Howard P. McKeon: “Many of us voted for this terrible mechanism in the naive hope the President and Congress could put our politics aside.”

None of us came to this committee, or come to this committee, with clean hands.

The President is not blameless. His negotiators put sequestration on the table during the long fight over the debt ceiling.

This tragic example where 32 instructors have either been found guilty, have been charged with, or are still being investigated for crimes against 59 trainees, begs the question: How could this have happened?

Violence and instability rage in the Middle East and Africa.