Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
The good evening, everybody. Welcome to the center at the school of law. Im your moderator for this evening. Im a journalist at the atlantic. Im a staff writer in the ideas section. The Brennan Center is a nonprofit sorry, nonpartisan Law Policy Institute tha institute o reform and revitalize when necessary to defend the systems of democracy and justice. You can keep up with their work online or you can follow them on facebook and listen to their podcast on the website or wherever you get your podcast. You should still listen to the Brennan Center podcast. So, tonight we are hosting a fellow with the Liberty National Security Program where he focuses on Law Enforcement and intelligence oversight reform. He used to work as a policy council for National Security and privacy and before that he served 16 years as an fbi special agent specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations int and today we are discussing his book thinking like a terrorist, sorry, discussing his second book
Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac were going to transition into our final panel. I think we have someone who is able to get our next speakers micd. Thanks. Well just take a moment. In the meantime i can set up again, if youve been following privacy issues for a while, you will be familiar with what is sometimes called the going dark problem, a concern that the pervasive growth of strong encryption presents an obstacle to Law Enforcement agencies especially since its gone from a technology thats in the providence of people with distanced Technical Knowledge and understanding, able to used difficult tools to something that is baked into very userfriendly technology in a way that doesnt require much sophistication at all. You probably use encryption more or less daily without even recognizing just by using a smartphone or a standard web browser. And as increasingly this encryption is not just between end users and central identities that Law Enforcement can approach wi
Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel
Think it would have been a very good thing for the country if more historians were weighing in more frequently and people who write about politics and history and people who think about what has come before, we dont have enough of it. This is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get ste say that this is being recorded by cspan. When you get the microphone, speak into the microphone. Wait for it for you speak. Be aware of the started, let me introduce the men to my left. An editor of a book about president ial misconduct. That is the kickoff for our discussion. A historian who spent most of his career teaching at princeton. His most recent book is about being a historian. I think it is about the profession and the worldview. And written numerous books. Including the one we are featuring tonight. He is one of the creators of the National History center. I was a graduate student at yale. People would always say, there is this great historian. He is going to be so great. He defi