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[inaudible conversations] i would like to call this hearing of the Strategic Forces back to order and apologize for the delay. I thank our panelists for hanging around and i look forward to your comments. I know that it takes a lot of time and effort for the hearing. But it is important to us. Thank you for that. What i would like to do, or full statements have been submitted for the record. Jim and i both read them. And i would like to ask each one to take a minute to look at the content of your Opening Statement and then we will will go to questions four times the fake. Okay. First we have the secretary and the acting administrator for the nsa. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Members of the subcommittee. We are grateful for the invitation to appear before you to provide action we will take to strengthen security in the wake of the july 12, incident. We appreciate the engageme ....
President foreign intelligence Advisory Board it said the doe, quote embodied science in the very best and security at the worse. Close quote. Highlighting a string of occurring security problem in the 1990s they describe it as a quote dysfunctional bureaucracy incapable of performing. In tbow, a few years after congress created this in an effort to address the concerns another study by the commission on science and security found the same problem. In 2005, an independent study security conducted by admiral richard again made similar findings, saying that the problem are quote, theyre not new, many continue to exist because of the lack of clear accountability excessive bureaucracy, and organizational. Lack of collaboration and unwielding processing. Those reports from 1999, 2002, and 2005. So where are we today . Anyone paying attention the answer is undenial. Nowhere. The assessment done after the incident show that the exact sam ....
Carter, who is our deputy secretary and plays a significant leadership role on this particular issue as well as others. It is a benefit to our country and it is a benefit to this institution, especially in a difficult time like this. I would not say anything more. A couple questions. Can you flesh out what Practical Impact the pentagon and its forces will see during sequestration versus three or four must from now. Over the next 8 weeks, what will we see . Let me start with the army. You will see the army beginning to curtail training at the National Training center. If we go to the air force, you will see the air force beginning to curb flying hours. That means the Nuclear Capable air force, that part of the air force participating in operations in afghanistan we will protect them. That means the cuts costs by seq ....
This on your car and therefore, the Auto Companies do it and charge people higher prices for their car, that may have a good benefit cost ratio but it doesnt show up as spending the money. So regulations is a substitute and tax expenditures are a substitute for spending. So you would need to have some complementary legislation or safety valve to prevent that you could tighten if all of a sudden the spending cap started to bind and edging into regulation and tax expenditures. The other is when you look at spending, there is this fundamental fact of arithmetic we cant get around that present discount of taxes has to equal future spending plus the National Debt. The government has to pay its bills now or later. A dollar of borrowing now means the interest tomorrow has to be raised to pay off the interest. So with that in mind, its very, very important that the spending caps be re ....