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Hearing no more Public Comment, we will move on to the next agenda item. The next agenda item is number 2, the approval the minutes for the june 30, 2020 meeting and do we have a motion to approve the minutes of june 30th, 2020 . I move to approve the minutes of the june 20th meeting. Second. Before we vote, is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Ill take that as a no. There are none. Public comment is closed. role call . The minutes have been approved. Gavel down. The next agenda item is the report from our executive director wylen. Thank you, president blymin. Good evening, commissioners. Its nice to see all of your faces, even though its on zoom. And there goes our president. And i also do want to just note all of the attendees in the room. This is many more people than we normally see on any Given Entertainment Commission Hearing night and i appreciate youre here tonight and i encourage you to reach out to our office and i will just provide during our update some ways in whic
Our goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications for the positions that youve respectfully been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written responses which you all will have. As youll see, mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university. He was commissioned as an infantry officer, he has a masters in National Security studies and a graduate of the Naval College of staff. Began his military career as a infantry man in the army and served in the district of col n Columbia National guard. He served with the fifth special forces group. He participated in combat operations in afghanistan and iraq. Upon retiring from the army in 2014, he worked as a defense contractor before serving as the special assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security council. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for special operations and for combat
Americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to today by your television provider. The Senate Intelligence committee met to consider the nomination of Christopher Miller to be the director of the National Counterterrorism center in peter to be the general counsel to the office of the director of National Intelligence. The two nominees were asked about Russian Election interference, interrogation tactics, the fisa application process and whistleblower protections. They were also questioned related to the recent deployment of federal Law Enforcement agents in u. S. Cities experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional
Experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear directly from the nominees. Mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university in commission as an infantry officer in 1987, he has a masters in National Security studies from the Naval War College and also graduated at the Community Staff and army war college. His military career as an enlisted infantryman in the army reserve in 1983 and served in the district of Columbia National guard. In 1993 christopher transferred to special forces and served for the fifth special forces group and participated in combat operations and iraq and retiring from the army in 2014 he wo