Austin Scott: “Absolutely correct, and as we cannot talk about accountability, we cannot talk about the budget financial…”

“Absolutely correct, and as we cannot talk about accountability, we cannot talk about the budget financial responsibility, national security without examining where we are in Iraq at this time. And we cannot do it for the obvious reason that the American people are expecting us now to ask the questions and to finally stand up as a Congress and do what the Constitution and the Founding Fathers laid out the Congress to do. They laid out the Congress to do two essential things. One was to determine how our tax dollars are appropriated, all of that starts here, and the other is oversight, and we have not done a good job of oversight. That is one of the reasons why the American people, in many ways, are very frustrated. We have not asked the tough questions. Some of us have asked the tough questions but not enough of us, and I am so thankful for the Dubai incident because that opened up everybody's eyes to really see. When that Dubai incident happened and all of the sudden we were going to turn over port security to the United Arab Emirates, a country in which we knew from our intelligence that terrorist financing was emanating from, a country that owned Dubai, that owned the company which we know was sending nuclear fusion material into Iran, and that did have direct financial relationships through their connecting financial centers in terrorist financing with al Qaeda, all of this came to our attention.…”