colonel mansoor will give his presentation at the podium now. thank you. >> thank you, peter, for that kind introduction, and thank you all for coming today. i really appreciate the new america foundation sponsoring this talk. i was not going to write this book. i retired from military in 2008, and although i knew that the restored to be told, i was going to let it take some time to digest and develop. and i was thinking maybe 10, 20 years down the road i would write a history of the iraq war are but a couple years later in the summer of 2010 i was at a conference with a who's who of counterinsurgency experts in the united states. we were talking about what to do in iraq are of course the iraq war -- i'm sorry, in afghanistan. what to do in afghanistan in 2010 was an issue of major concern in the united states, and invariably the discussion default into what it happened in iraq and what happened during the surge and why the sectarian violence was reduced so much in that period. and and listening to what the various experts have to say, it was go

deep, deep research and, of course, general mansoor was so

eastern on c-span3. >> in his book "surge", peter mansoor talked about how the u.s. military strategy shifted in iraq war. and how was executed in the army and earnings per the author talked about his book at the new america foundation in washington dc. this is an hour and a half. >> welcome. i'm part of the security program here. with great pressure that i get to welcome the author of this stunning new book. one of the key books about the iraq war. and we have so much of the key events with the real history and an element. he was executive officer to general petraeus and he has a phd in military history at ohio state. so we are pleased to have you here. and as he gives his presentation we will have a part of this. and we will produce some responses with the operational studies with the u.s. army. he is studying for his phd at texas a&m and i think the part of the american experience and i'm really pleased to have both of you here. we're happy he's giving this presentation now. >> 10 or 20 years down the road i wrote yesterday about the iraq worker but a couple of ye

. >> senator mansoor? >> no, i want to go to another matter. in january of 2014 a swiss court rejected a u.s. treaty request filed around april 2013 for client name and information. about accounts in the name of offshore corporations that round by the u.s. taxpayers. this is what this morning ahead of the credit suisse bank said was egregious. and this is really egregious by the way. i can't think of anything much more egregious in this area than a bank telling a customer, helping a customer to open up an account a shell corporation account and some -- the purpose of which is to transfer that same money to a swiss bank in this case credit suisse but now in the name of the shell corporation and that was aided and abetted. i can't think of anything much more egregious and as a matter fact that constitutes it fraud. now -- the department of justice apparently did not get any client names from that treaty request almost a year of effort. is that true? >> we can't talk about that. under 6105. >> senator i need to give some information on that. >> is