>> correct. >> general hamm, i have a great deal of respect for general hamm and his two predecessors after we developed africom. that was somewhat significant in that effort. of course, africom, with the exception of egypt, has the continent and has the control of that. it would have operational control of the d.o.d. assets in the event that action and around libya would be necessary. now, africom consistently faces resourcing shortfalls. i know sometimes you don't hear this loud and clear but we do over a period of time, we know you can't continue to expand into new areas, as we did in africom. let's keep in mind we didn't have any activity there. and you know this prior to the time we made the conscious decision after 9/11, the original 9/11, that we have a serious problem in africa and we are going to have to deal with that problem and we came up with the idea of forming five african brigades. a lot of these things are going on right now. did you have any conversation, either one of you, with general hamm regarding the security situation in north africa prior to these attacks that

>> correct. >> general hamm, i have a great deal of respect for general hamm and his two predecessors after we developed africom. that was somewhat significant in that effort. of course, africom, with the exception of egypt, has the continent and has the control of that. it would have operational control of the d.o.d. assets in the event that action and around libya would be necessary. now, africom consistently faces resourcing shortfalls. i know sometimes you don't hear this loud and clear but we do over a period of time, we know you can't continue to expand into new areas, as we did in africom. let's keep in mind we didn't have any activity there. and you know this prior to the time we made the conscious decision after 9/11, the original 9/11, that we have a serious problem in africa and we are going to have to deal with that problem and we came up with the idea of forming five african brigades. a lot of these things are going on right now. did you have any conversation, either one of you, with general hamm regarding the security situation in north africa prior to these attacks that

>> senator, my view was, whatever general hamm asked, we did more than try to respond. >> i know you did, and we did, too. i've talked to him about this and we know that the assets just weren't available when you look at the other places. it's not as if only one place is on fire. they're all on fire right now and this is the problem we've got. the "washington post" columnist said the president hat a briefing with the principals committee to review the threat in the mitigation of the threats, the day before, and the committee, it's my understanding, is made up of the secretary of defense. secretary of state, director of national intelligence. were the two of you at these meeting the day before, on september 10th? >> i believe i recall being at a meeting that kind of looked at what the potential threats were as the result of going into -- >> at that meeting -- i have chart here, no one questions the chain of event that happened on the left side, the things that happened prior to all this what consider to be warning signals that win should be able to recognizing the resource problem we

appeal no. 12-14 1 gration wu versus the department of building inspection, subject property at 42 lapp hamm way. appealing the imposition of a penalty on november 13th, 2012tor construction work done would you tell us a permit. >> good evening. this is my first time to remodel the house. i hired a contractor. and i followed his instructions and i didn't know he didn't get a permit. right now i already got the building permit and i'm looking for the electricity and the plumbing contractors so i can get those two permits to fix the property. so i hope you can reduce the penalty for me so i can have more resources to work on though fix this problem. thank you. >> excuse me. did you say you are looking for a replacement contractor? >> yes. >> how are you going to do whether or not the new contractor is able to file the appropriate permits? >> i already asked for recommendations and they are still looking for the proper ones. i haven't gotten one yet, but pretty soon i'm going to have one. >> okay. thank you. >> thanks >> mr. duffy? . good evening commissioners. congratulations on the new appoin

welcoming tech savvy americans at its first ever hackathon this is political activists and hacker jeremy hamm in the fight against fights his case against the government behind bars. it's friday february twenty second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r t as regular our t.v. viewers know cia whistle blower john kiriakou was sentenced to thirty months in prison for leaking information about waterboarding and systematic cia torture to the media however last night he couldn't have been further from the jail cell as supporters held at a sendoff banquet just one week before he is expected to head to prison human rights activist journalists family and friends attended the event but it wasn't all dancing and dining as his prison sentence loomed our t.v. producer rachel cursing us was at last night's event and joined us earlier to talk about it i asked her the one question that's on everyone's minds what happened last night. it was a very brutal the fair in many ways because well it was in probably one of the ritziest places in d.c. that's called the hay adams hotel and

in consultation with general dempsey and africom commander, general hamm, i directed several specificctions. first, we ordered a marine fleet antiterrorism secure team, a fast team stationed in spain to prepare to deploy to benghazi. a second fast platoon was ordered to prepare to deploy to the embassy in tripoli. a special operations force, which was training in central europe was ordered to prepare to deploy to an intermediate staging base in southern europe. and a special operations force based in the united states was ordered to deploy to an intermediate staging base in southern europe as well at siganela. some have asked why some other types of armed aircraft president bush not dispatched to benghazi. ththe reason simply is that armed uav's, gunships, or fixed wing fighters with the associated tanking, you've got to provide airy fueling abilities, armaments, you've got to arm all the weapons before you put them on the planes, targeting, and support facilities were not in the vicinity of libya. and because of the distance it would have taken at least nine to 12 hours if not more t

