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Soldiers thoughts on closing gitmo. I have no doubt that closing this jeopardizes the safety and security of the United States and our citizens abroad. If the success or the failure of the mission at gitmo is based on the number of attacks against the United States after 9 11, im confident everyone in this room would join me in judging the mission has been successful. Intelligence collection and National Security have been strengthened as a result of gitmo and america remains a safer place thank...

Raymond clarks ancestors came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of d...

Suggestions. One of them fundamentally altered the core of that document. Wwor they were trying to grapple with how the dynamic works and how does the structure play out. Those are complicated issues for people to understand. Its one thing to turn around comments on am radio as much as we love it. For Something Like dynamic reserve pricing to understand how it works and affects your ability is something terribly different. The only thing i have to conclude when i see Something Like that happen w...

Based on sfaemfamily alone integratets got to be based on sommer it and family contribution. That has to be dealt with as well. Yet you have 12 to 20 Million People in this country that have lived here for more than a decade, otherwise havent violated the laws. I get all that. What ive learned is you cant even have a conversation about that until people believe and know not just believe but its proven to them that futile Legal Immigration will be controlled. That is the single biggest lesson of ...

Clear. Its still 2015, but apparently. This is what the future will look like. Noisy, isnt it . Taliban fighters in pakistan claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches packed with sunday worshipers. At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in lahore. Victoria reports. The Pakistani Taliban timed attacks for maximum devastation, the two churches packed with those attending sunday services. There was chaos in the moments after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. ...

Hearings, there are many experts who would contend the complexity of the geopolitics that led to the u. S. Retreat from europe created an opening for putin and the ukraine. Clearly we must closely coordinate with our european friends for the sanctions against russia to work but i think without any doubt we can all agree on one point and that is that the United States must take the lead. I believe the administration the legislation passed with unanimous consent in both houses of congress. It auth...

You have no other identity. [speaking spanish] translator and that is what makes me stand here today and raise my voice to say enough. President obama spoke with reporters today following a daylong meeting at camp david with arab leaders of the gulf cooperation council. He addressed several issues including iran nuclear negotiations, conflict in syria israel and palestine and todays vote in the senate to advance trade legislation. He also talked about u. S. Commitment to maintaining security in ...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the rec...

It comes back operationally, we do tolerate failure. The first thing in the field, this is not a zero mentality. People make mistakes. Theres fog and friction and we reward innovation and i think it exists. Constitutional ly institutionally, its a little harder. But in the acquisition realm the processes are not they grind on so its not that they dont reward innovation. Its that innovation and new ideas dont naturally arise from it because theres a risk aversion. Everybody wants a piece of it, t...

That fbi can do . There isnt a magic bullet. It is, to us, it is about a full court press making sure that we are that we have sources where we need them to be, that we have the capability, both the know how and Technical Capability to play in the online space where theyre meeting and recruiting and radicalizing and were closely connected to state and local partners. Theyre far more likely to hear about a guy leaving a community and going to syria and were connected with our intelligence partner...