If you were general counsel, there is some date after which you say hey, were going to have this january 1 and we have to stop winding this down and making contingency plans, and those operational decisions are enormously Time Investments for multiple agencies. Im obviously not asking you for anything sensitive, but what should we think of as that date. What is the date after which the agencies have to start thinking about, hey we dont know this is happening, we need to start making technical changes, winding programs down, having contingency planning. That is a great point. People dont actually realize how disruptive these can be to planning. Its not really an option to pull the plug at midnight. Go back to title i. Right, you need to start planning for this in advance. I dont know the date. I would expect there are people thinking about it now, the creative folks at nfa and d. O. J. And fbi, particularly in the legal office. What do we need to be planning for in case this does expire
Ill take the opportunity of session. To begin this im not going to spend a lot of time on introductions, but very briefly, i have been with us from brookings, and this is a real opportunity because my co panelist, interviewee, im not sure what to call him, he has a remarkable diversity of experience with 702. I actually met matt way back when he was working on guantanamo issues once of upon a time, but subsequent to that he became general counsel at nsa and went from there to run the National Counterterrorism center which is fundamentally analytical but draws on a lot of sources of intelligence including, as i think youll hear of 702 material. So, let me start by just asking you, on a scale of one to ten, 702ortant is 702 the u. S. Counterterrorism missions and other National Security interests, and what other interests. If i can channel the movie spinal tap, i will say 11, for those of you who have seen the movie. On a scale of one to ten, in all seriousness, its very important. I go
All right. Im going to take the opportunity of this lull to begin the session. So im not going to spend a lot of time on introductions. I do just want very briefly, with us from brookings and law affair, this is a real opportunity, because matt, my copanelists interviewee, im not sure what to call him when theres only two of us, has a real remarkable diversity of experience with 702. And so i actually met matt way back when he was working on gaugh guantanamo issues once upon a time. He became general counsel at nsa and went from there to run National Security. As i think youll hear a lot of 702 material. And so let me start by just asking you, on a scale of 1 to 10, how important is 702 to u. S. Counterterrorism mission and to other national skuecurity progrs and what other interests . If i can channel the movies, ill say 11, for those of you who have seen the movie. The amplifier goes to 11. Ive had a lot of conversations about and it is you know, it is important i think to understand
Thank you all for coming today. Im Education Research fellow at the American Enterprise institute. Thank everyone who is joining us here today, also, those who are joining on livestream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today, Charter Schools in the developing world with a keynote from the Liberian Education minister. George k. Werner. We have a Simple Program after a few introductory remarks were going to have a brief video, picture is worth a thousand words so well give you a couple minutes of those. The root of todays conversation about schools in liberian then well turn it over to mr. Werner for his keynote address. Following that a fantastic panel today with seth andrew from democracy builders, amy black from results from development and from the International Finance corporation. Ill introduce them in detail when the panel joins me here. Well have about 45 minutes of q a time with some opportunity for the audience to join, as well. For those following on social med
To collectively deal with the traumatic internment process. To talk about the evolution of that involvement and how the organization remains relevant today, we are proud to have the jacl National President , gary mayeda, with us today. He was elected to lead the jacl last year, but has been a part of the organization primarily in the Los Angeles Area for over 35 years. Gary, welcome. Gary mayeda thank you, robert. Glad to be here. Robert give us a little background, first of all, on your family and maybe how it led to your involvement with the jacl. Gary sure, sure. My father was interned in the americas concentration camps, too. He was in heart mountain and later in tule lake. Him, my aunt, my uncles, and my grandmother were all there, and they were there foreven though we talk about camps per se, it was an event that incurred 1,335 days of their lives. So, its not something thats small, its something that impacted them a great deal. Robert and, yeah, we talked a little bit earlier ab