Student volunteers. Please turn off your cell phones. And now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director dr. Barbara ballard. [ applause ] thank you very much. Ill say good evening and welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. For the Third Program of the 2020 president ial lecture series. Tonights guest is professor of communications, robert roland. We would like to thank our cosponsors, the university of Kansas Department of Communication Studies, the department of history, and the department of political science. This evenings interview will be conducted by Dole Institute associate director audrey coleman. Joining us tonight as an honored guest is ron marks. Hes our spring 2020 fellow. Hes a former Senior Analyst for the cia and intelligence expert and intelligence counsel to Senate Majority leaders robert dole and trent lott. Would you stand, please . [ applause ] thank you. This years president ial lecture series was created and developed by dr. Robert roland. He is a
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har
Reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. Two panels, basically for parts of the act. Im of the panels to tell us the good, the bad, the ugly, why we need these four tools, why we need to reauthorize the program in your view, what happens if we dont, would you accept any changes . What with those changes be . Im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond, and the tools available to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community provided by this act, how they are relevant to the fight we are still in, baghdadi is dead, but the cause lives or the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing every day. Terrorist groups of different names are trying to come here to do us harm and to americans abroad. The war is far from over. No air force to shoot down, no navy to sink, no capital to conquer. This is an ideology that must be combated and those that embrace this ideology embrace death. The only way you protect
Effectiveness of us communication with others, other republics and other countries. We have with us today im speaker will be assistant secretary of state and senior artificial in a euro of Public Affairs, and were glad you could joinus today. We look forward to this event. She joins the state department in every third 2018. But in the year later she became, she was already assistant secretary but took on the responsibility of the undersecretary ofstate. For Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Two of which were united under the nine, she has led one of the largest restructurings in 20 years so this is a very ambitious, interesting effort which is not created the bureau of Global Public affairs which she is the head. Welcome, she was Global Corporate Communications Senior Vice President for the waiver set of new york and she has also previously in washington worked for Newt Gingrich and as a lead member of his medications team. And communications survey. She holds a masters degree in po
Were honored to have them here today. A special welcome to our commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, chairman farar, vice chairman bill hible and commissioner ann weidner. Today, as you know, under the auspices of the Advisory Commission weve called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa. And where it fits into state departments vision for Public Diplomacy Going Forward in the 21st century. And as vivian walker, executive director, it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the mic over to my colleague for opening comments, i just want to tell you a little bit about how things are going to go today. Mr. Farar will give us brief comments and well turn it over to our principal speakers. Theyll speak in a tagteam formation. At the end of their presentation well be happy to take your questions and comments. Please hold your questions and comments until they have finished their presentation. For the moderated q a session, the