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Do under the circumstances, which was to take the hit. One question. Let me just say to build on your observations, i mean there was a lot of goodwill toward general mcchrystal in the white house because during the fall of 2009 and we have are debating options for afghanistan, including whether to go with what he had recommended, this 40,000 additional troops or other options with smaller numbers that have been advocated by the Vice President and others, there were a number of leaks in public statements by the military including by general mcchrystal that made it appear to the white house that...

For making that effort. When i, until i became secretary of defense, i had never broken a bone or had a u surgery [laughter] february of 2008 i fell on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places. Ould ten months later putting a snowplow blade on a tractor, ir pulled a bicep tendon off this arm. My security guards quickly came to the conclusion that alqaeda was no risk to me atcae all compared to myself. [laughter] to me at all comparedo myself. [laughter] and before we start i would like to say that it is good to be back here at the senate and also to apologize to the audience on my right...

Officials from the department of Homeland Security, the fbi and the office of the director of National Intelligence testified. This is an hour and 45 minutes. We will hear from the department of Homeland Security about how they can best keep america safe and from those who would seek to carry out deadly attacks against our country and its people. We also hear about actors in cyberspace who want to drain our bank accounts, shut down our fragile systems, our electric grid, steal our identical identifiable information as well as the r d that will enable american businesses and the military to rem...

Initial proposals, and we sunsetted this. It has to be renewed every three years. I think this is important. I think people thought it would be used for the purpose raj is explaining. Business records, phone Company Records exactly how it would be implemented, i trusted people to implement it fairly, because those in congress who were on the relevant committees played certainly i did a major role in overseeing what was happening. I left the Intelligence Community at the end of 2006, but headed the Homeland Committee for another four years. Did i oversee every single bit of it . No. Do i think ...

More acutely than we do in terms of their citizens having an easier route and path to travel to syria and iraq. They sare the same sense of threat. So the information that were able to share about individuals bhoove traveled to syria or iraq can be used to potentially add to our listing and screening systems and give us one a significant leg up in our effort to disrupt travel when the individuals seek to leave syria and iraq. Thats not a fail safe. Its by no means the only pillar of a defensive effort. Did sense of shared threat is so widely shared at all levels in the governments that we typi...