Well. Select committee on intelligence and House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. He was with us just 10 days shy of the year. He would have liked to stay on. He established a practice which we still use today, which is teamd ateam, b competitive analysis, or red cell analysis of stop and agency would generate analysis on a given subject and set up another team to attack that theory. So we think Osama Bin Laden is in that compound at abbottabad. If not, what explains it . He started it. Still exists today. Urgencything that took was cia briefings to the president ial candidates. Truman started it. He did not want his successor, resident eisenhower, to be as uninformed as he felt he was. Remember, truman did not even know about the manhattan project. But under his watch it takes a new urgency. We renamed the compound the George Bush Center for intelligence and have sent an artifact out to the library at College Station in texas. It is the original legislation signed by presid
Comments on washington journal. Today the discussion of European Security and the challenges facing the transatlantic relationship after the crisis in ukraine. Well have that live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. On wednesday, f. B. I. Director told the house judiciary retire committee that the f. B. I. Returned a database of taxpayer information mistakenly received from the i. R. S. He acknowledged that the f. B. I. Had the database for four years but said investigators did not exam it. The f. B. I. Would need a court order to legally look at the information. It is two hour and 40 minutes. Good morning the Judiciary Committee will come to order without we welcome everyone to the oversight hearing. I will begin by recognize ice to our nation and a confident you will serve honorably at the helm of the fbi. Last week marked the oneyear anniversary of the first leak of classified material by Edward Snowden a criminal betrayal of his country in arguably the most of it can the kid u. S. H
Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. Well, thank you, director. The national museum, Library Services for holding this hearing. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the experience that the bill and ellen Gates Foundation has had with in china access to technology through Public Libraries and our vision of our libraries can drive personal and Community Development. Today the foundation is composed of many programs and initiatives. Helping farmers in africa strengthen their crops, improving the educational system in the United
Its not readily available. Finally, does the hesitancy on the part of the dod stand anyway from, is there concern about, about what we see Going Forward . Since 60 of the 103 billion of dod funding, and we are not in a position to identify the total amount of waste, is there concern Going Forward theres going to be some of which are described, mr. Johnson, i would suspect that our friends at dod would do differently than the way you described it in terms of changing standards and why the standards were changed. What do we do to help convince them that this is ultimately necessary . And again i would go back to where i started. I would really urge you, for all of the analysis thats been done, it would be immensely helpful for us to the conversation not just about Going Forward, but if we cant acknowledge that we spent 100 billion we know billions have been wasted, but we cant really even identified some ballpark range of what that is and whether it comes from, then it makes it even hard
I am proud to say theres no cable tv. That is a very difficult thing. Christie the first part of your question. How will that help the libraries that are the furthest behind . They are definitely focused on those libraries and there would be a way to determine. That way hasnt been figured out yet but there would be a way to determine which libraries desperately need to begin a Pilot Project to get that connectivity. Okay we want to keep our efforts here on time. We have a couple of other questions. There was one question are there any studies or experiencexperienc s of the low. Versus highspeed libraries in terms of Service Quality and for i. D. . I think one of the challenges you know as we as she said linda salbi said that none of not everyone has said it. We all know for the most part its really bad out there and we have to get connectivity better but i think the real challenge is do we really understand and can we imagine what it would be like with better connectivity and even if w