Farflung sentences, these very high sentences. You will see dozens and dozens of Political Prisoners who werent even mentioned in these negotiations. If you want to go to cuba, simply tell them youre not going to visit the prisons and you dont want to meet the dissidents. I think this addresses what you asked about discrimination in cuba. Thank you very very much. You know, the Washington Post has done several editorials very, very critical of president obamas opening up or moving towards opening up diplomatic relations or further relations. And they made a very selling point, and i would just like to underscore here, and that is that were repeating mistakes that have been made in the past. When bill clinton went to vietnam and opened up relations with vietnam which followed very quickly with the bilateral trade agreement under president bush, many of us said it was a mistake not to get human rights reforms durable reforms first and then move to the diplomatic recognition followed by a
You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create the stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian Nuclear capabilities thats another major area. There might be some terrorist organizations interested in developing that. But those are the big players on the international scenes, the nation states to have any kind of real severe ability to conduct attacks. The nsa with north korea a lot of countries would probably have that capability. Its easier to
Cyberattacks . The numbers are on the screen. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute about whether or not the u. S. Should engage in a offensive cyberattacks. The five by five writer from rollcall joins us. Tim starks, what do we mean when we say going on the offense when it comes to Cyber Security and cyberattacks . Guest its a very good question. The line between offense and defense insider security is very narrow. Obviously, defending her networks makes it harder for people to intrude on them, but there are people who say part of the defense is offense. You know, you need to make it if someone attacks her networks, you can attack them back. It is a deterrent, if you will. There is no question the u. S. Has conducted cyber offense, you know, they would say in the name of cyber defense. You look at the attack on north korea probably as an example of that. After the sony breakin. But its difficult to define what cyber offe
And confidence. Bless the members of the peoples house as they return from their home districts. May these decisive days through which we are living make them genuine enough to maintain their integrity. Great enough to be humble. Good enough to keep their faith. Always regarding Public Office as the sacred trust. Give them the wisdom and the courage to fail not their fellow citizens nor you. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Kildee. Mr. Kildee i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty a justicr l. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speec
The senate about this bill . It isnt clear what is going to happen. There is going to be a push for amendments. There is senators who would like to see the United States send military aid the way of ukraine. They will probably make a push on amendments. There is others who would like to see us speed up the natural gas flow so that ukraine isnt as dependent on russia its energy supply. And there might be thinks related to Cyber Security or taking the imf language out. There might not be an aaagreeme at and then we will have to go back to congress. Guest there are concerns about what the approval might be doing to the United States budget. There was a tradeoff earlier this year with republicans wanting to see irs rules that govern the tea party groups, seeing the rule suspended for the imf language. And two bills passed on the house side and a bill to impose sanctions on iran. The House Foreign Affairs committee is taking up the bills again. Why are they doing this and who are the key su