"Negotiations are in progress and due to crew safety owners are unable to disclose further."
"The Commanding Officer was pivotal in the rescue of Captain Phillips."
"How would we gain consent of the Somalia Government to take action ashore?"
"the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama was a flawless special operations mission."
"Nigeria has always been a problem, all the way back to Sani Abacha and Obisanjo. I think it's more of a leadership problem than anything else."
"Constant communications and collaboration--among the interagency and among military forces--were essential to conduct this operation successfully."
"have we provided, or offered, any assistance to Kenya or other nations to assist with these prosecutions?"
"How has the use of force to rescue Captain Phillips changed what shippers and insurers are doing?"
"I think we should do that, if that is an inhibiting factor out there."
"In other words, pirates attacked less than one-half of 1 percent."
"Today we hear from representatives of the Obama administration, while in their day, 200 years ago, pirate attacks off Africa were a problem for then the new Thomas Jefferson administration."