But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database
Does matter from a lot of perspectives and makes us more capable if we do it right which is the key. I think escaped one up there. A partnership and collaboration. We are not doing this without partnership. There is person back there that talks to me more about the publicprivate partnerships. That is a we are doing right now with some of the folks. I think that is the key to a lot of our future. Proactive versus reactive. I cannot even jump on that. Proactive has to occur on both sides versus reactive. There is a global context. I am not sure everyone understands. I would argue that some parts of industry and not fully understand the impacts of that particular piece. But i think it gives the market. That is an important part. Road map with midterm and far term. We made a conscious choice that dynamic sharing in this last spectrum change was not available to us from both a technological side as well as the regulatory side. In the next change i think that it will be which is a critical p
Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the United States he understood much better how to maneuver power overseas. He was less interested in what went on overseas and, unfortunately, his presidency was really defined by his adventure in vietnam which were almost less than in many respects. He inherited that. He did not making any better, no doubt about that but he did understand the use of power and especially within the United States. He was i think one of the last president s who did it truly understand
Partners. The irony is where brazil and india governments are, the bottom line is reforms need to happen internally that are about legal questions, but theres also a strategic level of interest that needs to go on here. [inaudible] do you think there is a possibility of a parallel within the United States . Great question. In the book, there is a chapter on the chinese approach. One of the key aspects besides the Massive Campaign of intellectual property theft, you have how this links into an assassins doctrine where youre looking at a potential enemy and saying, im going to turn their strengths into a weakness. The ability to mobilize massive Human Capital behind it. This is used to describe the internal selfcensoring model, the human flesh Search Engine is how it translates. When you talk about the number of folks involved, a mix of cyber militia and patriotic hacker communities, the scale is enormous. It is measuring and hundreds of thousands of folks. Most of those are people who a
He focus needs to be on the children. Another issue we are facing we are asking the parents to weigh in. We have educational reform that starts in january. We have asked the parents. The parents are getting together in writing what they want to see in legislation for their children. I think we represent a body of people. Form thatack to that government is for the people if we say we the people, let the people get involved and what we legislatively. They have hired us to do a job. We forget we are making decisions for them, but not including them in those decisions. We have parents groups providing information that they want to see in legislation. I think that will be the answer. I agree 100 . Schools,ree elementary high schools you look at all driving around. You say, look. You all are going to school at home, on that laptop. Does it work . I think that is what it boils down to. That is the last question we can say. I will leave you with this. When we talk about narrative and thetegy,