We begin with a major set back for the National Securitys bulk phones collection today. Ed program goes beyond what congress envisioned under the patriot act. And lisa stark join us and what did they say about it, and how is the Obama Administration reacting . Well, tony, the court soundly rejected the rationale used by first the Bush Administration and now the Obama Administration to justify this massive collection of phone records. They were collecting the length of time and the date though not the contact. The government argued that this data could be relevant to future terrorism investigations, but the court found such an expansive concept of relevance is unprecedented and unwarranted. This is pretty enormous ruling today for the court to hold that a program that the u. S. Government was implementing for over a decade was unlikely under what congress passed. Now, it was nsa documents leaked by Edward Snowden, back in 2013, that revealed the extent of this phone surveillance program
[inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and once again we are live at the Atlantic Council here in washington d. C. Moroccos Foreign Affairs or is the guest speaker this morning talking about strategies to combat violent extremism. There will also be a Panel Discussion all in his remarks. While we have a moment quickly some of our programming coming up later on the cspan network. He says social networking creates false communities. You can see his comments at 7 00. My name is peter pham director here at the Atlantic Council. On behalf of the Atlantic Council chairman aeschylus mcauley, ambassador frank richer donate, director of the Atlantic Council Rafik Hariri Center for middle east, it is my honor to invite you. I essentially want to acknowledge the presence of the ambassador his majesty, king of morocco to the United States, a good friend and like its predecessor member of the Atlantic Council. I also want to welcome all of the distinguished g
Who knows your local representative or if the state nacdl affiliate has a relationship with a member of the state legislature that is another opportunity where there is a lot of room to work. And i mentioned utah, but it is the same experience right now in oregon, for example. Oregon association of criminal defense lawyers is working with the aclu of oregon and legislator to get a great piece of comprehensive electronic privacy legislation that has suppression remedyies, a warrant requirement for location, for cell phones it has great restrictions on license plate reader data. That is also another kind of middle ground approach. I hate to wrap this discussion up, it has been so great. I want to thank our discussants for great commentary and you and the audience and online for the great questions. And, again thank you very much. Our next phase of this is i believe, jumana will tell you about it. [ applause ] tonight a discussion on the legacy of former First Lady Laura Bush. The Panel I
We are safer today than when barack Obama Took Office . No. Unfortunately, i dont either. Sadly, the obvious answer is no. In fact, the lack of American Leadership under this president has made the world more dangerous. And you just have to take look around the world. In the middle east, isis has seized territory in iraq and syria. To establish an islamic cal fate. Nothing is too brutal or barbaric for this terrorist group. Weve seen how they have tormented, tortured, raped, killed, christians for what they believe in. Were also seeing the resurgence offal quooid and affiliated groups in yemen libya and other areas around the world. You might recall that last fall, just this past fall, the president cited yemen as an example of success in terms of the administrations counterterrorism strategy. Can you imagine . Yemen a success model. Id hate to see what failure looks like. I introduced an amendment in the Defense Authorization to make sure we would not transfer any of the dangerous ter
Introducing you. Of course, greg, the Senior Council director of the project at the center for democracy and technology. Thats enough of an introduction. You left out the website. Its www. Cdt. Org. Dont forget the plug. Listen, i its easy to come here and be pessimistic about the future of the Fourth Amendment in the technology and digital age. Its kind of easy because you look at what courts decided in the past. When i was at the aclu about 20 years ago, used to call the Fourth Amendment the incredible shrinking Fourth Amendment. Well, im not so sure that the Fourth Amendment is going to continue to shrink. And i think theres reasons to be optimistic. I want to talk about the reasons to be not so optimistic. Some of the doctrines that do shrink the Fourth Amendment are themselves growing. The administrative search you have to endure in the airport before you get on an airplane. It used to be a quick, less intrusive magnetometer. Now you go through an electronic strip search machine t