Led to the deaths of Christopher Steven and shaun smith and the remaining personnel escaped a ietzsche facility known as the annex. The it culminated in an attack that killed tyrone davis and glenn dougherty. What i read is the now official position of the u. S. Government filed in u. S. District court by the department of justice and a motion to detain the one defendant who has been captured and will stand trial. 20 or more men, the weapons of war arsons and sustained attacks, precision mortars terrorist groups. It is interesting note the word terrorist so rarely used after benghazi by people in position of powers used in the very word charging the very defendant accused of killing our four fellow americans. Conspiracy to provide material to terrorist resulting in death. Thats the charge. Thats the official charge, the official position of the United States government. But in the days after the attack in benghazi, the word terrorist was edited out and changed. Now the administration u
Four. I am neither the first or the last. The point that i wanted to reflect was that this is a tradition in the history of. Ociety people have to put themselves on the line. People have to take risks. Citizens have not just an , notest but nomination just believing in idea but standing for it in challenging the government when it goes to backfire. If we see our constitution being a violated on a massive scale by we have been demanded our officials to smirnov that they will protect becomes diffusion against all enemies not just foreign but domestic as well, we have a duty to stand up and do something about it. I tried my best to do that. I will hope that others will do the same in the future. I hope that will have no need for something as dramatic as we have seen in the last year. The last one, i have lost track of. Sorry. Are you working on a tool to protect journalists . That is still an area of active focus. I am doing a lot with the freedom of press foundation and doing other thing
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
Other ways includes markets. Other ways includes everything we do in society. There are ways to pursue what were after. Obviously our political system well, maybe not its not obvious but our political system would work better if more people participated. I think they want fewer people to vote, which is nuts. And shouldnt be what they want. Thats not to say that if everybody wotevothed we would know what if everybody voted we would know what everybody wants. It is a way of answering some very important questions about what our government should look like. I think more people should be involved in offering those answers. People in public life should want that, should want more people to be involved and more people to be voting and that should be everybodys goal this democracy. I would just add so that. Its partly why its critical why some of the market based ideas are critical for people being able to express their differences. If you have no voter turnout in one party wins and they want
On the ground and rescue these girls, and so without that waiver to come down to the bottom line, without that waiver to allow them to do that and direction from the administration to have, you know, our navy seals with this special capability that they have and the ability to download information from Satellite Technology m field and from drones and the ability to track in the jungle, the ability to sort of stand up that nigerian unit and plan that operation right up to the point where boko haram is engaged and then allow the nigerians to carry it out. If we do that, then our likelihood of success is many multiples in the viewpoint of everyone who has looked at this. Many multiples of what it would be, and since weve had the offer from the british and from the french to engage and assist, it would be very wise simply to go back, get us that waiver because this is an extraordinary circumstance. I made the point before. I just want to reiterate it because i dont want us to get off the s