the department of defense has taken important steps in order to meet this challenge, but we do not intend to rest on our accomplishments. with your help them with the strong support of my department leadership, i pledge to continue strengthening the preparedness of our domestic military communities against a homegrown terrorist threat as it continues to evolve. the past several years have seen increased numbers of americans that is since orbitz and inspired by al qaeda's ideology and the department of defense has become the target of choice. my statement for the record summarizes actions we have underway to counter the threat. our initiatives are directly targeted to fix the shortcomings revealed by the tragic shootings at fort hood. and in that regard, i want to thank the members of those committees for the support and work you have done in order to identify the shortfalls that previously existed and make recommendations on the improvement we have to pursue in the department of defense. in addition, we are looking forward to the threat of all been in the future. we want to make sure we a

the department of defense. >> what? why the department of defense? ecause if i could influence rebuilding our military the way it should be, that would be a task i would consider undertaking. >> if you were secretary of defense, it would be important to be familiar with the various countries around the world and you have had some difficulty with that, mr. cain. >> yes, but i have been doing my homework ever since that difficulty. >> did you see her face, what? secretary of defense? we've taken the liberty of putting together a resume tape i think will show off for the department of defense his foreign policy credentials. >> you don't need to know the details of foreign policy in order to be a good commander in chief. do you really believe that? yes. >> i do view china as a potential military threat. they are trying to develop nuclear capability. >> okay. libya. and ask me who's the president of ubeki-stan-stan, i'm going to say i don't know. do you know? >> i have all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> your move, department of defense. he's put

it requires department of defense officials and department of defense contractors who become aware of counterfeit parts in the supply chain to provide written notification to the government. it requires the department of defense and its largest contractors to establish systems and procedures to detect and avoid counterfeit parts. it requires the secretary of homeland security to consult with the secretary of defense on the sources of counterfeit electronic parts in the military supply chain, and establish a risk-based program not enhanced inspection of imported electronic parts. it authorizes customs to share information from electronic parts inspected at the border with manufacturers to help determine whether the parts are counterfeit and it strengthens criminal penalties for counterfeiting military goods or services. and we are very grateful for the support of members of this body for that provision. mr. president, relative to the strengthening of criminal penalties, i want to add our thanks to senator whitehouse for his work on this subject. his provisions relative to additional cr

inappropriate indicators. >> do you agree with the statements of someone representing the department of defense on the weekend after the shooting that it would be a greater tragedy to lose their program of diversity? >> there is nobody less politically correct then senator moynihan. i strongly support the department's that focus on it. >> i appreciate it. >> this is not about political correctness. this is about defeating our adversaries. >> i disagree that it may not be about political correctness. we are talking about the fact that we now have to have behavioral indicators. i agree with that. my question is, if someone gives inflammatory remarks in an open setting -- if he has on his car that he was a soldier of all of it seems to be beyond common sense to think that they're not be able indicators. if i am a member of the military today and i see those two circumstances, would it be important for me to report those as behavioral indicators tax that is not a question of whether or not you're being politically correct. i am asking to answer that specific question. if i am a soldier and as you t

the honorable gordon as the department of defense inspector general. ambassador is the department of state deputy inspector general. mr. michael carroll is the usaid acting and inspector general. the honorable stuart bolin is the special lens victor general for the iraqi reconstruction and mr. stephen trent is the acting special inspector general for the afghan reconstruction. pursuant to the committee will call witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth >> thank you pivotal the record reflect the witness is answered in the affirmative. in order to allow proper time for discussion, we are going to ask that each member of the panel limit their verbal comments to five minutes. you're entire statement will be inserted into the record. i will now recognize the honorable mr. hadel for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, good morning. good morning, ranking member tierney and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank

