military and the mission of the state department. the mission of the united states military is to engaming the enemy. the mission -- >> ambassador kennedy, but chairman has taken my time, and that was his question so i'm going to stop you there, and you can come back on his second round and give him the answer to that question if you don't mind. i just wanted to go back and go back to the business as usual idea again in dwrr statement. you talk about, you know on an ad hoc basis pulling together the resources you need. i was reading the state ig report from october 2009 about the new embassy compound last night and clearly the coordination office set up would fit into your model set up quickly, and they point to that organization the way that that project was organized and that ad hoc office is responsible for a lot of the problems in the baghdad embassy. >> that was a model set up by the then existing director that is not a model that had ever been used for. it was implemented along military leans, and at that -- that model is no lon

military and the mission of the state department. the mission of the united states military is to engage the enemy. the mission -- >> ambassador kennedy, but chairman thibault's taken my time, and that was his question, so -- [laughter] i'm going to stop you right there, and you can come back on his second round and give him the answer to that question, if you don't mind. i just wanted to go back to the business as usual idea again. again, in your statement you talk about, you know, on an ad hoc basis being able to pull together the resources you need. um, i was reading the state ig report from october 2009 about the new embassy compound last night, and clearly, the emergency project coordination office that was set up would fit into your model set up quickly. and they point to that organization, the way that that project was organized and that ad hoc office as responsible for a lot of the problems. um, in the baghdad embassy. >> we don't, we no longer -- that was a one-op model set up by the then-existing director of obo. that is not

>> well, the state department has filled every state department position in iraq and afghanistan, and the other agency, a.i.d. would like to specifically note incredible assistance that's been provided us by the department of agriculture in de ploying personnel from all their field units around this -- from around this country. so we are filling those jobs. the contingency question you raise is one specifically called out in the qddr. there is a task force at the state department reviewing structure function way ahead for the civilian stabilization of a new bureau is asked for it or referred to called the overseas operation. >> so yes or no? i'll get a yes or no. yes, you have been able to get all the civilian representation that you wanted? yes or no? >> no. >> that's the conclusion. thank you. >> the conclusion has to be specified. yes or no answers aren't always. >> let me just say. if you want to qualify the no, it's kind of on your time now, so it's because it's 11:00. >> i'm trying to draw out of your long answer sort of what the bottom line was. >> some agencies have had the re

military and the state department. the mission of the united states military is to engage the enemy. >> ambassador kennedy, but chairman thibault is taking my time and that was his question. i will stop it right there and you can come back in the second round to give the answer to that question. i just wanted to go back to the business as usual idea again. in your statement you talked about on an ad hoc basis being able to pull together the resources you need. i was raising the state ig report from october 2009 about the new embassy compound last night and clearly emergency project coordination office you set up would fit into your model. they point to that organization, the way that private was organized and ad hoc office was responsible for a lot of the problems in the baghdad embassy. >> that was a one-off model set up by the existing director. it is not a model that had ever been used before. it was implemented along military lines and that model is no longer used in the state department. it was used once on the bag

uninsured and diplomat, not only on my own behalf, but on behalf of the men and women of the state department. when i was first asked to be secretary of state by president obama, i figured i should call all of my esteemed predecessors to ask for any words of advice. and i had met secretary eagleburger, but i cannot claim to have been a friend or colleague. so when i called and i said i would very much appreciate any advice, he kept saying, "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the wholhole." and i said, "excuse me." and he said, "exactly." and then i look on the back of this program with a picture of larry and marlene and there is the famous saying about keeping your eye upon the doughnut and not up, hold -- and not upon blthe hole. every time i saw him he would ask me if i was keeping my eye on the doughnut. and i told them that if i could find the doughnut i would keep my eye on it. [laughter] the operations center is the nerve center of the state department. we met with many of the young watch officers who work grueling hours to keep what we call ops -- and as all of my predecessor

department of state and u.s. arms control and then disarming the agency and it's a pleasure to have you here today. the international affairs of the department of homeland security was responsible for coordinating the department international programs and policies. prior to joining he served in the u.s. foreign service concentrating a counter terrorism and security issues and it's an honor to have you here today as well. we have the deputy cord meter for regional affairs of the u.s. department of state. previously she served as the chief of mission in burma and her expensive foreign service career included overseas assignments in thailand, brazil and ecuador among others. next we have mr. james roberts who served as a principal director for the special operations and combating terrorism and the office of secretary defense. mr. roberts began his government career as a u.s. army private in 1968 and served 24 years on active duty as a military intelligence officer. thank you for your service to the country and for al

