A Failed U.S. Military Raid in Syria – and Military Gear at Home: Part 1 with Sen. Saxby Chambliss

  Georgia Republican U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, who is not seeking re-election this year, is the ranking GOP member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.  In part one of a conversation with WABE’s Denis O’Hayer at the station’s studios, Chambliss talked about the recently-revealed U.S. raid in Syria, which failed to find Americans held captive by the terror group the Islamic State.

Chambliss also talked about the recent questions raised by the police response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after an officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old.  Advocates, and some members of Congress, have proposed restrictions on a Defense Department program that provides military equipment to local law enforcement departments at little or no cost.