mr. cunningham, for your good work. mr. sopko going on six years now. there is institutional memory you offer us that is very helpful. about youralk travel. i have been to afghanistan maybe a dozen times. i know others here have been frequent flyers to afghanistan and pakistan on the other side of the border. in the past, we have had no problems getting into kandahar city. they put us in strikers. we were able to drive to the pakistan border. in our had wide access past oversight investigations in afghanistan. but of course, at that time, we had 100,000 troops or thereabouts. so, the assets were plentiful and we had great cooperation from general dunford and other generals going back to general petraeus. what is the situation now in terms of your own travel? mr. cunningham: our travel has been restricted. some of this is because of the point you make. mr. sopko: we no longer have 120,000 forces. part of it is because of the problem with insider attacks. that is something even general dunford recently spoke about publicly as a serious problem. i know pre

mr. cunningham helped write most of this report. mr. cunningham: so we have seen secretary defense mattis actually embrace some of the lesson learned and key findings from our report. as i said during the failure analysis, we were able to implement a lot of the recommendations in our report into that discussion. the problem is some of those recommendations are not being implemented today. the next unit going out is where we may see some change. one of the biggest problems we have is we don't have a deployable police capability that can operate in a nonpermissive environment to develop an afghan national police force. the department of defense don't have the capability and the civilian agencies cannot operate in high threat environment so we miss that capability and that's something we need to discuss. at the minute steerial level, a lot of the advisors are uniformed personnel who don't receive the training that the civilian advisors receive. the minister defense advisor run by the department of defense excludes uniformed military personn

mr. cunningham for your good work. mr. sopko, going on six years now. there's nan institutional memor i think you offer us that's helpful. i want to talk about the limitations on your travel. i've bichb to afghanistan a dozen times. i know rothers here have been frequent flyers to afghanistan and pakistan on the other side of the border. in the past we've had no problems getting into kandahar city, put us in strikers. we're able to drive right down to the pakistan border. we've had wide access, in our past oversight investigations in afghanistan. but of course at that time we had had 100,000 troops or thereabouts and so the assets were plentiful and we had great cooperation from general doneferred and other generals going back to general petraeus. what's the situation there in terms of your own travel? >> ranking member lynch, our travel has been restricted. some of this is because of the point you made. we no longer have 100/100 -- 120 coalition forces. something general dunford spoke about recently. this is a serious program. and i know president has

mr. cunningham, we can give you more examples. these are fast turnaround that usually you see a demonstration due immediately. >> my time is up and i recognize the ranking member mr. lynch for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman and i want to give you great credit for holding this hearing and i really do appreciate it. and again thank you mr. sopko and mr. cunningham. you do good work and sopko going on six years now is an institutional memory that you offer us that is very helpful during our investigations. i want to talk about the limitations on your travel. i have been to afghanistan maybe a dozen times and i know mr. russell and mr. isil and others here have been frequent flyers to afghanistan and the other side of the border. in the past we have had no problems getting into kandahar city. we were able to drive right down to the border so we have had wide access in our past oversights designations in afghanistan. at that time we had 100,000 troops and so the assets were plentiful. we had great cooperation by general dunford

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