this is one hour 10 minutes. welcome everybody. i and the executive director of the internet caucus advisory committee. hopefully we will get you out of here in 60 minutes or so. this topic is on your program, which you have in front of you. you have the information on the speakers and their twitter accounts. you can contact them on twitter or any other way you would like bywe are hosting this event the congressional internet caucus advisory committee in conjunction with the internet caucus. on the house side, bob goodlatte. we are in their debt for hosting and supporting this program. they don t agree on every issue. frankly, not on a lot of issues. we are thrilled that they agreed that the internet should be a place where we can debate these issues with expert speakers like we have today. i want to thank them, and our moderator today is a reporter with politico, a cyber security reporter, and she has covered this over the past couple years, and she is situated to moderate
boards for the west point center for oral history and the renewed hope foundation. he serves as president of the nonprofit organization esprit de corps, which educates the public about veterans affairs, our main topic today. please join me in welcoming james. thank you. so, this is the plan. i am going to turn to each of the speakers and let them introduce themselves because their bios also explain why they are on this panel. they are each going to talk for 10 or 15 minutes or so, and then we re going to open it up for general discussion. and this is my favorite kind of event. i am not selling something. there is no real agenda. this is an exploration of ideas. i think today we earn our moniker of think tank. before we get started, i just want to take a few minutes about i chose this issue and why i think it is important. at the notion of philanthropy in national do we even think about that? there are a couple of reasons. having been involved in philanthropic pursuits, part
paris. we will speak to lebanese french scholar gilbert achcar. to put all of this in context and understand all of this appalling features come from somewhere and this somewhere the action of the west, the responsibility of the west, and also the responsibility of the west and the united states, in particular, in fostering the source, the ideological source of the most fanatical education of islam that is the saudi kingdom. plus, the latest on the bombing outside the naacp office in colorado springs. then, we go to vermont. 29 single-payer advocates were arrested after they disrupted the inauguration of vermont governor peter shumlin who has backed down on his promise to create a single-payer health care system in the state. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. french police have surrounded a building in a northern town near charles de gaulle airport as part of a massive manhunt for the
satirical magazine. the suspected gunmen have taken a hostage to the airport. there are reports of hostages being taken at a supermarket in paris. we will speak to lebanese french scholar gilbert achcar. to put all of this in context and understand all of this appalling features come from somewhere and this somewhere the action of the west, the responsibility of the west, and also the responsibility of the west and the united states, in particular, in fostering the source, the ideological source of the most fanatical education of islam that is the saudi kingdom. plus, the latest on the bombing outside the naacp office in colorado springs. then, we go to vermont. 29 single-payer advocates were arrested after they disrupted the inauguration of vermont governor peter shumlin who has backed down on his promise to create a single-payer health care system in the state. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m a
satirical magazine. the suspected gunmen have taken a hostage to the airport. there are reports of hostages being taken at a supermarket in paris. we will speak to lebanese french scholar gilbert achcar. to put all of this in context and understand all of this appalling features come from somewhere and this somewhere the action of the west, the responsibility of the west, and also the responsibility of the west and the united states, in particular, in fostering the source, the ideological source of the most fanatical education of islam that is the saudi kingdom. plus, the latest on the bombing outside the naacp office in colorado springs. then, we go to vermont. 29 single-payer advocates were arrested after they disrupted the inauguration of vermont governor peter shumlin who has backed down on his promise to create a single-payer health care system in the state. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m a