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Their report came out in the summer of 2004, which was very timely for bushs reelection campaign, it basically avoided finding fault with the government, instead had all these broad big theories. It turned out a lot of the 9 11 Commission Information came from torture. The 9 11 commissioners were actually sending requests to the cia to find out more information about this and that and so many of the details which they provided in their official storyline of the 9 11 attacks came from torture of some of the suspects. Phillip chennin of the New York Times has done some excellent work on that. It...

Ward have returned. Largely because of the fact that the cost of your the value of your property rather was taken into account of how much recovery money you got. So you saw people who had similar damage to more affluent house holds but were short changed 75,000 because their properties were not worth the same. We have to care about the fact that we talk a lot about fossil fuels. But we dont talk as much about the fact that people of color and low income people disproportionately live near these polluting plants. You know, the super dome is a symbol in any ways for what happened after katrina....

Issues like labor trafficking and hhs and how they allowed kids to get into the hands of traffickers. Government oversight there. Next month we will be combatting looking at the ways to combat isis propaganda and locking at our government response to that for those who follow what we do, that will be something well be looking at next week. Certainly a topical issue and one that everybody is concerned about is how do you stop this isis propaganda from taking more and more of our impressionable young people and radicalizing them. Well look at the opiate abuse issue. And some specific issues we t...

Good morning, this hearing will come to order. We have one witness who parked over at Union Station and making his way over here. He can join us when he gets here. I want to thank the witnesses for appearing for your time, your testimony. The Mission Statement of this committee, you have heard it repeatedly, but ill repeat it again. To enhance the economic and National Security of america. On the Homeland Security side, one of our top four priorities is doing whatever we can to keep our homeland safe to counter islamic terror. The goal of every hearing, from my standpoint coming from a manufac...

Something you highlighted in your testimony about them acting recently to recognize that lgbt rights are human rights. A first in that forum. You highlighted it and it is very important in moving forward. I guess i want to ask in terms of your po posals and recommendations to others, how important it is for governments and authorities and regimes to say lgbt rights are human rights and how dangerous is the absence of that, the silence to that. Thank you for this important question. From my own experience being a gay man in syria, i know i knew at an early age that the government has laws again...