those who were accused of killing the protesters in february are belong to the country that national security services so the fact that the state prosecutor took a move to remove the unity that was on that that that these are those are national security agents had and the fact that they were brought to the courts in the 1st place and that a verdict has been issued and that they have been sent and it's quite significant but people are saying they want to see more and they want to see justice and accountability for deaths of other protesters as well i will speak of justice and accountability here but this does this verdict indicate any kinds of legal reform under way in sudan. well since a transitional government has been formed there has been a new attorney general a new head of judiciary but people are saying that most of the judges that are in the courts around the country are still those who have been appointed by the former government and they're saying that just because one verdict or verdict over the death of one protester has been issued and that is not that that doesn't mean that there are lega

the incident we're talking about and an assault on the national security service headquarters the f.s.b. building is it fair to say that you know this was always going to be a suicide mission you would know the response you're going to going to get and it was going to be heavy which begs the question why would someone target such a facility. well you quite right i think anyone who would want to touch the f.s.b. building or similar buildings when we've just been talking the before globally there are similar buildings around around the world in the capitals you know this is what we call hard targets and that's what he's picked i think what may be one of the reasons i'm not you know i'm speculating here but let's see what comes out but what it does is there's the f.s.b. this is the russian security services has a rich history you know easier reports who's saying you know you know before that was the k.g.b. in the days of soviet union so it's an iconic. location it's iconic organization and it's saying basically well if the f.s.b. don't save yourself you know slaven country with your discre

happening behind the heavily guarded walls some demanded the death penalty for the $41.00 national security service officers they were charged with the manslaughter of. a schoolteacher in the eastern state of . in court the judge brought them more than 12 weeks of trial to an end. to. the defendants are facing charges of manslaughter which falls on the article $130.00 which carries a death penalty the 1st defendant to the 27th who received a death penalty the 31st in 30 federal sentencing defendants 20. 8 of the charges what abreast are sentenced to jail. the verdict was welcomed by ahmed the hottest family his daughter and death in custody provokes anger in schools all over sudan and a wave of protests demanding the end of the 30 year rule of president obama and he was eventually deposed in april following months of unrest it was initially sparked by rising food prices and grew into a wider revolt demanding radical change the shear has been charged with inciting and participating in the killing of protesters. that we consider this case to be a turning point in sudan's history many institutions in

i know there's been a shooting in the heart of moscow near the headquarters of russia's national security service the f.s.b. at least one person has been killed and several others wounded the f.s.b. says there was only one attacker who's now been killed and he's back in reports. the sound of gunfire echoes through the streets of the russian capital. sending people running to safety and initiating a major security operation by special forces to get position on street corners. according to russian media reports a man attacked the reception of this building on lubyanka square in the center of my. sco is the home of russia's federal security service the f.s.b. and its communist era pre-disaster the k.g.b. . but the attacker then reportedly fled to a neighboring building barricaded himself inside security services then shot him dead a 1000000 says were on scene to help several casualties stated by your games least don't believe there were gunshots so of course i didn't get any closer because i wanted to live my head around the corner and watch from there the emergency services came a bit later on. bef

you think well this must be one of the safest places in the country because you know the national security service the intelligence agencies are right there on your doorstep and subconsciously think ok there's never going to be any trouble around here it seems absolutely unthinkable that something like this could happen and it makes me think surely that was deliberate for it to be brought on the doorstep exactly as you quite rightly said lubyanka is the headquarters of the russian federal security service is that russia is the f.b.i. if you will it is heavily guarded and security in russian public areas is normally pretty good i mean we often moaning about the queues of metal detectors of scanners you know at the airport at train stations in shopping malls it is therefore for public safety though in this particular area as you mention is that about 10 minutes walk from the bolshoi theater and iconic site 1015 minutes walk from revolution square the kremlin the shopping center just around the corner lots of bars lots of restaurants around there many. people both ex-pats tourists locals would spend