military and the mission of the state department. the mission of the united states military is to engage the enemy. >> ambassador kennedy, the chairman is taking my time and that was his question. i am going to stop you right there and you can come back on this second round to answer that question, if you do not mind. i want to go back to the business as usual idea again. i in your statement, you talked about on an ad hoc basis being able to pull together the resources that you need. i was reading a report from october 2009 about the embassy compound last night. clearly, the emergency coordination office was set up quickly. they point to that organization. the ad hoc office was responsible for a lot of the problems at the baghdad embassy. >> that was a one-of model set up by the then existing director. that is not a model that had ever been used before. it was implemented along military lines. that model is no longer used in the state department. it was used once on the baghdad project and was distorted by me when i became undersecret

state department list of sponsors of state terrorism?is. >> currently on the list, iran, syria, cuba and sudan. >> so four countries. and with respect to cuba, why is cuba on that list? >> cuba was put on the list, i believe, in 1982 because of its support, principally, for its support of various terrorist and revolutionary movements within the hemisphere, and i think it's important to underscore that cuba has not met the standard for rescission which is to say that we need to be able to either certify that there's been a fundamental change in leadership and the country has ceased to support international terrorism, or that the administration can certify that cuba has gone six months without support to foreign terrorist organizations and has given assure,s that it will not -- assurances that it will not support any international terrorism in the future. because of its continued relationship with the farc and the eln, cuba has failed to meet that standard. >> so cuba has a relationship with the farc, the eln, both terrorist organizations.

kevin whitaker is at the state department, and mr. adam szubin is the director of office of foreign assets control at the treasury department. pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses are sworn in before they testify. .. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you. you may be seated. in order to allow time for discussion, please, limit your testimony to five minutes. your entire written statement will be made as part of the record. we'll now go ahead and recognize mr. benjamin. >> thank you very much, sir. distinguished members of the committees, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to dis to appear before you surypleased to be here with my todayment colleagues tom delare and kevin whitaker. mr. chairman, let me be clear from the outset. with respect to global efforts to counterterrorism, developments in venezuela over the last decade have been deep

state department list of sponsors of state terrorism? is. >> currently on the list, iran, syria, cuba and sudan. >> so four countries. and with respect to cuba, why is cuba on that list? >> cuba was put on the list, i believe, in 1982 because of its support, principally, for its support of various terrorist and revolutionary movements within the hemisphere, and i think it's important to underscore that cuba has not met the standard for rescission which is to say that we need to be able to either certify that there's been a fundamental change in leadership and the country has ceased to support international terrorism, or that the administration can certify that cuba has gone six months without support to foreign terrorist organizations and has given assure,s that it will not -- assurances that it will not support any international terrorism in the future. because of its continued relationship with the farc and the eln, cuba has failed to meet that standard. >> so cuba has a relationship with the farc, the eln, both terrorist organizations

i mean absolutely everybody knows that voice of america is the department of state propaganda operation but the much more powerful for example is an outage like c.n.n. which broadcasts in spanish all throughout latin america and it's a reference really of news throughout this entire region and so again it's promoting a u.s. perspective u.s. opinion u.s. agenda and obviously as per the u.s. government so i mean you know the and now that they're extending more into internet and seeing that they're allocating more fines in danger now i think that the the b.g. or u.s. state department propaganda could be have a larger impact over cyberspace than it does over the airwaves in the television ways and certainly i mean over the past few years other countries have been catching up and doing much better designed broadcast and of their own state apparatus than what the b.b.c. has been doing i mean yeah i think that that is it doesn't surprise me that the u.s. government is revising those operations and is looking for ways to reach a broader audience with their direct propaganda because certainly th

not read the responsibilities assigned to them in their founding statured as extending to the state department operation in support of our diplomatic platform in iraq. the audit responsibilities, we feel, fall within the purview of our also -- other oversight like the government accounting office or the house appropriations committee, the department of state office of inspector, and the commission on wartime contract in. >> thank you. let me conclude with a quick statement that we have spent billions of dollars over there and auditing those dollars and making sure that they are being spent appropriately and not being wasted or ripped off. we would ask your cooperation in continuing. thank you very much. >> thank you all for your testimony. is there somebody in the administration that is in charge of selling this to the american people? >> in my building, it is the secretary of state. >> i mean somebody specifically who explains to the american people why we are doing this -- that the american people think we have already done. >> of our secretaries are heavily involved. it is a top priority fo

