Translation question and answer system, do you have that in place . And how do you assure that the answers that youre getting are real. I can tell you, from my own experience dealing with Asylum Seekers in other countries sometimes you need to ask. There are cultural issues about can you really ask them about rape, can you ask them about other family members . Are they afraid that any answer that they give to you is going to then be communicated back to their home country. So they tend not to be as truthful as they should be. I think the chairmans question pertained to mexican nationals. So, with regard to mexican nationals, all of the Border Patrol agents speak spanish. And so thats the thing we focus on as an agency that we are con sis tent and that we are fair and ensure that everyone is properly interviewed. Do you have someone, for example, who understands country conditions in a certain region of mexico, in columbia, in venezuela venezuela, in nicaragua, there are people there wh
Respond also to some of the questions and issues that have has arisen. The aba is the largest voluntary Bar Association in the United States and one of the largest voluntary professional organizations in the world. The commission on immigration, and ill try to be clear which Commission Im speaking of when i use that term. The immigration coordinates abas efforts to ensure fair treatment and Due Process Rights for all immigrants and refugees in the u. S. That work takes the form of policy advocacy, Educational Programming and operating pro bony notice bono. Immigration detention is particularly important to the aba for two reasons. One impedes the access to counsel. The fact of generally remote detention locations much less the conditions that pertain in those facilities makes it extremely difficult for people to access pro bono representation. Its particularly hard for pro say se people. Imagine being in a Detention Center, not speak english and coming forward with crabtive effort tran
The Armed Services chairman who is retiring. We are starting off on that note. Then his last big bill, the Defense Authorization bill is going to be the first matter up for consideration. , when we knewht senate,forward with the there has been an agreement struck about 3 00 today. Earlierittle bit depending on the level of cooperation. There is going to be a series of votes that will lead to the passage of the Defense Authorization bill. And itat has happened passes, the bill will go to president obama. That, then we are in the end of the year negotiations on time and how to compress time in order to get the rest of the work done. When it comes to the spending bill, what are the chances that its going to pass the senate . Will the senate be in on saturday to get this done . Guest thats the big deal. There will 00 votes, be a series of negotiations between all 100 senators behind the scenes. They will figure out whether or has to go through to process of filing cloture cut off the debat
Plotting an attack against the states, article two still gives the president the to conduct whatever is necessary to protect the united gives me causet to be confident that we arent theing the security of United States at risk and that we will be able to come back and decision. Dependent if isis poses a threat to the United States in another country as to whether its a good idea to bring to country as well, which may involve a completely different set of factors. For johnson. I think much of this discussion underscores my primary point is we should spend a lot of time on definition. Of time defining exactly who the enemy is. Name one group, defined. So if we spend a lot of time defining a lote enemy is and spend of time finding exactly what the and then be 100 committed to the objective, anybodys hand, dont ations. Imit is is if we do that it will be easier the partners that will also be 100 committed to the exact properly defined objective. Example, the first gulf war. When the first
That morning, i knew what it was like to belong to an Intelligence Agency that had been ringing the bell for many months about the plans to attack. Thatf us were devastated al qaeda operatives were able to carry out such horrific attacks in simultaneous fashion. While i remit or walking the halls of cia that day to ensure as many agencies as possible had left the building. They work through that day and that night in the following days in the following nights to piece together the clues as to what plans are underway to carry out more attacks. Their cia brothers and sisters who were dispersed around the globe many in dangerous environments to the same thing only 15 days after 9 11 under it was cia who put the First American boots on the ground in afghanistan. Less than two months after arriving the United States suffered its First Casualty what a 32yearold cia officer was killed in action november 25. Ciae his death, 20 other officers have lost their lives around the world the events of