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they were mentioned before the timing of course was of a crime of that time on the eve of national security services day he was giving a speech highlighting the importance of rooting out extremism fundamentalism before it turns into something more of course if this does turn out to be officially confirmed as terrorism that will make the speech even more poignant miss is a fragment from what he had to say just a few hours ago. he would use the extreme we need to be more active in countering extremism if necessary just as long compromising leaders of the president of education who violence that seems to drool people is eventually you. so sure radical a little bit of that is good but i mean that basic. 5 casualties so far confirmed by the ministry of health one still in a critical condition in a local hospital will bring you all the updates of course to our viewers as they come in officially as to what the motives behind all this could have been ok my thanks dan who is with me in the studio we've been speaking to several guests over the last couple of hours political analyst a consultant run the world

public security public safety is of paramount concern and mr putin was at that event marking national security services day that's tomorrow going to be officially 45 minutes time to $25.00 giving a speech on the importance of preventing radicalization you know terrorism and these sorts of ideas that could potentially lead to acts like this in future this is what you have to say. we need to be more active in. compromising leadership interested revocations who. it seems to drool people is officially you. radical activist but i mean. ok many thanks for that update on hawkins alongside me he was staying with him as we head to our next guest shall shew bridges a security analyst former u.k. army officer very good even teach us. still trying to clarify the picture and the officials haven't yet come forward with a definitive assessment of the situation what's your initial inspection given the information we have at this point. well the police and security services will be looking really to establish 2 aspects of this is an absolute priority the 1st of course is the identity of this person and i may well alrea

into his political rival in a debunked conspiracy theory that the senate and all of our national security services have rejected. we have the testimony of his appointees, ambassador somdland a and volker about the may 23rd meeting in which the president said to them, talk to rudy. we have the testimony of three first-hand witnesses to the july 25th call, two of whom promptly reported the call to their superiors and to legal counsel. we have the testimony of david holmes who overheard the president ask ambassador sondland whether president zelensky was going to, quote, do the investigation. we have president's many public statements including his october 3rd statement that ukraine and china should investigate his political rival. even the minority counsel admitted there was direct evidence. he said, quote, we had some direct evidence on certain things and we had some direct evidence on the may 23rd meeting and sondland gave some direct evidence, end quote. the secondhand accounts were also extensively corroborated. for example, ambassador taylor and mr. morrison, both testified that during a septem

the betrayal of the national security in the service of foreign interest. and the corruption of our election that under mine our dm democratic system. they know the president is a threat to the election. they know is a threat to the standing in the world. we will have to do it. we will have to move to impeach. i yield now to representative jackson lee. >> i thank the general lady for yielding. my remarks are this. to my friend on the other side of the aisle and the americans listening and the soldiers wearing uniforms. i have no dislike of anyone who voted for anyone in 2016. i take issue at insult that one would suggest the work of the committee is about a dislike for those who voted for president trump. president trump is before this committee in articles of impeachment for his own behavior. for his desire to do with public moneys and a public position to do a private matter. and a political matter. that is to get dirt on his 2020 potential opponent. in honoring and defending the constitution, we defend and honor ourselves and 23r that reason as a indicti

into his political rival in a debunked conspiracy theory that the senate and all of our national security services have rejected. we have the testimony of his appointees, ambassador sondland and volker about the may 23rd meeting which the president said to them, talk to rudy. we have testimony of three firsthand witnesses to the july 25th call, two of whom promptly reported the call to their superiors and to legal counsel. we had the testimony of david holmes, who overheard the president asked ambassador sondland whether president zelensky was going to, quote, do the investigation. we have the president many public statements, including his october 3rd statement that ukraine and china should investigate his political rival. even though minority counsel mr. castor admitted there was direct evidence he said we had some direct evidence on certain things and we had direct evidence on the may 23rd meeting, and sondland given direct evidence, and quote, the second hand accounts are also extensively corroborated. for example, ambassador taylor mr. morrison both testify during a--'s number seven phone cal

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happening behind the heavily guarded walls some demanded the death penalty for the $41.00 national security service officers they were charged with the manslaughter of. a schoolteacher in the eastern state of. in court the judge brought the more than 12 weeks of trial to an end. to. the defendants are facing charges of manslaughter which falls on the article $130.00 which carries the death penalty the 1st defendant to the 27th who received a death penalty the 31st and $34.00 sentences the defendants 20. 8 of the charges what her breasts are sentenced to jail. the verdict was welcomed by ahmed the hottest family his daughter and death in custody provokes anger in schools all over sudan and a wave of protests demanding the end of the 30 year rule of president already. he was eventually deposed in april following months of unrest it was initially sparked by rising food prices and grew into a wider revolt demanding radical change but here has been charged with inciting and participating in the killing of protesters. that we consider this case to be a turning point in sudan's history many institutions i

