Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last
7488001. Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Independent and all others, 202 7488002. You can also send us a tweet at cspan wj and post comments and thoughts on our Facebook Page as well. We will start with an opinion piece by fred hiatt in Washington Post. The headline on that piece is the u. S. Steps back from the world stage and the consensus for leadership dissolves. He writes that the dire results of president obamas experiment in downsizing u. S. Leadership are obvious overseas but there is a consequence at home that gets less attention. The mistake builds on itself. It is the opposition of selfcorrecting. The United States withdraws from the world, in other words of the world grows messier and uglier and that only confirms for Many Americans that any involvement is foolish. This feedback loop fuels the kind of isolationism weve seen this year from donald trump and Bernie Sanders. It helped explain why there was little talk about Foreign Policy beyond chest bumping about defeati
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the Miami Book Fair the 32nd annual celebration of books and happy sunday to everyone. Truly wonderful to have all of you here. Hopefully youve had an opportunity throughout the week and yesterday to enjoy some of the many sessions to perhaps purchase some books and some other of our highlights here at Miami Book Fair. I would like to give a special greeting to my friends at Miami Book Fair, lets give them a round of applause. [applause] we are truly grateful for your support and friendship over the years and as you may know, this could take place without the thousands of volunteers, faculty and staff of Miami Dade College and its eight campuses throughout Miamidade County so many thanks to Miamidade College. [applause] many thanks to Miamidade College and founder of this wonderful event. Its going to be another wonderful day that we close the book fare later on this evening. And so, please thank you to all th
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Leading in the same way the government has always had. Its the intelligence approach, but its finally getting here, he step in the right direction. John watters, do you use the public internet for your system . You are worldwide. Mr. Watters as little as possible. On the research front, yeah. Mr. Slen is it an overbuilt type of thing . Mr. Watters the mechanics of how you communicate anonymously and maintain some level of anonymity and operations from an overseas perspective, that is kind of the dark secret trade. And tries tos it anonymize who they are and what they do. Mr. Slen so if somebody is on their computer, chrome, safari, whatever, how secure are they . Mr. Watters i think Technology Companies do as good a job as they can with the ability they have to manage their own infrastructure. The weakest link is always people. If you have somebody in front of your house giving you the key to the house and telling you the combination to the save every day because you walk up as the saf