i would like to welcome to the pentagon briefing room, vice admiral robert harward. assumed his duties in afghanistan in november of last year and his task force assumed command oversight and responsibility for u.s. detainee operations in january. joint task force 435 is also responsible for biometrics efforts in afghanistan. this is admiral harward's first time joining us in this format and he joins us today from kabul where his headquarters is locate. the admiral is joined today by ambassador hans klemm, recently appointed director of rule of law and law enforcement. believl harward will take questions and then turn over to ambassador klemm. >> good morning. but we clarify a couple things you said. we assume the mission in january. we just stood up a new detention facility. we are just transferred all the detainees in the old fee eckert and we have closed the locker room facility. our first focus was to ensure the perception of the u.s. detention operations were in line with the reality of what we did. during that we meet all of our operations open, transparent and