And a dozen entities. Irans Foreign Minister responded, also on twitter, saying iran unmoved by threats as we derive security from our people. We will never initiate war, but we can only reply on our own means of defence. So how serious a moment is this . Im joined by our diplomatic editor. Is this a harbinger of much worse to come like a Handbrake Turn on iran policy . In a sense it is Unfinished Business from the last months of the obama administration, these missiles, over 1000 mile range, not very accurate, the general view of Intelligence Experts is that they are being tested as Nuclear Delivery systems, that is counter to United Nations agreements. Another problem is that some people connected with these, the firing of warships by rebels in recent months, another issue is that basically apart from one counterstrike against those batteries president obama kicked the can down the road. So emphasis tonight from us officials is that this doesnt mean the end of the nuclear agreement,
Neat agency called. Csec they did not know was engaged in this Electronics Surveillance but canadians did not know that it was engaging in this type of activity. Second and this is even more meaningful, this old perception and canadians have nationally is a completely at odds with what the story revealed. Is essentially the idea is that they say we are canadians we dont do that kind of thing worse by on democratically elected friendly governments for an unfair economic advantage. Both of those points are profoundly significant. Think of the agency called csec throughout the world in cages and consequential behavior which the very distance has been kept from canadians. Think about what that means for the claim that we live in a meaningful democracy. Whenever people ask me what is the most meaningful revelation and you have discovered . I say obviously the threat to privacy the vast amount of communications is significant but even more than that is the threats posed to democracy it is st
Hand them over on a summer driving in hong kong. But this is a crucial process to save democracy we have to know what they are doing with the process of disclosure is so critical. Of with the sixth to begin by saluting your courage and intellectual honesty and also the humiliation you affected inflicted on the propaganda on the show realtime. [applause] i may use harsh words referring to bill maher but what do you think of him . I concur. [laughter] but in individual such as sam the presents himself as a liberal and progressive to have similar views on American Foreign policy as the rightwing pundits what type of influence does he have or how does he resonate . That is the good but complicated question. There was an article today in the boston globe the principal point was it does not matter who wins the election then National Security state will continue to get its way exactly as they want no matter who wins. I know from going all over the world to speak into reporting on the nsa file
Establishment so we learned about that. But the thing that we need to remember is all of these challenges, the medical challenges, the nuclear, biological challenges, the solution to all of these is many different times. You dont do the same thing in the chemical threat as the biological threat. One case you gather up the other case you spread out. So these are the kinds of techniques that we have to think about. When you look at the enormty of it, it is kind of interesting to throw up your hands but we faced a big threat in the 1907s it was extraordinarily complex in terms of weather in terms of physics in terms of ocean et cetera. It was called the Russian Submarine threat. And it was called the u. S. Americanantiis submarine threat as well. It was enormous. So much that we almost didnt want to tackle it. But we did. And we used an approach where we bit off a little bit of the apple at a time, a little bit more at the time, a little bit more at the time. And after a while in about 10
Next, author Glenn Greenwald talks about government surveillance and security. After that, internet regulations between content providers and service providers. After that, a forum on internet privacy. This weekend, independent vermont senator bernie sanders, the chair of the Veterans Affairs committee. He talks about efforts to revamp the v. A. The lameduck congress. What he expects in the next congress. And campaign 2016. Newsmakers, on cspan. Author and columnist grennan Glenn Greenwald spoke in ottawa, canada. It came shortly after the shooting of a canadian soldier. He also address concerns about surveillance. Following the speech, he took questions on Edward Snowden, canada possible and mass surveillance, and working with journalists. Event. Rown moderates the hello, everybody. My name is bill owen. I am the organizer. With a lot of help from open media. They have been instrumental. I have done these things before and these guys are great sponsors. A little bit of the history. Pa