so you're in violation of not having a viable program by the department of defense standards . so we are attempting here to meet the minimum standards that you state here, however your program doesn't even meet the minimum standards set by your own department of defense guidelines. so i just don't see why -- quite frankly when i see at local 77 students and you plan on hiring another instructor for local you're going to have two teachers for 77 students, out of how many sections that are taught a day? that seems as though it is not excessive but it may be what all of our science and magget classes should have that student to teacher ratio. i think my point is, major, that we're doing all this again, making a lot of changes when really many of our programs in this district are ready -- already are in violation of the own department of defense's guidelines for what is a viable program. set forth by the people who actually run the program and pay for it. so we're doing this to be in compliance but yet we're out of compliance on so many other things. and even if we hire these three,

and to emphasize it as a priority, to build the collaborations with the department of veterans affairs, with the department of defense, with the national guard bureau, and to keep on collaborating until we get to the point where we can show that every service member who is eligible and who needs service will get it, no matter where it may be. and we want to see that happen in every community at the local level and at every state level. so, our initiative at samhsa is to get states to think about this in a broad way and then translate that into local community providers, action, education, and awareness. and, dr. karlin, the president also has an initiative. you want to talk a little bit about the presidential initiative on issues related to military families? we've been very fortunate because congress has recently enacted legislation that has broadened va's authority to provide mental health and counseling services to family members. this has been a wonderful gift to the agency in so many ways, because now we're able to work directly with family members in a way we haven't been able to do before. so, within va now, w

and it is significant that it is changing and it is significant that the department of defense, the department of veteran affairs, are no longer closed systems. and, in fact, those systems have, i think, appropriately acknowledged that there may be people in the community and we need to work together to make sure that we are reaching out together with communities, and that means talking to the civilian population and the civilian providers, and the civilians have to feel the same way. that they can have conversations with the military treatment facility providers with the va, and that whole dialogue, i think, is emblematic of a new way of thinking, and i think it's extremely important and very, very favorable for the behavioral health world to understand that. and dr. karlin, let's talk about utopia. people would have memorandums of understanding, they work together, but in reality, if that system wasn't yet perfected, do families need to know they need to be persistent? family members are so key to everything we're talking about because, oftentimes, it's the family member that is the first an

. >> guest: when you look at different parts of government, the department of defense is responsible for looking at the worst case scenario and protecting in our interests against that. other parts of the government; commerce, department of treasury who all have different respondents and see it through their lens. you're correct. when the president created this office, the idea was to coordinate these and develop good policy that the president could put forth on behalf of the u.s. government. >> host: what do we make of the pentagon's much stronger statements? if you liken it to a cyber pearl harbor or, you know, when they talk about the millions of scans that are done of defense systems every day? >> guest: yeah. and i would say it's not necessarily only the defense systems that are scanned. we have private sector, other parts of the government including other governments. and what it is, we hear what they say, we take that into account, figure out what they can do to help, how much is it directly related to defense activities, how much of it goes to the fbi, department of justice, s

about the dependency of the department of defense and the department of homeland security on those resources, we have a mechanism which is part of the proposal, the legislation, is to say proved as you can do this. prove to us that you are set up to deal with most things. if not, what will you do to fix it? it sounds like a silly discussion, but how do we deal with a major snowstorm at where we are shut down for days and days. we have processes in place to deal with the unexpected. we have to do that in the critical infrastructure realm as well. guest: even if the lawyers debate what an active war would be, you have studied this problem for decades. what is your sense? guest: if we get to where it is military against military or military against civilian structure, that flips a switch the other way. it is not to say turn the switch back and it becomes military parity of diplomatic and economic, all kinds of pieces to deal with those sorts of things. that is the worst-case scenario. guest: if the u.s. can prove that some other countries military attacked? proving a specific government, much l

