Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the
Declared the winner of the primary Runoff Election by 6700 votes after finishing second in the first primary driven to his victory by courting support from africanamerican democratic voters. The House Veterans Affairs committee is holding a series of hearings looking at medical care problems at the va and tomorrow the committee will look at how they handled whistle blower complaints. That is like at 7 30 eastern. We invite you to join the converation about the va on facebook and twitter. From roll call, john boehner is moving to a late july vote to authorize the lawsuit against president obama as he tries to check executive power and stoke the republican base. Committee staffers are discussing several executive actions boehner could target and widdle the list down to the fewest number of actions that will give the suit the best chance of being heard. Again that news item from roll call today. Now you can keep in touch with Current Events from the Nations Capital with cspan radio. 20226
President s own review group in december. This discussion focusing on the costs of the nsa programs to our overall Internet Security is a followup to our internet discussion earlier in the spring about the economic Foreign Policy costs overall and previews the release of our paper later in the month, surveillance costs, the nsas impact on the economy, information security, and freedom. Freedom. With that, cue the representatives, please. I am congresswoman zoe a lot of and thank you for inviting me today. I regret i cannot be there with you. But on june 19th the house took a big step on shutting the backdoor on unwarranted government surveillance. 293123 the house agreeed to an amendment that prohibited the government from serving communication and data without a warrant and requiring device manufactures create backdoors for surveillance purposes. As many of you know and are discussing today when an individual or organization builds a backdoor toassist with security they place the data