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One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my...

Karen . Benefit ofave the observing this administration from the outside and more recently from the inside and you also have the experience of sevenning in the clinton administration. Includingcs lately some democrats have accused this white house of political tone lately on the rose garden appearance on bergdahl and perhaps the president s in some people view slowness to take action on the v. A. Scandal. Just wondering what you think about those criticisms. The president ,k you know, thats sort...

From the American Energy point of view, iraq matters. Youve been there many times. The Central Government collapses and the iranians enrich and the world as a whole suffers. The American People its in our National Security interest not to give these guys safe haven in syria and iraq because the next 9 11 could very well come from that region, is that an is that anover statement or is that in the area of possibility . As i have said in other settings, there are several groups the al qaeda ideolog...

Thats right. And if isis has assets from aleppo to baghdad, theyre enriched, the country that we know as iraq, financially collapses, dont you think that would affect the region and energy crisis, from the average American Point of view, iraq matters. It does, and also, you know, youve been there many times, senator. The southern part of iraq possesses a tremendous amount of o oil, so different scenarios the iranians operate the southern part of iraq. Well get hit in the wallet. But isis theyre ...

Workers as defense related factories wind down production. It is to allocate an additional 10 million to the office of economic adjustment from the general operations and Maintenance Fund. The office of economic adjustment helps communities across america when a factory shuts down. Over the last decade of war, middleclass factory workers have stepped up to the plate to make sure our troops on the battlefield have the weapons and equipment they needed as we transition away from two long wars and ...

Air force reserve and i may chaplain who served in iraq. The issues that came up for me, and some of this may be a followup on my colleague you just mentioned, but you brought are note the fact they going back to the same afghanistan that they left. They would not have the impact they could have had. , whatntelligence information, what would have you believe that they could not get set up in a country that has not changed much in 400, 500 years . Afghanistan both as Intelligence Officer and as a...

Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the...

Obviously its congresss constitutional prior if to rearrange priorities but in so doing please to not carve money out of our readiness account. Readiness is key, and ready to get those goals up. Please lift sequestration. Fees choices were troublesome, all on your hands. It will get worse and more difficult. This is a message that i wanted to repeat today. We need to get full Spectrum Readiness up. Now that i talk about todays readiness, let me shift to the future i also told, i think we will ha...

Has been a threat in syria and elsewhere. So, again, i go back to we can only do so much. We didnt have a presence in iraq as you know for the very reason you mentioned because the iraqis would not give us the immunity in what we needed to get in sofa. I think all of those are parts of the answers to your questi s questions, sir. Would you agree with the secretary that the Current Situation in iraq is in our National Economic and security interest . Oh, i do agree if for no other reason than oil...

Ones that general dempsey talked about, just threw down their weapons. We had obviously as general dempsey said, are always working options and scenarios but and we knew isil for the reasons general dempsey talked about, has been a threat in syria and elsewhere. So, again, i go back to we can only do so much. We didnt have a presence in iraq as you know for the very reason you mentioned because the iraqis would not give us the immunity in what we needed to get in sofa. I think all of those are p...