Surveillance and the sort of central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful at protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same Citizens Rights . Especially the right to dissent. In other words, are liberty and procurity compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been real throughout u. S. History and they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what the Cato Institute described as, quote, Strong Political views that run count toer to the prevailing government paradigm. This challenges the notion by those who support a state of some sort if you have nothing to hide, you hav
From foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been a real threat u. S. History. I think they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what is described as Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. Will this challenge is the notion often expressed, by those who support a surveillance state of some sort, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And i want to come back to that later on in our discussion. Maybe you would hear to that you, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you firmly reject it. That is fine, we will have an opportunity to discuss that later. But the history of abuses in domestic surveillance, in this country, necessitates that discussion. Because the same tools that can
Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
Good morning, this hear is cool called to order. I want to welcome all the witnesses and thank you for your thoughtful, written testimony and looking forward to your oral tangherlini. Id ask my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. I want to make a couple comments. About really kind of what i want to see the goal of this hearing to be. Its similar to the the goal of every hearing is a base account problem solving process. This committee under my chairmanship developed a a Mission Statement to enhance the National Security of america to promote more effective and accountable government. The reason im pointing it out today is i cant think of a hearing that that Mission Statement is more applicable to. When we Start Talking about 5g were talking about the Economic Opportunity and the National Security risks. In order to take advantage of that and avoid the National Security risks. We need more effective government to step up to the plate to compete against what unfortunate
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. We have really good arms in aa and aaa. I agree we need to work on the supply chain. President trump signed an executive order on may 15th of this year to declare it a National Emergency to supply to protect our Domestic Communications technology and that will soon be followed by binding regulations later this year. I think we 100 agree with the idea of virtualization will be very important to allow the breakup of the propriety lockins that many providers have today. It could be very competitive with regard to some of the current providers. On the mid band point, under the tmobile sprint merger, theyre required to cover 97 of the u. S. Population and six years cover 99 of the u. S. Population. Theyre going to proceed on the 3. 5 gigahertz midband spectrum next summer. But the millimeter wave is going to be so important who are going to require throughput. Thats the kind of beauty of that technology, it doesnt go as far, but it has the greatest amount