following the spirit and letter of the memo, are you confident that stories like the m-wrap and walter reed problems would emerge? there'll always be leaks. are you confident those things would still happen? >> i am. it is largely because my confidence in the persistence and the skills of the people sitting in front of me. >> can i add to that? those 4000 service would not -- 400,000 surveys when not electronically yesterday. -- went out electronically yesterday. how will those influence the review? >> we see this, as i have said all along, beginning with the testimony that the chairman and i gave several months ago -- it is very important for us to understand, from our men and women in uniform, the challenges that they would see -- first of all, we want to get their views on this issue, and the challenges that they see in implementing a change in the law. that will help us prepare better to implement those changes when and if a lot is changed -- the law is changed. i would say that this survey is a very important element of this effort, in part because, while the general and his counsel ha

had they knew a beforehand about the christmas day bomber they could have looked into records for walter reed to know about the fort hood shooter but how do you weed out what's important when is it when it when there is so much information at hand as well. i haven't been in intelligence but i think that we part of what we're missing is human intelligence in america we've spent huge amounts of money trillions of dollars on sophisticated overhead systems that can see everything can hear everything but we haven't developed the human intelligence of people to get intelligence on the ground listening to people you know maybe perhaps you know if an american young american kid could infiltrate and get into afghanistan in two thousand and money remember when the so-called american taliban was captured and grievously mistreated by american forces i might add anyway if a kid like that can get in why can an agent you know i just don't think we've really developed the human intelligence and it would some ways we've relied far too much on this technical expertise and that's probably the that's part of the

so walter reed has to protect its folks, and has to sort through all these. but there are a lot of other stations that have not had the same level of attention. so i would encourage you to reach out to other places, fort hood, fort bragg, and the other arenas and look into the guard and reserve who often feel forgotten about. . >> i want to pick up on the issue of cultural competence about providers dealing with military and veterans' and military and veteran family culture. that is a big deal and we are not there yet. the va providers, department of defense providers, yes, but every health and mental killed -- mental-health care provider in america should know about posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic brain disorder and know of a squad, platoon, and a brigade are. they should know what it's like to hhve a loved one who is there. it's an element of health care that goes beyond our system to affect all of american health care. it is a matter of adding this to the curriculum and medical schools and social work and everywhere elsee we need your help

heard me say this before, whether it was the stories on the treatment of outpatient warriors at walter reed in ""the washington post" or stored e aboutmwraps and have been away spur to action for me. the kind of reporting you do, as far as i am concerned, is one of the tools that i have in trying to lead this department and correct problems. we understand that speed and responding to you often will be of the essence. this burden will fall on the public affairs office. i fully expensed that if they are not being pumped enough that we will hear about that from you all. we will take corrective action because the purpose here is to be as responsive to you as we have always been, but for us to do a better job of preparing people before they have interviews. we will make adjustments as we go along. i would just say that if you are a captain in a unit that has an embedded reporter, as long as you are within the guidelines and the rules, we expect you to be open with that embedded reporter. on the other hand, if you are a captain in this building working on budget options, i expect you to keep your

she won the pulitzer prize for her story, "the other walter reed." the caller brought up the issue of bill arkin. "politico" or about him as well. -- wrote about him as well. "is one of the first times the -- it is the first time that one of the paper's bloggers has had a byline on a big front-page story." guest: he is not a blogger. he has been a military analyst 4304 decades but i will put out there, because someone else will. he does not have a typical journalist background. he has done research for groups like greenpeace and human rights watch. what a lot of them are bringing up is that it goes deeper than that. he was an analyst for the u.s. air force for years and years. he has been one of the contractors we are talking about. he dropped out when he decided to do this. theectured and taught at advanced or college for the air force. -- advanced war college for the air force. what he is great at, and the reason why we brought him on board, is that he is a phenomenal researcher. he has this database and it took him more than two years. he had been

and the letter of the memo, are you confident that stories like stories about the mrap and the walter reed problems would emerge the way they did? you seem to be acknowledging that there will always be leaks, but i'm just wondering if you're confident that that would still happen. >> actually, i am, and it's largely because of my confidence in the persistence and the skills of the people sitting in front of me. >> can i just ask about don't ask, don't tell? 400,000 surveys went out electronically, i think, yesterday. can you just give us a sense of how much that will inform this review that carter ham and jeh johnson are doing? i mean, what -- can you kind of talk to it and just tell us how much we should expect from that? >> well, i think that we see this as -- as i've said all along, beginning with the testimony the chairman and i gave several months ago, i think it is very important for us to understand from our men and women in uniform the challenges that they see. first of all, to get their views on this issue and then the challenges that they see, in implementing a change in the law,

she won the pulitzer prize for her story, "the other walter reed." the caller brought up the issue of bill arkin. "politico" or about him as well. -- wrote about him as well. "is one of the first times the -- it is the first time that one of the paper's bloggers has had a byline on a big front-page story." guest: he is not a blogger. he has been a military analyst 4304 decades but i will put out there, because someone else will. he does not have a typical journalist background. he has done research for groups like greenpeace and human rights watch. what a lot of them are bringing up is that it goes deeper than that. he was an analyst for the u.s. air force for years and years. he has been one of the contractors we are talking about. he dropped out when he decided to do this. theectured and taught at advanced or college for the air force. -- advanced war college for the air force. what he is great at, and the reason whye brought him on board, is that he is a phenomenal researcher. he has this database and it took him more than two years. he had been c

