There are USAID people who are doing wonderful things that you and I would applaud all over the world, many at great risk to themselves because of the places they are in.

This one had, this one from the get-go had no possibility of working. That is my problem with it.

And there is the disturbing fact that it apparently activated shortly after Alan Gross, a USAID subcontractor who was sent to Cuba to help provide citizens access to the Internet, was arrested.

Whose idea was it for this specific program? I have read the legislation.

I do not want to over generalize, but these activities are often not the same as building institutions and organizations.

I think the Agency and Congress need to think through the U.S. Government's moral responsibilities to any American, even a lowly contractor, that it puts into harms way by ordering them to engage in programs that are illegal under the host…

It is long past time for the Administration and the Cuban Government to negotiate a resolution of this ordeal so Mr. Gross can return home.

I completely agree with your concept that we have got to make it possible for the people in the area to do things, to be able to help themselves.

There is the clandestine nature of the program that was not disclosed to the appropriations subcommittee with oversight responsibility.

the entire foreign operations budget is about 1 percent of Federal spending, and the world is rapidly changing.

If we did not have our embargo, you would have so many American companies down there, fighting for the chance to do this and very openly doing it, it would have accomplished a lot more than this program did.

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