Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and r Lewis Lehrman auditorium. Of course what those are joining us on our heritage. Org website on all of these occasions. For those inhouse we ask the courtesy to check our various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin and, of course, for those watching online you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this morning is david muhlhausen. Dr. Muhlhausen is Research Fellow in empirical policy analysis at Heritage Center for data analysis. He testifies frequently before congress on the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs. His commentary and analyses have also been featured in numerous major publications and he frequently appears on National Television as well. His book review scientifically rigorous National Studies that almost unanimously fine that federal programs fai failed to e the social problems they were designed
Mutually protocol, so im interested in not going through it today but in reviewing that we do in terms of the protocol, what it is and how it is communicated to our workforce, number one. And number two, im wondering if the department has ideas on how the physical layout of the plan, the campus, might be adjusted to enhance safety and also to enhance the capacity of your members to do their job . Certainly the physical security is one of our main issues. We have a very robust physical Security Services bureau, and they had all the physical security aspects working very closely with the architect and the capital. The measures that were put in place post9 11, we are at the lifecycle in a a lot of the life. We are looking at doing lifecycle replacement. Of course, always a very expensive issue but its certainly something that is very necessary. Let me interrupt because i dont think i was clear on my question. For example, where is the perimeter . You cant really, i mean, we respect the fo
And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
Disruption of the plots and the arrest of the al qaeda operatives here. Socalled incidental collection led to the initial identification of these men and enabled the government to use other investigative tools including traditional fisa to vag advance the investigations. Its an invaluable tool in supporting the counterterrorism efforts of our allies around the world. In describing the value of 702 its important to explain why its uniquely important as the Deputy Attorney general from 2006 to 2009 i experienced first hand the consequences of the prefaa approach in some cases it simply was not possible under that prior approach to demonstrate probable cause that a foreign target overseas was an agent of a foreign power. It authorizes the government to obtain critical intelligence about terrorists and other targets that it cannot obtain by other means. In conclusion, i would say that the Authority Congress established under section 702 has played an indispensable role in protecting the na
Please stand by. A real america is looking into the activities of the Church Committee which looked at the work of the cia and fbi. We will be looking at the testimony of two informants before the committee. Clip of an iyou a nformant, thomas roe. He describes how he participated in beatings during the freedom riders. Inform the fbi about planned violence prior to that incident