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Come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, i appreciate your time and testimony, i look forward to your oral testimony and answering what will be some pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from the podium that the general Inspector Generals, your are go to agencies and government. Youre doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste fraud, abuse, dictated programs which is what this hearing is about. The reports by the gao that really started with a Pretty Simple. [inaudible] offering 2010 by senator colborne in the. [inaudible] something we all hate to do but if were...

Recommendations to mitigate them. Host this is an office within the i. R. S. . The i. R. S. , within i have 1800 employees around the country. The employees do . Guest they take taxpayer cases, experiencing Financial Hardship because of what is happening or not happening with or they tried to solve their problem with the i. R. S. And it hasnt got solved channels. Rmal host if you have questions, nina olson with us this morning washington journal. Phone lines split up in this central, eastern or 2027488000. If you are in the mountain or 2027488001. , you can start call nothing now. Nina olson, ...

Host of the National War College. The last government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. Thank you [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war was the most important decision the republic could make. War is the greatest threat to the public. War focuses power on the executive saying since the executive has more incentive to go to war the founders placed the power of going to war the congress not the executive. The founder who understood war better than any president was George Washington who gave a long farewell address and spelled out the Forei...

To me that the connection between the military, the activeduty military and the va was terrible symbolized by the fact that we had incompatible electronic record systems. And that apparently have given up trying to harmonize billions of dollars in ten years at least. I wont get into a number, i will accept wholeheartedly the spirit of your question and answer it in a couple of different ways. The military Health System in the va system initially had Different Missions and the whole idea was after the Second World War and the words before now if you got ill or injured you are going to move on. ...

President obama met with congressional leaders to discuss the crisis in iraq hours after iraq asked for assistance. Iraqi has officially asked for the help of the United States. According to the strategic Framework Agreement between iraq and the United States to help in the air raids against the strategic targets for such groups in order to break the psychological situation that exists and to help the Iraqi Military forces to eliminate the danger of these groups positioning themselves and hunkering down and start defeating them. This comes as the islamic stathes Islamic State in iraq and the l...