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Want to open up Public Sector procurement to private organizations, there are going to be occasions of confidentiality. I am not sure about extending f. O. I. Further. Id rather i mean, i think transparency on the way in is better than endless information requests on the way out. But ill have a look at those. Before you commit yourself to doing less than you do now, it is quite common now for purchases making contracts to ensure that they can gain access to the information they are required under the freedom of information requests because their contract with the supplier allows them to do so....

>> richard, it strikes me that the time frame that the president laid out today involves the real leaving, the actual full exfill happening at the same time we're going to be having another presidential election in 2016. i have no idea what is going to happen in terms of partisan politics, in terms of whether or not the actual leaving of afghanistan is going to be something that two parties or the two candidates at that point are fighting about. in the shorter term for the politics, though, when you talk to intelligence sources or military sources about this announcement today or about what wa...

Fired a rocket-propelled grenade at her blackhawk in november 2004. the resulting explosion and crash caused her to lose her entire right leg and her left leg below the knee. she almost also lost her right arm. when tammy duckworth returned to her home state of illinois after her rehabilitation, she was appointed director of the illinois state department of veterans affairs. and then in 2009, president obama nominated her for a post at the v.a. in washington. and then richard burr, senator lawnmower from north carolina, decided that he was going to block her nomination. she should not be at th...

By the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a normal embassy presence in kabul. with a security assistance component, just as we've done in iraq. i think americans have learned that it's harder to end wars than it is to begin them. yet this is how wars end in the 21st century. we have to recognize afghanistan will not be a perfect place. and it is not america's responsibility to make it one. the future of afghanistan must be decided by afghans. >> joining us now is richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent. richard joins us now from moscow. richard, thanks very much for being ...

Because he wanted this to be publicly consumed. he had a public statement to make that was ostensibly to the veterans groups. but it was an open letter. he wanted to make sure everybody knew he was saying it. and he wrote the open letter to condemn the veterans organizations and to tell them basically they're terrible at their jobs. and he knows they're terrible at their jobs because of how they testify at that hearing in the senate. remember, he didn't actually stay at the hearing to hear most of what they said. but nevertheless, he says it became clear to him at that hearing while they were ...