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has been a shooting in the heart of moscow near the headquarters of russia's national security service the f.s.b. at least one person has been killed and several others wounded and the f.s.b. says the attacker has been killed let's go live now to step vast and he's at the scene in moscow so step what do we know so far about this. well the road is now open but lots of questions remain after the obvious be confirmed that this shooting. taken place here right at their headquarters and one of the f.s.b. officers has been killed and also the attacker was shot they went completely silent and we have to remember that there were a lot of other unconfirmed reports that had very different readings of what exactly had happened there were also reports about attacks actually going inside the building portals of the obvious being something the average beat has been denying but there is a lot of speculation and a lot of questions about what exactly has happened here at the heart of russia's security services and what caused such a huge panic. the sound of gunfire echoes through the streets of the rus

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concluded our work on this defense bill an reached bipartisan consensus and support of our national security and service members. i'm particularly pleased with the provisions that are under the oversight of the intelligence and emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee which i'm honored to chair. i also want to thank my subcommittee ranking member, ms. stefanik, for her contributions to this bill and bipartisan participation and partnership throughout the process and our wonderful staff for all their ork to make this happen. bill tc portfolio, this supports an ecosystem to deliver the best resources to the war fighter while providing critical technologies. it provides for emerging technologies like 5g and provides educational programs to strengthen the stem work force and improve ties with historically black colleges and yuferes and minority-serving institution. on the cyber security front we strengthen oversight, leverage best practices to improve the department's networks, industrial base and military installation cyber security. this bill reflect ours priorities that special operation forces rem

into his political rival in a debunked conspiracy theory that the senate and all of our national security services have rejected. we have the testimony of his appointees, ambassador sondland and volker about the may 23rd meeting which the president said to them, talk to rudy. we have testimony of three firsthand witnesses to the july 25th call, two of whom promptly reported the call to their superiors and to legal counsel. we had the testimony of david holmes, who overheard the

numerous department in the uk, i'd like to pay tributes to the metropolitan police, the national service security center and others who have stuck with this long game for many, many years. i'd also like to commend the small team back in the uk who i know will be watching this for the applet efforts they have made. there is a fundamental.in solving the crime and tackling the cybercrime were many worlds say i've colleagues if already pointed out you are wasting your time trying to arrest people. you're wasting your time trying to deliver evidence behind these events. that is plain wrong. we will extend our reach. we have a long memory. and we will relentlessly pursue individuals online until we identify their identity, before we would get a real-world footprint and they will take the best route to take them to justice. thank you. >> i have a question can you describe a little more campaign you mentioned. >> the campaign that i mention? the campaign i mentioned to the spearfishing campaign. but what i will tell you is again back to the no borders issue. we continue to evolve our cyber crimes program

clear direction to the lubyanka headquarter in moscow but the fact that of course security services from underneath the national point of view or 'd have to report or the russian security services or the german government is bound to take the take more responsible even if they themselves may believe that things in fact are a bit more different differentiate and complicated yet the question that leads to is where that evidence perhaps came from because we know thomas that just days after belling cat released the report on the murder the case was passed on to german federal prosecutors is not a coincidence our german authorities are lying perhaps on investigations by self-styled citizen journalists here well that's a question which goes boat goes various ways on the one side yes. it was a n.-g. n.-g. o. investigators with maybe dubious background and dubious financing and they got a lot of of evidence and we don't see this only in this case as in many others governments have started to rely on their word because for some reasons at least to the out of the out what side they are being more quicker more efficient a

grow i mean it was the national guard the federal security service even the traffic police they were all involved in making sure that no one else gets heard so now once the situation occurred this whole area here was cordoned off you can see right now the traffic is back online the transportation is back to normal but initially it was all closed off metro stations here workloads as well but russian federal security service were quick to neutralize the assailants and as soon as that happened as soon as they they knew that said it was ok for people for pedestrians for traffic to continue normally while they let things go back to normal as well forgive me for. here but this situation is still developing you can see behind me the police are still here he can still not make it. to certain areas and. as as we know bomb squads are also working to make sure that there is nothing else that's going to happen here a lot of media here a lot of thought people just walking around night in moscow doing their new year's shopping their christmas shopping of course everybody coming off lost trying to

