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Will be shot, but understand you may very well be back again and again as the documents that were requested finally come in. For that, i am truly sorry that you may have to come back here again and again, but if we do not receive documents that were requested in plenty of time, then many of your testimony today will be a first round and not in fact a definitive oversight that we expected to have. With that, i recognize the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Thank you very much, mr. Chairm...

Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we bu...

Laughter . This particular group, and we take it as a very serious threat stream, one that were concerned about and sometimes it gets lost on the public the threatbased on of isil. Is that is a threat. Probably threat is more immediate and what concerns us most about it is the working with aqap and other affiliates to put together an thats successful mainly targeted at aviation targets, i think all of that has public, but its serious and its rising up. And its interesting that where you see thes...

Apparently, have been shot down. Shot down, not an accident, blown out of the sky. Ukraine putting the blame squarely on russia, releasing recordings they prove pro russian separatists fired the fatal missile. Russian president Vladimir Putin blamed kiev. The state over which this happened is clearly responsible for the tragedy. Reports suggest a second black box has been recovered from the wreckage. A soldier, 111 palestinians reportedly dead as israel launches its ground offensive in gaza. Pri...

Lifetime e a took place a lifetime ago. And its collapse seems so unimaginable. If i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i had organized a conference. Withe was more associated the cold war. Some of you were there. Of talk aboutt the integration of europe. , knownial the soviet was talking about the reunification of germany. Off desk also the time john and bill had begun their series on sovietamerican relations, the first time sovietamerican scholars got together. Scott a...

The new greek government complained that it was not consulted about the possible new sanctions. It is decision day for the fed. The fomc releases in new statement today. Policymakers are pledging to be patient on the timing of rate increases. Im going to use a tom word. Another stunning quarter for apple. The Company Posted a 30 jump in revenue to 74. 6 billion. Here is ceo tim cook on a Conference Call. Interest in apple products is at an alltime high, with over half a billion customer visits t...

Fence jumper into the white house. Members question Julia Pierson about the breach and whats being done to improve white house security. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee access to secure fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know money washington takes from them is well spent and second america...

Four decades or even more, its a little short of remarkable that were marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. Its remarkable because on the one hand we can recall that event so vividly, but on the other hand, it sometimes seems like it took place a lifetime ago. Its also remarkable because for those of us who pursued our degrees and published our first books during the preceding decades, in some cases before the construction of the wall [ laughter ] its collapse seemed so unimaginabl...

Kagans article and in the new republic of hes a wellknown intellectual. Maybe thats why he got it in the new republic. Other people can write a counter view. If were unhappy with the exceptional view of triumphalism, thats what we historians should try to do without getting caught in our own ideological biases, i would suggest. Im going to make half the panel feel old. I was in high school, i was a freshman when the wall fell. Sorry. At least you werent there when the wall went up. I dont know w...

Scholarship about the causes for the fall of the wall but the proximate causes, the short term events are not wellknown in the nongerman speaking world and so i decided for the anniversary to try to put together that story as best i could and then of course as always happens when you start researching something it becomes more complicated than you expected. It ended up being a fascinating rg 31 so let me just gallop through some of the ideas in my book and then if we have questions we can talk m...