the plan was updated last november after a very thorough review by the department of defense and department of ener energy, bringing the total ten-year funding figure tw figue to about $213 billion. there was little disagreement at the time about the need to modernize our nuclear facilities or about this amount which represented the costs over the ten-year period. indeed, between fiscal year 2005 and fiscal year 2010, the national nuclear security administration, or nnsa, had lost about 20% of its purchasing power due to funding cuts and this, without the changes recommended in the 1251 report, would have been devastating to its modernization plan. incredibly, funding for stockpile surveillance activities -- these are the activities which are necessary for the froze annually -- for the president to annually certify the safety and effectiveness of our nuclear warheads and bombs, and decline by 27% during this period of time. in other words, our ability to actually even understand what was going on in those weapons and determine whether or not changes had to be made was being degraded substan

and yet, we continue to have in the department of defense the soft soaping of this whole issue and the disguising of this whole issue and now with their statement that they're going to deal with it as they would deal with any workplace violence. you know, it just never stops. the shoe bomber, the christmas following this incident, the shoe bomber, who did exactly what the major did, reading back what the press reported, acted erratically before his attack, promoted radically islamic views, exchanged emails with al-awliki in yemen, he did all those things, when caught, he referenced major hasan as one of his heroes, he got caught before he blew up an airplane. praise god. thank goodness. so, you know, for the now almost -- well, over three years since the incident, the defense department still taking the position that this should be treated as normal work force violence or something to that effect. mr. gohmert: would the gentleman yield? mr. carter: yes, i will yield. mr. gohmert: i think it's particularly interesting that the determination by the military leaders came here in december.

. >> department of defense. >> what? [cheering and applause] >> jon: that was so ballsy, that was so ballsy it made barbara walters do a reporter's equivalent of a spit take. the lady has been on tv since tv started. [laughter] and she has never reacted viscerally like that to a statement like this. she's faced down crazy bullshit from dictators, from president, from moguls and movie stars. sherry shepherd told her she wasn't sure if the world was round and didn't get a what. last week syrian dictator assad, who launched a murderous crackdown on his own people told barbara walters this. >> we don't kill our own people. nobody kills... no government in the world kills its people unless it's led by a crazy person. [laughter] >> jon: that, that didn't get a "what?" barbara walters was able to suppress her incredit duality in all those situation, but five minutes with herman cain. >> department of defense? >> what? >> jon: it literally blew her mind. look at her ears. you can see there's blood coming out of her ears. [laughte

of defense, paul stockton. in his role, he is responsible for the supervision of homeland defense activities, defense of port authorities, and western hemisphere security affairs for the department of defense. from 1986 through 1989, -- and senator lieberman, this goes along with the interest of bipartisanship -- he served to senator -- senator moynihan, the only senator i know who has been recommended for sainthood by republicans and democrats. prior to that, he was a senior research scholar at the stanford university center for international security and cooperation. i have the privilege of meeting with secretary stockton and i look forward to his testimony today. he is accompanied by mr. james stovell, who is a supervisor with the united states army for counterintelligence opera, -- operations. finally, we have lieutenant colonel reed sawyer, the director and one of the founders of the combating terrorism center at west point. he has served in a variety of special operations assignments, including in afghanistan, iraq, south africa. he is a member of the fire department of new york terrorism taskforce. he has edited two books on the challenges involved with international terr

we did not have the kind of personnel around the nation from the department of defense in joint terrorism task force is to make it stick, to build the habitual relationship, to build the practices of sharing that would ensure the base commander was getting the information needed. finally, we need to ensure that this is not happening by onesies and twosies. we get information from the fbi that is distributed on a regular basis throughout the department of defense to our installation commanders. we have to make sure they get what they need in a timely and effective fashion. >> i hope we have affected. -- fixed it. but can was kicked down the road and nobody wanted to deal with it. this was political correctness gone awry time after time, he is defending osama bin laden and proselytizing and nobody wants to deal with it. is the military changing its strategy in dealing with people they can perceive to be radicalized and within our military and our bases? >> our behavioral indicators captured all the key indicators we believe would indicate someone is going down the path of radicalization. th

