One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. Many, many years ago, supposedly, an Intelligence Officer was working in a foreign capital at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the Diplomatic Service as we often do, looking for hard targets and unfortunately this officer had a little too much to drink. So his mission attention wandered a little bit towards more amorous pursuits. Across the room, he spotted what he saw was a vision of loveliness in a f
Contra cost California Transportation Authority last week. They have the new test track for the mercedes Autonomous Vehicle thats going to be located in their county x he said one of the things and he said one of the things in the future, benefits that he sees is that these vehicles could benefit to the county, that these vehicles could go out and detect potholes and immediately transmit the data back to the contra costa or any Transportation Authority so that thered be be a fleet of vehicles that would be communicating information in realtime so that they could maintain the Transportation System better. I just wonder ored from mr. Scribner and mr. Otoole whats your view of that and the cost, also, of transmitting all this data back to a county Transportation Authority. Well, i dont see anything wrong, if he wants to get that information, for him to design an app and upload it to apple and android, and then people can volunteer to download it. If theyre driving on a road thats unusuall
Transition. But its got to be a legal process. When you get thousands of ballots sent to people and theyre double ballots where you get two votes, and thats just one of many problems. The president s comments followed this rose garden ceremony where he announce add favorite of concerts, judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. The announcement was a hit with his base. Say a few words. A crowd in middletown, pennsylvania, watching on a big screen as they awaited the president s trip there. He was making his way from washington for tonights rally. Now, any Supreme Court nomination is historic but few are as immediately consequential as this one. Judge barrett toquickly, before election day. Helping the court skew to the right would settle any election disputes. As if a contentious election was enough, theres the pandemic. But you wouldnt know it from todays historic rose garden event. Few masks, no social distancing. Even health and Human Services secretary alex az
Around to make a lot of changes to a lot of things in the ways in which the United Kingdom conducts its business. One of the many questions that arises, and there are lots about currency, foreign investment, defense, nato commitments, and all sorts of things that are out rights, aut pension share of the sovereign debt of ,he on and United Kingdom mr. Salmon, who is the first minister of scotland, said he expects there to be a seamless transition. That is not what leaders of the European Union has said. Others have said that if scotland leaves the United Kingdom and wants to join the European Union, it will have to take its place in the queue and apply like every other candidate country and would require unanimous consent of everyone of the 28 members of the eu. I would be surprised if all that got done seamlessly in 18 months, but we will see. It is clear that there are some with bits applying for membership in the European Union. It is one of a number quite complex questions that woul
Who is here and has helped not only device doddfrank but also supported it. Ill just close on this comment. You know, i would hope that this is true across the spectrum, that all of you realize that while you may ultimately deal with significant corporations in this country, that at the end of the day, it is the public who we collectively seek to serve, and that is best served by transparency and openness and an opportunity to understand what companies are doing. Whether thats ceo pay to worker pay or whether that is using potentially millions of dollars of corporate funds to maybe the disadvantage of the very investors who are investing in that company. So i hope that the hallmark of what we can expect from all of you but certainly in this case where you have some particular unique jurisdiction, is a push towards Greater Transparency so that investors really understand what choices they are making and whether the companys best serving them. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator johanns. Th