You get tot often hear from multiple cia directors at the same place at the same time, speaking on the record. I would like to welcome to the stage our moderator, Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the honorable sue gordon along with the honorable john brennan, the honorable general michael hayden, the honorable porter goss and the honorable jobs what does judge webster. Judge webster. Thank you. [applause] how lucky are we . I think i may be the first moderator in this programs history who has the joy of saying that she worked for everybody that was on the panel. Gentleman, im going to try to make you proud. This is remarkable. Here is what we are going to do, take a little bit of a rock throughboth romp their histories and 10 years, and comment on the issues 10 years, and comment tenures and comment on the issues. Can you look at us when you address us . Yes, sir. We are getting it back echo. I love that. What is the greatest threat or issue that consumed your tenure
Because the russians didnt go after the actual voting machines, that mechanism, they appeared to have scanned a number of Registration Data bases but we have no evidence that they actually manipulated the votes. So those 3 million illegal votes came from some place else. But because we dont do that, we have no idea in the end how successful or nonsuccessful this was. And youre trying to separate it out in an election where there were other factors. Statements made by james comey, fbi director about Hillary Clintons emails. The fact that secretary clinton didnt prove to be an enormously effective candidate. And so how all of these things mix in is very difficult to tell. And that part of what made the russians so successful here. Because if you think that before they didnt start this operation in 2015 when this all began. Thinking that they were going to get donald trump elected. They thought like most of the people in this room thought, that his candidacy would be over by september or
In two months, the u. S. Coast guard, the Shallow Water service, will cover all seven continents on the globe. Today, we are in afghanistan, iran, africa, liberia, in south america, china, we are everywhere and i could not be more proud to serve the service but i cannot be more proud to have a seat that chairman dempsey has afforded me to be a guest on the chairman of the joint chiefs as we deal with many challenges that face us and the world ahead. Really what people ask why do you give to come to work every day . What causes you to get up to work every day is the people we are proud to serve. First of all, we are an all volunteer service and how appropriate we are here with the uso, an all volunteer service as well. Im just delighted to say that my wife fran is one of those 29,000 volunteers. [applause] she kept her maiden name because no one can pronounce zukunft so people would come through Reagan National air force airport at the uso office and asked what her husband does. All of
Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be neutral within this context. When deciding whether information is material or relevant, that is exactly what expected to do, to set aside their role as advocates, pour through the open mind,th an recognize the importance of the information to the defense, and an objective decision about whether or not to disclose it. Are subject to what psychologists call confirmation bias. Tend tons that we evaluate what we perceive in a way that is consistent with what believe. R a prosecutor with the responsibi
Administrations goal. When is your reaction to that . Thanks you, senator. Let me take an initial response and ask my colleague to jump in. First, the request h that we are making here that we are support a u. S. To government funded total number of 20 treatment units. Number in aarger global strategy and one of the things we have been doing at the state department is to encourage donations from partner governments around the world. Expertse view of the fix unit number of treatment beds is critical to controlling the epidemic but we resources for Community Care centers that can into rural places and be mobile for spikes in the disease isolation and containment. Let me ask nancy to join in here. Simply that. Looking at a strategy that is care and isolation and safe burials and intensive social to that people change their habits all take be together is what we are all is what we are seeing in how many of the highly toective areas is beginning yield results and we need to keep at that in