App . Im not banging them, but we need to get people focused on the data going out there. This is twofold. What was brought up, does the fcc have the capacity to manage the prioritization and distribution of the spectrum or are they thinking about the issue . To what degree the governance play with the Global Nature of iot . I will take a step. Its usable and on time. Some shouldnt exist at all. Everybody is here and i think thats technically true although they have enforcement and improper use and so forth. There these passes set aside for shared use and technology knows how to hop around and it detects interference and finding unused portions and any systems that have a certain resilience. I dont think that is necessarily going to be a big thing in terms of solving the problems, but others may have other perspectives on that. The prioritization with a couple programs around the federal partnership with communications as well as the 50 net program looking at when we instrument these up, how do we understand and provide allocations through for example, the first responders. Everyone is at the scene of the fire streaming that video back up to you tube where as the Fire Department would like to stream it back to the inbound truck. How do we ensure that there is proper allocation to places where potentially it could provide the most good or should there just are a separate set all together. This is still in a researchdevelopment phase of discussion and deployment right now. Hi. We talked a lot about capability. Im wondering who is leading on the issues of data ownership through the life cycle of the data and liability. Who are those star lawyers that are helping you along the way to build that in like you need to build security in. Im not a lawyer, im an engineer, but it dove tails from the question earlier. From that perspective, we are interested in can we provide specific tangible privacy requirements that then can be used with enough level of specificity so that privacy capabilities around redress confidentiality and transparency and ownership effective understanding of privacy risk can all be built and designed into the system with the concept of privacy by design as we start to deploy these things out. Whoever is making those decisions can have that built in as we go forward. We are looking at it at the capability and providing what references that we can to allow for the systems to have the capabilities to enforce or implement whatever the Privacy Policy happens to be. How many are lawyers . Are you a lawyer . Thats better than the usual rate. I never practiced a day in my life. Do i get credit for that . Yes. I cant say that. Right now its really extensive with the internet privacy. I havent seen it and i may have missed it. Lets look at the ownership of stick with my date as it moves around the world. I think thats coming. All of this is i i i feel like we are at the leading edge of technology and policy on this. [inaudible]. There was a debate among economists and one famous economist said that we saw Information Technology everywhere but in the productivity statistics. The good news is he was wrong. The people buy things for a while. You dont see a benefit. Because they have to figure out how to use them and innovate. Then you got a burst of Economic Growth that drove the u. S. Economy for about a decade. Im hopeful that we can get this stuff right and it may not be as distinguishable as the it revolution, but we see a similar fufrt. This was an increase to income. With that, thats the goal here for us. Thinking of all the issues we talked about, Security Privacy standards and international cooperation, but i think we are on the path to maybe do this. I found it to be an excellent panel. 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This is hearing number two reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to the order. The chairman notes a forum ommit taking testimonyte pursuant to e number and house rule number. I will recognize myself and the gentlemen from maryland. Tember o in september of 2012, americans were kill and others were lled injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith and woods and chris, stevens died under the circumstances most of us cannot gather om. I wanted to ask my colleague. To even not just to the words, but having to live through or die through the experience. 11 on september 11th 2o 12 at 9 45 p. M. , 20 or more men engaged in the mission. Several members have been embas identified among this sygroup. La the attackers were armed with ak 47 rifles and rockpropelled s. Grenade launchers. They were set onfire fire. The fire set during the attack led to the deaths of ambassadorn stevens and remaining personnelt escaped to a nearby facility. And also came under attack and continued throughout the early i morningch hours of september 11 12th, culminating in a mortar. Attack with tyrone woods and doherty. Its the now official position of the government. Filed in u. S. District court by the department of justice with the that will stand trial. Wea thepo weapons of war are terrort groups and it is interesting to note the use of the word terrorist so rarely used in the days and weeks by people in ry r positions of power. Charging the very defendant ell accused ofam tilling our four t fellow americans. Th ien terrorists resulted in death. Thats the official charge, theg officiale, position of the unit states. In the days after the attack, the word terrorist was changed t and nowhe they use the word haz attack. In the days after, they edited a out and changed the word attack. Its one thing to have it initially and effectual low geti it right. Its another thing to change i so that it is wrong. I remain keenly aware that thost questions have been answered. S r there is nothing left to do and no more do you means to review. It is worth noting that the samn folks didnt think they should have been looked at in the first place. Gree. I disagree. Not t i dont think we should move on until there is an understanding of how the security environmen described by our own government. And Court Documents was allowed to exist. I dont think we should move on until we understand why we werel told special precautions should be taken prior to the anniversary of 9 11. What precautions were taken . Where . By whom . Why were we told the facility was secure when we now know that was false. It wasnt true. We should not move on until there is a complete understanding of why asks for security were denied and by whom and why an ambassador trusted us in a dangerous land was not trusted to know what security he needed to do his job. It has been two years and you know the request for additional equipment were denied, but we ad dont have a full understandinga and weve did not move on until there is a complete until understanding. Andle why the official position of our government is so different today than in the days and the weeks after benghazi. The facts and the evidence has not changed. It changed a lot. A this hearing will ensure the recommendations made after the o effects are implemented and i will process worthy of the memory of the four who were n bg killed and worthy of the respece of our fellow citizens. But i pledge that we are going to keep asking questions until we have a complete understanding of what happened. To that