>> my first choice would be department of defense. >> department of defense. >> what? >> that surprises me, though, herman. >> department of defense. >> what? >>> the u.s.-led invasion of iraq began at 5:34 a.m. local time on march 20, 2003. with the goal of finding iraq's weapons of mass destruction. after finding that iraq had no such weapons, the united states' military chose not to leave but to stay encamped for nearly nine years. while losing 4,487 american lives and suffering an additional 32,226 americans wounded in iraq. the number of iraqi civilians killed by the u.s. military and by the warring insurgent factions, estimates are at least 100,000, but the exact number is now impossible to know. our history books will show today to be the last day of u.s. military involvement in iraq. defense secretary leon panetta spoke today in a fortified court yard at baghdad's airport as military helicopters hovered above him. >> as we confront the strategic challenges of the future, we will never forget the lessons of war. let me be clear, iraq will be tested in the days ah

i'm proud to represent this national treasure found within the department of defense. the rock island arsenal and its 8,600 employees have worked hard for our country. one of the provisions that was included in the mdaa allows our army industrial facilities to enter into public-private partnerships. this provision does away with a cap on the partnerships and ends the sunset. i urge strong support in this passing of this. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. >> thank you. may i inquire again as to the time left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington has 6 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from virginia, 5 1/4. and the gentleman from new york, four minutes. >> at this time, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. bishop. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. bishop: i thank the gentleman for yielding. in a few minutes i will offer a motion to recommit that would strike a misguided provision in the conference report to exempt tricare network providers from our labor protection laws. section

the honorable gordon as the department of defense inspector general. ambassador is the department of state deputy inspector general. mr. michael carroll is the usaid acting and inspector general. the honorable stuart bolin is the special lens victor general for the iraqi reconstruction and mr. stephen trent is the acting special inspector general for the afghan reconstruction. pursuant to the committee will call witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth >> thank you pivotal the record reflect the witness is answered in the affirmative. in order to allow proper time for discussion, we are going to ask that each member of the panel limit their verbal comments to five minutes. you're entire statement will be inserted into the record. i will now recognize the honorable mr. hadel for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, good morning. good morning, ranking member tierney and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank

secondly -- >> eric: department of defense suggested they call it -- >> bob: who is the department ofc: i don't know. obama administration. >> kimberly: homeland security criticized the department of defense for classifying -- >> bob: we might want a quote from somebody in authority. >> eric: before that, can i just ask you, speaking of the department of homeland security, janet napolitano earlier said what we really need to be careful of are constitutional conservative, far right leaning groups. if that is what we are watching and a man stands up, e-mails back and forth, they are misguided. >> eric: did we call timothy mcveigh right wing terrorist? >> eric: 18 years ago? no. >> bob: 60 people including children killed in that one. >> eric: are you in a bad mood? >> bob: not at all. i want to know where it comes from. i want to know who said it. i'll ask him. listen, is he being tried as a terrorist? >> kimberly: he is in terms of a milliontary tribunal. but specifically they -- military tribunal but they are classifying as workplace violence. >> bob: is it a terrorist? >> kimberly: o

>> the department of defense, somebody at the department of defense said that. i don't know who. hallenged the department of defense. >> who said man caused disasters? >> you have to start taking responsibility for that. >> right. you are not going to takes the problem with you don't face it for what it is. >> homeland security is saying it is not what the d. o. d. is calling it. >> it's simple. >> no, no. listen, it's like it's not -- barack obama did not say, hey, say this. >> he's head of the military, for crying out loud. >> who called it? tell me who did it. >> call it what it is. >> that's what they said. let me give you one. the time magazine occupy wall street, the biggest news story of 2011. the republican presidential race is two. the economy three, iraq a long good-bye and the shooting and penn state. you can see the rest of them. >> where is osama bin laden? barack obama getting osama bin laden? >> thanks to george bush. >> and that's the story of the year. >> you give credit to bush because if obama had his way we wouldn't have gotten obama. you know that? >> no matte

the honorable gordon as the department of defense inspector general. ambassador is the department of state deputy inspector general. mr. michael carroll is the usaid acting and inspector general. the honorable stuart bolin is the special lens victor general for the iraqi reconstruction and mr. stephen trent is the acting special inspector general for the afghan reconstruction. pursuant to the committee will call witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth >> thank you pivotal the record reflect the witness is answered in the affirmative. in order to allow proper time for discussion, we are going to ask that each member of the panel limit their verbal comments to five minutes. you're entire statement will be inserted into the record. i will now recognize the honorable mr. hadel for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, good morning. good morning, ranking member tierney and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank

