University who said that he believes trump has committed Impeachable Offenses and speaking now is a professor from stanford a new law pamela karlan things are witness was also called by the democrats now the president commenting before leaving london after the nato summit there said that the peace from an effort against him is a cold joke and a basically criticize the proceedings underway in washington d. C. Today lets go back to listening to whats happening there is no better forum to discuss the constitutional standard for impeachment and whether that standard has been met in the case of the current president of the United States as i explain in the remainder and balance of my Opening Statement the record compiled thus far shows the president has committed several Impeachable Offenses including bribery abuse of power and soliciting a personal favor reform leader to benefit himself personally obstructing justice and obstructing congress. Our hearing today should serve as a reminder on
Have with us a professor of Political Science and economics, and theres a whole list of other things that i could go into, very very talented writer, and she has a new book out called whistleblowers, honesty in america from washington to trump, which traces both the support of and the ambivalence towards whistleblowers. Please welcome in please join me in welcoming allison. [applause] thank you. Before we get started, i want you to be aware that there has been some controversy about this event. Some members of our community feel very strongly that it shouldnt go on. We are are an independent bookstore, and we believe very strongly that its our responsibility to make sure that both authors and books are represented, regarded of the ideas or the values that they have. And we hope that if there is disagreement, we can have those discussions in a respectful and civilized manner. Whats the argument against . Well, well get to that. [laughter] anyway, you are no stranger to protests. You got
Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our government to keep us safe are consistent are our values and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework unto which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we do not conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, it falls to us in hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that conduct accords with our values as americans. The outset, i want to acknowledge two things. First, the men and women in
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that