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 cant 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 strategic and operational constraints they face, especially the white houses desire envisioning the vietnam war tactics that the white house has micromanaged the military campaign. Its not that we have done nothing against isil. Its that there is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing will be sufficient to destroy iso. Thousands of airstrikes against isils targets have conjured the illusion of progress that they have produced little in the way of decisive effects. I noted with some interest that we provided some targeting for the french who carried out airstrikes. I wonder why we hadnt done any of that in the last year. Isil continues to dominate sunniarab areas in the world in both iraq and syria and efforts to reclaim Major Population Centers in those areas such as mosul and have stalled to say the least. Meanwhile isil continues to expand globally. Its now operating in afghanistan, yemen, libya, lebanon and egypt and other radical Islamist Groups like al gore on, nigeria and alshabaab in somalia have pledged allegiance to isil. Disappearance of success only enhance those isils ability to radicalize, recruit and grow. And now in the past month isil has commenced a new stage in its war on the civilized world by unleashing a wave of terrorist attacks across the globe. In angkor out, isil detonated two bombs outside of the train station killing 102 people and injuring over 400 more. Isil and egypt destroyed a russian civil airliner with a bomb that killed all 224 passengers aboard. In beirut i so conducted to suicide am exec killed 43 people and injured 239 more. Baghdad isil bond and killed 26 people, would more than 60 others and finally in the streets of paris last week as we all know that gunmen wearing suicide else attacked innocent civilians at a soccer stadium and a concert hall killing at least 129 and wounding 352 other people. The American People have experienced this kind of terror before and we stand together with the people of turkey, russia lebanon iraq, france and nearly 20 other nations whose citizens were murdered by these brutal atrocity committed is. These reveal nothing new about isils character and isil is the face of evil in our world today. The it has crucified its enemies but headed innocent journalist burned a muslim pilot alive in a cage. It has condemned women and children and girls to slavery and torture and unspeakable sexual abuse. And waging war on the living has failed to satisfy its savagery isil has desecrated and destroyed many of the monuments to civilization that remain across the middle east. Isis latest attacks reveal nothing about its intentions. Everything that isil is doing is what their leaders have long said they would do. They have stated their aim explicitly and clearly. All we have to do is listen to their words. Indeed as one author put it, isil has toiled mightily to make their projects knowable. What these attacks have demonstrated how and what now should be clear is that isil is at war with us whether or not we admit it and that we are war within. What should now be clear is that isil is determined to attack the heart of the civilized world. Europe and the United States. It has the intent to attack us and the capability to attack us and the sanctuary from which to plan those attacks. What should now be clear is our people and our allies will not be safe until isil is destroyed, not just degraded that destroyed , not eventually but is it as possible. Unfortunately, and were generally almost tragically this president , president obama remains as ideologically committed as ever to stay the course he is on an impervious to new information that would suggest otherwise as he made quite clear during his incredible press conference yesterday in turkey. According to the president of the United States, anyone who disagrees with him is quote popping off. Popping off. I guess Michael Morell former deputy secretary of the cia was just popping off when he said recently the downing of a Russian Airliner only the third such attack in 25 years the largest in europe since the madrid bombings in 2004 make it Crystal Clear that her eyes a strategy is not working. That comes from Michael Morell, former deputy head of the cia under this president did i guess senator dianne feinstein, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee was just popping off when she said isil is not contained, isil is expanding and we need new military strategy and tactics. I guess general jack keane, one of my euros, architect of the successful surge strategy in iraq is just popping off when he said quote we are at at losing this war and moreover i can say with certainty that this strategy will not defeat ice is. This strategy will not defeat ice is. That comes from the author of the search which succeeded which the president by withdrawing all troops allowed it to go completely to waste and the lives of rave Young Americans are wasted. I guess Hillary Clinton the world former secretary of state was just popping off when she declared her support for nofly zone and syria to stop the carnage on the ground and from the airport i guess general David Petraeus was just popping off when he testified to the Armed Services committee that the president strategy has failed to create the military conditions to end the conflict