As the chair of our ethics committee, one thing we've studied exhaustively is how groups can organize quickly around the world now on platforms like Facebook, etc.
I respect you, sir, as a servant of the public, but I'll read paragraph 4.18. This is what all of this comes down to:
This finding matters because physical security vulnerabilities must be resolved in a timely manner for the effective protection of staff and assets at missions abroad.
You sit here and survive this committee meeting and you go away to your normal life. You don't come back here maybe for another four years—I don't know—but we have a fence that hasn't been fixed for eight years. Who do you answer to?
I've been in bosses' offices before, answering for something that I haven't done properly. It's been rare, but it has happened.
What's your commitment to seeing this fixed? Are you going to be here maybe next year, and maybe the next year again, and it's not fixed for the next 20 years?
At what point do you actually get it done and answer what this audit report is challenging you to do? What's your response to, “Okay, I've just been taken to the cleaners here; I'm going to make sure this problem is resolved”?
When is that going to happen?