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
In this material and other types of material. And create a blind spot and intelligence collection. You have to think about the technical complexity you are suggesting so this is segregated in some way, treat it in some way. That could lead to a training issues. We actually do it in a way that would be different from other types the we handled. One brief point to this, the last decade and at half, they were set up to investigate after a variety of terrorism events 9 11, fort hood, the underwear bomber and so on, consistently everyone of those commissions has found that we need to eliminate barriers to making use of information that is lawfully in our possession to better protect the nation and requiring some kind of additional process before we can query this information directly contrary to the recommendations of all those. I see my time is up. I never had a chance to introduce the panel to the benefits that they are familiar to us and benefit the audience. We have jim baker who is gen
No matter whether you abreed with his views or not. He will be missed by both sides of this house and our thoughts are with the right honorable member and other members of his family at this time. Im sure the house would also join ming tribute to the pgb Paralympic Team following Great Success at the sochi games. Kenny gallagher won our first ever gold medal at the paralympics. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meeting with ministers and colleagues and in addition to my duties to the house i will have such further duties today. Mr. Speaker i think the whole house want to associate themselves with the Prime Minister and the remarks on congratulating the paralympics team. Of course the paralympicsed in buckingham. Mr. Speaker, today unemployment has fallen 63,000. This has been evident in where we have growth in the private sector continue. Does my right honourable friend agree with me that we must sustain this growth by continuing to tackle the deficit , the pork industry and continue with
Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of all . Guest a National Trade association, and we represent 90 small local providers that are in pretty much every state in this country who provide what used to be, you know, just basic telephone service. Theyre now broadband providers. Theyve also become kind of the onestop shop Tech Service Providers for tear communities. They do video, wireless, data centers, they do whatever Technology Needs their communities actually require. So they actually represent their interests here in washington d.
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