Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the region. And its always a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by Iraq Initiative and global initiative. Our Iraq Initiative is led by abbas kadhim, who will be our moderator. Its been a game changer having abbas working with us. Hes one of those rare individuals who unde
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Im a Senior Advisor here at the csis. Its good to see lots of Friendly Faces in the audience. For those of you new to the headquarters, i know some of our panelists, this is their inaugural visit, welcome. After the session, we will be having a reception. We hope you can join us. Welcome, again. We are being joined via wide stream on internet as well as cspan. Keep in mind youre on tv as well as we are. But were very excited to not only be hosting this pooanel entitled assets. I could not imagine a better set of experts to speak to the range of past, current and future i e issues and challenges. Let me set the stage, in part, because weve gathered about two years ago. In what was happening systemically in terms of dealing with highend corruption. These issues are not new, of course. News a these are issues and regimes that will be with us for a number of years. What we want to do today is talk about an International Community in the u. S. On dealing wi
Enforcement priorities would result in only moderate reductions in overall removals. Would that make any difference if the president extended the guidance to cdp . Yeah, you know, and modest is so modest is not a very precise word, i think its not hard to describe a scenario where you could see removals go down by 10 or 15 or maybe 20 , or some of the scenarios that we described. But, certainly you know, cdp has as we described in our last report, theres been a sea change in how cdp does enforcement, just over the last less than 10 years, from mostly voluntary returns to overwhelmingly formal removals. So if what youre talking about specifically is reducing formal removals. You could reduce that substantially if you decided well go back to an era where youre going to violence tearily return most people. Which you may or may not tie to enforcement priorities, but having said that, the data do suggest that the great majority of people that cdp and prehengds, they apprehend within three d
Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings and eliminating the tax cap. We had to pick and choose which to include. Especially in the trade off, we collected only 12 of what is commonly proposed for Social Security. So we did not test the options that would invest the money differently. That would be a great question to ask. Yes . A microphone over here. Im hannah weinberger. I have a methodology question. How did you get people to Pay Attention to these Detailed Survey questions that i was looking in the report and it looks like it took