the department of defense is the single largest employer in america. that is active guard and reserves. we have over 700,000 civilians at dod. these are the kinds of help the exercises that should result from these cuts. host: there has been a major move to outsource contract work. has it saved money? the guest: government is like a pendulum. one of your previous callers says america has a short attention span. what we saw in the 1990's was a great effort to save money by outsourcing. over the long term, it depends. if you are outsourcing and eliminating, that is different. it is better to eliminate functions as opposed to just simply outsourcing. what we have seen in this past decade is the pendulum swinging far back towards insourcing. specifically on the acquisition part of the house. the majority of that is services, not actually hardware or equipment. we are seeing this major swing back towards insourcing when federal employees are under consideration because they are highly skilled and professionals. they are more senior government officials in wa

we in the department of defense can say what makes people hungry? akes people yearning for something better? how can we make a difference for a better world? we at national defense university are proud, please and honored at this mission in support of the core mission of u.s.i.p. to help conflict become the cause of solutions and not the cause for work. we consider this partnership important. it is unique and our privilege and pleasure. i thank you very much for this honor. i thank you for what you are doing every day to make the world writer place. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, admiral rondeau for those powerful words. it is time to meet one of these moda advisers we have been talking about. i am pleased to introduce david clifton, former moda advisor, deputy director of the facilities division, installation and logistics' department at the u.s. marine corps. i should tell you david clifton has served a marine corps for 38 years including 29 years' active duty as a colonel of marines active duty assignments including artillery officer, mainten

of state department cases. you may remember when the pentagon papers were published, 37 volume classified top secret study by the department of defense about our involvement in viet nam. the papers were leaked to the new york times. henry kissinger called him the most dangerous man in america. they were published by the n.y. times after winning an epic first amendment battle in the supreme court after the pentagon papers were published. the next administration prosecuted albert --ellsberg and the trial was afforded. the judge discovered that nixon had burglarized the psychiatrist's office to find dirt and the judge was so outraged about the government misconduct that he dismissed the case. the government did not prosecute the new york times. no publisher has ever been prosecuted under the espionage act and i don't think the news media could be prosecuted. when it was proposed in 1917 the congress rejected -- made it a crime to, quote, published defense information in the very provision -- the law does forbid publishing -- the part that deals with military codes or photographs of military installations. congress knew how to prohibit p

over the course of the year in 2009 over 100 people worked on this review from the department of defensefrom the intelligence community, cia, nctc, homeland security, state, justice and every single one of them was a career individual. in response to your court question i don't believe a single one of the attorneys who worked on the review had ever played a role in representing detainees. i know that it's been is the subject of controversy and has been reported in the press in the past. with respect to other justice department attorneys i don't believe anyone on our task force have ever worked in that capacity. everyone who worked on my review came from the career ranks. as i said i felt that was it was my responsibility to insulate that group from any of the types of controversy surrounding guantÁnamo and i think i may senator say the results of the review, the recommendation and the analysis we did resulting in the unanimous decision of 240 detainees speak for themselves in this regard. out of those 240 detainees there were 126 transferred but there were also 48 decisions to hold those

on the other resources the government and in the department of defense and the department of energy and justice and the fbi so it is a supportive role but somebody has to lead this. as a consequence of the continue to build their kid the the the the as we develop these response plan will get things such as cyber storm which are the exercises. that gives a window into some of the things they have to modify and change to do this. so i have confidence in leadership in the mission that they have got but we continue to build the capabilities with smart people and good laws put in place to support them. estimate can they do it fast enough so? because as we were just discussing this is something the government's response to the threat has been slow so if you're having a sort of learning curve for an agency on top of that, can the department respond quickly enough to this? >> i think they can and it's the type of thing that it's more than responsibility. private-sector is a big part of this. private sector has been doing it a long time so as a consequence the ability to wrap up the deal with wh

a third piece is a lot of normal defense costs just in the regular peacetime activities of the department of defense go up faster fan inflation because they are part of our economy, too and we know a lot of costs go faster than inflation whether it's health care which now cost the department of defense 50 billion a year even leaving aside veterans administration activities, which are separate. whether its environmental cleanup, whether it is pay to try to entice good people went to the military at a time when you need competitive wages to do that -- some of these costs just go up faster than inflation. i don't want to double count this allows for any increase that somebody might propose, but it explains some of it and the last piece, and this is crucial to keep in mind, and the clinton years i think we need a sound strategic decision not to buy a lot of weaponry because in the 1990's we didn't need a lot of weaponry because we had bought so much during the ronald reagan buildup in the 80's so the planners first in the bush 41 administration of george h. w. bush administration and in the c

