Good afternoon, everyone. Im peter. I have the privilege of introducing our final speaker for today. The assistant attorney general of the United States who run it is National Security division and for the purpose of this conversation also importantly leads the China Initiative at the department of justice. He has kindly agreed to, were going to speak for probably about 25 minutes and then we will take some questions from the audience. So let me start sir with can you give us an overview of what the chinese have been doing and what youve been doing to counter it over the past since youve been in office . Great. Thanks very much. Thanks for the Homeland Security group for having me and for all of youse who are here watching on line or later on. Thanks for spending some time talking about these issues. On the china said let me say what a shift from the first time i was in the National Security division when we were doing all Counter Terrorism all the time to today where were really in th
Welcome back for the 2019 cato surveillance conference, i am still Julian Sanchez a senior fellow here and im pleased to welcome you for the afternoon session there is more fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup of smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and project, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance space this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals may conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. applause thanks julian and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discr
Everyone please sit down. Know we have people trickling in, but we are starting anyway. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center to those who are physically here and those who will be watching us on cspan and by other means. Harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and former member of congress who is proud of her role in helping create the department of Homeland Security. Today we are pleased to cohost ural Homeland Security Experts Group meeting with support from the miners association, american airlines, and mckinsey. It is the group of the best americann the Homeland Security. It was found over 10 years ago and is now rebooted and housed at the minor corporation. Secretary and my dear friend Michael Chertoff and i are honored to be cochairs, and rob walker is the newly minted director. Mission is to offer independence, nonpartisan advice to key government officials as they face hard security programs, raise awareness, and offer solutions. We are nonpartisan and we hope we add val
Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties oversight, which has produced a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. What im sure will be a fascinating discussion, i wi