. >> department of defense. >> what?! why department of defense. were secretary of defense, it would be important to be familiar with the various countries around the world, and you have had some difficulty with that, mr. cain. >> yes, but i have been doing my homework ever since that difficulty. >> he's been doing his homework. herman cain should manufacture a pill, i think, that gives you his self-confidence. it would really sell. >>> and finally, looks like someone neglected to think this one through. any visitor to the campaign website of newt gingrich, newt.org, can glance through a number of news articles plucked by the candidate's campaign team. well, obviously the ones that shed a positive light on newt. but how about this headline from cnbc news that recently joined the lineup. "a tale of three wives: life on the campaign trial." is that a reminder himself that gingrich himself is on his third marriage? why put that in the spotlight? well, not quite. the article is a piece on callista gingrich as well as the wives of two of his opponents,

the department of defense has not identify the victims'. >>> now to our other big story. a courtroom showdown in the penn state sex abuse scandal. >> a judge will decide today if there's enough evidence to send a case against former football coach jerry sandusky. >> he is accused of molesting an endless. today some of them will go face- to-face with their alleged attacker. brianne carter joins us with a preview and the latest twist in the investigation. >> hearing expected to get under way at 8:30 this morning. it's not clear how many bud selig users in the states are set to take the stand. if a judge will then decided the case should go to trial. >> how many more children do you expect to come forward? pepsi will face several of his accusers this morning plan and we will hear for the first time they're accountable allegedly happened. this person represents alleged victim no. 4. >> there will be an adversarial platform. it will be uncomfortable, but he is ready to go forward. >> jerry sandusky starts with more than 50 counts of sexual offenses against bullets as young as

there are over 10,000 lawyers in the department of defense. imagine. i've got nothing -- i've got nothing against lawyers, but i don't know how -- to >> delivers her walking out of the room right now. >> i don't know how any organization can function with 10,000 lawyers. [laughter] just kidding. >> i'm going to push you to skip to the rest of us because we haven't got much time and i want to get to do the things that happened obviously during that decade. 9/11. in retrospect, do you think 9/11 could have been averted if you were able to rewind the tape? if earlier presidents behave differently. was that the extent to some of things the president did or did not do? >> you know, i am not one who can answer a question like that. i'm the one hand just logically come you said yourself, there must've been some things that might have been done differently on the other hand, the task of the intelligence community is truly difficult. it is just a very, very tough job. the world is a big place. the terrorist networks in the closed societies in many countries make

>> yeah. >> totally hypothetical, department of defense. >> what? why department of defense? ould be, that would be a task i would consider undertaking. >> if you were secretary of defense, it would be important to be familiar with the various countries around the world. and you've had some difficulty with that, mr. cain. >> yes, but i have been doing my homework ever since that difficulty. >> what? says barbara walters. what? we've taken the liberty here at "morning joe." if mr. cain is serious about this of putting together the resume tape for the department of defense. here it is. >> you don't need to know the details of foreign policy in order to be a good commander in chief. do you really believe that? yes. i do view china as a potential military threat. they are trying to develop nuclear capability. okay. libya -- and when they ask me who's the president of ubeki-beki-stan-stan, i'm going to say i don't know, do you know? >> i got all this stuff twirling around in my head. >> he is fascinating. he is fascinating, isn't he? >> he really tops the list. >> ambassador to ube

the honorable gordon as the department of defense inspector general. mbassador is the department of state deputy inspector general. mr. michael carroll is the usaid acting and inspector general. the honorable stuart bolin is the special lens victor general for the iraqi reconstruction and mr. stephen trent is the acting special inspector general for the afghan reconstruction. pursuant to the committee will call witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth >> thank you pivotal the record reflect the witness is answered in the affirmative. in order to allow proper time for discussion, we are going to ask that each member of the panel limit their verbal comments to five minutes. you're entire statement will be inserted into the record. i will now recognize the honorable mr. hadel for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, good morning. good morning, ranking member tierney and distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank y