trump's impeachable offenses include abuses of power through self-dealing, betrayal of national security in the servicef foreign interests, and corruption of our elections that undermine our democratic system. or as trump put it -- >> promises made, promises kept. >> stephen: now, we can't predict what's going to happen in the future, but evidently axios can, because they say, "nobody we've spoken to, from either party, thinks there's even a remote chance trump gets convicted in a senate trial." it's like the movie "titanic." no matter how many times i shout "stop having sex and watch out for the iceberg!" it ends the same way: the ship goes down, and i get escorted out of another movie theater. ( laughter ) despite impeachment, trump is busy campaigning for 2020. on saturday night, he traveled to florida to address the israeli-american council. this was an important speech, because among jewish voters, trump's approval rating is 29%. which among jewish voters is slightly less popular that mel gibson. ( laughter ) just a hair. just a hair -- ( cheers and applause ) >> oh, yes. that's right. >> stephen:

thatjeremy corbyn might bea seems to agree thatjeremy corbyn might be a threat to national security and the civil serviceonathan ashworth, the man meant to be at the front of labour's campaign on the health service, having so little confidence injeremy corbyn, why should voters have confidence in jeremy corbyn. this of course just 24 jeremy corbyn. this of course just 2a hours after we saw borisjohnson forced on to the back foot after he failed to respond with any sympathy to the plight of that four—year—old jack seen on a hospital floor. what it tells us that that despite the attem pts it tells us that that despite the atte m pts by it tells us that that despite the attempts by the parties to have a carefully choreographed campaign, events a re carefully choreographed campaign, events are coming in to knock them off course. thank you. let's take a look at some of today's other election news. the green party has promised to deliver what it calls "justice" to students by scrapping tuition fees. in a speech in london, its deputy leader, amelia womack, said the party would write off existing student debt. s

national security. and a career foreign service officer is being called back to washington and reports indicate a political appointee replace him. the politicization of national security is not going to serve us well because it will be hyperpart partisan and more aligned with the president's agenda. >> helping no one in the long run. thank you both for being here on this holiday. >>> coming up for us, still waiting to see what north korea's christmas gift to the united states might be. the president may hope it's a vase, as he said yesterday, but military officials are preparing for something very ditch. like a missile test. >>> plus -- the u.s. ambassador pulled from his post in zambia after a dispute over gay rights. >>> and the pope's christmas day message. his call for a softening of self-centered parts. >>> we'll be back. en you shop , you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com hi, it's real milk, just00% farmwithout the lactose, id. so yo

national security. it included things like a pay raise for all of our service members. it included additional benefits and things going to our family members as they move from place to place living with their service member and helping them in their transition. it addressed the issue of housing, which is so important to oklahoma because we have had problems with private contractors at some of our bases in oklahoma not living up to the standards of their contract. jim inhofe has been the one actually fighting to be able to get that fixed. he has been the one that's taken the lead on that. this is incredibly important to us in oklahoma for our five bases and posts, as well as our national guard and our reservists. just in oklahoma, $2.2 billion for the k.c. 46-a refueling tankers, that they will be trained actually in altace and repaired and serviced at tinker air force base. the improvements to military family housing i have already talked about. i included something in the bill that was an amendment that was included dealing with reservists and what's called the d.d. 21

impeach president trump because of the abuse of power, self dealing, the betrayal of national security in the service of foreign interests, and the corruption of our elections that undermine our democratic system. so, if my colleagues on the other side of the aisle cannot bring themselves to do what is right and impeach the president, they know is a threat to our elections, that they know is a threat to our standing in the world, then we will have to do it and we will have to move to impeach. i yield now to representative jackson-lee. >> i thank the gentlelady for yielding. my conclusion is very remarks or simply this. to my friends on the other side of the, aisle to the americans who have listened to the soldiers everywhere who wear uniforms, i have no exit, i have no dislike of anyone who voted for anyone in 2016. i think issue an insult that one suggests the work of this committee is about it it's like for those who voted for president trump. president trump is before this committee and articles of impeachment for his own behavior. for his desire to do with public monies and a public position, a p

