System and gps technology. Moving from air to cars. L General Motors has of course re recalled 25. 7 million cars in the u. S. This year and the Auto Industry has recalled a record 40 million vehicles. On should drivers feel safe and are regulators doing enough . Well, look on the latter question, i have to say that e they have done an incredible amount of work over the last several years. Ten i think over the last ten years there have been about 1200 plus recalls effecting 95 million vehicles. Thats not counting some of the more recent recalls. s prett thats pretty significant. Our tool box is actually improved over that time in the wake of the toyota situation a few years ago we developed alont with ibm some analytics that allow us to be more predictive i in identifying issues before they emerge. We continue to look to build a better mousetrap so i think that when its all said and done they have done an incredible job over the entire trend line. In in terms of the autos and you wheth
Organization. This is really not meant to be a technical debate. Its a policy debate of where we a year after the snowden revelations and what weve learned and what has and hasnt kind of gone forward from there. Im just going to ask each one of our panelists to really well written and well spoken on this topic to just give a couple of key points of their point of view and then we will get into a dialogue among of the us panelists and we will open it up so be thinking about questions. So im going to start with stuart baker whose a partner at step tow and johnson. Were you the first policy assistant secretary. I want to make sure i get that title right at dhs which is something weve seen grow in its responsibilities. This is something you really hadnt fathomed at the time. Its probably to know what you know and be where you are now. I will open with stuart and just a little shout out for those who are looking for a summer book read. Hes got a great book. You might want to look that up. S
We pushed for that. We wanted that. We will we think the labeling is very important. We are also confirmed book what we are all stashed what we are also concerned about is we do not have a Public Education campaign. There are banner ads and social media telling youth not to use this product and that it is damaging to developing brains. Colorado and, i might add, Washington State has not quite opened their stores yet and they already have that campaign going. We have 340 stores your. We just havent gotten a rolling it. Guest we will take a call from sam in iowa. Caller i am glad they are protecting juveniles from this. My problem is the 18 to 21yearolds. They can hold a gun and fight for our country at 18 years old. But they are not allowed to smoke a plant because they are still considered children. We have had the edible marijuana in california for years. We dont have any of those crazy things youre talking about where people kill themselves over it. Host . I will let our guest respon
Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the
Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to the United States capitol. We are honored to be joined today by members of the diplomatic corps, former ambassadors, representatives from the state department and the u. S. Mint, and leaders of the jewish community. Shortly before christmas 1944, Raoul Wallenberg did something many of us have had to do. He told his mother he wouldnt make it home for the holidays. I must send you my best wishes for christmas by this means, he wrote. I hope the peace so longed for is not so far away. At the bottom of the note, he added, lots of kisses to nina and her little girl. That nina, of course, was raouls sister, who is with us today, as are several members of his family. Thank you all for being here. [applause] by the time he sent that letter, wallenberg had saved more lives than we can count. He had done much of the work on his own, his daring so dumbfounding that the nazis aimed their guns above his head. They were perpetrating what churchill