stend, we will have hearings in january, february, h and march and until that leaves access to all the do you means and all the witnesses with knowledge. This committee will be the last. Best hope for answering the kwesz sounding the attacks. Nd u we my wind up answering questions more than once. We may risk answering a question twice. Ven an that seems like what others have given and are currently giving. That i would recommend. You, thank you very much. For holding the hearing and our he was hearing on this topic and 3r0 posed my congressman. These demonstrate and continue with both democrats and republicans to make our embassyc safe. As i have often said, this is our watch. This is not about today or tomorrow. So we all take this assignment seriously. Over t the course of 18 months investigations, first by the byt independent accountability and then by what changes from the diplomats overseas. As we have also when it comes to benghazi, too many people are n unaware that questions have been answered or are unwilling to accept answers. Our ben gazao the record, they centralize in one place these answers. Since we met, the house from the committee on intelligence public low released the bipartisan unanimously adopted report. As we explain, this report and the nearly two years of what they reflect is meant to serve on the intelligence communitiesr activities before before, during, and after that caused the deaths before brave americans. And the quote. They join the previous conclusions of the se armed republicanled House Armed Services committee by the militarys readiness and responses and attacks. E to our committees view and accept the findings as we do not think there is a reason for this reine committee to revrth these facts. Repeated by the republican and democratic colleagues and kwander millions of hardworking dollars that come from hardworking taxpayers. Appre we appreciate they decided to focus on the constructively an reform. Instead of the same ground theya investigatedte. Investigated in a way that perhaps one would look at it er under a high powered microscope. We urge them to keep the focus on these efforts and not be lured off by politics. We are p bigger than that and better than that. I appreciate you for the discussions where you have agreed by the end of the year to give us the scope and the scopee of what we will be looking at and come to conclusions so we can focus on what needs investigating. You agreed with the rules of the committee and you and i agre tes its nice to u have structure because it helps to deal with issues that may come up. Immediately after the attack, they conducted a pliftering examination of what went wrong i and identified 29 recommendations for reform. Secretary clinton accepted every one of them. They expected the that the department waste no time. During during the first hearing three r months rago, assistant secretar star testified that the department imposed 22 of the rbs 29 recommendations. Since then, the department has continued making steady progress. Im pleased to hear that. M plea it closed three more recommendations and continues to make progress on the remaining four. The department has delivered fire Safety Equipment to all buo one high threat post and it affirmed compliance and safe area in overcities facilities. A they have all but one high but threat posts. Irmed it affirmed compliance with the safe hachs. They fount that of the last one may have contributed to the tragic consequences that night. I hear that the department has completed this recommendation since our last meeting and endai closed theon recommendation forc increasing diplomatic staffing identified by the arb. E new mr. Stars testimony indicates that the department intends to complete all of the remaining new hires by early 2015. They also instituted the threat or training for high risk postsp andos created a working group t develop joint Risk Management forces further addressing shortcomings that the arv identified with regard to the r training and expertise of the department personnel. Look f ior am looking forward to heari about the work that remains to be done. We are joined by inspector living in a september 2013 report. His office made several commen recommendations thatda overlapp to a large degree with the recommendatio recommendation. Ics six are now closed. They have weather the they made the changes and they are communicating effectively and k Decision Making authority is centralized and clear. Regarding due process, the Generals Office examined the 12 convened following the 1998 Embassy Bombings through the benghazi attacks. They concluded that they operats independently and without bias to identify vulnerabilities in g the Security Programs. The Inspector General recommended and it was my mmenda understanding that they had those recommendations that are ongoing. As i c as i close, one of these recommendations was for the department to amend the foreigna affairs to kmugzallize the report that noticed and i quote, the panelling of benghazi represented a significant departure from the previous norm in that secretary clinton took charge of the implementation process. The Inspector General found thal the high level attention devoted to this and i quote, establisheo a model for how the department should handle future mr recommendations. I am interested in. Hearing fm you about the recommended change. To that end i yield back. The gentlemen from maryland. The committee will receive testimony from the witness panel. The firstnk will be gregory b d star, the assistant secretary at the department of state. Onorable the second will be the honorablo Inspector General for the department of state. General welcome to both of you and apologies for you having to wait on me. You are recognized for theminute opening. You wi thell light what is they and traditionally mean in life. Thank you, chairman and Ranking Member and distinguishe members. Thank you for updating me on the accountability review bort. The inspector worked closely with the bureau on many issues,a some of which they highlighted for discussion today. I am focussed on the benghazi i issues, i hope there insights m into howe the report works to. Improve security around the world. The task of keeping u. S. Personnel overseas is dynamic dn and an evolving process. We work to protect our practices andour our people. T its an important tool towards the goal and today we are safer and more secure because of the recommendations of the benghazie panel and other it is. Ogress o the progress is punishable and many of the lessons are further incorporated into of t policy. Of the 29, we closed 25 of them. That includes we closed since septemb september, my last testimony. We are committed to finishing m that workk, y and teto do so on final four recommendations and will not lose sight on the improvements that have been fewx implemented. D like to highlight what has been done since the attacks of benghazi. We have more security and Department Defense personnel ont the ground onme thent facilitie today. We have increased the high nts y threat course. We have expanded the Foreign Affairs counter threat because x we recognized that the value of these skills extends to all Service Personnel or other employees that are posted overseas. Theyreas. Skills to make us sa and make them safer. There b