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Chief dyson and simpson were notified that night that the agents had driven into an evacuated area and that alcohol was involved. Each could have reported the incident but did not. I would like to publish late to publicly acknowledge the agent who conducted this investigation. They displayed the professionalism that does me proud and i am grateful for their efforts. I would like to express my appreciation for the outstanding cooperation we are seeing from the secret Service Office of professional responsibility and from director clancy himself. That concludes my testimony. I happy to answer any questions you may have. Rep. Chaffetz thank you. I recognize myself for live minutes. There was an email about the incident on march 4. Can you tell me more about that . Mr. Roth certainly. What we found was that let me get to the page of the report that has that. Rep. Chaffetz the version i have is page 15. Mr. Roth thank you, sir. Correct. There was an email that was sent up the chain of comma
Share, that even if we deal effectively with the nuclear issue, that we will still have a problem with some of irans destabilizing activities, and a number of them did express concern that with Additional Resources through the reduction in sanctions, that was it possible that iran would siphon off a lot of these resources into more destabilizing activities. Secretary lu was there to explain that first of all there would be no relief until in nuclear deal. Secondly, we gave them our best analysis of the enormous needs iran has internally, and the commitment that iran has made to its people in terms of improving economic growth. And as i pointed out, most of the destabilizing activity iran engages in, is lowtech, lowcost activity. So, part of my emphasis to them was that if we are focusing more effectively on the things we need to do, to ensure defensive, improve intelligence, improve the capacity for maritime monitoring of what is taking place in the gulf, if we are working in concert t
Very concerned tonight. Just seems like the Community Needs to do something to help young people that are at that age to take responsibility for the people young people in the community, you know we all need to look out for the young people even if theyre not our kids. Yeah but some people are also saying maybe the parents of those children should have done a little bit more and looked out for those kids a little better as well. Stephen tschida, abc 7 news. A montgomery man dubbed the beer pong rapist has been found guilty. The jury convicted Joey Poindexter of eight counts of sexual assault. Attorneys say he would get teenaged boys drunk at beer pong tournaments and then sexually assault them. Tonight at 5 00 youll hear from one of the jurors and what poindexter revealed in a wiretap conversation. Leon . Alison police swarmed a Frederick County high school after shots rang out outside and now two freshmen are recovering after being hit. Maryland bureau chief brad bell live outside of
John roth reports on the finding. This runs an hour and 40 minutes. Committee on oversight and government reform comes to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We are meeting to talk about the United Secret Service and the countability for the march 14th 2015 incident. On march 14th two secret Service Agent, deputy in charge of the president ial detail mr. Connelly, and the other was assistant to the special agent in charge. The allegation and the concern was that they drove through a criminal scene investigation of a potential bomb at the whitehouse. Following the incident there was allegations that the two agents were intoxicated after being at a bar downtown for a retirement party. There were no sobriety test given and no repremand given. Everyone involved was told to go home and pretend like nothing happened. To get a better sense on what happened we talked directory to clancy but he could not answer questions. So we scheduled a hearing and he could not an