interestingly, the department of defense has not reoriented itself in thinking of systemic defense. e department of homeland security could become as important in some ways, and maybe even more important, then the department of defense for defending our critical systems. think about that. think about the value of an ntsb culture. the most useful thing the national transportation and safety board has done is political and cultural. every so often, hundreds of people die in accidents. there are catastrophes. the board will go out, look hard at what happens, analyze it very professionally, come up with conclusions, then we will tweak the solution reduce the chance, and millions of people will get back on airplanes the next morning. that is the culture of resilience. we need resilience systems and a culture. >> one final round and then we will go to questions. we have not talked about the political plane. the common perception in washington is that pakistan poses the most dangerous threat to the united states because of what is going on inside pakistan and our ability how understand how

a third piece is a lot of normal defense costs just in the regular peacetime activities of the departmentof defense go up faster fan inflation because they are part of our economy, too and we know a lot of costs go faster than inflation whether it's health care which now cost the department of defense 50 billion a year even leaving aside veterans administration activities, which are separate. whether its environmental cleanup, whether it is pay to try to entice good people went to the military at a time when you need competitive wages to do that -- some of these costs just go up faster than inflation. i don't want to double count this allows for any increase that somebody might propose, but it explains some of it and the last piece, and this is crucial to keep in mind, and the clinton years i think we need a sound strategic decision not to buy a lot of weaponry because in the 1990's we didn't need a lot of weaponry because we had bought so much during the ronald reagan buildup in the 80's so the planners first in the bush 41 administration of george h. w. bush administration and in the cl

department was established. like any organization created by congress in with a mess. it was the product of compromise. compromise is the enemy of inefficiency. the creation of the department of defense after world war ii first thing they had to do was organized. we took a hard look at the organization of the department and made some very clear recommendations about the imperative to reorganize and strengthen various elements. secretary chertoff when he was appointed to replace secretary tom ridge and stuff you need to read before your hearing he looked at that and took the issue seriously. i think match was in the department. they made a serious effort in improving the organization and addressed many recommendations we made in the report. it ended the second report year or two later called homeland security 3.0 and there was a clear distinction between dhs n and hls. it is an international enterprise with international components. we wanted to make the case that we needed to look get this as a holistic enterprise and not just focus on the department and its strength and shortfalls and weaknesses. in order for the department to play a leadership role it needs to play what does it nee

and that is our moral obligation as department of defense. is what makes us as a nation great, is that we in the department of defense can say what makes people hungry, what makes people yearning for something better, and how can we make a difference toward a better world? so we at national defense university, we are proud, we're pleased, we're honored at this, at this mission in support of the core mission of usip to find the reasons why we can help conflict become the cause for solutions and not the cause for war. and so we consider this partnership important. it is, it is unique, and it is our privilege and our pleasure. and i thank you very much for this honor, but i thank you for what you're doing every day to make the world a brighter place. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, admiral, for very powerful and inspiring words. so now it's time to actually meet one of these moda advisers that we've been talking about, so i'm pleased to introduce david clifton, a former moda adviser, deputy director the facilities division, installation and

the fbi has been imbedded and working with the department of defense closely. st: is there a role for counter-terrorism? guest: much of it is the collection of parts of the improvised explosives. those are all sent back to the united states for technical analysis in quantico, virginia. there is a large organization in quantico called a terrorist explosive devices analytical center. they look at each of these that, in. components, when you get them together, laughing signatures for bombers and groups, passing them on to our partners in the department of defense and intelligence. host: you talked about the number of agencies. looking at the employment numbers in the agency, total employees with women as a part of the work force, a little over 15,000. national security agents, 5000. cyber-security agents, about 1000 agents. and how that hasminal changed. guest: there are separate parts that all come under what the fbi refers to as the national security program. those numbers can go back and forth, depending on the task at the time. looking at the number of agents,

