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I have to think about that for a minute. I just came here, really, today, to thank everybody involved with this. I was not involved with this petition drive at all. And anybody who knows me knows i couldnt organize a onecar funeral. The fact that this has happened just leaves me speechless. And the main thing that gets to me is i realize i dont deserve all this. But i also know its really not about me. Its about some basic issues that affect all journalists and all americans. You know, when the my lawyers always tell me never to talk about my case. But theres a couple of things i can say. And one is that the Justice Department and the Obama Administration are the ones who turn this really into a fundamental fight over press freedom in their appeal to the Fourth Circuit. They said this that this c e case, the central issue of this case was not some details or specifics or anything. That the fundamental thing this case was about was that there was no such thing as a reporters privilege.
And looked, i believe, more closely and probingly at effectiveness and again concluded that the program came up short. But those two questions, what is the Legal Foundation and what is the effectiveness despite all of that structure i believe they never really got in 10 years of this program adequate attention. I want to take the prerogative of the chair to observe in response to senator whitehouses point that none of the oversight was adversarial in nature. Which is why i propose the constitutional advocates. Courts always do better when they hear both sides, the process is well served when there is contention as there was within this board. Might just point out that the dissent by ms. Brand says in commenting on whether the board should consider the legal question as you very thoughtfully observed and im quoting, this legal question will be resolved by the courts not by this board, which does not have the benefit of traditional adversarial legal briefing and is not particularly well
Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the National Security letter statutes, and the pen register trap and trace provisions of fisa. It replaces the bulk telephony Metadata Collection Program with a new framework that preserves the capabilities we need without the Government Holding the bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools t
Profits that they make from their wrongdoing and we have the power in the appropriate case to bar someone from the securities industry so they cant live another day to defraud again. Speech treasury secretary jack lew says russia must be held accountable for its incursion in the ukraine and the is considering a wide range of options. His comments came during testimony before the Senate Finance committee on the president s 2015 budget request. This was the senators he replaced former senator max baucus who is now the ambassador to china. This is a little more than two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning to all and the committee will come to order. Before we begin today i want to assure everyone that you did not accidentally walk into a meeting of the energy and Natural Resources committee which i used to chair. Our friend m