admiral mcraven? been a distinguished members of the committee, thank you for letting me the opportunity to be here today. i am deeply honored the president has nominated a team to ser as the next commander. and if confirmed, i promise you that i will work tirelessly to ensure our that it continues to provide the american people the finest special operations forces in the world. joining me today is my wife who has been a constant source of strength to me and said the men and women of the families with whom i have served. i haveeen extremely lucky to have her by my side of the past 33 years. i have three children as well my oldest son is a captain in the air force, my number to such as completing his ph.d. in california and my daughter is going into her junior year of college. i have been very fortunate to have spent the past 34 years in special operations, and i can tell you from my personal experience, that the deision by the congress to establish the special operations command was the best thing tha

admiral mcraven? been a distinguished members of the committee, thank you for letting me the opportunity to be here today. i am deeply honored the president has nominated a team to serve as the next commander. and if confirmed, i promise you that i will work tirelessly to ensure our that it continues to provide the american people the finest special operations forces in the world. joining me today is my wife who has been a constant source of strength to me and said the men and women of the families with whom i have served. i have been extremely lucky to have her by my side of the past 33 years. i have three children as well my oldest son is a captain in the air force, my number to such as completing his ph.d. in california and my daughter is going into her junior year of college. i have been very fortunate to have spent the past 34 years in special operations, and i can tell you from my personal experience, that the decision by the congress to establish the special operations command was the best thin

frankly from what i read today there are real issues relating to how we do intake of prisoners right mcraven talked about the problem we said late news that a series of articles on it washington post we don't really have a clear format how we capture people and frankly i strongly disagree with the idea that detaining people indefinitely that's not what our principles as united states stand for you can't do that so you've got to have some path of judicial process and i've seen worse u.s. citizens have been rolled up in kind of not treated properly i talked about this in my book operation dark heart we were all of us citizen and we treated them completely different than foreign nationals we treated them we separated them we gave him his own room and i think you need to consider even if you don't like it if a u.s. citizen is he was a citizen you know treat him like he was a citizen you get even better everything they would have if they you know if if they look like you or me and that's part of the problem i think a lot of these guys may look like arabs and i think that's part of the brutal trut

admiral mcraven, if night race stock -- order to be stuck by the afghan government, how would that affectyour ability to be successful? >> sera, stopping a raise would certainly be detrimental to the special at rations asked by of the fight in afghanistan. just to give you some statistics over the course of the last 12 months, the task force i committed over there we conducted approximately two dozen operations. of those two dozen operations, somewhere in the neighborhood had 88% were in fact conduct that night. i think what is lost on a lot of folks is that approximately 84% to 86% of missions we never fired a shot. >> admiral, it's fair to say a 78% of people were detainees come from the special operations missions. >> general allen, if the afghan government consisted of the 2400 people we are detaining at all in prison under the law of war be transferred to last and control by january 2012, which you have concerns about that decision? >> at commissary. >> would it affect her ability to be successful? >> i think it would. >> let's talk about counterinsurgency. the option that the countr