it is a microcosm of the department of defense. the united states special operations community is army, navy, marine corps, active reserve, guard, government, civilian, contractor, operation of the tropics from the arctic to below the surface to space and a mission set that is much broader than you might imagine. and i'd like to scratch into that tonight as well. most people when they hear about the special operations community, they either have been exposed to a book or movie or headline about something spectacular. but it's a far more nuanced community than that but what they do today in about 65 countries around the world in combat in only two of them, it's a pretty good story as well. so then when we do talk about this new normal, this future world that we anticipate living in the next few decades, then it -- the special operations community is quite well suited to that. i will talk about the bin laden raid but not much. the department of defense has not acknowledged the participation of any particular unit or any particular ind

the department of defense is the single largest employer in america. s active guard and reserves. we have over 700,000 civilians at dod. these are the kinds of help the exercises that should result from these cuts. host: there has been a major move to outsource contract work. has it saved money? the guest: government is like a pendulum. one of your previous callers says america has a short attention span. what we saw in the 1990's was a great effort to save money by outsourcing. over the long term, it depends. if you are outsourcing and eliminating, that is different. it is better to eliminate functions as opposed to just simply outsourcing. what we have seen in this past decade is the pendulum swinging far back towards insourcing. specifically on the acquisition part of the house. the majority of that is services, not actually hardware or equipment. we are seeing this major swing back towards insourcing when federal employees are under consideration because they are highly skilled and professionals. they are more senior government officials in washingt

agencies such as the department of defense and education. we want to know how the economic downturn forced you to change the way you live. we invite you to record a testimonial on your cell phone or camera and upload it to ureport@abc7.com. >> we are learning more about the latest homicide victim in richmond. mother of four was gunned down last night. her male companion was injured. that makes step homicides in the last four weeks and 22 surpassing the homicide total from all of last year. abc7's amy hollyfield is live at the richmond police department. amy? >> reporter: we have a picture of 25-year-old rose mcfadden. police found her dead on the sidewalk early this morning. they don't know why someone shot her. and the male companion she was with, if-year-old man in cit -- 24-year-old man suffering with life threatening injuries. he was shot in the head. officers have not made any arrests. friends and relatives of 25-year-old rose mcfadden rushed to the scene of her death within an hour of the murder. they watched police in total disbelief,

the department of defense when they did the test said it was a safety test. i write in the narrative, there was nothing safe about any of that. it did not provide safety. tavis: how aware our presidents of what is happening inside of area 51? what does obama know? aboutthe president's know area 51. one of the great enigmas of the entire story that i reveal came to me from a source, the only anonymous source, who revealed a program that is one of those abhorrent programs that never should have happened. when i asked him how that could have happened, his response was, the president did not have a need to know. tavis: hmm. there's a lot of the things that are being talked about. as dense as it is, the part that has been most controversial are the last seven pages. why those pages causing a controversy? >> i came to the story of area 51 as a newcomer. i did not have a horse in the race. i am not an aviation historian. i am not an air force f-15 not -- aficinado. my aim was to find the facts from men who were there and report them in the most objective manner i co

they filed a confidential complaint with the department of defense inspector general, calling for an investigation of trailblazer and thin thread. tom drake volunteered to be a witness. >> wiebe: why did we launch the i.g. complaint? out of total abject frustration, knowing that we had something so important to share, and thought we had witnessed wrongdoing that needed to be addressed. >> pelley: for two years, drake was the most important witness for the inspector general. but in the end, the department of defense investigation was stamped "classified," which hid the trailblazer debacle from public view. as his frustration grew, drake says that he was shocked to learn about something else that was happening at the agency, post-9/11. he learned of a top secret nsa program that became known as "warrantless wiretapping." >> drake: it was no longer necessary to follow the law. a huge pandora's box had been opened up. >> pelley: on orders from the white house, the nsa was listening in on people in the united states without a warrant from a judge. >> drake: and this is where i began to hav

