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Committee will come to order. Today the House Armed Services Committee Meets to discuss the ongoing conflict in afghanistanful we have been engaged military information afghanistan for 14 years. The predictions this would be a long conflict have proven accurate. While there have been setbacks in recent years, theres also cause for cautious optimism. United states and its allies especially the Afghan Forces, have made some meaningful gains. A counterinsurgency is one of the toughest types of war a academicracy can fight. Its been difficult but not impossible and both our future security and the...

As the regular police for the army. So they do get attacked and they do attack and they are feared by the taliban and the insurgents because they are directly linked with people inside the communities and so the language between the police and the army is a strong one and continues to work at. And the provinces that they have these are institutions of the governors have police armies in the intel folks altogether inside of one for lack of better term, and Operational Command and control for regional and at the provincial level and they provide interaction and sat right next to each other and t...

This allows them to go ahead and believe they are under danger and take a life. Thank you for letting me. Yeah. I would like to make a couple comments. One is if you actually look at the data, look at the tampa bay tribune data that,ing the for the factors in the cases, you find that minorities both blacks and hispanics are much more successful in raising stand your ground defenses than whites are. Theres another point that needs to be made, and that is the ambiguity. Its one type of ambiguity was discussed, but theres the ambiguity having to face the person who is agenting in selfdefense. Wha...

A whole bunch of other things. Mentioned surveillance. We do bulk collection. Thats different from massive surveillance. We can talk about that later. Glenn says we collect everything there is. Nsa actually on any given day collects, listen up carefully, its a big number, collects. 00004 of Global Internet traffic. I have no idea what 1. 7 billion intra american email collection means. That is simply not happening. What we have here are people trying to keep you safe, and ive got an image coming out with the people who work in lead in this they are like that character in the simpsons, you know...

It includes comments by Edward Snowden. Imagine a place of people dedicating their lifes to others. This is an object in a cruel experiment and over us to supervise this is a dictatorship. A kind of north korea like situation. [laughter] welcome. [ applause ] c1 welcome to this extraordinary debate on state surveillance. My name is rudyard griffiths. Its my privilege to act as the organizer of this semiannual series and to once again serve as your moderator. I want to start tonights proceedings by welcoming the north american Wide Television and Radio Audience tuning into this debate everywher...