each physical injury should be paid out of public funds. What were you called . I was called a rather judicial term a special master. That connotes in the law somebody who is sort of delegated authority. Usually by a court. To act as some administrative arm of the court to administer or design a settlement and then to allocate the proceeds of the settlement. How many people did you award money to and how much . I awarded 7 billion dollars of taxpayer funds, all public funds, to approximately 5300 people. 3,000, roughly, 2,900 families who lost a loved one on 9 11 a
Instituted, this court had approved it. And there was this process of briefing in congress. And i dont think theres anything classified. You can tell me if it is and if you cant answer it. But could you just explain to me. If im a member of the congress, an ordinary member, not a member of some special committee, what exactly was i told . I dont mean what was in the classified briefing. What was i told about you better go read this before you vote for this. What memo did i get from whom . So, i think, there were memos from the chairs of the two intelligence committees. And they are in the joint appendix. They identified within the connection of the reauthorization, information has been provided by the im paraphrasing but information provided by the executive branch that was important for evaluation of the reauthorization of this authority in section 215. And it was up to me to go and figure out if it was worth it for me to go and read it as they were telling me i should. And i think of
Chair Martin Dempsey whether i have a concern or whether it is true, the government of iran is responsible for their behavior so we are concerned about their behavior. There is about six things that concern me about irans behavior. One of which is the nuclear issue. Im certainly supportive of the effort to try to resolve that the politically. We will have other issues with iran. Resolve that diplomatically. On occasion, there are efforts to threaten freedom and navigation. We have to work these. The government of iran has to if they are going to act responsibly and engage the world as they claim they wish to do, they have to control the irg see land forces irgc land forces. Going back to the syria training program, when exactly did it start . Can you tell us more about who the trainees are . Are they from the fsa . The second question is regarding Drone Operations. There have been some measures in congress to speed up this transfer of Drone Operations to the military. Can you give us a
Didnt have pension reform. We had a huge wall of debt. We are getting stuff together and with respect to immigration california is setting the pace whether a trust act, we are not arbitrarily Holding People in jail so the Immigration Service can pick them up. I signed the dream act so kids who qualify for the university can go to school and get a scholarship. I think that will build for the future because so many of our kids almost about 30 are either undocumented or dont speak english. Governor, very quick. The main thing is do you have a strategy to monitor that this is not going happen . Even though they train the c. H. P. People, the police they will have that drivers license. Anybody can see it in. If they go and try to open a bank account or buy something in the supermarket. I will instruct the commissioner of the Highway Patrol to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent that. I will do the same thing working with the local police and sheriffs and thirdly to the extent that
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