Second, this is how criminals work with other criminals. We would not get far by trying to solve these fast evolving global problems with topdown control or through government directives and rules. As you yourself pointed out, a botnet is literally a network of robots, whereby robot we mean a computer thats been captured and made to run software neither provided by the maker or authorized or installed by its owner. It has conflict and so forth. The only hard and fast requirement for any of this software is interoperability, meaning it merely has to work. The cost of the internets spectacular growth d. Sorry the cost is much of the software we run was not adequately tested. The challenge for the internet is perhaps theres more assurance that an ul listed toaster will not burn our house, whereas some of our devices are insulated from becoming a tool of online criminals. These are Consumer Devices in a competitive and fastmoving market. Time to market is often the distance between success
Stymied. And then the third part is the whole kurdistan region and the pkk. And as we all know or some of us may know, these two trends have been at each other in certain forms between cooperation, tacit agreement, leaving the pkk in the mountains in Northern Iraq, and also in direct competition with each other. And that competition still exists today. That is to say, the two main nationalist trends within the Kurdish Movement are those led by the pkk and barzani. And the extent to which this competition for leadership of the kurds and to direct the nature of the kurdish nationals and should be taken into account, because that did not change after june 10, 2014. And it continues today. So when youre looking at the changing relationships, look at this as well as when its these interm power struggles between the kurds, they are existing today. Because the Kurdistan Regional government does need to be broken down into barzanis kurdistanic Democratic Party and the talibani patriotic afghan
For reelection without considering the dozens of proposals that are already out there, to pass a more specific statute tailored to isis, i dont know what Congress Left for president obama in that situation. I want to talk about International Law as well. To beh how can you craft legislation when the threat appears to be changing . Group f khorasan, no one talked about that. On tuesday the president mentions this group for first ou time. How can you tailor legislation to a specific threat when you dont know where the next threats coming from . Ve theres a great blog post on steves quout standing blog called just security. Org. It talks essentially about and i think its your response to Jack Goldsmith, the law ok, professor from harvards piece, that its one thing to say, iss okay, we want to narrowly tailon it towards isis and perhaps khorasan and other clearly identifiable groups that are that have core ties to al qaedao its another thing to say as chn Jack Goldsmith andge others are sa
I want to start by noting that the committee has been particularly supportive as the staff and the oversight investigation subcommittee for their work on this issue and their work with our agency we consider it to be a Real Partnership and we are very grateful for this committees support. We have received a number of referrals from this committee and we appreciate your confidence and ability to work with the employees that your office refers. So thats one thing. Its already happening. We are doing everything that we possibly can. Weve set up a priority system and we free allocated staff to handle the va employee claims. But as the numbers increase its a very hard to keep up. We were at capacity before. In the retaliation cases now it exceeds 130, and the number as i mentioned continues to increase pretty much daily. We are an agency that has 120 employees more or less. We have jurisdiction for the statute for the reemployment rights act and we are working now on a demonstration for the
There ought to be a position where you tell people, even confidentially, what you are doing, and make sure there is responsible oversight. I said that congress has been in adequate. Yemen and a call from there is no evidence that the person is connected to a conspiracy, why would the nsa look at Something Like this . If you do and you are in contact with someone, you know, frankly, your nextdoor neighbor or your girlfriend may be looked at to determine if there is some kind of cell being form that can put people in the United States in danger. Inaction, itess has been intentional. No one wanted to dive deep into the agency and it would have made them a lot of enemies. Edward snowden has given an opportunity for Congress People to have a political shield and go to oversight without seeing any political retribution. Thomas jefferson said that, when the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. I want to reinforce that. If we fea