Mornings and this started out poorly. North bound 101 is backed up beyond the 280 interchange to the lower deck. We are hoping that the crash being cleared out of the way will make it better than it was. It was pretty slow for a time. Getting into San Francisco, there was a stalled vehicle as well. Thats on the bay bridge. If you look at the bay bridge toll plaza it is slower than it normally is backed up for a 30 minute delay as you head toward the city. Lets talk about some other commutes. We have a look at the east bay commute, south bound 880 slowing from hey ward to fremont and san mateo commute will be moderately heavy. Lets go to steve with the weather. Thank you. We have cloudy to mostly cloudy conditions. There has been light rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains but we are waiting for this system. There has been in advance into the san joaquin valley. Its hard to pick up whats coming out of Santa Cruz Mountains. There has been a little bit around morgan hills. Highway 17 looks lik
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But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database
Partners. The irony is where brazil and india governments are, the bottom line is reforms need to happen internally that are about legal questions, but theres also a strategic level of interest that needs to go on here. [inaudible] do you think there is a possibility of a parallel within the United States . Great question. In the book, there is a chapter on the chinese approach. One of the key aspects besides the Massive Campaign of intellectual property theft, you have how this links into an assassins doctrine where youre looking at a potential enemy and saying, im going to turn their strengths into a weakness. The ability to mobilize massive Human Capital behind it. This is used to describe the internal selfcensoring model, the human flesh Search Engine is how it translates. When you talk about the number of folks involved, a mix of cyber militia and patriotic hacker communities, the scale is enormous. It is measuring and hundreds of thousands of folks. Most of those are people who a
So it is going to be different for different people, but ive found in my own travels and experience their, it remains a very, powerful and deep emotion. I do not think there is any doubt about that at all. In an american context we know that the First Amendment to the u. S. Constitution lays out a certain set of principles of freedom. Togress cannot do anything abridge our freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to peaceably assemble, to petition our government for redress of grievances. They are laid out there, and they are large concepts. They are the underpinning, really, for the society. They have been described as godgiven. Im wondering if you share that view. Gosh, i confess i have never whetherabout, you know, they are godgiven, but again, when i think of our own society i will give you the journalistic response. Thats a duck. No, it is because i am not a philosopher. Tellays, when ever people me chinas stealing our secrets, ook, iwer always is, l dont encourage industrial