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Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being here tonight to discuss for the 2nd time the va Inspector Generals final report entitled an appropriate use of position and misuse of Relocation Program and incentives. We are holding a 2nd hearing tonight because the witnesses we had requested to appear before this committee at the hearing on 21 october chose not to attend or blocked by the department of Veterans Affairs from attending. Their failure to appear let us to unanimously vote on an issue subpoenas to compel their testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals we iss...

Models for departments for the federal government are very organizational, departmentalspecific. When we talk about trying to understand and bring data together and consolidate, i know treasury is doing a great deal of work on this as well, trying to figure out how do you move the data between systems, but then how do you move the data not just between those systems but between the systems outside of the federal government. That becomes a cultural shift that has to happen. And its going to take a lot of buyin to make that work. But that will allow for i think a much Greater Movement of informa...

Secondly, even if we are producing okay a few hundred thousand barrels a day more, that in no way changes our linkage to the Global Oil Price and the exposure to a price spike. In fact, if anything, its both the fact that we are connected to the crude Oil Global Market and the fact that we are and i believe will continue to be major oil product exporters. We are exposed just as in that anecdote i gave about britain in 2000, we are exposed to the Global Oil Price spike and thats really the modern issue in terms of what the sprol does for us. Point being, if were allowed to compete in the Global...

Existed actually like a small subcommission of washington, d. C. It was a separate city. The 911 calls and all of that intelligence that was related to those 911 calls werent passed on the the city wide 911 call center. So that was a gap we had to expose. The First Responders that were responding were not getting the information that your call takers were receiving through the base communications so thats something we worked on and i think thats something that we should take from here and if you command a base thats something you should look at in your procedures. Emergency call takers should ...

Those teams have some great capabilities. It gives you a great starting point. And i think that our first thought in 2010 was lets set up with the initial structure, set it up in terms of offense and defense and teams that could do offensive actions to defend the country. Anyone have anything to add to that . Yes, sir . Dr. Singer . Just two things. The first is the idea of assuming that our response would have to be limited just to cyber means. If someone carries out an act of war against us using cyber means we are not and should not be limited in our response to use other means, and thats w...