a department of defense report says sexual assaults are on the rise. the annual report found 65 reports of sexual assaults involving cadets and midshipmen at the naval academy, military academy, and air force academy. last year there were 41. the naval academy saw the number of reported assaults double from 11 to 22 while the air force climbed from 20 to 33. the military academy reported the same number in both years with 10 assaults. the pentagon says it cannot conclusively identify the reasons for the increases. >>> the war in iraq may be over, but americans will not be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade any time soon for troops returning from the middle east. officials in new york and washington say they would be happy to stage a big celebration similar to the huge ticker-tape parades that followed world war ii. however, the pentagon says they have not been asked to plan one. some think a big parade would be premature since tens of thousands of u.s. troops are still fighting in afghanistan. >>> still no word on whether yemen's outgoing president will b

. >> the political culture says it is consensus on funding the department of defense to the fund of $600n my memory, until recent years, that was not true. >> exactly right. >> this actually is new. >> this is new. the whole notion -- i'm sorry, jerry. >> there was always a consensus that you had to have unemployment insurance for people. that's why you paid into it when times were good. you didn't have a pay-for. you did it. when unemployment was high, when there was 6.5 applicants for the job openings, then you knew you had to have extended unemployment insurance. now, they do. >> we have never been in a position like that, as we were discussing earlier. we have never had 99-week unemployment insurance for anywhere as close as this. there is certainly no precedent for having unemployment insurance benefits available for this long of a period. >> we are talking about jobs here. >> we have never had an unemployment. we have never had unemployment numbers at the level that we have them. they mask some long-term unemployment. look at unemployment of black american youth. so if you look for

i mean, you talk about research at the department of defense. there's good reasons to do good research at the department of defense, but we have the world's premier institute, the national institutes of health, and we're not increasing them significantly but we're markedly increasing the study of m.s. at a military research facility instead of through n.i.h. where we're spending $100 million already a year on it? so we're going to duplicate it. we -- i've said it before. we have taken a stupid pill. we have either taken a stupid pill or a corruption pill. i don't know which it is. but i know that long-term effects of doing this kind of legislating at this time in our history when we have the greatest difficulty and the greatest land mines ahead of us financially for us to do what we're doing here today, to please the very small group of congressmen and senators who happen to make up the appropriation committee and to address their election concerns and they are knowing better than what the authorization committee -- you know, it won't surprise yo

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a department of defense report says sexual assaults are on the rise. the agency's annual report found there were 65 reports of sexual assault involving cadets and midshipmen at the military academy, naval academy, and air force academy. last year there were 41. the naval academy saw the number of assaults double from 11 to 22 while the air force climbed from 20 to 33. the military academy reported the same number in both years with 10 assaults. they cannot identify the reasons for the increases. >>> the war in iraq is now over, but americans won't be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade any time soon for service members returning from the middle east. they would be willing to stage a huge celebration similar to the ticker-tape parades in world war ii. however, the pentagon hasn't been asked to plan one. some think the ticker-tape parade would be premature since thousands of troops are still in afghanistan. >>> a woman and her daughter will ride on a float in the upcoming tournament of roses parades in honor of organ donors. six years ago, paul died when he

i have asked the department of defense and i wrote secretary panetta and asked him that question. give me your projections of how many more young men and women will have to die and lose their legs? i hope that i get that response soon. that brings me to the point of a young marine i saw at walter reed/bethesda about three weeks ago. there were four marines from the third district of north carolina , three had lost both legs, and the one that had lost only one leg, a corporal, mom's sitting in the room, said to me, sir, may i ask you a question? i said, certainly, you may. why are we still in afghanistan? and i looked at him and i said, i don't know why we are still there. mr. speaker, it makes no sense. the american people and the people of the third district of north carolina are saying we have won. bin laden is dead. al qaeda has been dispersed all over the world. mr. speaker, it is time as we debate these very difficult complex issues for our nation that we get smart with our foreign policy, and smart means let's don't try to police the world. history has proven you will never c