Special Operations Commander William Mcraven discusses the importance of good military intelligence and its role in strategic decisionmaking. Admiral mcraven played a leadership role in osama bin ladens capture and advised president s george w. Bush and barack obama, as well as secretaries of defense, state, and homeland security. The cia, lyndon b. Johnson president ial library, and the university of texas at austin cohosted this event as part of a symposium titled the president s daily brief. It is just under one hour. Our next speaker is a umnist of the Al University of texas. Hook em horns. Graduate withn a degree in journalism. He went on to serve 37 years in the u. S. Navy, where he became a navy seal and ultimately advanced to the rank of four srta four star admiral. Admiral mcraven led a force of 69,000 men and women. He advised president s, secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, and other top u. S. Officials in the areas of u. S. Foreignpolicy and defense. In addition t
Passage in the senate and the president is expected to veto this bill. For our first hour this morning, your thoughts on the events that took place in the house yesterday when it came to Syrian Refugees. You can give us a call at these numbers you can post in our twitter page or on our Facebook Page and you can also send us an email. Usa today breaks down the action that took place in the house of representatives yesterday. The bill is being decried incribed as a pause admitting Syrian Refugees. Give us a call with your thoughts on this matter. If refugees want to give us a call on the actions, the number you can call is 2027 the Washington Post488003. Has more on the events in mali. The numbers will stay on your screen if you want to give your thoughts particularly if it applies to iraq a refugees to come to the United States. We will start off this morning with kathy in silver spring, maryland, honor democratic line. What do you think about the events in the house yesterday . Caller
Translating the values of the fifth amendment to the modern age. The fifth amendment, concerned about thought crimes, not exerting psychological pressure. He ended by quoting my hero about how government is the omnipotent teacher and you can see that in his letter he thought the court has to be a shining emblem for what Human Dignity needs. We heard the chief justice you can do the best job you could in the context of the law. Time will affect decisions. Youre suggesting its time for us to rethink the technology i think it is. I think miranda could be updated and could be more effective. There were at the love people thinking about this and hopefully, we can all come together and try to think about things like body cameras, video taping and interrogations. Other things that would update miranda. Thanks to both of you for being here tonight on our 11 of 12 cases in the landmark cases series. We appreciate your insight from the miranda case. Thank you so much for being in our audience to
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, saying, here are key areas to improve. And making sure the ad
Of staff to mike rogers on the House Intelligence Committee and also spent seven years in various senior positions with the National Security council under the george w. Bush administration. He managed to write a book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business all in the space, and continue work on the hill at the same time so very impressive. Mike has agreed to speak about the big themes and stories in this book for a half an hour and engaging q a and throw it out to you in for questions. Mike. Thank you. I will go over to the podium if thats okay. I think you can do without that. I want to thank the new America Foundation for having me today especially peter for the invitation and thank you all for coming out in the rain to hear a little thats about my book blinking red and i look forward to q a about other pressing Intelligence Community topics. Blinking red is an attempt to write the authoritative object if history of the most substantial restructuring of the