Within their prerogative to do this. I spoke to the editor of the guardian talking about how she does not communicate using e mail with reporters. Does not feel secure doing that. And in a lots of journalists i talk to outside the United States are taking extraordinary measures to ensure they can communicate securely. One of the most essential things, elements of public accountability in journalism depends on the ability of the journalist to protect their confidential sources. A lot of journalists feel they anda lot of journalists feel they cannot make that promise in this environment. And journalists care about that. People do not often realize how much journalists care about the welfare of their sources. There also from the international perspective, it has been interesting to learn that many other countries have stronger protections for journalists, in terms of not requiring them to testify in court cases, for example, than even we have in the states. Obviously, we have the First Am
Let me ask about an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of the leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It cataloged about how the United States government against one person can destroy life even for those whom the prosecution fell apart and theyve been fined. The Intelligence Committee was looking at that. The intelligence at the beginning of the administration told the New York Times on the record this was his intention, to get the Justice Department to prosecute some people so it wouldnt have a Chilling Effect on the others. Could you talk a little bit about the Insider Threat program. I thought your discussion was exceptional. And you can imagine how the government would have some sort of a program after the disclosure that Chelsea Manning had taken the scope of the documents that she had. Just to get your arms around how it was being handled. It seems to have become something quite different. Yeah. Its the original president ial directive that set up the study th
Your discussion on that was exceptional. You can imagine how the government would have a program after the disclosure and the scope of documents. Get your arms around. It seems to become something quite different. Yes, the original president ial which they started rolling out late last year. Not emphasize the aspects. It was left up to each individual agency to decide how to carry it out. One of the new bureaus in washington did a very good job to see how they were carrying get out. Thatber of them made clear any kind of leaking to the press was the same as giving something to china. And also usable to monitoring your fellow employees. Monitoring your fellow employees and if you see any signs of leaking documents are being unstable or anything like that, you are required to report to that. You get in trouble for not reporting it. That is unprecedented. It is now being rolled out. It has to be further chilling. It seems have a Chilling Effect already on daytoday, routine business. The w
Opportunity to grill the administrations technology officers. Chairman darryl issa wasted no time taking the president to task. President obama said, using it would be as easy as buying an Airline Ticket on kayak. Com or buying a television on amazon. This is an insult to amazon and kayak. This wasnt a scaling mistake. This was a monumental mistake to go live and effectively explode on the launch pad. But underscoring the deeply political nature of the health care proceedings, the testier exchanges took place not between republicans an white house officials but between republicans and democrats. After delivering a typically selfserving and longwibded hoping statement, chair darrell issa was determined to keep democratic questions to a minimum. Although i understand the gentlemans time has expi expired. I just asked for the same amount of time you had. Im asking gentlemans recognized. Youre not going to run a fair hearing. Youre going to do this all the way. The gentleman from florida i
This is not a virus disappearing, this is a virus headed back up. More than 50,000 cases on average in the United States, a dip on sunday but the data on sunday drops down a bit. You see we did get down here the end of august but trending back up. This was 20,000 cases a day up to the summer surge down some now back to 50,000 infections a day in the United States of america. Thats not rounding the corner thats the beginning of a possible fall surge. 50 states in the United States of america, 31 of them, 31 of them on this monday trending in the wrong direction. That means more new Coronavirus Infections now compared to a week ago. You see it the entire northern half of the country as it gets colder, the case count going back up. 16 States Holding steady, thats the beige. Only three states reporting fewer new infections right now compared to a week ago. 31 states trending in the wrong direction. The president is back on the road this week, cleared from his own coronavirus case to travel