in syria and that isil will not be defeated until we do so. And i guess James Jeffrey a career foreign officer in the president ambassador to iraq was just popping off when he wrote in the Washington Post today that the president needs to send thousands of round troops to destroy isil. What all of these National Security leaders recognize is the reality that is staring us right in the face. It is the president who is once again failing to grasp it. He fails to understand even now the wars dont end just because he says they are over. Better terrorist enemies are not defeated just because he says they are and the threat posed by isil is not contained because he desires it to be so and that maybe, just maybe the growing group of his bipartisan critics might just be right. Why wont he listen to them to ask why wont he listen to these people with experience and knowledge and background . Who does he listen to . Who does the president listened to . It couldnt be anybody knowledgeable and make the comments that he made at that press conference. The president has had to go back on everything he said he would not do to combat the threats emanating in syria and iraq. He said he would not armed Syrian Rebels because that would militarize the conflict preview was wrong. He said he would not intervene militarily in iraq or syria. He was wrong. He said he would not the truth truth boots on the ground in syria. He was from and how we says the strategy is working and that all it needs is time and no further changes are required despite isils campaign of terror. Now get this straight, after the bombing of paris, after the Russian Airliner, after the other acts of terror he needs time. He needs time and no further changes are required. Does anybody believe them anymore . What the president has failed to understand for nearly five years is that unless and until he leads an International Effort to end the conflict in syria and iraq the cost of this conflict will continue to mount. Those consequences of grown steadily from mass atrocities and hundreds of thousands dead in syria to the repeated use of weapons of mass distraction to the rise of the Worlds Largest terrorist army and his rampage across syria and iraq. Too destabilizing refugee flows that have shaken the stability of syrias neighbors and now potentially changing the character of european society. Now we see the latest manifestation of this threat global terrorist attacks directed and inspired by isil that has killed hundreds across the world. The paris attacks obviously should be a wakeup call for all americans come most of all for the president. If we stay the course, if we dont change your strategy now we will be attacked. I dont know where, when or how but it will happen. Do we need to wait for more innocent people to die before we address the reality that is ripe for us . Isil said it intends to attack washington d. C. Do we not take them at their word . Do we think they are not capable of that . Do we think time is on our side . Its not. Time is not on our side. The lesson that the september 11 attack was that the mass murders cannot be permitted safe havens, cannot be permitted safe havens for which to plot our destruction. Do we really have to pay that price again through the blood of our citizens . For nearly five years, we have been told there is no military solution to the conflict in syria and iraq is if anyone believes there is. In fact one of the things that is most frustrating about the president s rhetoric is that he sets up straw men. He says we should either did nothing for the republicans and democrats as well wanted to send and hundreds of thousands. We do not. We do not. We believe and im convinced that we can send in a force composed of sunni arabs, of egyptians, of turks and americans, about 10,000, established a nofly zone. Allow the refugees a sanctuary and make sure that no barrel bombing will be allowed in those areas. And we can succeed. Isis is not invincible. United states of america and our allies are far stronger stronger. We are the strongest nation on earth and to say that we cant defeat isil is a matter of will, not a matter of whether it is capability or not so i say to my colleagues, the American People, we cant deplete isis and wipe them off off the face of the earth but we have got to have the strategy and this president has never had a strategy. For nearly five years we have been told there is no military solution. There are no good options. Our influence is limited but thats not always the case. We wont succeed overnight. As if our problem is one of time in a policy and we cant solve every problem in the middle east is it that it solves us of our responsibility to make the situation better where we can. This is the capacity of our ape abilities are options. We have eyes had options to address the threat that the longer we wait, the longer we wait the more difficult the risk is there. Four years ago when Lindsay Graham and i came to this for instead we need to have a nofly zone when need to arm their Free Syrian Army and we couldnt have done it then and it would have been one heck of a lot easier. This president did want to do it and we are faced with a more complex, a couple hundred thousand syrians dead refugees later in the present of the United States still wont act. Still believes as he stated in his press conference yesterday that somehow everything is going fine. What