Congress. Top of the charts the year they were elected was a song coming up Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance at a Cato Institute conference. Then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. In the senate tonight members are debating a 1. 1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. A live look here on the senate floor. Today House Republicans earlier passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. Senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the Appropriations Committee speaking now about the spending bill, the 1. 1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. Watch the senate live on our companion network cspan 2. This afternoon former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden spoke Via Video Conference at a Cato Institute conference on govern
Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat government. The early progressives there were many more mechanisms for direct democracy. People should be able to make their views known through referenda, they should be arresting jesses justices, the constitutional system, i think it is fair to say, is opposed to both of these. It does not trust the people. The constitution does not trust anybody. Lets assume everybody is wrong. What does a legitimate government look like then . I think that is one of the best things about the constitution. I
Revelations of last year. Of those 60 , 39 of those had taken active steps to improve the security of their privacy of communications online. And it was interesting how the media interpreted this. Because they said, well, this is a minority. People must not care that much. Nobody is really making changes. But when youre actually doing of ath on what 39 of 60 the worlds Global Internet users is, thats 702 Million People around the world who are now safer today than they were just a year and a half ago. And this is i think really where we begin to see the framework of how we can move forward in the absence of political reform, in the absence of legal reform, and this is good. Because what weve seen politically around the world hroughout the development in history is that politics is about power. When you have people in great power positions, when you have super states, they will not cede any sort of authority that theyve claimed back to the public, back to Civil Society, unless they are
Militants killed 135 people, 132 of them children at a school in , the city of peshawar. We will go to pakistan for the latest and speak to tariq ali. Then as protests continue over the killing of Michael Brown, we look at the strange case of witness 40. The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction. After a full, impartial examination of all of the evidence in the law, and deciding the smoking gun website has revealed the witness who claimed Michael Brown charged at Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson like a Football Player suffers from Mental Illness and has a history of posting racist messages online. Did she lie to the grand jury about seeing the shooting . About even being in the neighborhood . We will get an update on one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. On tuesday New York Times reporter james risen learned he will be subpoenaed to answer questions ahead of the trial of a former c. I. A. Officer accused of leaking classified information. Al
Yes, pakistan is in mourning a day after after taliban militants killed 135 people, 132 of them children at a school in , the city of peshawar. We will go to pakistan for the latest and speak to tariq ali. Then as protests continue over the killing of Michael Brown, we look at the strange case of witness 40. The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction. After a full, impartial examination of all of the evidence in the law, and deciding the smoking gun website has revealed the witness who claimed Michael Brown charged at Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson like a Football Player suffers from Mental Illness and has a history of posting racist messages online. Did she lie to the grand jury about seeing the shooting . About even being in the neighborhood . We will get an update on one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. On tuesday New York Times reporter james risen learned he will be subpoenaed to answer questions ahead of the trial of a former c. I. A