Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
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
people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. a black man can t. you just learn to be good, and in the and you benefit from that extra resilience. coates: i want to get right into all this with attorney jeffrey toobin, he is the author of the nine inside the secret world of the supreme court. as well as home grown timothy mcvay, and the rise of homegrown extremism. jeffrey i m glad you re here tonight. first of all take a step back with me. many people are wondering if tomorrow is the day that the appellate court will decide that trump committed an insurrection. that is not tomorrow is, tomorrow is about whether immunity exists for a president. what do you say? correct. what is important to remember about tomorrow, is it is a question of does donald trump have to stand trial? trump is arguing that the whole case should be thrown out, before it is even tried. which is unusual in a criminal case. because under his understanding of presidential immunity,
Jordan welcome to the daily show, im jordan klepper. Ronny and im ronny chieng. Weve got so much to talk about tonight. College campuses are protesting, Donald Trumps enemies are surrendering, and the Supreme Court wonders if the president can kill you for fun. Jordan but first, donald trump is still on trial, so lets catch up with another installment of americas most tremendously wanted. [cheers and applause] the whole thing is a scam. Jordan today was a big day for donald trump versus johnny law with the former president fighting the man at every level of the legal system. Ronny but things actually started off pretty good for trump. After months of calling him unfit for office, trumps attorney general bill barr said hes voting for him anyway and trump responded with as much grace as you would expect. So the former president posting on truth central that wow, former attorney general bill barr has just endorsed me for president , despite the fact that i called him weak, slowmoving, let