mr. kissell, for five minute. mr. kissell? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses for being here. mr. chairman, i couldn't help but being a past world history teacher i couldn't help enjoy your story about pearl harbor. when i was teaching i would start out every semester by reading a reamble to a book and i believe it was "fly boys" but don't quote me on that and it talked about the japanese surprised the fleet, caught them in the harbor in december and the end result of the battle was they sunk all the fleet and i would tell my students if you can tell me, you know, where that happened, i'll give you an a for the semester and you don't have to come to class. you can do whatever you want. and all of them would raise their hand and, of course, they thought it was pearl harbor. i said well, the next line in the book says president roosevelt wrote a letter to the japanese and congratulated them on their great victory and that stumped them a little bit. it was 1905. it was the russians. we have a great capacity to think we have all the answe

mr. kissel. >> thank you to the witnesses for being here. mr. chairman, i couldn't help being a test will history teacher i couldn't help but enjoy your story this morning about pearl harbor. when i was teaching, i will start of every semester by reading the preamble to the book, and i believe that it was fly boys but don't quote me on that, it was about the japanese surprise, the fleet called them into the harbor in december and the end result of the battle was the son call the fleet. and i would tell my students if you can tell me where the have and i will give you an a for the semester and you don't have to come to class. you can do what you want. all of them would raise their hands and of course they thought was pearl harbor. the next line in the books as president roosevelt wrote a letter to the japanese and congratulated them on their great victory. and that stopped a little bit. it was 1905. we had a great capacity to think we have all the answers come and we have to keep looking for the things that may surprise us. the reason i ask the q

mr. kissell. and now someone the subject is near and dear to her heart the gentlelady from hawaii. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't believe we can discuss readiness out of the context of what has happened and what the implications of what happened, the devastation and the catastrophe in japan. having said that, i would like to know -- japan is considered like our anchor partner in terms of our security defenses in the pacific. what impact is the tsunami and the earthquake having on whatever strategic locations we have in japan? mr. secretary, you could answer that. >> certainly. i mean, to begin with, i would say that it would be speculative at best at this point to comment on any of the longer term implications of the earthquake and the tsunami. but i would note that certainly, i think, the assistance that we've been able to offer on the engagement of the u.s. military and the u.s. government across-the-board in response to this crisis has helped to strengthen the bonds that we have between our

mr. kissell said well, they require more training and the gao is clever. what does he think the terrorists are? terrorists have gone from a very sophisticated shoe device and i was awakened in texas in the liquid bombers and we put in measures to try to deal with that. the diaper i had in january tested the system for the pat-down which is supposed to catch what this equipment doesn't catch or be another device. i can tell you i can thwart the system not only visually, and not that clever, but most folks know they are not going to touch your junk and more than enough dangerous material can't get through because that system is flawed, too. i'm very concerned about the testing of this equipment before it was deployed and looks like we have a bigger's one our hands. and if it wasn't half a billion it's going to be another half a billion because they couldn't possibly use the existing personnel or transfer some of the positions of the 3,770 bureaucratic positions in washington to get their butts out working on line. of course making $105,000 on average a year

mr. kissell said well, they require more training and the gao is clever. what does he think the terrorists are? terrorists have gone from a very sophisticated shoe device and i was awakened in texas in the liquid bombers and we put in measures to try to deal with that. the diaper i had in january tested the system for the pat-down which is supposed to catch what this equipment doesn't catch or be another device. i can tell you i can thwart the system not only visually, and not that clever, but most folks know they are not going to touch your junk and more than enough dangerous material can't get through because that system is flawed, too. i'm very concerned about the testing of this equipment before it was deployed and looks like we have a bigger's one our hands. and if it wasn't half a billion it's going to be another half a billion because they couldn't possibly use the existing personnel or transfer some of the positions of the 3,770 bureaucratic positions in washington to get their butts out working on line. of course making $105,000 on average a year

mr. kissell said well, they require more training and the gao is clever. what does he think the terrorists are? terrorists have gone from a very sophisticated shoe device and i was awakened in texas in the liquid bombers and we put in measures to try to deal with that. the diaper i had in january tested the system for the pat-down which is supposed to catch what this equipment doesn't catch or be another device. i can tell you i can thwart the system not only visually, and not that clever, but most folks know they are not going to touch your junk and more than enough dangerous material can't get through because that system is flawed, too. i'm very concerned about the testing of this equipment before it was deployed and looks like we have a bigger's one our hands. and if it wasn't half a billion it's going to be another half a billion because they couldn't possibly use the existing personnel or transfer some of the positions of the 3,770 bureaucratic positions in washington to get their butts out working on line. of course making $105,000 on average a year