of history behind it so a lot of their hearts will tell you that as i mentioned earlier the department of defensedepartment of homeland security that the n.s.a. the nasa always descend on these conferences because they're always looking for new recruits and i think that's especially true now that i say for example i know is planning on hiring fifteen hundred more people by the end of this biscoe year in september they want fifteen hundred people more for next year can you tell who these people are when you're out of a conference. sometimes you can now if you can there's actually was going to stop at that contest and you can win a t. shirt so you actually find a stat number you pretty good then on stage you explain why you believe that person is a pedant they produce credentials you get a t. shirt that says i spotted the fed and they didn t. shirt that says i'm the fat and we had to change the rules a few years ago because all the pads were spotting each other because they don't want to do t. shirts that you change up there are people here who are what we call people knew they were crazy caesar's

so i would ask you to take a look at the rating process throughout the department of defense. i think that's absolutely critical. >> we actually are in the process of taking those lessons learned and adapting policies. but i will continue to work -- you have my commitment for that. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator collins. senator hagan. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and general demsy, i want to welcome you and looking forward to your confirmation and to mrs. dempsey, it's always a pleasure seeing you and i know this is definitely a team effort. >> i thank you for all your past service and sacrifice. >> recently i joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to the secretary of defense, secretary gates regarding findings of the military leadership commission. issued a decision earlier this year. and this is fields is the dod and service policies that prohibit women from serving in occupations involving direct. combat. the commission recommended dod and the services conduct a phased elimination exclusion policies. what do you think are

committee peter king put aside his answer i muslim hearings and pounced he wrote a letter to the department of defense of the cia calling for an investigation saying the administration's first duty in declassifying material is to provide full reporting to congress and the american battle in an effort to build public trust or transparency in government in contrast this alleged collaboration belies a despite a desire of transparent transparency in favor of a senate some cinematographic senate idea or say that would send a graphic view of history if the white house responded simply by saying that this movie has been in the works for three years and the director kathryn bigelow has received help from previous administrations as well including george w. bush's and bill clinton's so threatening to the story and what exactly is the dynamic between hollywood and the pentagon when the subject matter of a film is the u.s. military here to offer some answers to these questions is david sirota cinema syndicated columnist salon dot com host of the david serota radio show and author of several books including his l

but there is money being wasted in the department of defense. there are contracts that are overrun, money overspent, and there is a lack of oversight. we can save money in the department of defense to reduce our deficit and not compromise by one penny the safety and security of the united states. this agreement before us says that both the department of defense and all other departments of the government have to look for savings and reduction in spending to move us toward our deficit reduction goal. i think that is a good thing. now, what's missing in this package? what's missing is obvious. at its best, this package will reduce our deficit by by $2.1 trillion, maybe a little more, when it comes to the future spending. most of us believe that unless we can reduce our deficit by by $4 trillion -- that's almost twice as much -- over a period of ten years that we will not make the positive impact that we need to make to spur economic growth and more confidence in the american economy. but senator reid suggested and it's part of this program that we

subcommittee this year, i tried to pose the question this way: we know what we expect opportunity of defense -- department of defense to do if a bunch of planes come to bomb a refinery in the houston ship channel. what do we expect the federal government to do if it's a bunch of packets coming to bomb that same refinery in the houston ship channel? what is the government and particularly the military's responsibility to defend private business and facilities in cyberspace? we don't know. so i didn't really expect the pentagon to come up with definitive answers, but i think it's very important that we grapple seriously with these issues. and that particular strategy was more vague and didn't advance the ball as much as i would like. at the same time, secretary lynn has been very helpful in putting forward ideas and strategies to help defend the country, and so some of his speech bees maybe have advanced things a little further than the strategy did. >> host: congressman mac thornberry is a republican from texas, chairman of the subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities and chair of the house republ

