boot camp looks pretty good, according to write about now. >> it does. >> the ranking member and i have agreed to allow members to go to the questions, and with that in mind alternative mr. fortenber mr. fortenberry. >> thank you, chairman. director clapper, i want to start with afghanistan. has the intelligence community produced and agreed upon written assessment of what the afghanistan security forces capabilities will be in 2013? >> sir, i guess the most current such rendering would have been addressed in the national intelligence estimate that we recently published. >> well, i noticed in your statement, you said that there has been some loss of the taliban insurgency in areas where we have troops, but it remains resilient and capable of challenging u.s. international goals. i also noted that there was articles in the british press yesterday. they said was some sort of military, u.s. military report. i don't know if it was or not, but it says that the taliban strength and morale are largely in tact, and talks about significant number of defections to the talibans. and so i'm concerned about the announcement that was made yesterday that we are going to end all combat