A spiritual advisor of the 9 11 bombers. This is not some extraneous person. This is someone who is a major in the militarys communicating by email within. Despite all of our surveillance capabilities, we failed to prevent that horrific that claimed the lives of 14 innocents. In your judgment, what could we have done better to prevent that . To be honest, i will answer that question to senator graham. The that may suggest more broadly on both of these that it would be a far better allocation of resources in the nsa and our efforts to prevent terrorism generally as much by resources were big to targeting those who we have reason to know are dangerous. We have reasons to know the islamic terrorist and have less resources were devoted to broderick intersection and her valence of lawabiding citizens. It is to me for some time that the priorities have been backwards and we had to be targeting the bad guys than protect innocents from terrorist attacks and at the same time respecting the Cons
Issues as well. Let me close by making a final point. Diplomacy between the United States and russia continues. Weve emphasized that russia still has a different path available, one that dees calates the situation and one that involves russia pursuing a diplomatic solution with the government in kive with the support of the international community. Mr. Putin needs to understand the ukraineans shouldnt have to choose between the west and russia. We want the ukranian people to determine their own destiny and to have good relations with the United States, with russia and europe, with anyone they choose. That can only happen if russia also recognize the rights of all the ukranian people to determine their future as free individuals nation, vovepbsovepb rights that people around the world understand and support. Thank you very much everybody. President obama announcing expanded sanctions against moscow for their an exexation of crimea. Were going to take you live to the Heritage Foundation.
As lost property and recovered 44 years later. The civil war in syria has dragged on for three years, and the conflict affects not only syria, but the region. The u. N. Says there are 1 million Syrian Refugees in lebanon, putting a strain on a stretched country. It described the situation as a devastating milestone. The total number of registered Syrian Refugees is more than 2. 5 million. More than 660,000 crossed syrias northern border into turkey, 220,000 spread into iraq. In georgia half a million syrians have been forced from their homes. 135,000 have been received in egypt. Lets go to tripoli in northern lebanon. A staggering figure for lebanon alone. Where do the refugees end up when they arrive in lebanon, and how are they being supported . This is one of the first places they get to. Its a United Nations registration center. They come to register their name. There are thousands of them. Some of these people arrived three days ago, they come to renew the registration. They come,
Remedied before these deaths occurred. I want to thank the families of the victims of these directive cars for coming forward and being at that hearing yesterday and sharing their stories with and sharing their stories with and being at that hearing yesterday. To share their story with me and others they are doing a great Public Service with their courage ian strength. Also want to thank ms. Barra the ceo of gm as i said to her and will repeat now, wiedmaier on dash admire her fortitude to and her service to face the question of our committee with General Motors and the issues of car safety. And engineer that has risen through the ranks, a secondgeneration employee at an iconic crete American Manufacturing company. The products that have enriched the lives of so Many Americans over the years. But this is a turning point with these car safety challenges some of them have contacted me hell they are reaching a proactively to the drivers of these brad defective vehicles asking them to brin
And served in iraq. A lot of new information, and a clear a clear idea of what happened on this military base five years after it experienced another shooting also by a soldier on base. The general saying theres no indications that this is related to terrorism, but he wont rule it out. A local soldier, hes been serving at fort hood. He has family, he is married with family in the region, they are not identifying him yet. Theres no indication of terrorism, the same thing about hassam when he killed 13. It was classified as a work place shooting. In 2009 major hussan made it clear he did it in the name of the taliban, his own jihad, he was a muslim warrior trying to protect them. They classified it as a work place shooting, the classification for here as well, it is likely. Both times, these soldiers bought semiautomatic pistols offbase and brought them on to ford hood. The the general said weapons concealed weapons are not allowed. They ared to be registered. It was clear this did not h