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the appalling targeting of the police is going on in this country right now i hope that is not the message you want to send two brave men and women that wear the uniform to protect us. police officers and law enforcement officials can t count on federal law enforcement officials to back them up who can they rely on? seeing no other witnesses think you attorney general for your questions in her time today. without objection all members have five additional days to submit additional records for the hearing. with that this hearing is adjourned. next u.s. senators talk about the terrorist attacks in paris. several u.s. senators went to to the center for disheartening to talk about the recent terrorist attacks in paris and their related security concerns at home. a year ago the gulf for the goal was to destroy iso. no one should take this as a criticism of the men and women and uniform as well as their civilian counterparts in the field doing the best they can under the st
what specific steps is the fbi doing to ensure that innocent americans are not incorrectly placed on the no-fly list and what reforms are being made to ensure that those who are erroneously placed on the lists are quickly removed? thank you. i know i agree with your premise that it s important to protect our liberties. i know we have an extensive process that we go through before someone can get on the list to make sure we have got it right and as you said i m aware of the process to remove someone if there is a mistake or the matters and close in some fashion. i don t know enough to respond to your concern about the time lag or what improvements are needed. could you respond to us in writing? sure. let me then ask about hate crime tracking. after the 9/11 attacks hate crime and violence committed against individuals in the seikh hindu and arab communities has increased. in receipt years there has been violent attacks across the country including the horrific massacre
infiltration of the cybersystem from economic and financial criminals. i would like to hear about the challenges presented from the international aspect. finally i applaud the deputy attorney-general on the recording of federal custodian interviews and your support of this new policy. of with this new presumption all fbi custodial interviews will be recorded and it helps all sides of the case. prosecutors can share recorded confessions with the jury for those who feel they have been treated unfairly can fall back on recorded evidence. there are few exceptions that gives me pause but i want to see this new policy and i look forward to the fbi priorities today. i will use my a communications to fill in any questions that may not be able to be covered within that period. thank you and the chairman and i yield back in the balance of time. without objection all other members opening statements will be made a part of a record. our only witness the director is joining us today. pl
thank you director for your testimony suggesting the fbi is probating the scandal of the veterans affairs. yes. the phoenix office is. i would encourage you to probe that. to cds end up with of attention to be held accountable. in terms of benghazi and perpetrators at this point to find them to bring them to justice at this point? in any case all instruments are brought to bear. render standing you don t have that legal authority for whoever you want to uc committed. is that your understanding? i don t want to talk about how i approach that investigation and don t want to get anything away. that we ve run into a problem that they them have the authority to respond but what happens is leading up to that? there was no congressional authorization for that. but somehow he would not have the authority to seek a reprisal attack that does not square with me to seems there would be the intervention with the weaker case especially given in 2001. the reports the fbi had not