Meant that he didnt have a military plan were immediately responding to this, then that is not a strategy. That is an operational plan. So either he didnt have a strategy or he doesnt understand what strategy it is. Either way, im troubled by the comments and it is yet to be explained and the strategy is not just a military action but how you employ diplomacy and your power of information and influence and economic power and it encompasses all of the elements of government in power and the building of coalitions and the forming of helping governance change social problems that might help you succeed. And in addition to a military, that is just one part of it and thats not a strategy in and of itself. Yes, sir . [inaudible] sir, i think that we need more of the people that we need and we need more captain ripleys and cross fries and you are right that for conventional war you can train people in 90 to 180 days and you can get very good soldiers to have a small war and im sure youve read
Host of the National War College. The last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. Thank you [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war was the most important decision the republic could make. War is the greatest threat to the public. War focuses power on the executive saying since the executive has more incentive to go to war the founders placed the power of going to war the congress not the executive. The founder who understood war better than any president was George Washington who gave a long farewell address and spelled out the Foreign Policy of the foreigners. He said we should stay neutral in war and cut all foreign powers because they will entangle us in their wars. To support neutrality washington said be leerly and not to borrow more money than we can pay off and avoid political factions. Sounds good me. I am sticking with george. Harvey is the moderator. Bruce you will go first and then john and harvey is going to ask q
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Whether the nsa collects any kind of data at all about millions or tens of millions of americans. He said no. But much more often there is just radically misleading information. There are comments made. There is information provided that if a friend or Family Member did that to you, you would consider them to have betrayed you. You would consider them to have deliberately led you down the wrong path. Here is an example, the collection of all the call records. He does keep coming back to that and not the overseas collection. I want to go through all of it. But for a long time the government said, we wont tell you at all how many times we use this power that the patriot act gave us to collect Business Records. Its the Business Records provision. It would its top secret, which means it would do grave harm to the security of the United States if we told the number of times we used it. Then Congress Passed a law requiring them to disclose how many times they used it. They came out one year
Also less known about you also is the work youve done in academia. While you were an adjunct at the Richmond Law School or whether you were at the Columbia Law School as a Senior Research scholar. This is it a row fou profoundly fascinating career and i think when you were sworn in, i couldnt improve on the word, a proven leader and faithful advocate for the American People. And with that welcome, thank you for being here. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much. And hang you, ladies and gentlemen. I dont know if i got the short straw or the long straw getting the friday afternoon key note event. I will try to be brief and then id love to have a conversation with you about whatever youd like to talk about. And ill just avoid anything i dont want to talk about. What i thought i would do is give he yyou a sketch of where e the fbi and where i see myself on the things i need to focus on at the close of 12 months in this wonderful job. I have eight years and 52 weeks left on