I recognize that thoughtful, thorough, and complete responses take time.

That is what I expect from the VA, just a swift, simple, direct, you know, doing the business that people in the VA, I know, at that staff level want to do without having to be filtered through OCLA because that is cumbersome, delays the…

This place is falling apart, and we are over here trying to figure out how to get more Libyans into the United States to be trained on nuclear sciences.

I see no urgency to try to get this through, particularly as it relates to the nuclear sciences.

How is this relationship normalized when our Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi 18 months ago and not one single solitary person has been arrested, prosecuted or brought to justice?

Like who actually wakes up in this country and says, this will be in the best interest of the United States of America; let's teach the Libyan nationals about nuclear sciences? That makes no sense to me. None.

But the concern is, when we are $102 billion into it, and most of that is DOD, it is not USAID, we continue to pour money into this thing and we haven't tackled the most basic problem which I think is corruption.

But you go back and assess them, right?

Oh, it is more like the Stone Age. Fred Flintstone is more progressive than a lot of places in Afghanistan.

One of the key concerns, one of my biggest concerns is that we have U.S. money flowing to the very terrorists that wish to do us harm.

I do think it is important for Congress to understand and look back on what has worked well and what hasn't worked well.

I don't want to get caught up on semantics, but I am just telling you, you have an incentive fund, it sounds like a bonus, it sounds like a slush fund, it sounds like a lot of very negative things.

We need to continue to do that and hold people accountable to go after the waste, fraud and abuse in this important area.

This is one of the most important responsibilities of Congress, is, in fact, going after waste, fraud and abuse.

As a Member of Congress I have been there twice.

I think you had said that, then I asked you again, was that correct. In fact, later on I called your office to make sure I wasn't misquoting you. Because I was just stunned by that.

That drives me bananas.

People have to be held accountable. I think we have to stop pouring money into this black hole.