Surveillance and the sort of central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful at protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same Citizens Rights . Especially the right to dissent. In other words, are liberty and procurity compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been real throughout u. S. History and they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what the Cato Institute described as, quote, Strong Political views that run count toer to the prevailing government paradigm. This challenges the notion by those who support a state of some sort if you have nothing to hide, you hav
From foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been a real threat u. S. History. I think they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what is described as Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. Will this challenge is the notion often expressed, by those who support a surveillance state of some sort, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And i want to come back to that later on in our discussion. Maybe you would hear to that you, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you firmly reject it. That is fine, we will have an opportunity to discuss that later. But the history of abuses in domestic surveillance, in this country, necessitates that discussion. Because the same tools that can
Up Citizens Rights especially the right to dissent. No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate, to exist. Foreign and domestic threats are real. But for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the American Government have surveilled those who have expressed what they Cato Institute Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. This challenges the notion that those who support the state in some sort that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will come back to that later in our discussion. Maybe you adhere to that view, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you rejected. That is fine. We will discuss it. But the history of surveillance necessitates that discussion. Can the same tools used to protect be used against citizens for sometimes nefarious reasons. Going back in history, Teddy Roosevelts attorney general
A knife turns a hanikra celebration near new york city into a bloody crime scene new yorks governor says it was an act of domestic terror. Im nick spicer welcome to the program. Ukrainian government and russian backed separatists have completed a Prisoner Exchange a plane landed at the airport sunday evening a few hours after the swap at a checkpoint in the separatist stronghold of the nets in Eastern Ukraine exchange included prisoners held by both sides since hostilities broke out in 2014 as follows an agreement russia and ukraine reached earlier this month in talks brokered by germany and france. I carefully coordinated ron davis in ukraines rebel controlled region 200. 00 people in total were released in the exchange some returning to the ukrainian side said the exchange was a good start but everyone needed to be freed. Im grateful to the president who agreed and freed us. But there are still a lot of guys jailed there and we need to help them just everyone for everyone. The produc
Blake burman with more from london. What is the fall out of this . Reporter neil, of all things at all places it was a hot mic moment from buckingham palace, at least focus of attention, at least a lot, nato gathering earlier today. Show you a moment between justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, Boris Johnson last night, trudeau could be heard talking about those Rolling Press conferences the president was having from day one of the nato meetings here. Watch. [inaudible] reporter that went viral. So this morn, when the president tame here to watford at nato, he was asked about that very moment. His first reaction was to launch an insult against trudeau, then he kind of pulled back a little bit and complimented trudeau. He also says he thinks the moment from yesterday when he approached trudeau about canadas defense spending kind of got trudeau a little bit concerned and upset. Here was the president. He is twofaced. Reporter you think that germany is twofaced . Trudeau is a nice guy. I find