satellite imagery of the site. it s very clear that the iaea has reported regularly they have been undermined on doing effective verification. that is the starting point. large amounts of verifications. they do not know what has taken place, but there are now some satellite images. it s problematic for verification. i would argue that this deal has further complicated the verification of that site. it s not a public agreement. i worked on we have worked intensively on iran since 2002 and i have worked with many countries, iraq, south africa, worked with the inspectors in iraq in the 1990 s. we have published extensively about other countries and used iaea data. the iaea is a very secretive organization. but in the iran case, it has not been secret. iran has complained bitterly about that for years. it is saying the iaea is leaking confidential information. i think they could make this iran-i-8 deal public and release it to the member states in that would be consistent with
they were trying to show you hear stories about hagel. he s lazy. come on. they re trying to demean him. and at the staff meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. if they were right, why not? in other words, some people who got to say, got have my opinion, whether or not it whether or not it s agrees or disagrees elm think we re trying to show they re shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we were surprised by isil. oh, general clapper s fault. well, do you want to fire him? no. so, hagel was easy sacrifice because, a., a republican, who the republicans don t like. and, then you have and of course he wag weakened by the confirmation hearing. again, i ve known chuck. we worked together in the reagan administration. he was number two at va. not 35 years old. a pretty big job. the head of va at the time said, agent orange is no worse than teenage acne. can you believe that? so hagel said either he goes o
vo advisory teams on the ground, joint tactical forward air controllers and other groups. these are small numbers of highly trained professionals. they would make all of the difference going out there with iraqi forces, be they peshmerga, national guard or awakening sunni or the iraqi army, the nine brigades forming. there s a huge difference between how these people perform and other conflicts perform when you have american advisers with them and how they perform without them. we don t have the luxury of having them perform in an inaccurate way. that needs to be done right now. and i don t understand why the administration is dragging its heels when it hears from dempsey, hears from others this is something that should be and is being contemplated. that s it. a.mbassador ford, your three recommendations for president obama. the first would be within the region itself to prioritize. i think most everyone would agree that syria and iraq are probably the two highest prior
that it was giving too much power to the president. do you agree with that? what is your view of this? i have mixed feelings. you re talking about the authority that is given for the trade agreements. and what is the tpa, the actual acronym trade promotional authority. trade promotional authority. there is an argument to be made by some on the separation of powers that by giving this authority to the president that you ve taken power that should be the congress . there is also i guess, another argument that these are really treaties and they ought to be actually done as treaties and they re not, they re done by simple majority. but i m also a big believer in free trade, i think free trade is a good thing. so there have been libertarians or libertarian conservatives, my father included who voted against some of the trade deals because they felt like they gave up sovereignty to international bodies. i think it is a valid point. i have voted for the trade deals, though b
which only applies to your voice, the universal service fee you ll be paying a fee on broadband and that will happen i imagine in the next several weeks or months. secondly and critically there are all sorts of other fees that are going to be assessed. for example, currently a lot of broadband providers that had not been classified as telecom providers paid a lower rate for the equipment that they attach to the utility poles known as pole attachments. they paid a rate under section 224-d. now because they re all telecom providers they will have to pie a much higher rate under section 224-e and smaller providers in particular will have to pay 150 to 200 million dollars a year just for those higher pole attachment rates. then you add on top of that the higher state and local property taxes that a lot of these companies will have to pay because they re now telecom providers. all of these costs have to come out of somewhere. and it s going to be the consumer s wallet. and that is