Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties oversight, which has produced a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. What im sure will be a fascinating discussion, i wi
Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
Of defense robert gates my staff and i learned that it was nearly impossible to get Accurate Information to questions such as much money did you spend and how many people do you have. Secretary robert gates in 2011. A cspan democrat on twitter asks, is there some a slide on which the dod can begin a comprehensive accounting . How would they audit this behemoth, 40 of the federal budget . Guest that is an enormous problem. When you have a baseline, you have to have a starting place. The records are so screwed up, they do not have that. Most of these systems have existed for years and years and had data put into them manually, people putting in long alphanumeric strings of code, and of course people made typos and that means the data disappears or is erroneous. There is no way of knowing where the Defense Department is today. One way they are trying to get around this, they were supposed to do a big audit after 2014, a big chunk of the pentagons accounts, and they are scaling it back to
Good morning. It is a sixmonth agreement designed to make it more difficult for iran to turn its Nuclear Stockpiles into weapons. In exchange for lifting economic sanctions meant to hurt that country. This deal is being called plus oneby the p5 nations. Others are calling this a bad agreement. Morning november 24. We will begin with your calls and comments in more details on the short term Nuclear Agreement with iran. The area code is 202 in washington dc. Benjamin netanyahu it says israel is not bound by the deal and reserves the right to defend itself. This is a headline this morning om the Los Angeles Times what is the p5 plus one nations from wall street journal this from senator marco rubio, saying this agreement makes a nuclear iran more likely. He went on to say theres now an even more urgent need for congress to increase sanctions until iran completely abandons its enrichment and reprocessing capabilities. Again, those details from wall street journal. A rare address from the w
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