The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no
The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no
Private records. The Senate Judiciary Committee Held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi and nsa. This is two hours. The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. Need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the wa
Electronics association and the intelligence and National Security alliance. Thank you. I was going to try and get you fired up here because the initial plenary session, we were a little bit subdued. So i want you to feel free to get enthusiastic here. We have a great panel coming. Lots of cheer for them. We are going to have a great discussion. So welcome back. Before we jump into this next session, let me remind everyone that for the plenaries here in the maryland ballroom you can email questions to the panel. And pope flee we will have a logo up that says questions intel summit. Org. By the miracle of technology they are going to appear on an ipad with vince. Vince, if you didnt get the word at some point larry is going to tell you last question. Okay . So it is now my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our Defense Intelligence plenary, Lieutenant General vincent stewart, u. S. Marine corps come on, come on [ applause ] retired. Thats the part i was waiting for. [ laughter ] and
Hes held many of other leadership position at nctc including Deputy Director consulate to the director acting director profits of Data Strategy innovation chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office of director of National Intelligence the National Security council the joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spent some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism and an air of competing priorities. Russell will deliver opening remarks from the podium and then we will sit down for a little fireside chat and asks the first few questions and then open it up to you to ask questions and we welcome all of you who are watching via livestream or via cspan thank you for joining us today. Russell. Thanks very much matt. Its a great pleasure to be here amongst a number of old friends to talk about counterterrorism and resources. I happen to testify earlier this week for the leadership of the fbi and