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Incessantly for the last two weeks, this whole issue of whistleblowers. My name is patrick edington, im your moderator today. Just a few housekeeping notes before i introour guest. I want to make sure everybody have your phones at least on silent or off. Any other devices you may have whether they are smart watch, etc. , please make sure they are also silenced. When we get to the q a at the end of this event, i will ask you all to, please, wait to be called upon, wait for the microphone so that everyone in the room and our audience watching online can hear the question, and ill ask you to identify yourself to include affiliation where applicable. I think its fair to say that the anonymous whistle blower and ill continue to use that term of art throughout is just the latest in a long line of individuals who have come forward in the course of the last several decades to make various and sundry allegations about government and its conduct and, in some cases, corporate, nonprofit conduct. ....
Sounding acronym was created in 2008 in basically congress realized we were spending a lot of money there. We didnt do a very good job of overseeing how the money was spent in iraq and created a special agency with Inspector Generals office. We do audits and criminal investigations. 200 of us. We focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. One of the Reasons Congress did this is because we have spent more money on reconstruction ine afghanistan than we have ever done anywhere in the world. We have spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire Marshall Plan to rebuild europe after world war ii. Assumed anything correctly they needed a special agency just to look at it and we have been the existence of them. Ruth. Host you put in regular reports. How long has this cigar office put out these re ....
That doesnt mean he cant negotiate a framework agreement. I think the president does have authority to negotiate an executive a formal executive agreement with cuba which would provide a framework for cuban guarantees to american investors who voluntarily subscribed to the terms of these arrangements. That agreement could spell out the protections cuba is prepared to offer. It would provide impartial dispute settlement. It could even provide funding for the lets say a claims try tribunal, it could provide funding for the awards, if any had to be issued. Where would the money come from . It could come from contributions from cuba and from the investors. Commercial insurance, Political Risk insurance, could play a role in this. Ive done that in private practice for some clients. There is a quasi precedent not directly employed not going quite this far but in the Clinton Adm ....
An initiative with the concern to bring together all those pieces come to free the global image of the puzzle. This was done under the leadership of his majesty, who happens to be the commander of the faithful. By the way, that is not only include moslems because morocco has jewish citizens. We are having a christian presence and dealing with this in an open way. We are trying to be as inclusive as we can, because the wisdom of rigidity is not the specificity of one religion. This approach of recognition is crucial to respect. The commander of the faithful ensures the coherence between all those links of the chain the pieces of the puzzle. So we have choices. Those choices are three choices, major ones. The choice of the ritual, the junction between text and context. The junction between text and reason. Spirituality, was makes which makes it junction between texas spirituality. Those choices were successful at the time. They influenced the reason in africa and the middle east regions. ....