with the department of defense, it is always just as you are, you do not always available when the next disaster strikes, so the ability to not be so focused on a particular type of unit gives greater flexibility, and also writing mission statements and assignments that are broad in scope and give commanders more flexibility in applying the tools they have. these are some of the things we are working on, but the biggest thing is speeding up the process. mission assignments, and getting a pass, and getting people in, and deployed, it still takes us a long time. i was really pleased we were working on that with one of the joint chiefs. he shares my passion. there is a lot of process that we need to speed up to get things going faster because if we're going to change outcomes in 72 hours, we need to speed that process up. part of that is making mission assignments more flexible, and more based upon outcomes. >> my question is about the whole of community concept. can you speak to the future of the private sector prepared this program, and how it integrates into your vision? >> dhs , or the

kathy higgins of the department of homeland security, laughing from the department of defense and briantice. the conference you are attending is unique. at a time when people question whether government can coordinate it is a shining example of how three of the largest department and the federal government can work together to try to bring to you aaron nation's first responders, technologies we are all working on. the hope of the conference is to provide you insight into technologies under development or in use. at the same time providing you an opportunity to hear from experts at all levels of government particularly people who are working with some of the best practices and operations and training and information sharing and critical ideas. we ask you to take advantage of the resources that are here before you. get out, kick the tires, check the technology and talk to your ears. working to make the nation a safer place. at this point i would like to invite our prince george's county representatives to save few words. i would like to introduce the county executive, rashan baker is an e

interestingly, the department of defense is not reoriented to systemic defense. the department of homeland security could become in the coming years as important in some ways and maybe and -- more than the department of defense as the locus for defending our critical systems. think about that. think about the value of that culture. the most useful thing ntsb has done his political and cultural. every so often, hundreds of people die in airplane accidents. an air france jetliner drops into the ground. hundreds of casualties. we know that a board will go out, it will look at what will happen, dispassionately analyzed it, and very professionally come up with clues and we will tweak the system and reduce the chances a little more and millions of people will get on to airplanes the next morning. that is a culture of resilience. >> one final thing and a quick round of questions. we have not talked on the political plane. the common perception in washington is that hassan causes the biggest threat. that is what is going on inside of pakistan and our inability to understa

the department of defense has not really reoriented itself from its system of defense. in some ways, the department of homeland security could become, in the coming years, as important in some ways and maybe even more important in some ways as the department of defense as the locus for defending our public systems. think about the value of an and tbs culture. the most -- of the hon ntsb culture. hundreds of people dying in airplane accidents. hundreds of catastrophic casualties. we know that a board will go out that will look hard at what happened, dispassionately analyzed it, very passionately, but conclusions, tweak the system, reduced the chances a little more, and millions of people will get on airplanes the next morning. that is the culture of resilience. we need resilience systems and brazilian culture. >> we have to go to questions. we have not talk on the political plane. the common assumption is that pakistan has the biggest threat. they understand how the army operates. what would you fix -- how would you fix this problem if you could? if you were the president

the fbi has been imbedded and working with the department of defense closely. host: is there a role for counter-terrorism? guest: much of it is the collection of parts of the improvised explosives. those are all sent back to the united states for technical analysis in quantico, virginia. there is a large organization in quantico called a terrorist explosive devices analytical center. they look at each of these that, in. components, when you get them together, laughing signatures for bombers and groups, passing them on to our partners in the department of defense and intelligence. host: you talked about the number of agencies. looking at the employment numbers in the agency, total employees with women as a part of the work force, a little over 15,000. national security agents, 5000. cyber-security agents, about 1000 agents. i am focusing national security versus criminal and how that has changed. guest: there are separate parts that all come under what the fbi refers to as the national security program. those numbers can go back and forth, depending on the task a

we're working with the department of defense to start saying, let's run some of these -- the departmentf defense uses a lot of fuel. can we get trucks and jeeps and fighter jets running on alternative fuels? that it's important for national security and it could provide an incredible boost to communities all across minnesota, all across the country. the other thing that we have to do is look at things like wind power and solar power. the next generation of electric vehicles. you'll recall when i came into office, they were talking about the liquidation of general motors and chrysler. a lot of folks said, you cannot help them. it is a waste of the government money to help them. what i said was, we cannot afford to lose up to a million jobs in this country and we cannot afford to lose leadership in terms of building an auto industry that we used to own. we turned around those odd companies. they are now making a profit for the first time in decades. they are gaining market share for the first time in years. if we're going to help you, you have to change your ways. you cannot just make mon

