Claire McCaskill

I don't think you can produce statistics that show that you're helping anyone.

Why have you not used DCAA for this type of review? And second, in the audit it was reported that the State Department had canceled an audit.

I will tell you this. That is what I would like to see come out of this hearing.

I think there is a chance that we will be doing police training in counterinsurgency operations in other places besides Afghanistan.

I will be shocked. It will be like winning the lottery if we end up with anybody other than DynCorp.

I think if you are working toward 22, as soon as we could possibly get the input of your agency that did the audit whether or not you think that is an adequate number.

Lives have been lost. Families across this great Nation grieve as I speak for members of their families that have been killed fighting counterinsurgencies.

Since we are going to have a State Department-run contract on police training in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, are your in-country CORs getting out in the field as we speak?

I think Mr. Sedney wants to also but go ahead both of you briefly or all three of you go ahead and then we will go to Senator Brown.

I want to know when my money goes somewhere that it is going to be spent properly.

I think that is something that I would like to writing an answer with somebody's signature that you all disagree with that because $80 million is a lot of money.

I do not think it is beyond anyone's imagination that if we are fighting a counterinsurgency that that is going to have to be something that is going to be a core competency of our military as far as the eye can see.

I would hate for us to have a goal of 22 and get there and still know we do not have enough to adequately keep track of what is happening with this contract.

That is unacceptable.

We are now much more educated as a Nation about fighting counterinsurgency.

It would be unconscionable to switch contractors and not have a CORs force ready to go to oversee that contract.

I want to make sure that we enter that audit into the record.

I want to enter into the record the contractor past performance evaluation document that deals with the evaluation of Blackwater in Iraq.

They are the elite police force. They were designed to be the elite police force.

How are we going to make sure that the tax dollars that we send overseas are going to be used effectively?

Could you respond to that, Mr. Heddell or Ms. Klemstine? Is it true they were obligated?

What I want to hear is a decision has been made and we are going to get on it.

One thing we have learned is that it has become crystal clear that to successfully fight counterinsurgencies you have to be strategic and effective at making sure there is local rule of law.

We have to do that. Then we have to have adequate performance measures by which to reevaluate the contractors.

How are DOD and DOS working with other regional actors, such as Turkmenistan, to address the issue of drug trafficking through Iran?