-- >> you never heard of ambassador stevens repeated warnings about the-- >> i had through general hammd a request for support from the state department which would have allowed us to put-- >> so it's the state department's fault. >> i'm not blaming the state department. >> is there a saying in the military when you go into harm's way, we've got your back? >> of course, yes, sir. >> don't you think that saying has been undermined here, how can people in the military, the foreign service believe we've got their back when after over-- do you know how long the attack was going to last, secretary panetta? >> no idea. >> well, it could have lasted for two days. >> greta: we spoke with senator mccain shortly after the hearing. >> thank you, greta. >> greta: i realize today was the hearing with the secretary of defense and general dempsey. i'm curious though, do you know what the cia was doing at that benghazi conflict, what was their job? >> i do not know what their job was, and i'm sure it was gathering intelligence, but the thing that was really frustrating about it is, general dempsey and

do you know anything about this chap, john hamm? wouldn't know anything about it at all. haven't even internet-ed it at all. right. well, john ham... and i think this has been repainted. i think that should've said kingsand. kingsand is in cornwall, is it not? there is a john ham of kingsand, round about 1840, 1845, which would fit in with this sort of 30-hour dial. but nothing fits in with this sort of case, 'cause it is absolutely weird. it's quite extraordinary, isn't it? and somebody has just cobbled it up together from bits of oak and bits of ply. the tea chest? all sorts of things. it's just a fun object. there's some strange carving here, as well. naked ladies climbing up trees. very african. yes. i'm not going to associate a very high value with it. the movement's quite fun. i wasn't expecting it to be worth anything, actually. probably, if you put it to auction like this as a bit of fun, it might make £250, 300 top whack. that's not bad. but i'm far more intrigued. how you going to get it home then? it's gonna go back the way it came. we are gonna row it home. yo

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i never thought it would when i was with james hamm from back in the seventy's.and god bless him hansen's been talking about it for a long long time larry thanks for bringing the topic up this this is something if you want to really really. wake yourself up on this a few other people use the duck duck go machine that's my favorite search engine duck duck go dot com and the google machine or whatever and look for permian extinction b.b.c. b.b.c. four did a eight hour documentary on the permian extinction that is damn frightening larry larry we just talked with sally queens in new york a salad hi tom thanks for the work you do to appreciate the show you know i want to bring up a point about i never hear anything about you know monopolization and how the antitrust laws have protected over the last twenty or so years now you can go out to profitable companies you know gobble each other up and shriek workforces and therefore control salaries and be able to keep salaries down and don't allow for lateral movement i'm an industry the competent history and we've seen it g

bob beckel and mary catherine hamm.ne of the things a lot of people are frustrated with, you look at adam lanza, you look at jared locker in. all of these have mental health issues. jared loughner may be an exception but clearly he's disturbed. no one is putting this front and center. >> background checks is the centerpiece of his legislations. background checks would have stopped what happened in virginia tech and it would have stopped what happened in aurora. where you had those cases where people bought guns who were clearly mentally disturbed this would have stopped it. as far as i'm concerned, any of this is a no-brainer. what is going through their mind? martha: i think a lot of people would be in favor of a universal background check and i think we all agree anything you can do to stop any element of this is a plus. but it feels as though -- emphasis does feel like it's more on the gun than the person pulling the trigger. it's tough to bring this issue of institutionalization and whether some of these people shou

>> never heard of ambassador stevens' repeated warnings about the-- >> i had, sir, through general hammr received a request for support from the state department which would have allowed us to put forces on the ground. >> so it's the state department's fault. >> i'm not blaming the assault department i'm sure-- >> who would you blame. >> i'm sorry, sir? >> who is responsibility then? it's clear that assessment was made that they could not withstand the sustained attack on the consulate with it being september 11th and many other indications that are on that board over there, various attacks that have already taken place. >> i stand by the report of the accountability review board, but i would also say, senator, i was also concerned at that time with yemen, khartoum, islamabad, kabul, baghdad. we had some pretty significant threat intelligence those places. >> martha: joined bu margery clifton, a principal at clifton consulting and lars larsen, good to have you both here today. >> thanks. >> martha: marjorie, what's your reaction to that back and forth? >> i think that americans-- >> and

. >> general hamm called to see if they wanted to extend the special security team there and was tolderal dempsey, are very inadequate and, in my opinion, the same kind of inadequacy for the security that you provided at that consulate. >> in the end, the questioning came back to the president, what he knew and when. >> did you ever call him and say, mr. president, it looks like we don't have anything to get there any time soon? >> i -- the event was over before -- >> it lasted almost eight hours. >> wow. you know, the marines did not have a guard unit obviously at the guard mission in benghazi but that could be changing. secretary panetta stated that more training and equipment could be coming to those guard units and also an expanded mission beyond their core priority of protecting classified materials at these compounds. >> yeah. they've got to learn the lessons from what happened in benghazi to make sure it never happens again. chris lawrence, thanks very much. >>> violent protests are once again raging in the same place that the so-called arab spring was born. lisa sylvester is m