The army and we are at the womens memorial in arlington cemetery. Its the only major memorial thats dedicated to women who served their country. We have over 3 million women who have worn the uniform of the United States. This memorial was dedicated in 1997. Over 40,000 people lined memorial avenue from the bridge to the memorial. Women from world war i through the current times in 1997. The memorial is on 4. 2 acres of park service land. Behind me, though, you can see the head stones of Arlington National cemetery and that surrounds the park service land. The memorial is composed of the Education Center, a court of valor, terrorists that has glass tablets with quotations about women and by women. Theres a pool where we have ceremonies on especially memorial day for women who have fallen. There is a line going from the Lincoln Memorial. You can see it as it comes up Memorial Drive with stones. As it goes through our memorial up to our fountain and through the memorial, there are black
Former Obama Administration National Security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. Shes interviewed by the new yorker columnist robin wright. After words is a Weekly Program with guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. Welcome, susan rice to after words. After thank you. Its great to be with you. It is a fascinating book. So it is a personal tale and a chronicle of your professional life and threw a wide array of crises and challenges, but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a phone call with the president of ukraine in july, a whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did i tell you, what struck you . What is so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes cond
Welcome susan rice to afterwards. It is a fascinating book with a personal tale and chronicle of your professional life but lets begin with the Current Crisis with the president of ukraine in july a whistleblower reported in august and it was released in the last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What is so extraordinary is that now we have in blackandwhite the president s own words the fact that when hes conducting business on behalf of the United States with foreign leaders hes conducting his own personal business is personal political business but if you read the transcript not once did the president of the United States raise anything that is National Significance to the United States of the sovereignty of ukraine has been violated by russias invasion or holding russias feet to the fire or providing Economic Security support to ukraine as a matter of us policy. All the president asked for is that the president of ukraine do trump a personal political favor by
Department of Homeland Security is use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the canadian recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting with the use of peaceful recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The governments use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics include dna, patterns and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology as basil brush facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government and private sector also increased. Currently the dhs is collecting and storing several different kinds of biometric information and is using this information for multiple purposes. Cbp and the tsa are using biometrics to conform the identities of travelers, for ex
Congressman Betty Thompson chairs the Homeland Security committee. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security is use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the canadian recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting with the use of peaceful recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The governments use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics include dna, patterns and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology as basil brush facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government and private sector also increased. Currently the dhs is col