Philosophically, but i trend back toward the chairman here, there are a lot of practical issues that could turn this into a free fire zone which is not beneficial to anyone. When you are shooting, they may not shoot back to you. That is the problem. And i am not necessarily opposed to offense the government has a very good offensive capability. We have not decided as a country how to use it or has a government policy body, no one has decided to use it, so we do not. The problem you are asking a corporation where you will get these mixed capabilities, and i cannot tell you how many cios i have met who say this is not a problem. You are going to have somebody come in and say i can figure this out. I have never seen such confidence as i have people in cyberspace. Somebody is going to misfire and it will not be that particular company that pays the price. It will be a swath of people who pay the price. A foreign nation state like iran or russia or china or north korea will not say it is fr
Discuss proposals on combating terrorism. The deadline for the c span student cam competition is on tuesday. Produce the 3 to 5 minute documentary for the chance to win a grand prize of 5000. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c span networks. Let us know what you think about the programs youre watching, call us, email us, or send us a tweet. Join the c span conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. The former chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, and former nsa chief took part in the discussion yesterday on the strategic implications on the north korea cyberattack on sony pictures. This is 90 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for coming this afternoon to our event on the sony cyberattack and strategic implications. About four years ago, i had the pleasure to work with general hayden and some others to put on cyber shockwave the idea was to simulate a cyberattack as the National Security council and see how the
Korea, give attribution, say her career was behind it and we are going to take a proportional response. So, that is the scenario. I want to turn to you, chairman rogers the government has said this was a destructive and coercive attack made a more significant by the attack on freedom of speech. How do you assess the attack and do you think the president made the right call in naming north korea . You forgot to add that i decided to take four days off and i spent three of it on a beach dealing with this issue, so no one is angrier about it than me and my wife. This marks a significant change. We have seen Cyber Attacks before, clearly. We have seen denial of service attacks before. We have never seen a nationstate use its capability albeit somewhat limited in a way that actually destroy data. So, they went in to a company, and not only did they play the fun and games part, cause embarrassing pr problems, all of which was significant. It also destroyed data. They destroyed intellectual p
That he didnt have the authority to act. Notwithstanding that, he went forward. We intend to challenge that. The house has done that with an appropriations bill and the rider attached to it. The outlook in the senate is going to depend on what we can get 60 votes for. This is the start of a process and that discussion continues and well, as we have now until i think every seventh when that legislation or funding expires. February to when she seventh 27th when that legislation or funding expires. I dont want to say what leader mcconnell will ultimately decide to do, but that is a discussion were having as a congress. We want to give people a chance to vote to express their opposition to the president s action, but we understand that at the end of the day in the senate it is going to take 50 60 votes. A general man was arrested yesterday gentleman was arrested yesterday who had hoped to use a pipe bomb against members of congress. He expresses sympathy with isis. How and when did you lea
. We fall into the mess. Unelected bureaucrats shouldnt write laws. Who are they working for . All the bureaucracy of Government Works for the president. We have abdicated our role as congress. The regulations are 20,000 pages. So much of it is being done without our knowledge. There is a debate over defunding the immigration executive order. I am for that and about 1000 other things on every bill. People say you were trying to tie the hands of the president. Thats our job. I dont care if its a republican president. The power of the purse, that is instructions. As a consequence, they do many things that we didnt intend to. I think that regulations that are written and very expensive optic comeback. Jim was a lead sponsor of an act when he was in the senate. It says that any regulation written by a branch of government that is expensive have to come back and be voted on it to become law by the congress. That would reassert our authority and the balance of powers. Your father was one of