is that the commander of centcom? when you decide we will spend $500 million, up $400 million of -- i guess that is a related question. how much of the $17 billion in the fy12 request will come through defense and how much through state? >> i can speak for usaid. i will give you the exact number, but i believe the request for usaid assistance is around $3 billion level. >> the president has asked for $17 billion in fy12 for reconstruction projects and infrastructure projects and afghanistan. does anybody here know how much of that will be under the control of the defense department and how much under the state department? >> again, i can say $3 billion for usaid, possibly an additional billion under the state department for civilian operations that are not under usaid. i cannot speak to the rest. >> is the rest of that defense department, mr. sedney? >> i am not familiar with the figure he mentioned, senator, in terms of the construction projects -- the figure you mentioned, senator, in terms of reconstruction project

seven years ago eight years ago was declared a war zone by the pentagon we have north com just like centcom south com africa corps afrikan all of this so yes it's officially a war zone the pentagon of the mit magazine three years ago bragged that this is a surveillance control grid net and they use google to track everybody and to be able to predict future trends and populations but it doesn't belong to the u.s. government u.s. military belongs to the private federal reserve j.p. morgan goldman sachs bank of america that it sees europe sees the united states it's a check not prosy the trilateral commission talks about that and ten years ago they said oh don't worry all these federally funded cameras there for traffic now they admit they're putting face scanning software in license plate reading passive m.r.i. brain scanners mobile t.s.a. trucks they're going to herd people through it claim well the computer shows are guilty you disappear of the gulag this is real tyranny came to russia and china in the past it's come to america the whole world's in danger we've been see this is a mayday sit

-- iraq, afghanistan, and centcom. i wanted to take you in your-- thank you and your tremendous wife, holly. we know you a debt of gratitude. this is well deserved. i'm like to go back to the question of afghanistan, because people in this country, all the sacrifices that military families and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, those who have been injured during the course of this decade-long war are concerned about where the future is with respect to the ultimate end game strategy, particularly in light of the president's proposed redeployment and asserted drawdown. you said in your testimony in march before the senate armed services committee that we must insure that afghanistan the not once again become a sanctuary for all qaeda. you said today that we have made important advances in recent months against al qaeda. you also said back in march that our efforts are fragile and reversible. presuming that is on the basis that you need a certain level of troops. the president indicated in his speech last night,

have been cold from afghanistan or gannon was a general centcom area of operations to support in libya >> while i was serving, yes they were. >> could you describe generally what does assets were taken away and whether it had taken any capabilities away from us in afghanistan? >> not in afghanistan. i will get back to you. >> i would appreciate an answer. thank you very much for that. i do have an additional question for you, general thurman. i want to thank all three of you for your distinguished service and willingness to continue to serve our country. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. admiral mcraven, if night race stock -- order to be stuck by the afghan government, how would that affect your ability to be successful? >> sera, stopping a raise would certainly be detrimental to the special at rations asked by of the fight in afghanistan. just to give you some statistics over the course of the last 12 months, the task force i committed over there we conducted approximately two dozen operations. of those two dozen operations, somewhere in the neighborhood had 88% were

have been cold from afghanistan or gannon was a general centcom area of operations to support in libya >> while i was serving, yes they were. >> could you describe generally what does assets were taken away and whether it had taken any capabilities away from us in afghanistan? >> not in afghanistan. i will get back to you. >> i would appreciate an answer. thank you very much for that. i do have an additional question for you, general thurman. i want to thank all three of you for your distinguished service and willingness to continue to serve our country. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. admiral mcraven, if night race stock -- order to be stuck by the afghan government, how would that affect your ability to be successful? >> sera, stopping a raise would certainly be detrimental to the special at rations asked by of the fight in afghanistan. just to give you some statistics over the course of the last 12 months, the task force i committed over there we conducted approximately two dozen operations. of those two dozen operations, somewhere in the neighborhood had 88% were

