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Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
Norman withan ralph the latest on the House Democrats impeachment inquiry. At 8 30 am, more on the inquiry with Virgin Islands delegate stacy plaskett. Host good morning on this friday, october 18, the end of the legislative week in washington. We will begin with your top stories from the top five days. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, your line, 2027488002. Text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can also go to twitter at cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your thoughts in. Minute the newspapers dominated with headlines about the following fromes, u. S. Withdraw syria and we are learning from press reports in europe that sporadic clashes are ongoing in a battleground despite turkeys announcement. The Vice President in turkey yesterday announcing what they called a ceasefire. We are learning it sounds like possibly. As began, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in a briefing yesterday wasts ukraine aid mishandled withhel
Host yesterday it was gordon sondland, to to go to any of it . Washington journal continues. Host delicate Stacey Plaskett at our table this morning, we thank you for being here. On the your thoughts passing of congressman Elijah Cummings and what it was like to serve with him on the oversight committee. Thisr this guest would have been my third term with representative cummings on oversight and he really was a mentor to me in many ways. You have heard so many reflections from individuals in the past day and the thing that stands out so much about him is he was a man of god. People talk about the fact that both of his parents for sharecroppers and they came to baltimore, he was born and raised there, but what is more important to know about his parents as they were both preachers. He was raised in that and really demonstrated it. Many people talk about it but he walked about it. Across the aisle, everyone has to say Elijah Cummings was a fair person. Even if you did not agree with them