let me start with a question for ambassador boswell. ambassador, president obama recently announced plans to withdraw 33,000 troops from afghanistan by next summer and fully transitioned security responsibilities to the afghan people by 2014. i support these plans, and look forward to welcoming home our brave troops. as you know, many diplomats and federal civilian employees will continue to serve in iraq and afghanistan after the troop withdrawals. i worry about the degree of risk we are asking them to undertake. my question to you -- what planning is under way to make sure that ds will be fully prepared to protect diplomats and u.s. civilian personnel in iraq and afghanistan as the military withdraws? >> mr. chairman, thank you for that question. we are engaged, the department of the state and ds, in a marathon of planning. it is the planning for the transition in iraq, probably the most complex planning effort ever a undertaken by the state department and perhaps one of the most complicated civilian planning efforts undertaken by the

reporter craig boswell is live in washington now with more about the drawdown. craig. >> reporter: good evening to you, julie. there are currently 100,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. three times as many as when president obama took office. tonight the president outlined his plan to bring begin bringing some of those troops home. about 18 months after the military surge september in an additional 37,000 troops he says he is sticking to the plan and wants to begin bringing some of them home next summer. >> starting next month we will be able to remove 10,000 troops from afghanistan by next year. >> reporter: they want 20,000 more by the end of 2012 leaving about 70,000. >> after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as afghan security forces move into the lead. our mission will change from combat to support. (gunfiring). >> reporter: some democrats in congress want afghan security forces to take over even sooner. >> the 240,000 security forces we have spent nearly $38 billion preparing to fight can fight against 20,000 taliba

reporter craig boswell is live in washington now with more about the drawdown. craig. >> reporter: good evening to you, julie. there are currently 100,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. three times as many as when president obama took office. tonight the president outlined his plan to bring begin bringing some of those troops home. about 18 months after the military surge september in an additional 37,000 troops he says he is sticking to the plan and wants to begin bringing some of them home next summer. >> starting next month we will be able to remove 10,000 troops from afghanistan by next year. >> reporter: they want 20,000 more by the end of 2012 leaving about 70,000. >> after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as afghan security forces move into the lead. our mission will change from combat to support. (gunfiring). >> reporter: some democrats in congress want afghan security forces to take over even sooner. >> the 240,000 security forces we have spent nearly $38 billion preparing to fight can fight against 20,000 taliba

then eric boswell is joining to with the committee hearing. this is just under two hours. >> i called this hearing in federal work force. i will call this to order. i want to say a lot -- say aloha and welcome pawlenty and thank you so much for being here today with us. this protects employees worldwide. this will build on the hearing. there is a government accountability office with a review of diplomatic security trading challenges. since the 1998 bombing, the bureau has had a mission that has expanded a dramatically. it is to meet the evolving security needs. with our military planning, diplomatic security boldface an unprecedented challenge. the bureau will be responsible for many security functions now performed by the military such as providing the explosive devices from defending a u.s. post from modern attacks. the bureau is expected to implement a state department recommendation to provide hype threat awareness training to all employees in posts. this would require them to train 10,000 employees per year. the responsibilities will con

boswell. president obama recently announced plans to withdraw 33,000 troops from afghanistan by next summer and transfer security responsibilities to the afghan we are asking them to undertake. what planning is under way? to make sure that d. > will will protect them? >> thank you for that question. we are engaged in a marathon of planning. i think that is the right way to describe it. the planning for the transition is probably the most complex planning effort ever undertaken by the state department and perhaps one of the most complicated civilian planning efforts ever taken by the u.s. government. we have been working on it for years. we think we have a very good planning structure is set up. we think we have a good plan. i think we will be in a position to provide the security for our people in iraq after december 31 of this year when all u.s. troops will be gone from the country. having said that, it is a very complex and difficult task. we are going to be dramatically increasing the numbe

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