Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 33rd anal chur hill conference. My name is david freeman. I am here this weekend acting in as Program Chair for the conference. We want to make a special welcome to the cspan audience which will be watching us live for all the Panel Sessions today and tomorrow. So were sticking to a rigid. Timetable. Were going to get right into it by introducing our first speaker of the morning, the executive director of the International Churchill society, mr. Lee pollock. Thank you, david. And i join you in welcoming everyone who is your duty to will be a wonderful conference. Or as one of our president ial candidates might say, this crowd is huge. Its been a year since our last and very memorable conference in my case six years since i became your executive director. During the past year with your support we have continued to build on the work that has gone before. Just consider a couple of things are do a Google Search for Winston Churchill, youll
Wonderful long trip around the country staying with the incredible place now at state park in california in 1942, jumping ahead and ill come back, he took that round trip on the boeing 3 14. Only in 1943 did he come twice in the same year. I am convinced that this had to do with me. I was hatched in this town as jim said, in april of 43, sir winston came to check me in may and came back in august to make sure i was still here and all is well. Sadly, i dont remember these, i wish i did. I was living up in Cleveland Park just a few miles from the white house. I want to talk next about some of the reviews about visits to congress and visits to parliament, specifically. On three of his trips he addressed a joint session, when addressing one is unusual. Weve already heard about that first one where he made the very may fous statement if his father had been american and his mother, british, as he said. I feel i might have got here on my own, and the congressman enjoyed that and remembered hi
Tv, the 33rd International Churchill conference, david lowe talks about his book no more mr. Lowe argues the former Prime Minister bar would heavily from his friends and family to maintain his lifestyle and was often living on the edge of financial ruin. This is about an hour. Thank you very much and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the last session of today. One that i know will and the first day on a high. I am sure you as i marvel at the continuing volume of books about Winston Churchill that emerge what more could there be to say . Now even about Winston Churchill, we might ask. David locke has managed not only to say new things but to add great detail and provide a fascinating expedition of churchills finances, a topic that you know and as david demonstrates that it had its peaks and indeed its troughs, much like his own political career. Is thorough and engaging and offers new churchillian epithets. He was seeking new funds for yet another expenditure and lamenting
Has acknowledged they do not perform oversight of these programs. Remarkably, a similar argument for collection under these programs is marked by the arguments under the section 215 program. This is the promise of big data. This is the Technology Age in which we live. What it means is that massive amounts of information can now be collected in order to anticipate threats and to anticipate individuals who might engage in wrongdoing. That approach is what the founders rejected. While information is being collected under foreign intelligence authorities, in certain circumstances, it may be used and is being used for criminal prosecution. The problem is, our communications are now global. We have historically depended on the borders of the United States to protect us. We are no longer bound by geography in how we communicate. Our conversations go internationally routinely. When they do, they can be monitored under a mere yut of programs currently in place. Similarly, our private papers and
At the same time, networks have converged. It is no longer just military dispatches that the nsa needs to focus on. These threats cant be separated from ordinary communication networks. To intercept important information, they have to intercept information from the same networks that ordinary citizens use to communicate their thoughts, ideas, and believes. Means that all of this information can now be analyzed. More is available than ever before and it can be subjected to sophisticated algorithms generating new knowledge in the process. This large mass collection at the same time looks a lot like what the founders were trying to avoid by preventing the government from using promiscuous search authority. What gave birth to the fourth amendment. , in 1946, churchill warned us from this very place about the dangers attached to tyranny. That great power will erode the ancient rites by which englishspeaking people rely. Concernt without great that i returned to his words. Face new enemies,