I know there is some concerns about privacy of seniors with the web camera and video monitoring may give challenges to want to ensure the privacy of seniors and their dignity using this technology. But we also want to make sure we are looking now for their safety. I know using privacy techniques such as old the silhouettes on video monitors to ease some of the privacy concerns over adults but the challenge for those is to maximize safety with the minimum invasion of privacy they get to the chairman and witnesses to be here today and i look forward to learning from your testimony. That is an excellent statement. We have been joined by senator perdue, a senator cater and senator casey. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Now we will turn to the panel and first year from the up Tech Industry veteran and the founder of aging in Place Technology watch. I a understand she also has the of wisdom to have her seventh home in the state of maine. That did not mean that is where you are testifyi
Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for justice. Prior to that she served as counsel to u. S. Senator Russ Feingold who at the time was the chairman of the senates sm subcommittee on the constitution. On the judiciary committee. She handled liberty and National Security matters. Focus on government secrecy and privacy rights, hence our joy at getting her here today to complete our program. Also worked as a Trial Attorney in the federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the department of justice, and her area of expertise is what she is about to speak on, liberty National Security, the tension between privacy and National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances, and detainee policy. One quick note. When liza finishes this session were going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop. Its a nice day and we have a little reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So, please join me in welcoming liza to the p
Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for justice. Prior to that she served as counsel to u. S. Senator Russ Feingold who at the time was the chairman of the senates sm subcommittee on the constitution. On the judiciary committee. She handled liberty and National Security matters. Focus on government secrecy and privacy rights, hence our joy at getting her here today to complete our program. Also worked as a Trial Attorney in the federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the department of justice, and her area of expertise is what she is about to speak on, liberty National Security, the tension between privacy and National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances, and detainee policy. One quick note. When liza finishes this session were going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop. Its a nice day and we have a little reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So, please join me in welcoming liza to the p
Liza goitein. She isco director of the liberty. And National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances and detainee policy. One quick note. When liza finishes this session were going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop. Its a nice day and we have a little reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So, please join me in welcoming liza to the podium. [ applause ] thank you, mike, for that kind introduction and thanks to the Hoover Institution for inviting me and thanks for coming and staying. I mean, this section 702, im well aware, can be a very dry, very technical subject, and i salute you all for recognizing its important and for taking the time to understand the core issues that lie beneath the complexities and the jargon. I want to start by telling you a story. And to tell the story from the beginning i have to go back to the 1940s to the end of world war ii. The National Security state was in the infancy and very few laws or r
Defending every attack doesnt seem smart. Cant we go on offense . And he said, when i go beyond the line of defense, i cant do that without the sanction of congress. So it was very clear initially from the beginning that a president could defend against imminent attack without congress, although you should get congress on board later. Congress though had to declare war, any going on offense against anyone other than imminent defense, took a congressional declaration. That was the clear understanding. But we have gotten it wrong virtually sense the ink was dry. It doesnt matter whether president s or congresss or republican or democrat or wig or federalist, we have gotten it wrong. We have gotten it wrong because madison was half right but he want cynical enough. Madison described the provision of the war powers provisions as a check against executive power. The branch most prone po war, most interested in it. We put it in the legislative branch. He saw monarchs and executives overreach