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I am not a lawyer. I have come to learn of the term sui generis. The olc memos released after the president came into office were released because the program was terminated. Olc will counsel opinions, and those opinions were looked at in a different way because of the sui generis circumstances. Both are essential for the ability of congress to carry its oversight responsibilities. Finally, the intelligence reform act and terrorist prevention act of 2004, with which you are very familiar and which i was a coauthor, requires the director of National Intelligence to recommend who the cia director should be to the president of the United States. I am aware of general clapper the dnis letter, endorsing your nomination, which is different from his actually recommending to the president that you be chosen. To your knowledge, did general clapper recommend to the president that ....
Taking place. When i later found out that you had rpgs and there was an attack, there was no question in my mind. My position would be they knew that at the time because i have talked to several people that have stated they knew it. Unequivocably that would have been a terrorist attack. The thing i am getting to come and do you agree that it was a terrorist attack . When i appeared before this committee three days afterwards i said it was a terrorist attack. That is what the john brennan said. I have to say we have to understand someone has to ask a question. If that was true and we knew all of that at that time, the presentation by susan rice, before all of america, said we have the fact was this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. I will not ask you to respond to that but i think it is important people understand that everybody knew on that sunday it was a preplanned, premeditated attack. Thank you for your tolerance. You can see the rest of the hearing on cspan 2, or in our v ....
Opinion. What is the balance between government secrecy and the publics right to know . Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online here is the headline in the Baltimore Sun this morning. Brennan targeted over drones. Looking at some of the opinions coming in on the editorial pages of the newspapers. Usa today that is of the newspapers Editorial Board opinion. Jumping down, it says the opposing view that usa today publishes to give a counterpoint says end the u. S. Covert drone war. Naureen shah at columbias humanrights institute writes she points out the war is waged secretly because the pakistani and Yemen Government have the time feared their citizens would oppose open u. S. And all involvement. What do you think . What is more important, government secrecy or the publics right to know . Lets hear from ....
Cartridge . He was involved in overseeing a number of these activities, yes, there was a relationship. Were they so concealed that the first attempt to find did not find them . Yes, the method used was one of the best we had ever encountered. So mr. Alawlaki is by not an american citizen by where anyone in america would be proud . He was part of al qaeda, and it was his determination to kill americans on behalf of al qaeda. Thank you. Is it true that in the last four years the fbi has arrested 100 people, either planning, conspiring, or trying to commit a terrorist attack on this nation . Yes, they have arrested a lot of people. That is because of good, sound intelligence. I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can and it is extraordinarily difficult if you cannot get into where they were hiding. Would it have been possible to have arrested mr. Alawlaki where he was in the yemen . We work very closely with yemenis to see if we can arrest individuals. If we can, we ....