problem in this is what was in the report which the commission interviewed people from the department of defense and these people told them that they can't even gauge in a prolonged military conflict without the help of contractors and there's a reason for that the reason is that we're engaged in these wars that are not narrowly focused military operations where we have a clear to me and a clear goal for the end of the conflict instead there are these vast campaigns of social reconstruction and nation building but you know building up institutions trying to remake societies there are colonial projects they're not small wars they're building up in expanding the empire and of course that's good that's too too much for just the military to handle they have to hire the entire defense industry ok you're talking about the dependence on contractors saying as you mentioned that they can't go into such countries like iraq or afghanistan without these contractors but surely this is. a security threat don't you think it's posing a security threat of relying on outside contractors to do the job. it's a secu

is called moda short for ministry of defense advisers program. the departmentf defense is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a one-year deployment to afghanistan and the commanding general there, david petraeus, think the program is already making a difference. marine sergeant ashley bryant takes a look into this new program of the civilian expeditionary workforce. >> the final two weeks of the seven week mode a training cycle mirrors the pre-deployment training military units get. >> the facilities that are here are really world class, and in many ways stimulate truly the empire meant that the advisers are going to experience on the ground. >> ultimately most of the civilians will spend most of their time not in the field, but in offices, helping the afghans modernize and professionalize their defense institution's. >> we have got about 700,000 civilian personnel full-time in the department, about 150,000 of them are senior, above the gs 13 level. and, it is a terrific talent pool to draw from. >> we felt that it was important that if you we

they were looking for money first of august child he was paying money senior members of the department of defense gave him their thumbs up his information was coming into the white house to people like dick cheney through the office of special plans so it was coming in through and through an avenue that's not traditional to the intelligence community and wasn't open to being vetted or reviewed and you had challah himself admit that he they didn't mind providing false information because it helped them to achieve their goal of removing saddam know the. iraq will defend that regime. including the military both the regular army and the republican guard liberation would not have been achieved without the defeat of a nation of president george w. bush and the commitment of the coalition at the forefront of which stand the people of the united states of america and great britain that iraq is will never forget your courage and sacrifice on our behalf we are here today to declare that they knew about this war and iraq let it be dignity justice and human rights for all citizens there is no risk of a break

instructor's full compensation costs, including salary and benefits shall be paid entirely by the department of defense, funding, and private designated matching funding obtained by the school site and/or jrotc. [inaudible] shall not end expend funds for these three instructors for the 2011-2012 school year. if these three conditions are not met, the instructors have failed to meet the conditions or who do not have funding to pay their full compensation costs shall be terminated immediately. so that's the reading. i have one speaker. a speaker card for this. and that's jerry paratori. so you have two minutes. >> good evening, jerry paratori, director for the jrotc program in the district and i'd like to provide a quick overview and update on the program at this point. there are some numbers i called around and got for all the schools. i sent an email to all the board members. hopefully you are able to get the data. my numbers are slightly higher than what is being reported at f.i.s. i have 946 people -- students enrolled in jrotc at this time. notice that every program is above the threshold of 50 stud

. >> reporter: the department of defense currently has about 8,300 remotely piloted aircraft, not including the cias and plans to spend about $6 billion in 2012 adding to the inventory. i'm kim lawton in washington. >>> a rabbi who claimed to have rescued torahs from the holocaust and sold them to synagogues was indicted this week on two counts of fraud. we profiled rabbi menachem youlus on this program in 2008. youlus called himself the "jewish indiana jones" and recounted elaborate stories of rescuing scrolls from concentrations camps, museums and monasteries abroad. federal prosecutors say the stories were fabrications. they have also accused youlus of embezzling money from his charity, save a torah. youlus denies the allegations. >>> the curse of riches is a tragic clichÉ that's visited so many nations in west africa, a region mired in bloody civil war and deepening poverty even as it sits on a wealth of natural resources and minerals. today we have a story from ghana, one nation that may be breaking that curse. >> reporter: in a region that has seen civil wars and bloodshed, ghana has