Dangers of releasing detainees or transferring them to federal supermax prisons in the u. S. This is 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation at our Louis Lehrman auditorium and of course welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org site on oliver occasions and would ask her wonderful friends in house to make that last courtesy check that your cell phones have been muted. Its always appreciated by those recording the events let alone those who are giving their remarks. We will of course post the program on the heritage homepage for your future reference and internet viewers are welcome at any time to send questions or comments to our email speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our guest is Kelly Simpson who serves as legal fellow manager for National Security law program in the catherine and shelby column for foreign policy. Specializes in National Security legal issues, home of security, crime control and drug policy. Prior to joining heritag
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation at our Louis Lehrman auditorium and of course welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org site on oliver occasions and would ask her wonderful friends in house to make that last courtesy check that your cell phones have been muted. Its always appreciated by those recording the events let alone those who are giving their remarks. We will of course post the program on the heritage homepage for your future reference and internet viewers are welcome at any time to send questions or comments to our email speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our guest is Kelly Simpson who serves as legal fellow manager for National Security law program in the catherine and shelby column for foreign policy. Specializes in National Security legal issues, home of security, crime control and drug policy. Prior to joining heritage in 2007 mr. Stinson served as Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Detainee Affairs under secretaries rumsfeld and gates. He has ser
Transferring them to federal super max institutions in the United States. This is 40 minutes. Murmuring] good afternoon. Welcome to the heritage foundation. We welcome those who join us on our website on all of these occasions. Wonderful friends inhouse to make a courtesy check that your cell phones have been muted. Appreciated by those recording and to those giving remarks. We will post this on the heritage homepage for your future reference and you are welcome at any time to send questions and comments to our email. Speaker at heritage. Org. Is a senioray fellow of our National Security institutem and the for national and foreign policy. He specializes in National Security legal issues, homeland security, crime control, and drug policy. Prior to joining heritage, he served as Deputy Assistant for Detainee Affairs under both secretary rumsfeld and secretary gates. State,served as a local, federal, and military prosecutor. Recently, he served as the deputy chief trial judge for the mar
Program on the heritage homepage for your future reference and internet viewers are welcome at any time to send questions or comments to our email speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our guest is Kelly Simpson who serves as legal fellow manager for National Security law program in the catherine and shelby column for foreign policy. Specializes in National Security legal issues, home of security, crime control and drug policy. Prior to joining heritage in 2007 mr. Stinson served as Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Detainee Affairs under secretaries rumsfeld and gates. He has served as a local state, federal and military prosecutor, military defense counsel and recently as the deputy chief trial judge for the Navy Marine Corps trial judiciary. He is currently the Commanding Officer of the neighbor reserve Navy Marine Corps appellate review activity, Appellate Government division. Please join me in welcoming coli stenson. [applause] thank you very much john and welcome to the heritage
Of course, we are ready to provide information that Congress Needs to evaluate the feds Decision Making in Monetary Policy and elsewhere. With respect to Monetary Policy rules, they can be useful and i find them useful and long have as a kind of benchmark for thinking about what might be the appropriate stance of policy. But to chain a central bank to follow a simple mathematical rule that fails to take account of many things that are very important in making Monetary Policy, for example i was earlier asked about being against the euro lower bound which is an important special consideration, that would be a very foolish thing to do, and i oppose it. With respect to proposals having to do with voting and the structure of the fed that you mentioned, a lot of ideas have been mentioned. I would say for my part i think the Federal Reserve works well. The system we have was put into place by congress decades ago. I dont think its a system thats broken. Of course, congress can revisit decisio