Flow of vital information. I agree with your point about whistleblower protections, but there are a range of different motives. There are spy, Robert Hanssen types. No sympathy for that. A lot of people leak because it makes them feel important. They are in the know, and it shows they are in the know. It makes them feel good to do that. I dont have much sympathy for that. I do have sympathy for an actual whistleblower. Were are instances where h have seen for the right reason they have gone to the press and laid out what a disagree with. Adont know that we can have system that allows every person asideide, but if you put that systemic issue, i understand where whistleblowers are coming from, and its incumbent on the government to have a process that allows whistleblowers to raise his or her concerns, get them heard, protect them from retaliation, and be confident if there is a need for change there will be congressional a committees. You say its broken now. I dont know if it ever becam
It has been a blow to them. These elections should also restore a sense of optimism among americans, and it should remind us why the u. S. Went to war in afghanistan in the first place, and whats at stake for u. S. National security interests, and what could happen if we withdraw troops to quickly. Unfortunately, american Popular Support for the war has dipped considerably. Some of the latest polling shows it is below 20 . I think this is because of the western media bias for reporting on violence and bad news coming out of the country, but i think its also the result of president karzai and his continuous criticism of american policies there despite the massive amount of assistance in blood and treasure the u. S. Has spent there, but the white house has been reluctant to talk about the war and really spell out for the American People what is at stake, so i think all of these combined have led to the dismal view about afghanistan. The point is with these elections we have an opportunit
In the bill that says that cannot be used to demonstrate harm to National Security. That, to me, is an indication weve got a pretty good shot and if we can get applied to jims case, it would be efficient in keeping him out of jail. In terms of the National Security piece, another thing to remember is, every confidential security case. There are at least as many and perhaps more journalist who have been put in jail in civil litigation for money damages arriving out of claims against the u. S. Government. In the win ho lee case several years ago, there were six journalist held in contempt, including journalist from cbs, New York Times, washington post, and ap. One was held in contempt and subject to 5,000 a day penalties that she was not allowed to ask usa today to pay for her. She had an offer from her students to hold a bake sale so she could help pay her contempt fines, which i thought was charming but ineffective. She almost certainly would have been held in contempt and gone to pris
Korea and hello to those of you were watching from around the world its monday marks thirty first year in seoul on abt them from limping so much for joining us. We begin this evening with the latest skirmish between the two koreas soul in kunming Exchange Fire across the western maritime border on monday after the norse artillery shells fell into waters in this town for more under the new tensions on the korean peninsula. We go live to a correspondent on funky at the hideout new center as honey what can you tell us. Data exchange of fire between fifty three s came to an end at about three thirty pm korean time. It all began and itll pass me in on this monday after north korea began like fire drills in seven left the Border Regions north of the northern limit line. South Koreas Defense Ministry said north korea fired around five hundred artillery shells in waters north of the nl now and then some one hundred of those shells fell foul of the maritime border in south korean waters near ca
For her coverage of the National Security agency and in 2000 received a citation from the education writers association. She will moderate our panel. Thank you so much, and thanks for joining us for our, i guess, officially unsexy panel. [laughter] but congressional reform is probably the most high profile reform that has never fully or really at all been embraced. And in their tenyear report looking at the current state of play for National Security, the commission cites theres actually been a proliferation of committees that are now responsible for counterterrorism and Homeland Security types of issues. Were now up from 88 to 92, so i guess thats some kind of accomplishment that well discuss here. The report also highlights another congressional oversight problem in another realm which is actually too little congressional oversight when it comes to certain types of programs like sensitive intelligence programs, particularly as weve seen recently those that were highlighted in the sno