I think both broad and domestically they are not going to forecast what we are going to be going through as we are traveling home to see loved ones but we are on high alert. Mostly abroad. I think there was significant concerns in thailand, pakistan but, thats the world were living in. Wonder, but at some point that is part of it but when will the enhanced threat end. This is something for the long term. Well, thank you both for being. Tomorrow, a federal budget analysis. That will be part of the discussion hosted by the brookings institution. That is live at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. 3. We were also have live coverage it later in the day from the Economic Club of washington dc. That is live at 7 00 here on. Span next, Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance. He also discusses the recent Senate Report. This is from a conference on privacy and Civil Liberties posted by the Cato Institute. This is one hour. While we arrange for him to be able to be heard and to hear u
Congress. Top of the charts the year they were elected was a song coming up Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance at a Cato Institute conference. Then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. In the senate tonight members are debating a 1. 1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. A live look here on the senate floor. Today House Republicans earlier passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. Senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the Appropriations Committee speaking now about the spending bill, the 1. 1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. Watch the senate live on our companion network cspan 2. This afternoon former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden spoke Via Video Conference at a Cato Institute conference on govern
Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat government. The early progressives there were many more mechanisms for direct democracy. People should be able to make their views known through referenda, they should be arresting jesses justices, the constitutional system, i think it is fair to say, is opposed to both of these. It does not trust the people. The constitution does not trust anybody. Lets assume everybody is wrong. What does a legitimate government look like then . I think that is one of the best things about the constitution. I
Revelations of last year. Of those 60 , 39 of those had taken active steps to improve the security of their privacy of communications online. And it was interesting how the media interpreted this. Because they said, well, this is a minority. People must not care that much. Nobody is really making changes. But when youre actually doing of ath on what 39 of 60 the worlds Global Internet users is, thats 702 Million People around the world who are now safer today than they were just a year and a half ago. And this is i think really where we begin to see the framework of how we can move forward in the absence of political reform, in the absence of legal reform, and this is good. Because what weve seen politically around the world hroughout the development in history is that politics is about power. When you have people in great power positions, when you have super states, they will not cede any sort of authority that theyve claimed back to the public, back to Civil Society, unless they are
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