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During the cold war a key battleground was above and below the optics. Of submarines armed with Nuclear Missile stood ready to destroy american or russian cities within minutes. For more than forty years the two sides come from today each other using the best military and intelligence technologies available. But unknown to its participants the cold war furnished the means to study one of the biggest threats facing us today. On changing climate. In one nine hundred ninety two led by the cia seven...

Good morning. The committee will come to order. A little bit unusual to be here that Convention Center for an energy hearing. But i think it is certainly appropriate given the subject matter that we have today. I certainly didnt mind the short commute over here. But it is a great setting to be at the auto show, surrounded by the latest and the great the Auto Industry has to offer. Im joined this morning with vice senator stav no from the great state of michigan and she as if krjed me that while ...

Good morning. The committee will come to order. A little bit unusual to be here that Convention Center for an energy hearing. But i think it is certainly appropriate given the subject matter that we have today. I certainly didnt mind the short commute over here. But it is a great setting to be at the auto show, surrounded by the latest and the great the Auto Industry has to offer. Im joined this morning with vice senator stav no from the great state of michigan and she as if krjed me that while ...

Acknowledging the costs and consequences if we had to take a course of action. Secretary carter speaking now just very generally and not specifically, the two things that make it the successful implementation and agreement preferable from that point of view to a strike is the effects of a strike are temporary. And secondly, iran would, as i said earlier, respond to an American Military strike upon iran and one needs to a through what the set when steps are including the possibility that iran, at...

So i look forward to working with you on that. Former administrator pistol implemented a riskbased approach to passenger screening. However, both the Government Accountability office and the office of Inspector General have identified shortcomings with this approach. Especially when it comes to granting passengers expedited screening through managed inclusion. Significant shortcommings that ive observed with with managed inclusion include problems with the model used to identify passengers for t...

Equipment the work force needs today while envisioning how to modernize our system and transform the traveling experience in the future. I see a future where advanced capabilities can transform the experience while preserving risk based security as a central feature. I think its possible in a an individuals buy row metric identity could become the boarding pass of the future. Linked to Intelligence Systems and requiring passage through an integrated capability design tore detect metallic and non...

Address the threat to Aviation Security. Unfortunately, t. S. A. Is still having problems with its technology today. For example, last month, it was reported that auditors posing as passengers were able to smuggle mock explosives and banned weapons through checkpoints at various airports across the country. Earlier this spring, the Inspector General released a report claiming that t. S. A. Does not properly manage the maintenance of its airport screening equipment. According to the i. G. , t. S....

As i have seen in the wisconsin v. A. Facility and in the rest of the nation, the role of whistleblowers is critical to running an effective organization. Agencies need to be open to accepting constructive criticism in order to improve, especially agencies such as the v. A. This has been tremendously important to the mission of taking care of our veterans. Ms. Lerner, i wanted to thank you for mentioning ryan hunnell in your statement. People like ryan truly make a difference and in particular, ...

Magazine this week on press here. Good morning, everyone. Im scott mcgrew. Recently the Transportation Safety agency the tsa, tested its own effectiveness at airports throughout the United States attempting to sneak guns and bombs and other weapons past tsa officers. The results were abysmal, nearly every pistol grenade, ied and knife made it past a 95 failure rate. A failure rate so staggering maybe it would be more effective to let nine out of people get on willy nil willynilly on the plain wi...

I think up until well, really, up to the year 1600 when we didnt have any particular tools to investigate the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe, and not even knowing that our five senses had limits. If its everything you know you think its everything the universe is trying to give you, but in fact its not. And so around 1600 with the invention of the microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other directi...