demonstrated outstanding loyalty and service to this country, agreed to step down from commander of centcom to replace general stanley mcchrystal in afghanistan. at that time, the senators in your records speed with the armed services committee holding a hearing and reporting out the general's nomination on the same day and the senate confirmed within 9190 vo. i notice well and i know senator lieberman will do this in more detail. he's also earned a phd as well as a masters from print and, which i believe will serve him well. following the abu ghraib scandal and into a debate over detention and interrogation policy, general petraeus wrote an open letter to all soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guardsmen sharing under his command. here's what he wrote and i quote, her values and the loss and welfare teachers to respect human dignity maintain our integrity and do what is right. adherence to her values distinguishes us from our enemy, end quote. i fully agree it's enormously important to have a director of the cia who is guided by these values and has a sense of right and wrong and

as our commander-in-chief in iraq than at centcom and now afghanistan, she has stood at the epicenter of some of our toughest most intensive and most effective counterterrorism operations. general petraeus knows our enemies. at the same time he has also built close relationships with our partners and allies in the middle east, south asia, the atlantic community and around the world. he's proven himself to be a capable leader of organizations that are even larger than the cia and. and because, as you said, madam chair, he is not just a soldier, but a scholar as well having earned a ph.d. at princeton. he is very well suited to oversee and demand the highest standards in the critically important analysis done by so many who worked at the cia. after all he has done, general petraeus certainly would have been well justified at this point in his career to seek a quiet personal retirement. but fortunately for the rest of us, service to because larger than himself is a general david petraeus' creed and personal destiny. the skillful men and women of the central intelligence agency will be in

in march 2011, the centcom commander said in senate testimony that there are going to be loose ends unless the iraqis asked us to stay and work on these issues, and those loose ends would be difficult for them to overcome on their own, and, doctor, you mentioned one example, a recent violent occurrence. in happen to be -- this was the third time i was in iraq. i was there after the fall of saddam. that was about 2000 the rate of his back. around 2007 toward the end of the surge, and most recently, as i say, about one week to two weeks ago, and the day that we were in baghdad is when that happened in kirkuk, and the general whose staff had been some of the victims, and, of course, we have evidence ongoing throughout the rest of the country. " with that being the case and everything we know at this point, how realistic is it for us to be able under the existing plan to pull that many troops out and basically transition from a department of defense? is the state department up for that task? is there any precedent for anything on this scale? and what do you think the committee should know abou

in march, 2011, centcom commander james sent the testimonies that there are going to be loose ends unless the vacation asks us to stay and work on these issues. and those loose ends would be difficult for them to overcome on their own. doctor, you mentioned one example recent of violent cocurse which wit i was there there before, after the fall of zam but before we and before the surge i was there and about a week to two weeks ago and the day we were in baghdad was the day that the occurrence happened out in kirkuk and we met with people who -- the general whose staff were some of the victims. and of course that evidence of the ongoing threats to this country. with that being the case and everything we know at that point, how realistic for us to be able to transition from department of defense to state -- is there any precedent for anything on this scale? and, you know, what do you think the committee should know about that? >> you know, it's our assessment that the iraqi security forces will be -- have pretty good compatibilities in terms of internal defense. we've sent billons of dollar

in march 2011, centcom commander general james madison said in senate testimony that they are going tobe loose sense unless the iraqis asked his day and work on these -- ask us to stay and work on these issues. those loose sense of the difficult to overcome on their own, unquote. dr. kahl, you mentioned one of recent violent occurrence that happened to be the one in baghdad. the first, this is the third time i was in iraq. at least they are before, after the fall, about two dozen three, around 2007 towards the end of the surge and most recently, as they say about a week to two weeks ago, the day we were in baghdad was the day the occurrence hatband aftercare cook and we met with people, the general who staff who are some of the victims. of course that is evidence of the ongoing threats in this country. everything we know at this point, how realistic is it for us to be able under the existing and planned to pull that many troops out and basically transition from department of defense. if the state department up for that task? is there any precedent for anything on disk io? and you know,