. >> kathleen hicks from the center for strategic and international studies.hey previously served as undersecretary. good to have you here. is it too soon to say, basically it was a mistake for u.s. soldier toss leave? do you agree with that or not? >> i don't think that's the biggest issue right now. i think the issue is looking forward and how to deal with the issue. and possibly could continue on to jordan. that's the name of the game for the united states right now, is how it works with the regional allies to try to start to shore up the security in the region. >> it's my understanding that you believe from the short term that iraq's borders are moot. the sunni group is in charge from syria into iraq territory the is it possible for iraq to be glued back together again? or is it going to be the next syria with this seemingly endless civil war? >> i think it's much too soon to determine what the long-term end state for iraq is, but i absolutely believe in the northern part of the iraq the kurds will believe their security is best pushed up by their own forc

i'm kathleen hicks, i run the international security program here at csis. and you covered, truly, the water front. and i think it gives us a very rich conversation opportunity here with the audience, and i'll turn it over to them for questions in a few minutes, but there are a few things i thought i'd start with. this last issue that you raised, there's two issues on your last slide you raised, one generally on integration and specifically ending on the dod/cia piece. let me take the first part of that. we really have come, in the time that you've been in your positions within the department of defense from 2007 to now, from the world of trying to transition from need-to-know to need-to-share to, i hope, a culture of need-to-share. of that was the intelligent. but now, of course, we've had a series of incidents that test that, snowden being the most recent. i'm wondering if you can give a sense of where you think the community is and where the community needs to be on this issue of how much to share, how to control information, have we swung too far or, in

i am kathleen hicks. you covered the water front and it gives us a rich conversation opportunity with the audience and i will turn it over to them in a few minutes. but there are a few things i thought i would start with. you raise one on the last side on immigration and ending on the dod piece. we have come in the time you have been in your positions within the department of defense from 2007-now from the world of trying to transition from need to know, to need to share, to i hope a culture of need to share -- that was the intent. but now we have had a series of incidents that test that snowden being the most recent. i am wondering if you can give a sense of where the community is on this issue of how much to share, how to control, have we swung too far or do we need to accept there is a risk that comes with the need to share culture. >> thanks. well, we continue to have a strong need to share intelligence. our national security strategy depends on enabling partners and that requires intelligence sharing

i am kathleen hicks here at csis and international security program includes him and security program. security is just one and i am very pleased today to be able to introduce and then follow on in a conversation with assistant secretary alan cohn from the department of homeland security. alan is relatively new expanded title of responsibilities as for strategy, planning analysis and risk so i'm not sure what's left out of there but there are other people at dhs ugly he is keeping other people employed beyond those areas. in addition to leading the qhsr does the last one and this one the first and the last one he is also critically important for what comes after the qshr and hopefully we will talk about that today in terms of linking strategy and the departments processes for executing strategy. alan then i have known each other for quite a long time. we where fellow travelers on quadrennial reviews and quadrennial defense review's in the past but also also we were together an interagency reform efforts both here at csis and the project on national security reform. alan is a member of

i'm kathleen hicks, i run the international security program and our international security program includes the homeland security program. security is as one and i'm very pleased today to be able to introduce and then follow on in a conversation with assistant secretary alan cohn from the department of homeland security. alan's relatively new expanded title of responsibilities is for strategy, planning, analysis and risk so i'm not sure what's left out of there but there are other people at dhs so presumably he's keeping other people employed beyond those areas. in addition to leading the qhsr, both the last one and this one, the first was the last one, he's also critically important for what comes after the qhsr and what hopefully we'll talk about that today in terms of linking strategy and the department's processes for executing strategy. alan and i have known each other quite a long time. we're follow travelers on quadrennial reviews. mine are the quadrennial defense reviews of the past but also we've worked together on interagency reform efforts both here at csis and through the projec

.- kathleen hicks you cover the waterfront, and it gives us a very rich conversation opportunity hereith the audience. i will turn it over to them for questions in a few minutes. there are a few things i thought i would start with. , onelast issue you raised generally on integration dod-ciaally on the case. in the time that you have been in your position in the department of defense, from 2007 to now, we have come from the world of trying to transition from need to know to need to culture of hope a need to share. that was the intent. now we have had a series of incidents that test that. snowden being the most recent. i'm wondering if you can give a sense of where you think the community is and where the community needs to be on this issue of how much to share, how to control information. have we swung too far, or in fact do we just need to accept there are risks that come from a need to share overture -- culture? we continue to have a strong need to share intelligence. our national security strategy .epends on enabling partners that requires intelligence make theand to national securi

welcome to csi sp at an kathleen hicks, i and international security program here and it's my great pleasureto be were introduced in our speaker today and are discussing the lot with him. first of course is the honorable gil kerlikowske, who is here as the commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection, sworn in and large. mr. kerlikowske has an extensive history within mod worsening community and of course now he runs the largest law enforcement -- federal law-enforcement agency in the country and we are very much looking forward to his remarks this morning. customs and border protection has been very much in the news of late and he is going to have some good questions put forth to him by her discussant, adam isles come in managing director chertoff grew up in us had plenty of his own experience over the years on homeland security. so without further ado, let me turn it over to commissioner kerlikowske and let him get his remarks. >> thank you very much, kathleen. it is a great pleasure to be here. it's a great pleasure to be back us up to, especially in this beautiful new facility wher

i'm kathleen hicks. i run the international security program here. it is my pleasure to be introducing our speaker today and our discussant along with him. first, of course, is the honorable bill kerlikowski here as the economieser of the customs and -- commissioner of customs and border protection. he has an extensive history within the law enforcement community and now runs the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country. and we are looking forwad to his remarks this morning. customs and border protection has been in the news of late, and he is going to have some good questions put forth to him by our discussant adam iles who is the managing director at the chair top group and has had plenty of his own experience over the years on homeland security. let me turn it over to commissioner kerlikowski and let him give his remarks. >> it is a great pleasure to be here and back at csis. especially o be in the beautiful new facility. i think well over a year ago i had the opportunity to deliver some remarks on another noncontroversial topic, drug

the congressional reporter ,rom politico, kathleen hicks joining us this morning, thank you.st: thank you for having me on. host: what do you think will be got -- what do you think that they will get done in the house and congress? finishingy should be up the appropriations process. eric cantor put it out there in june on appropriations, talking surprisingly not about immigration, but about obamacare alternatives. you will also see a lot of talk about the v.a. and the prisoner swap. that is really going to be the focus of the next couple of weeks. hearings this weekend on the v.a. controversy, there will be a crossfire briefing tonight on the prisoner swap. the long last slog before the august recess, the last thing that congress needs to get done. houses coming in today to deal with the transportation bill. off -- bo -- boberg bergdahl? a cold reception from the senators. they showed a video of him suffering, ma ca did. one of the words that was used to describe him. it did not change a lot of parts in the senate. it is going to meet a colder reception in the house, much les