Bryan Whitman
Bryan Whitman
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There is no ?silver bullet' to solve this problem.
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what the law and policies are on domestic surveillance and to provide some insights about information-sharing between agencies.
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We simply disagree with the audit's conclusion that the CPA provided less-than-adequate controls over Iraqi funds that were provided to Iraqi ministries through the national budget process for hundreds of projects, essential services, Iraqi salaries and security forces.
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Nobody has ever claimed that this was going to be something that is easy. But, one only has to spend a few hours in Iraq to really understand the dedication and how committed the Iraqi people are to making this work, too.
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Secretary Rumsfeld serves at the pleasure of the president. Retired Gen. Eaton is certainly entitled to his opinion.
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One of the big challenges that's in front of the Iraqi people is seating a government that reflects and respects the views of all the Iraqi people, and doing it in a way in which all Iraqis can feel included in the political process.
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Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.
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My experience is the military when these things are reported to them, work aggressively to resolve them. Not by way of trying to make any excuses, it's clear that our processes could be shored up to try to prevent some of these from happening.
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My experience is the military ... when these things are reported to them, work aggressively to resolve them.
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What I can tell you is that the Defense Department does have legitimate interests in protecting its installations, in protecting its people, and to the extent that they use information collected by law enforcement agencies to do that, that's an appropriate activity of the United States military.
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There's no doubt that there has been a very porous border in the west (with Syria), and military operations have focussed on that over the past year.
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Countering WMD has been a priority for the department in terms of making sure that our future forces are organized, trained, equipped and resourced to deal with all aspects of threats that are posed by WMD.
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An Iraqi special operations force conducted a raid in one of the neighborhoods in northeast Baghdad to disrupt a terrorist cell that had been responsible for not only conducting attacks on Iraqi security forces and coalition forces but also in kidnapping Iraqi civilians in the local area.
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There were policies, there were standard operating procedures. But we found as we looked at our operations that there was this gap that should be filled by a directive.