in the press, whether it was on the stories of the treatment of outpatient wounded four years at walter reed or stories about terrorists have been a spur to action for me. so the kind of reporting you do, as far as i'm concerned, is one of the tools that i have in trying to lead this department and correct problems. if you are not -- we understand that as the chairman suggested, speed and responding to you often will be of the essence. this burden will fall on the public affairs office. i fully expect that if they are not being prompt enough, that we will hear about that from you all. and we will take corrective action, because the purpose is to be as responsive to you as we have always been, but for us to do a better job of preparing people before they have introduced. i -- before they have interviews. if you are capt. in the units and have an embedded reporter, as long as you are in the guidelines and rules, we expect you to be open with the reporter. on the other hand, if you are on the other hand, if you are capt. in this building working on budget options, i expected to keep your mouth

and the letter of the memo, are you confident that stories like stories about the mrap and the walter reed problems would emerge the way they did? you seem to be acknowledging that there will always be leaks, but i'm just wondering if you're confident that that would still happen. >> actually, i am, and it's largely because of my confidence in the persistence and the skills of the people sitting in front of me. >> can i just ask about don't ask, don't tell? 400,000 surveys went out electronically, i think, yesterday. can you just give us a sense of how much that will inform this review that carter ham and jeh johnson are doing? i mean, what -- can you kind of talk to it and just tell us how much we should expect from that? >> well, i think that we see this as -- as i've said all along, beginning with the testimony the chairman and i gave several months ago, i think it is very important for us to understand from our men and women in uniform the challenges that they see. first of all, to get their views on this issue and then the challenges that they see, in implementing a change in the law,

so walter reed has to protect its folks, and has to sort through all these. but there are a lot of other stations that have not had the same level of attention. so i would encourage you to reach out to other places, fort hood, fort bragg, and the other arenas and look into the guard and reserve who often feel forgotten about. . >> dod providers, yes. but every health and mental health care provider in america should know about psd -- ptsd and know what a squad, a platoon, and brigade are, and have the sense of what it is like to be there or to have loved one who is there. it is an element of health care that goes beyond our systems to affect all of american health care. it is a matter of adding this to the curriculum in medical and nursing schools and social work, and everywhere else. and we need your help in delivering this message. >> i think with that we will call a halt to the proceeding. we appreciate your attention today. i dearly think the panel. i think the c-span audience for hanging in there with us. have a good day. [applause] c-span3 [captioning p

just 25 miles up the road from walter reed, their 102nd military intelligence script that had been doing little to search for potential threats. instead the commander turned the unit attention to assessing general terrorist ability in the u.s.. one of six of the joint terrorism tax forces were already doing that work. secrecy was in the intelligence world and hampered protectiveness in other ways in the defense department, the problem going back to an ultra secret group of programs for which access is extremely limited and monitored by specially trained security officers. the pentagon list of code names for them runs 300 pages." minnesota, evelyn, hello. caller: i was just calling to say that i think that our government waste too much money on everything. defense, national security, so much so that i think it has all become corrupt. the people, when they talk about taking back our government, one of them should be that they should stop our government from spying on us and that kind of stuff, which they legally do not have a right to do, it is unconstitutional. there for her all the money

he visited walter reed hospital on a recent trip to the u.s. and talk about mental health issues facing soldiers returning home from the war. this is about 30 minutes. >> we have about 20 minutes left, but i think we ought to move on to afghanistan. it was covered by the foreign secretary. >> what do you expect to see in the next six months? >> we are talking specifically. >> in terms of the security as well, i have already announced to the house we are going to be seeing british troops leaving, and i would like to make the first point that what we will be seeing is proper equalization, because the potential you would have, but with similar sides trying to look after this portion of the population. i think the agreement we reached with the americans is good in terms with how we deal with helmand, and i think it is good to the united kingdom's contribution. i think it gives a chance to fully take the advantage of our own standing with a population and the political environment, so i see it as conservative, and i see it pushing forward in terms o

he is 23, walter reed army medical center, not far from here, in rehab the past year. he lost four limbs in iraq. a determined soldier rebuilds life. quite a bit of text on this if you want to learn more. as far as iraq policy goes and the iraq war, the "washington post" reminds us there have about 4,413 fatalities, military deaths since 2003. and in hostile actions 3,488, nonhas toil. 925. this is part of a piece that focuses on vice president biden's trip to iraq. he is there for the 4th of july. he got there yesterday and is meeting with officials. he arrived when many are questioning whether the u.s. policy in iraq is adrift. some officials say they are worried the u.s. is concerned only about its exit from iraq and not the country's democracy as it is shifting focus to afghanistan. the distant policy in this country is deemed as a weakness and a failure said the minister of industry giving the wrong message to syria and iran and will give the wrong message to the taliban. this is the vice president's fourth trip to iraq. maybe a signal to iraq that the u.s. admini

before from me, whether it was the stories on the treatment of outpatient wounded four years at walter reed in the "washington post," or stories ion m-

just 25 miles the road from walter reed, their 102nd military intelligence script that had been doing little to search for potential threats. instead the commander turned the unit attention to assessing general terrorist ability in the u.s.. one of six of the joint terrorism tax forces were already doing that work. secrecy was in the intelligence world and hampered protectiveness other wayin the defense department, the problem going bk to an ultra secret group of programs for which access is extremely limited and monitored by specially trained security officers. the pentagon list of code names for them runs 300 pages." minnesota, evelyn, hello. caller: i was just calling to say that i think that our government waste too much money on everything. defense, national security, so much so that i think it has all become corrupt. the people, when they talk about taking back our government, one of them should be that they should stop our government from spying on us and that kind of stuff, which they legally do not have a right to do, it is unconstitutional. there for her all the money that t