Will be a good fit for the director of National Intelligence community. Now as we consider senator coates as a nomination and recognize that his top priority by admission would be the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act section 702, i want to begin that discussion today because it is because Intelligence Community has stonewalled democrats and republicans in both this body and the other body for six years. On the information that we need to do good oversight that i have come to the floor to outline what i think this central issue is all about. I will begin my remarks mr. President by way of saying that at a time when americans are demanding policies that give them more security and more liberty, increasingly we are seeing policies, from both this body and the other body that provide less of both. A good example would be a beginning strong encryption. Weakening strong encryption is bad my security standpoint and from a liberty standpoint. When government creates
Former intelligence officials from the clinton, bush and obama demonstrations spoke monday about the Government Security clearance process and recommendations for moving the system. From the Wilson Center, this is an hour and a half. Good morning welcome bright and early on monday to the Wilson Center. I and jane harman, president ceo recovering politician for many many years, too many for some of my detractors. I spent time in the house of representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance knows what i mean. Parts of our system fit the 19th cen
Representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance knows what i mean. Parts of our system fit the 19th century like the paper timecards we are stuck with it. Not kidding. Bottom line if we want a workforce with secure and talented our approach to security clearances needs an overhaul asap. The way we do business right now and at least three serious problems. First, we are not getting the right people in the door. More than ever we need individuals with Language Skills and cultural staff working in National Security but its too hard for a native
Thanks for the question. I think that the appropriate way to do this is pretty much whats being done right now actually, and such using airstrikes to limit the freedom of movement and the ability to move oil and smuggle it as easily as isil was able to be for the airstrikes started. Meanwhile, buying time for an advice and assist effort and Capacity Building effort to try to stand up in some cases local Security Forces or the iraqi army to conduct effective operations is insulated to push isil back from the territory is controlling. I appreciate that, i dont mean to cut you off but from 20032011 we spent 24 billion, the United States taxpayer spent 24 billion training 938,000 iraqis how to fight. And to equip them, train them. And who we have 30,000 sunni that are over running the country. As isis gets stronger and stronger, we are back again with this training operation and i just have some misgivings about, you know, whats that saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same
Congress. For example, the usa freedom act and similar initiatives. You have as part of that also the proposal to create an advocate of some kind,e. Here again, an attempt to influence or affect what are the rules that the intelligence agencies are expected to follow. And then a different part of that question is, what oversight mechani mechanisms, what assurances do we have that the agencies are following the rules . And you are part of that. I mentioned the congressional committees, and then all the layers within the executive blanche itself. So i think i hope that the public discussion has been shifting a bit from whether or not were following the rules i think what i perceived in the public discussion is a greater acceptance that where he in fact trying our best to follow the rules. Were not perfect and we make mistakes. But were trying to follow the rules as best we can. And now that the discussion has been shifting to what should those rules be . What are the rules . And what sho