And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working
Democratic forces could be a partner, to which you could send ammunition . Col. Warren i saw some press reporting about the Syrian Democratic coalition. Know who the members of the coalition are. Is, if different ethnic groups are coalescing around this common enemy called isil, that is a good thing. I dont have details on this newly formedoup or umbrella organization. Was only announced i guess publicly yesterday. I dont know. What i do know is anytime subgroups coalesce around this isil, andmy called seek to defeat this common enemy called isil, this is a good thing. As every leader in the u. S. Government has said, we will talk with anyone to fight i saw isil. I am from the washington examiner. What is going to happen to the u. S. Troops that were doing the training of the Syrian Rebels . Will they now be doing a couple days of training for the leaders or will they be reassigned . Col. Warren that is still to be determined. Many of those forces are continuing. There is one final cla
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Whether the nsa collects any kind of data at all about millions or tens of millions of americans. He said no. But much more often there is just radically misleading information. There are comments made. There is information provided that if a friend or Family Member did that to you, you would consider them to have betrayed you. You would consider them to have deliberately led you down the wrong path. Here is an example, the collection of all the call records. He does keep coming back to that and not the overseas collection. I want to go through all of it. But for a long time the government said, we wont tell you at all how many times we use this power that the patriot act gave us to collect Business Records. Its the Business Records provision. It would its top secret, which means it would do grave harm to the security of the United States if we told the number of times we used it. Then Congress Passed a law requiring them to disclose how many times they used it. They came out one year