Justice . This was interesting. Obama has gotten attention for his comments on court cases particularly before theyre decided, as well as after where i think its perhaps a bit more typical for president to speak after decisions are made. But it did seem interesting that i mean he actually went as far to criticize the cert stage when he said the court shouldnt have even taken the case. So it was interesting. And just by coincidence i happen to have sitting in my inbox a study of president ial comments on pending Supreme Court cases since 1954. Looking at this study and seeing how really rare it was, although not completely unheard of for president to comment when they had cases of which they took some interest before the Supreme Court, i dont think it is going to be a very typical thing. I think this as one factor that the study itself observed, president s most likely to comment on pending cases tend to be lawyering who think they know a lot about the law and are in a position to discu
Minister have a separate legal jurisdiction, investing in legal and professional services and i fear and will lead from the profession . Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Prime minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker. This morning i had meetings and i should have further such meetings today. Mr. Speaker, may i associate myself and i hope the whole house and others from the government have said from the attacks in paris, for those killed by the terrorists in france. Now, mr. Speaker, various concerns to Prime Minister about neighborhood policing and security being threatened and formula which is now been admitted. Can i ask him to reflect on the words when i change my mind and police local intelligence can be crucial to terrorists, perhaps this isnt the time to jeopardize it with [shouting] i thank the gentleman for what he says about paris and the whole house coming together over this issue. Perhaps the house would like a brief update. As i said, one British National was killed at batac
Proxy forces, misdirection plays, propaganda, a different way of exerting power . Sec. Carter exactly right. And we need to counter that, too. And we need to fortify our european allies to counter that. So weve got a lot to do, and thats just another way of saying that we need to continue to be innovative. We innovated a lot when it was came for iraq and afghanistan. They were new kinds of one of the things im really proud of in our Defense Department is a long history of innovation. It goes back you know, i started my career in science and technology. As you said, we were doing stealth at that time. We were doing a whole lot of stuff in space. Missile defenses, all those were new capabilities. And those of you who are in High Technology industry know im trying to reach out to our industry, building those bridges. Mr. Seib i wanted to ask you about that, as a final thought before we take questions. But but you have spent a lot of time in silicon valley, which is not a normal place for
Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec
In some countries, its hard to almost immediately after their own democratic breakthrough and it was championed by some of the same people who organized those domestic breakthroughs. Civil society has played an important and driving role in terms of democracy promotion, both as implementers of such support abroad as well as champions and advocates for their states to invest in supporting democraticization abroad. They have leveraged their bilateral challenges as well as various citizen diplomacy forums to support democraticization abroad and have leveraged membership. Lastly, a number of Eastern European countries have started to provide assistance, but more on the technical than financial side, so, in some, we have several of these countries that have they have exercised diplomacy and theyre their efforts have tended to be limited in terms of the number of cpms and geographics recipients to a number of countries. Those are points ill come back to later in my presentation, so this poin