and he said he had the names of 250 card-carrying communists in the state department. he only named for people, and one of them he singled out was john service. this is what he said about them. service sent official reports back to the state department urging that we torpedo our ally chiang kai-shek and that communism is the only hope of china. later, this man john service, and please remember that name, ladies and gentlemen, was picked up by the fbi for turning over to the communists secret information. strangely however he was never prosecuted. today ladies and gentlemen, this man is on his way to represent the state department and calcutta by far away the most important post in the far east. john service and his family at that moment in time were on a freighter on the way to the new post in india. and on the way to japan, they are at dinner with the captain on the freighter one night in the radioman comes in and says, is your name john service? he said yeah. he said, you better come up to the radioman. there some senator talking about you. that's how he found out wh

as a state department distinguished official, as secretary of state, when i was majority leader of the senate, i called upon him for advice and insight. and you could trust him absolutely, free of partisan taint, to give me his views. as we go about this business, i express my admiration and affection and my respect for what he has done for his country, for diplomacy, and for the grandeur of our nation. he deserves our accolades and he deserves your presence here today. >> it is mine curtilage to read "high-flying" by john gillespie, jr. sunward, i climbed enjoined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of, wheeled and sword and a strong high on the sunlit silence. i chased the shadow and flung my eager craft, the long delirious burning blue. whenever a lark or even eagle flew. and while with silent slipped in mind, the hyatt untruss past sent to the of space put out my hand and touched the face of god. ♪ okd>?fñz/i ♪ 9myop??ÑóÑÑ]óÑ7Ñ ♪ v=Ñççwñ ♪ ♪ >> scott, andrew, and jason, other members of the eagleburger family, disting

opposition movements get a direct cash supply for example week it leaks cables true that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more controlled be aligned with the views of the united states without having to land without having to in the while i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to revisit is preferable with these personnel who speak spanish fluently as a solid understanding of their cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their refractive days in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the us does their right out in the open on their website help most often comes with strings attached and then you say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and political support from washington are sure to get instruct

state department's plans for spreading democracy around the world have been greeted with speculation that washington is planning a program of foreign regime change it will provide finance and technology to opposition groups but the attach strings could be used to steer other states where america wants them as artie's going to reports. the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau of democracy human rights and labor has announced the request for proposals on how to foster change in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa as well as cuba the u.s. claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independent civil society groups in those countries it's just in really another form of provoking regime change they're just trying to do it under a different guise under a different facade saying that somehow and with the best of intentions they're promoting democracy but in reality it's just promoting us agenda among other things the state department is financing the creation of stealth wireless

state department, ms. villarosa and others the opportunity to respond to the allegations in this report. we'll start with ms. villarosa. >> thank you, chairman. again, we took to heart, we have talked with the gao about the deficiencies in the country reports in terrorism and are in the process in the 2010 version to make them -- to be -- to make them more comprehensive as the gao recommended, and this will include addressing efforts that are done with regard to the prorifflation of weapons of mass destruction. we're working with the bureau of isn international security and no proliferation of theirs to provide that information so that it is as comprehensive as possible. >> okay. i mean, tracking the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction seems to be a pretty serious thing that we should be reporting. why was that not included? >> again, i know that this is -- this -- our bureau of international security and nonprorifflation tracks this very closely, and it -- i do not know in terms of what their rep

it is not the state department management. it is the procurement executives of the department who is separate from the head of contract team. so with the procurement executives decide that the individual contracting officer has not made his or her case in law and equity, then it is the procurement executives. it's not me, not the assistant secretary for administration. it's not the deputy assistant secretary for logistics management. it is the quasi-independent procurement. >> is it an unduly burdensome burden on the chief executive officer to make the determination? >> it is not the determination of the chief acquisitions office. it is determination of the quasi-independent procurement executives. every agency has a semi-independent procurement executive who does not issue contracts, who provides policy guidance and oversight to the contracting. so if he got the state department makes that determination, it is a kind of independent interpretation and basically i feel that is exactly what it should be. we must ensure that the

nobody in the state department, and no one in the leadership of the state department has ever as a compromise on security. they have lasted a look at my numbers. then never asked me to do less security than i feel comfortable. if we do less funding, we would get fewer things. where rigid planned to open for conflict in iraq. it is down to two. the other ones are still on the suspended animation. i've never been as a compromise on the security of any this. >> would like to make any final statements? >> said think your last question is a good one. the government will be having to address this issue. they are asking all agencies to conduct this overseas. i would echo the concerns raised by the ambassador. there is a trade-off. when you are talking about security, the role as protecting other u.s. officials overseas. to the extent that resources may not be available to conduct their security, there would conduct policy and affairs. that is the problem. this is what will likely come to grips with in the next couple of years. we would like to see a little more strategic thinking on this issue verse