Guest thank you, peter, for having me. I help on cyber issues in the deferment of justice. It hosts at host of issues from Election Security issues to supply chain issues to crypto currencies to encryption and access to data. Host and what exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated law . Guest as you know, the garment of justice we are to enforce confederal, committal lot. An important part of what we do is bring terminal cases against individuals, organizations, foreign nation state actors who violate u. S. Federal law and there is a policy component to what i do which is to help the attorney general, Deputy Attorney general formulate policies working with the Congress Working with our interagency to advance rule of law. Is your position political or career . Guest i served in a political office. My role as a career, im a career employee. Its a little bit of both. Im a career person who serves in a political office. Host how long have you been at doj . Gue
Cspan. Your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979, brought to you today by your television divider. The communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials, and technology leaders. Now on the communicators, we want to introduce you to sujit raman, the associate Deputy Attorney general. Mr. Raman, what is in your portfolio in that position . Sujit i helped oversee the work we do on cyber issues at the department of justice, so it is a host of issues related to technology from Security Issues to supplychain issues to cryptocurrencies to encryption and access to data issues, crossborder data issues. What exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated u. S. Law . Sujit thats right. As you know, at the department of justice, our job is to enforce federal and criminal law. Police bring criminal cases against people, organizations,
Washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials, and technology leaders. On the communicators, we want to introduce you to sujit raman, the associate Deputy Attorney general. What is in your portfolio in that position . Sujit i helped oversee the work we do on cyber issues at the department of justice, so a host of issues related to technology from Security Issues to supplychain issues to cryptocurrencies to encryption and access to data issues, crossborder data issues. What exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated u. S. Law . Sujit thats right. At the department of justice, our job is to enforce federal and criminal law. Please bring criminal cases against people, organizations, foreign state actors who violate u. S. Federal law, results in a policy component of what i do which is help the attorney policiesormulate working with the congress, our interagency to advance rule of law issue
And friend, illustrates the commitment that they have made personally which i think all of us want here at the post are very grateful for. I just wanted to share that with you. Today were going to talk about cybersecurity interference in our 2020 president ial elections. The very Innovative New way of trying to do with that. And avoided talked with two of the people who are most familiar with these issues. First former director of Homeland Security, michael, former director of National Intelligence, james, each knows the cyber in these issues in a difficult political and legal background as well as anybody who has served in government. On this gentleman with the question is on everybodys mind. It involves the question of interference in our elections but this is the complaint that has been raised by the so identified whistleblower who is complaint now before the house Intelligence Committee. This subject of an Intense National discussion going all the way to the issue of impeachment. T
We need stronger on that issues. The cspan Battle Ground states tour. And were live this morning as the Washington Post hosts the Cyber Security summit with remarks from former Homeland Security certificate Michael Chertoff and National Intelligence, james clapper. Live on cspan2. One year ago this morning journalists in Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in istanbul. The post has been paying tribute to jamal throughout this week and just moments ago post publisher fred ryan and the posts owner jeff baseos spoke at a memorial for him in istanbul just steps from where jamal was killed. Jamals courage and his work will not be forgotten. For me, jamal inevitably brings to mind the importance of a free press. But more broadly, our ability to access information and communicate openly is the life blood of our democratic society. So much of our communication is done digitally over texts or emails, on social media platforms. Our digital lives are encod