fabulous journalists who have given their time and their professional career to service and three exceptional national securityleaders who yes, our women but they are truly national security leaders in their ownright . >> .. i need the board and all the speakers up here for a photo. we all love those. after the photo, so as soon as we get the photo, ambassador of student rights will be out in the lobby area signing books to all your best friends. remember what susan said but again, thank you for being here. have a wonderful holiday season. ♪ >> for 40 years c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington dc and around the country so you can make up your own mind. crated by cable in 1979 c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> the house impeachment inquiry hearings continued this week on c-span. today a house intelligence committee will vote in a closed door session to send their findings on president trump to the house judiciary committee. the

today's announcement of the election results was ju-ju dissatisfies in continued service of the afghan national security and defense forces our goal now is just serve every citizen equally across this country at that time how are they a paddock and the claim votes can determine the outcome of this election while they are right in seeking a transparent process does not happen we will allow ourselves every other legitimate option to reach the justices here defending the rights and or votes of the afghan people will be allocation of well how to slide on the program for you going to be live in croatia the exit polls have just been released in a tight 3 way presidential election. and please help us this is the desperate message found in a christmas card made in a chinese factory by foreign whack. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across the central part in the southeastern part of europe we're still watching a very intense storm system that is pushing through the balkan peninsula right now heading towards the east and with that we're seeing quite a bit of rain as well

doctor hill's testimony before the national security council who said that theory is a fictional narrative perpetrated and propagated by the russian security services themselves do you have any reason to disagree with doctor hill quex. >> i do not add a press conference with hungarian press conference putin himself suggested ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. >> i don't recall that but i don't doubt that. >> he said in 2017 press conference we all know during the presidential campaign they adopted a unilateral position with the approval of the political leadership of a candidate to be more precise. has this been regular propagand propaganda. >> i don't know if that is a regular point but i don't follow that on a daily basis. >> would that be in his interest to promote a narrative quex. >> possibly. >> you are the undersecretary. how was it something as critical as russia through the united states national security interest it's only putin's interest to push a narrative quex. >> that president putin made this point. >> and then even confiscates but it is curious that ukrainian interference is not in a position of senior diplomats like yourself

forest service bureau of land management, fish and wildlife service and national park service protect their employees and secure their facilities a crew gets nearly 700 million acres of land. my statement today summarizes our findings.. for the four federal in management agencies, i will discuss, one what is known about the number of threats and assaults against their employees. two, approaches agencies take to protect their employees, and three, the extent to which the agencies met federal facility security requirements. first, available federal law enforcement data showed a range of threats and assaults against the four federal man land management agency employees, through the years 2013 through 2017. the severity of these incidents range from phone threats to the stabbing of an employee outside a federal building. number of incidents varied by agency. for the five-year period, there were 88 incidents for blm, 66 for fish and wildlife service, 177 for forest service and 29 for park service. fbi data for this time period showed the fbi initiated over 100 domestic terrorism investigations into potential threats

on the homeland security committee, the armed services experiencegaining and understanding related to our national security and foreign policy. actuallyrsthand who benefits most from our country's long-standing policy of waging regime change wars, toppling dictators, follow on nationbuilding missions. it is not our country that benefits. our national security is most often undermined as terrorist groups like isis and al qaeda are strengthened. it is the military-industrial complex and a lot of fancy washington consultants who make a lot of money off of this continued policy. takes a toll on everyone of us as americans because we are the ones who are paying the price. just in afghanistan alone, right now, we are paying for billion 4 billion aonth -- $ month. what are we getting for our money? what are we trying to accomplish? that is $5.5 million an hour. our goingon in towards a war and nationbuilding mission that some of the highest leaders in the pentagon, now it has been revealed behind closed doors, they are scratching their heads saying what are we trying to accomplish? what does winning look

