Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Years now. We watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the Intelligence Community Inspector General. You have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings from the house Intelligence Committee. Even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. In a way that was unprecedented. So we have a special focus this year on not just the Intelligent Agency the self but the messages in place to oversee them. One of the classic problems of Intelligence Surveillance is how to balance the need for operations that are secret. Surveillance that is done publicly in surveillance. How do you balance the need to conduct certa
Cairncross whos the ceo and president of the millennium challenge corporation. After a long wait, we have a fully installed that something of applause. Why do we give our friend a round of applause. [applause] congratulations. I think you get the prize for sort of saintly patience and diplomacy, and i think really, really glad you were in this job. I think its really important that Government Agencies have Senate Confirmed leaders so its really important you have, youve you been entrusted with this role. So i wanted to give you a chance to share some of your reviews with our friends here about how you see the future of the mcc. But before we do that, maybe not to just give this group, i think everyone probably in this audience if theyre here in mid august knows all about the mcc, but maybe just so were all on the same page if you might just do sort of the mcc 101 from your perspective. What is the mcc . How does it work . Then i have a couple of softball question for you we can take fr
m really happy to have sean karencroft, the c. E. O. And president of the corporation. After a long wait we have a fully installed m. C. C. President. I think thats worthy of applause. Why dont we give our friend sean a round of plus and welcome. Plus plus sean, congratulations. I think you get the prize for intly patience and by poemly and diplomacy and im really, really glammed that youre in this job. I think its really important that Government Agencies set up confirmed leads leaders and i think its really important that youve been entrusted with in roam. I wanted to give you a chance to share some of your views with our friends here about how you see the future of the m. C. C. But before that, i think probably anyone in this group probably noles all about the m. C. C. But maybe just so were all on the same page, you might do the m. C. Dr. 101 from your perspective. What suspect m. C. C. Sure. And how does it work and then i have a cup of softball questions for you. And we can take
17 00, welcome to this news section. The 28th of khordad will start according to the announcement of the vicechairman to the messenger. Yes , it is possible to register and buy arbaeen currency 1402 in the social network, like last year, from the ticket online. You have installed the version of the application and refer to the service page the number of pilgrims registered for arbaeen has exceeded one million. The registration and dispatch of the central headquarters of arbaeen, until this morning, more than one million and 15 thousand people confirmed their registration by paying insurance in the sama system. Mr. Mohammadi added that in order to benefit from facilities, including currency arbaeen and the pilgrimage passport of the pilgrims must have paid the insurance. This year, the two Border Crossings of bashmaq in the provinces of west azarbaijan and kurdistan with more changes for the traffic of those who wish to visit the pilgrimage of hazrat abba Abdullah Alhussein peace be upo