Can follow this event live on cspan 2. A discussion on the federal judges ruling that said the nsa collection on phone records violates the constitution. This is 45 minutes. Back with James Andrew Lewis of the center for strategic and International Studies. Here to talk about the judges decision on monday, a District Court judge questioning the legality of nsas phone data records. What did he say . Guest he said it was a tremendous intrusion into privacy. It was unconstitutional that the collection of the metadata, greatbills, by nsa, was a risk to the Fourth Amendment and lot legal and not legal. Host what program by the nsa was he referring to . Guest they have a program essentially the phone bill of american citizens. Call, howt who you long the call lasted, where the call might have been. Possiblehem identify targets for counterterrorism or counterespionage. He objected to the fact that nsa, a foreign intelligence body, is collecting intelligence on american citizens. Host how . Gu
You Transparency International has and been pleased to work with the bank. Andbank. In an i would love the panel to tell us something new that is going to be so startling that will make the headlines tomorrow. Maybe something you dont say in public. This is a relaxed conversation. To hear the conversations that go on a little bit like that James Wolfensohn shared at the beginning. Those moments, those thoughts are instructional and helpful. Mr. Volker . You want me to give a relaxed news headline . We talked about all the difficulties of dealing with corruption in countries. That is true in many countries. All of which are represented in the world bank board. It is a hard problem, dealing with corruption by all these other countries. It is a hard time changing the minds of the people in the world bank on the subject. Is tough and unpleasant it is a tough and unpleasant subject and makes it hard to get the money out there and get a project started. There was a lot of resistance to mr. W
Pickering that this is a breakthrough moment . I wonder if you could comment on the domestic pressures facing the foreign minister and president rouhani. I was struck by the contradictory reactions. Iranians wentthe back home and were greeted by protests. For the first time, we have had direct talks between two Foreign Ministers. For the first time, we had a phone conversation between two president s. Two president s have nominated the Foreign Ministers. Five, 6, 7 rounds of direct negotiations before the deal and the talks are continuing. This iser had clear. , we havetic situation the same domestic situation that you have in the u. S. Deal. Are supporting the some politicians are opposing the deal. Some politicians are silent. Almost everything is the same at the same level. There is a big difference. Inre is foreign intervention the u. S. Decision. The israelis are interfering and in thedecision u. S. Decision. This is the big difference between our domestic situations. That this is
That they tackle some of the iny difficult cases also publicity and the annual meetings speech. Not only talk about the successes, but just how tough it is inside many of the countries, a statement of all the successes is useful, but i do think even more useful is a statement of how prevalent the equity corruption and in still is. I would hope that this department can report in two phases, one in what it has done, but also how much is to be done. Ima. Ster, post seem if the world banks goal is to reduce poverty, they have to make an equal amount of investment in working towards the reduction of corruption. I think this is especially important because corruption and countries affecting that are the younger countries, those that have the potential to actually be the drivers. It is to our interest, because after all, economies are about , most ofd the young the young of the world are in countries that are dealing with these challenges. It is a problem, it is a cancer. Speak up against the
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