The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har
Reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. Two panels, basically for parts of the act. Im of the panels to tell us the good, the bad, the ugly, why we need these four tools, 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 . Im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond, and the tools available to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community provided by this act, how they are relevant to the fight we are still in, baghdadi is dead, but the cause lives or the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing every day. Terrorist groups of different names are trying to come here to do us harm and to americans abroad. The war is far from over. No air force to shoot down, no navy to sink, no capital to conquer. This is an ideology that must be combated and those that embrace this ideology embrace death. The only way you protect
Communication workers of america discusses the companys recent 45day strike against verizon and discusses the antipartnership position on trade, as well as highspeed internet and broadband expansion. Hes joined by david shepardson. You need broadband and people more and more want broadband capability and the fcc is backing up giving Companies Money to build out broadband in rural communities. My members do broadbrand and its a big, big part what we do and i think its going to become an even bigger part what we do. Watch the communicators tonight. British defense secretary Michael Fallon recently updated a Parliamentary Committee on efforts to combat isis in sear yap. Syria. This is just under two hours. Some of the distrust was publicprivate stations by people who were pretty aware of what was going on. And, again, the underlying issue would the members introduce themselves. Im now the director of the ministry of defense, im mark carltonsmith. And im dominic wilson, member of ministry
Clearly, it can happen very rapidly and we need to be aware that. Ctly i dont want to go further on that. They are not the only threat that we face on iran and syria. Suggestshe evidence [indiscernible]. I wonder what preparations we have taking place. Know they are already attacking the allies we are supporting, what Additional Support are we offering . Well, this is one of those most extreme hardline groups and it emerged in syria in 2011 and it is probably the strongest a cube franchise globally. A has its stronghold in province and it is certainly a spoiler in the political process in syria and it might represent it which becomes might represent a petri dish. Significantt, a portion are syrian focused that provide a wider wrapping to those much more specifically a qa aligned forces that might 48. A qition aligned forces that might harbor ambition. Small a potentially a potentially small element of British Foreign fighters associated with it, the specifics are unclear. To strategy i
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