delusion. After the attack on france article v of the natos treaty should be invoked. States that attack on one as an attack on all. As we did after 9 11. United states should work with arab partners to assemble a coalition that will take the fight to isil from the inner and on the ground. My friends air attacks only will not succeed. It will not succeed. Im sorry to tell you i apologize ahead of time. We need boots on the ground. Not 100,000 but about 10,000 with the capabilities that are unique to American Servicemen and women and they can defeat isil. We have to step up the air campaign by easing overly restrictive rules of engagement. The same time i got to recognize that isil as i said. Those dont exist today. We must recognize that our direct efforts to support our partners on the ground Iraqi Security forces moderate Syrian Opposition force the Kurdish Peshmerga and sunni tribal forces are insufficient to outpace the growing threat we face. The United States must therefore work to assemble as i mentioned a coalition and ground force that will permit on the order of 10,000 troops. In syria we must hasten the end of the civil war. We must accept that russia and iran are not interested in a negotiated solution that favors u. S. Interests. Russia and iran have entirely different roles than the United States of america in syria. Russia wants to keep boshar assad in power. They want to keep their major influence in the region and they want to protect their base there. United states of america has none of those interests. They want to prop up i appreciate the outpouring of concern of all of my colleagues and all americans about these refugees. The refugees are the result of a failure of president ial and american leadership. Theyre not the cause of it. The cause of these hundreds of thousands or millions of refugees is because our policy failed. Assure alassad slaughter them with aral bombs and we are now faced with the threat in some respects of a possibility of one or more of these refugees have gone through greece and now could possibly as the director of the cia said yesterday possibly Ongoing Operations to try to orchestrate attacks on america. It is often said that america doesnt go abroad in search of monsters to destroy but that doesnt mean there are no monsters in the world that seek to destroy us. The longer we wait to accept this reality, the greater the cost that we will pay. You know, one of my great heroes and role models is as is the case with many of our colleagues as Winston Churchill. I would never compare myself with Winston Churchill and any possible way except sometimes i do have some empathy with Winston Churchill who during the 1930s came to the floor of the parliament and make comments and speeches that were very very moving but no one paid any attention to him. In fact he was ridiculed. In fact Lindsey Graham and i have been ridiculed from time to time because of our assessment of the situation and what needed to be done. So Winston Churchill once said, and i quote, after the crisis have been resolved to some degree and the people of written and the world had awakened, quote and there is a parallel between the situation four years ago and what to Winston Churchill had to say and i quote , when the situation was manageable he was neglected and now that it is thoroughly out of hand the remedies which then might have affected the keyer. There is nothing new in this story. It falls into that long dismal catalogue of the fruitless fruit was this up experience and the confirmed on teachability of mankind. Unwillingness to act when action be simple and effective, confusion of counsel until the emergency becomes, until selfpreservation strikes this jarring gong, these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. I say to my colleagues, we are observing the endless repetition of history. What once upon a time was a manageable situation where the president of the United States said its not a matter of when Bashar Alassad leads, to matter plant. When the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary defense testify before committee is inevitable that bashar assad will go. When the president of the United States continuously said time after time we have a strategy. Its not anything to worry about. They get out of iraq and try red and try red lines in syria and dont do it, dont take any action after the red line is crossed. When his National Security team composed of secretary of state clinton, secretary of defense panetta and then director of the cia David Petraeus all recommended training and arming the Free Syrian Army, he rejected it. So now we find ourselves blessed 240 million dead in syria. More children in school syrian children in school in lebanon than lebanese children. Jordan the very fabric of one of our best friends threatened and unstable because of the huge number of refugees, we find a very unstable middle east and we find isis spread now to libya, lebanon, yemen and other nations. Isis has now established a foothold in afghanistan and the iranians are doing the same. So, its not too late. Its not too late. We have to take up arms. We have to tell the American People whats at stake here. We have to inform the American People that what happened in paris can happen here. Mr. Baghdadi who was once in our prison camp for four years in iraq headset i will see you in new york when he left. He was not kidding. And th