You are breaking new ground.

how proud some of these foreign officers are to step up and say: I am a product of America's IMET educational system.

There seems to me such a veil of secrecy and withdrawal that it is going to take some forceful initiatives on your part.

Let us focus on the word 'transparency.' It means a sharing with the public, with Congress, and others the nature of your challenges and how you best think you can address it.

the Department of Homeland Security and other State and local agencies have the primary initial responsibility.

the report by the Commission on the roles and missions of the National Guard and Reserve finds that the Commander of NORTHCOM 'does not sufficiently advocate for the full range of civil support requirements affecting the National Guard and…

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Is under the new plan there to be more State Department officials, more emphasis put on the ambassadorial role to deal with that?

I look back on the days when we were dealing in the Cold War and we always had the feeling that the senior military and the Soviet Union at that time were individuals that would carefully think through all options for initiating certain…

Extraordinary bravery and courage.

I would think that primary responsibility for the enforcement of those benchmarks should be primarily with the Secretary of State and her ambassadors.

This committee had a great deal to do with the establishment of the legislation which created the 55 Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.