Security Committee Examining the policing of Virtual Currencies. Then a House Homeland Security Committee Examining the management at the department of Homeland Security. On monday, the senate Homeland Security committee examined the governments ability to police the use of Digital Currency with the laws currently on the books. Online decentralized systems allow people to Exchange Goods and Services Without using real money, including bit coins. This hearing is two and a half hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us, we especially want to thank our witnesses, panel number one, and somewhere in the audience, panel number two. The i. D. Card is there, so pick it up please and put it where it belongs. That way well know who you are and you will, too. My succeeder in the senate used to say many years ago, he would say, his advice was wear a big button. Wear a big button when youre campaigning so youll remember your name and so will other people, too. We want to make sure p
Just say, we are thinking about those people like certain muslim religious leaders in this country, the wonderful imam from Catholic University that is certainly not meant to be an oxymoron but others who could serve as individuals, who could relate messages, create understanding, build bridges, be part of what we would call the unofficial, but now much more employment put it this way universe of diplomacy that we could use in that particular fashion. I think it makes a lot of sense. Retirees are fine, but maybe active individuals in their own area who know the problem very well from a religious angle want to now be part of the official quotient in moving the question ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up on cspan, a look at the government and the media. First, a discussion from the National Association of black journalists conference. And then, the fut
Around us and use social media because thats different than the secrecy issues we are talking about. I think that is as much as it is vexing for us, i think its probably ok. Its a little weird for the media to make the case that politicians should have to engage with us to get to the public. Im not sure that would be a winning argument that i would be willing to make. Im not a big fan of handout journalism. The most Productive Work we do is when we ask hard questions and we try to get under the surface to find out whats really going on. The politicians will hand out press releases and its not our job just to take stenography and provide them to the public and to go deeper. There have always been a whistle stop tours and a fireside chats to engage directly with the electorate. This is just a way to do it from the comfort of your chair. Right. And full disclosure i think , nabj did invite members of the administration to participate in this panel, and as far as we can tell they chose not
He was a key member that one of the won the edward r. Murrow awards for the capturing of osama bin laden, gabby giffords, and the Newton School massacre. Hes a k member covering the terrorist attacks of 9 11 hes a key member. Dupont,on a peabody, a and an emmy. He has received an emmy for his coverage of president Barack Obamas inauguration. Please welcome peer, s. Thomas. E welcome pierre welcome tothe National Association of black journalists conference. This year, focusing on equipping members for the shifts taking place in newsrooms across the country. You can look forward to some andt panels, workshops, seminars including todays session, government and the media. We will address some of the challenges facing our industry specifically actions by the government which appear to in print in french on the truly free press. Journalists subpoenaed to reveal sources, the Justice Department looking at months of records from the ap, the white house restricting access from president ial even
He was a key member that won the edward r. Murrow awards for the reporting of the capture of osama bin laden, the tucson shooting spree and assassination attempt of gabby giffords, and the Newton School massacre. Hes a key member covering the terrorist attacks of 9 11. He has won a peabody, a dupont, and an emmy. He has received an emmy for his coverage of president Barack Obamas inauguration. Please welcome pierre thomas. [applause] hello, everyone. Thank you so much for coming to the National Association of black journalists conference. This year, focusing on equipping members for the shifts taking place in newsrooms across the country. You can look forward to some great panels, workshops, and seminars including todays session, government and the media. And seminars including todays session, government and the media. We will we will address some of the challenges facing our industry specifically actions by the government, which appear to infringe on the truly free press. Journalists