Today is Thursday, December 8, 2011 and the 14 th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development is called to order.
Today I want to remind members of the subcommittee that we are televised, so keep that in mind. You're always on camera.
We have today as a witness retired Colonel Wesley Martin of the United States Army, to talk to us further on our study of the situation in Camp Ashraf. Colonel Martin was the commandant of the camp and had additional experience in Iraq as well as in other areas. He is in a position to provide us with considerable light on this subject.
Without further ado, Colonel Martin, I'll turn things over to you.
We'll allow you to make a presentation, and then we'll take questions. Depending upon the length of your opening statement, that will determine the length of the questions. We hope to give every member of the subcommittee a chance to ask you at least one question prior to wrapping things up.
Please feel free to begin.