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, they want to add their requirement to it. Its hard to get the process right. Intellectual intellectually, you read other things, you read small wars journal, every major interesting piece that are at odds often with what the secretary and the chief are saying. Thats a great thing. And the army has this incredible ferment. Do those people stay in the army . Are they punished for . I never really sayee that. The army is a culture, and so i have no doubt we have certain cultural biases. We try to no
This is real money. Thats our big concern. As i said, we continue to work with mr. Emerson to see if we can find something that works for lenders like him but that dont fuel the increasing cost of Title Insurance which is too high for home buyers. Recently i met with a group of missouri bankers who came to my office after they had been to visit some representatives over in their building and my bankers were talking about things that were talking about this morning. Qm rule. They were told by the representatives that they were the 41st group to meet with them and basically the gist of the conversation at the end of it was that thank you for coming. We know more about the effects of whats going to happen to the bo borrowers, lenders and market than you do. As a result of that, a number of my delegation members wrote to the director and he responded back to us and madame chair, i would like those two letters made as part of the record. Without objection. In the letter the director indicat
Constitute massive violations on americans privacy. The review group also concluded this. To information contributes terrorist investigations by section 215 was nonessential. They could have been obtained in , usingy manner conventional section 215 orders. Following pages, it said that section 215 provides relevant information in a small number of cases. Withsa cannot say confidence that the outcome would have been different without the alcock without program. On 215 the privacy implications of this sort of massive surveillance in the digital age cannot be overstated. The review group report provides valuable insight. It appropriately questions whether we are drawing a rational line between metadata and content. I think that is critically important, given that many of our surveillance laws depend upon the distinction. This is important as we take up the National Security letters. We do not talk as much about them. Using them, the fbi can obtain detailed information about individuals Co
National security, but including, also, the risk to public trust, risk to privacy, risk to economic values and risk to democratic self governance. So, a major task Going Forward, what our report tries to thread a needle on is to try to ensure a full set of rirkss are taken into account and we arent optimizing only along one dimension. The third point is the importance of accountability which is a unifying theme for our 46 recommendations. Accountability to senior level policy officials, accountability to the legal system, to congress and this committee through increased transparency and disclosure and above all to the American People. Through transparency and disclosure. And i should emphasize that one form of accountability includes steps that would help increase public trust not just within the United States but throughout the world. This is a Diverse Group as noted. We reached all of our recommendations, this is a bit of an upset, by agreement. There are no dissents. There was no ho
Are built to keep you ahead. Mediacom suppoing cspan as a Public Service along with these other tevision providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Thursday a hearing looks at national secury threats tohe u. S. Homeland security secretary mayorkas is joined by Christopher Wray and National Counterterrorism director christine abizaidiving testimony to the goverental affairs committee. Live coverage starts at 10 15 m. On cspan three. You can also watch on the mobile video app cspan now or online on cspan. Org. Defense Department Officials testified on junior rotc sexual abuse allegations before the House Oversight subcommittee. Lawmakers began an investigation after the New York Times published an article showing a pattern of sexual abuse among students who participated in junior rotc programs. The subcommittee will come to order without objection the shares authorized to declare recess. At this time the church recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. Good morning, everyone