Welcome to class. We are going to talk about history of government surveillance. The central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful in protecting the government and its citizens while also up holding the same Citizens Rights . In other words, are liberty and security compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and doe mess sf domestic sources. Those threats are real. They have been real throughout history. For over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have is yosurveyed t that have strong in views that run opposite of that. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will want to come back to that later on. Maybe you really adhere to that view. Maybe you are on the fence about it. Maybe you firmly reject it. Thats fine. W
The senate about this bill . It isnt clear what is going to happen. There is going to be a push for amendments. There is senators who would like to see the United States send military aid the way of ukraine. They will probably make a push on amendments. There is others who would like to see us speed up the natural gas flow so that ukraine isnt as dependent on russia its energy supply. And there might be thinks related to Cyber Security or taking the imf language out. There might not be an aaagreeme at and then we will have to go back to congress. Guest there are concerns about what the approval might be doing to the United States budget. There was a tradeoff earlier this year with republicans wanting to see irs rules that govern the tea party groups, seeing the rule suspended for the imf language. And two bills passed on the house side and a bill to impose sanctions on iran. The House Foreign Affairs committee is taking up the bills again. Why are they doing this and who are the key su
Provision that the Defense Department has been using in order to buy Russian Helicopters for afghanistan. This practice has been met without the action and was objectionable in it again and became more objectionable as the russians continue to supply Bashar Alassad and based upon what they have done in crimea, it should be entirely unacceptable. Also, i just learned this morning that President Hamid karzai announced his support for the russian annexation of crimea and approval of russian actions, which makes her purchase of russian weapons even more outrageous. After all that we have done to support him and the afghans with the u. S. Tax dollars and the lives and injuries to the Coalition Soldiers and after all weve done over a decade of time president karzai reaches out and publicly supports the russian actions. Contrary to ours. This is a nation and its beyond believe the president karzai can support countries like syria and venezuela. His support the russian action when we are there
Economic help, but that does not change the contra issue. The president , our president , calls the contras freedom fighters. Who are these contras your the vast majority are former some oh zaen former somo men. A woman, four months pregnant, was killed at a state owned coffee farm by the contras. She was wounded first, her face shattered by a grenade. A deep knife wound in her side with the unborn fetus protruding. Many other unarmed civilians were killed by the contras with their throats cut. Ugly, yes, but we must face this. Sure, there is violence on the see iso, which americans increasing. Vines on the left and the right must stop. The way to stop it is not by supporting a private, brutal army who wants to overthrow a government of a country the size of iowa. But by doing what america does best, negotiating a peaceful tlement with a democratic of nations taking the lead. The way to stop this violence is boland amendment, the gephardt amendment, let us not have the blood of the inn
And america is now officially ebolafree. Good thing we didnt freak out about all of that. Ebola or isis or ebola on the backs of isis could come through our border . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. The National Guard is officially on standby in anticipation of the grand jurys decision of whether or not to indict wilson who came earlier today at a rather stunning press conference called by missouri governor. Has continued to be part of our available when we determined it is necessary to support local law enforcement, quite simply, we must and will be fully prepared. In flanked by top Regional Police officers will not be toll rated. In immediately following Michael Browns death, marred by sensely eless acts of violence and destruction. Vandals smashed the windows of small businesses. Set fire to stores. Endangered citizens exercising their First Amendmented rights. Their ugliness. Over the past several weeks, speculation has been rampant that a grand jury is coming a