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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard thursday from two american killed in the attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi libya. The Committee Also heard testimony from the leaders of the state departments accountability review board on benghazi. Here is a twohour portion of the hearing. Committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. First, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes two minutes well spent ...

Concerns. So ill be up testifying in front of the Senate Banking committee again on tuesday. I do that before both the House Financial Services committee and the Senate Banking committee, required to do it at least every six months. Typically its been a bit more frequent than that. [laughter] but i always value that opportunity and look forward to it again next week. Its always just because republicans on the House Financial Services just really like to see you and talk to you because they reall...

Necessary tunneling capacity under the hudson and tunnels currently serving extraordinary number of passengers on amtrak side and very diplomatic, mr. Chairman. Much painful history. Those tunnels are over 100 years old. Your first, do i agree, that it is an essential investment . We absolutely must do something about those. I believe were approaching 110yearold tunnels. They not only constrain capacity but at certain point they will become a real safety risk. And you know, think about the uphea...

To enhance this comprehensive Intelligence Driven program to detect previously unknown terrorists had and their facilitators. For example research and analysis identified by a lawenforcement agency suspected of being a syrian foreign fighter revealed the identity of a new suspect which provided previously unknown information and expanded our intelligence framework. As a foreign fighter threat grows cv he works in Close Partnership with federal Law Enforcement counterterrorism intelligence commun...

Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded co...

Corruption and the babylonians and the greeks had arguments about the use of it in some forms. I think this will continue to be a policy tension that we have to navigate. You will have love to talk about getting some better hackers. I think we have questions from the audience. If anyone has anything. [inaudible] david from politico. Can you elaborate a little bit more on white house observation of what was going on at the jp morgan and the other Financial Institutions and in what context . Was a...

The result was overwhelming. The house stood up to the American People and for the constitution. That is something we can all celebrate. We sent a strong signal; that if the government wants to collect information on u. S. Citizens, get a warrant. Thank you for your hard wok on this important issue, and i look forward to working together with each of you to keep pushing for safer, more secure internet. All right. Thank you, congresswoman lofgren. And next up, alan grayson, representative alan gr...

This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give yo [no audio] friends, and the loved ones of those killed, we can never adequately express our condolences and our gratitude. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] we are experiencing technical problems with the audio. We are working to fix that. The house panel looked at the 2012 attack in benghazi. Gregory starr testified about changes made to security at diplomati...

Interpol, u. N. Headquarters in new york. Among discussions was either to eliminate or cut by 50 the fbis international offices. Again, another act of absolute stupidity. I want to go to the hill and argue anybody who raises the issue to tell them how stupid it is, why we need the relationships, why we need representations, and how every day it affects u. S. And health of the u. S. National security. An example of that, a particular u. S. Senator i will not name, landed once in a foreign country...

Store was burned down. At a Community Meeting one resident blamed violence on people coming into ferguson to take advantage of the unrest. We know it is our side. We know that. But what can we do about that . We cannot stop them because were fearful for our lives. Reporter the community and Law Enforcement are hoping there wont be a fifth night of violence. We will have live coverage from philadelphia, vigil coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00. A developing news right now, we have learn late to...