Of the liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for justice. Prior to that she served with u. S. Senator to feingold. Focus was on government secrecy and privacy rights hence joy of getting liza here today. Her area of expertise, of course, is what shes about to speak on, Liberty National security, the tension between privacy and National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances an detainee policy. One quick note, when liza finishes the session, we are going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop, nice day and we have a reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So please join me in welcoming liza to the podium. [applause] thank you, mike, for this kind of introduction and thank you hoover, it can be very dry and technical subject and i salute you all for recognizing its importance and taking the time to understand the core issues that lie beneath the complexities and jargon. I want to tell you a story. To tell yo
Liza goitein. She isco director of the liberty. And National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances and detainee policy. One quick note. When liza finishes this session were going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop. Its a nice day and we have a little reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So, please join me in welcoming liza to the podium. [ applause ] thank you, mike, for that kind introduction and thanks to the Hoover Institution for inviting me and thanks for coming and staying. I mean, this section 702, im well aware, can be a very dry, very technical subject, and i salute you all for recognizing its important and for taking the time to understand the core issues that lie beneath the complexities and the jargon. I want to start by telling you a story. And to tell the story from the beginning i have to go back to the 1940s to the end of world war ii. The National Security state was in the infancy and very few laws or r
Service. He will not give an opening statement, but is available as a resource to answer any members questions that may arise. Begin somewe want to brief questioning by the members of the panel. It is my pleasure to recognize first representative bobby scott of virginia. As a cinematic opening comments, most of the comments are based on the mathematical curiosity that in a close election, the Electoral College and the popular vote may not agree. If youre counting electoral votes and that is what you count just like in the world series you can get outscored but still win. We heard a lot about swing states. One thing about a swing state is it assumes you have in the bag enough to get close to 270. You will spend your time on the last couple of states, just like is a president is trying to get a bill passed. When you get close to 218 in the house, a handful of members get all the attention. Those last few senators will get all the attention. That assumes that you have in the bag and off t
Service. He will not give an opening statement, but is available as a resource to answer any members questions that may arise. Begin somewe want to brief questioning by the members of the panel. It is my pleasure to recognize first representative bobby scott of virginia. As a cinematic opening comments, most of the comments are based on the mathematical curiosity that in a close election, the Electoral College and the popular vote may not agree. If youre counting electoral votes and that is what you count just like in the world series you can get outscored but still win. We heard a lot about swing states. One thing about a swing state is it assumes you have in the bag enough to get close to 270. You will spend your time on the last couple of states, just like is a president is trying to get a bill passed. When you get close to 218 in the house, a handful of members get all the attention. Those last few senators will get all the attention. That assumes that you have in the bag and off t
In this material and other types of material. And create a blind spot and intelligence collection. You have to think about the technical complexity you are suggesting so this is segregated in some way, treat it in some way. That could lead to a training issues. We actually do it in a way that would be different from other types the we handled. One brief point to this, the last decade and at half, they were set up to investigate after a variety of terrorism events 9 11, fort hood, the underwear bomber and so on, consistently everyone of those commissions has found that we need to eliminate barriers to making use of information that is lawfully in our possession to better protect the nation and requiring some kind of additional process before we can query this information directly contrary to the recommendations of all those. I see my time is up. I never had a chance to introduce the panel to the benefits that they are familiar to us and benefit the audience. We have jim baker who is gen