experience of having served in congress for 7 years focused on issues of national security, foreign affairs, the, the armed services, the homeland security committee that prepared me to walk in on day one to fulfill that responsibility serving as commander-in-chief of our armed forces or i will end this long-standing regime change, work to end the new cold war and nuclear arms race that has taken more money out of our pockets and made us the world's less safe with increasing tension between the united states and nuclear arms countries like russia and china, a situation where we are seeing nuclear treaties negotiated by reagan and gorbachev, others that we are seeing that will be expiring soon. trump tore up the inf treaty but we are moving in the wrong direction to the point nuclear strategists tell us we are on the brink of nuclear catastrophe. this is what has got to change and bringing the experience to the forefront, prepared to lead on day one, to end the regime change wars we have been waiting for so long and instead lead as a force for good in the world. not turn our backs, not pretend the world we live in d

spoke to chris phillips former head of the because national counterterrorism security office who says the wrists work across borders and security services must do the sun. what it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world now intelligent so so says the u.s. of obviously go are also dealing with people and planning incidents in. and i think we're going to see more of this because because of the use of internet telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere so well you can only hope that countries work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is organized crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment we've seen people murdered in london a recently a lot to do with drugs and of course this is this is a big problem for all countries. that's the geishas are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after taking off from marty airport in kazakstan killing 12 people dozens were also injured in the incident on friday including children these pictures show the rescue operation best gators are

that's why they went to the national security -- to the lawyers for the various services because they understood that something was terribly, terribly amiss here. so, it shouldn't -- this shouldn't be an outrageous conclusion. >> well, you said earlier i'm a lawyer. i'll give it right back to you. you're a judge which is a way bigger deal. >> former judge, retired judge. >> way bigger deal than a lawyer and hearing you lay it out clearly and also make the comparison to the evidence against drug dealers that lose their liberty over evidence that is not as strong as what's been laid out. thanks to both of you. i hope you both come back. happy friday. great. >>> i say we have to fit in a break because i have a lot more ahead including what i told john we would get back to. what happens over in the senate trial. mitch mcconnell admitting today he will coordinate with the potential defendant here. we're going to get into all of that. also new reporting on the ukraine, the white house admitting in a new footnote they're still missing some of the money. and my live interview with the special

service and. to kill torture. in the name of national security. one minute 2 pm here in moscow this monday december the 23rd very warm welcome to our 2 international i'm you know neal. following sanctions on russia's nord stream to the european gas pipeline by the united states foreign minister circular for off a spoken saying there is no doubt the project will be completed when the states so it will be finished despite all these threats i am convinced that 1st of all the europeans understand their commercial interests in terms of ensuring long term energy security secondly of course they were humiliated and the words we heard from the german side show that our european partners still have their self respect. nord stream 2 is a gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea i dove 1000 kilometers long it will be capable of transferring 55000000000 cubic meters of gas per year and would supply almost $30000000.00 arseholes eager to the reports now on how europe has defied washington to get affordable russian fuel washington

. >> an on line news service reports that the former head of the national security agencies cooperatingdurham. he met with durham multiple times. roger has cooperated voluntarily. durham is not agree with all of the justice department inspector general's findings for launching the probe. fbi agents did not act with bias but the ig believes serious mistakes were made. maybe a few months. >> thank you very much. we await word from house speaker nancy pelosi on what she plans to do with the articles of impeachment passed by the house as democrats and republicans wrangle over witnesses in the senate trial. some republicans want to hear from former vice-president joe biden and/or hunter about their dealings in ukraine. biden is telling reporters don't bet on it. >> do you stand by your earlier statements you would not comply if you were subpoenaed to testify in an impeachment trial? >> correct. the reason i would not is because it's all designed to deal with trump what he's done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him. >> with democrats calling on both attorney general bill barr and

have witnesses from the custom and border protection for the transportation security administration, secret service and the national institute of standards and technologies before us. they represent just a few of the agencies involved in the government's increasing use of biometric technologies. healthhow big are using is it cy in the future plan. i expect a good conversation towards the end of today the "washington post" article entitled u.s. customs border protection had photos of travelers who been taken in a data breach. a july 7 "washington post" article entitled fbi, state drivers license photos are a gold mine of facial recognition searches and july 9 letters in the biometric association and with privacy and civil liberties group many of whom were in the meetings and briefings last month. without objection, so ordered. the chair now recognizes the ranking member of the full committee, the gentleman from alabama for an opening stateme statement. >> they have the potential to secure. they range from facial recognition to fingerprints to dna. each of these present unique privacy considerations but also cleared