The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
Thank you. [applause] how lucky are we . I think i may be the first moderator in this programs history who has the joy of saying that she has the joy of being on this panel. So im going to try to make you proud. Heres what we are going to do. We will take a walk through their history and perspective from the tenures to see if we cant bounce back and forth. First question for each of you. Can you look at us when you address us back yes sir. [laughter] i love that. The first question for each of you what i is the greatest threr issue that consumed your tenure and what do you see the greatest threat or issue facing the nation today from the security perspective . Its one of the challenges that i had when i was the director. It did not highlight just what the cia did for so many years to keep this country safe, so that consumed a lot of my time and i think there was a lot of partisanship that went into that. One of the challenges i faced in this administration is facing is there are so man
And general michael hayden, the honorable porter goss and the honorable judge webster. Thank you. [applause] ms. Gordon how lucky are we . I think i may be the first moderator in this programs history who has the joy of saying that she worked for everybody that was on the panel. [laughter] gentlemen, im going to try to make you proud. This is remarkable. Here is what we are going to do, take a little bit of a romp through their histories and perspectives from their 10 years tenures, and comment on the issues of today and then see if we can bounce back and forth. Can you look at us when you address us . Ms. Gordon yes, sir. [laughter] ms. Gordon i love that. We are getting it back echo. Ms. Gordon i love that. First question for each of you, what was the greatest threat or issue that consumed your tenure, and what do you see is the greatest issue or threat facing the nation today from a security perspective . John, you get to go first. Congress is an answer . [laughter] ms. Gordon we wi
At the same place at the same time, speaking on the record. I would like to welcome to the stage our moderator, Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the honorable sue gordon along with the honorable john brennan, the honorable general michael hayden, the honorable porter goss and the honorable judge webster. Thank you. [applause] how lucky are we . I think i may be the first moderator in this programs history who has the joy of saying that she has the joy of being on this panel. So im going to try to make you proud. Heres what we are going to do. We will take a walk through their history and perspective from the tenures to see if we cant bounce back and forth. First question for each of you. Can you look at us when you address us back yes sir. [laughter] i love that. The first question for each of you what i is the greatest threr issue that consumed your tenure and what do you see the greatest threat or issue facing the nation today from the security perspective . Its on
I will get started in encourage everyone to congregate again. Thanks to those who stuck with us, at the 2016 cato institute. This is going to focus on the intelligence aspects. We tend to focus on the Fourth Amendment and do medicinmestic. This is really global in scale and so as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interest of u. S. Businesses who hope to do business around the world. We have allen butler who will talk about the sh rerems case. And talk about cross data, in figuring out what kind of jurisdiction applies with regard to Law Enforcement. Thanks for having me. Im happy to be here today to speak with you about a new International Dimension over this u. S. Surveillance authorities, many of you probably know about the sh rere decision, it was used by businesses to transfer personal data between the u. S. And the Europea