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Of the select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the foreign intelligence act of 1978. Two former staffers are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see from new york city. Fredericks forges with us. And here is elliot maxwell, a counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. In this installment of our series looking at the work 40 we will focus on the committees investigation into andnational Security Agency the Fourth Amendment rights of american citizens. To get us started, lets watch a clip from 1979. The agency remains unknown to most americans either by its acronym o ....
Hosted this hourlong event. We are thrilled to welcome akhil reed amar, sterling professor of law and Political Science at Yale University back to New York Historical society. Before joining Yale Law School professor amar clerked on the First Circuit for judge steven then judge stephen breyer, he is also a recipient of the devane medical, yales highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including the law of the land, a grand tour of our constitutional republic. And i think akhil was voted the most popular professor at yale at least he is my most popular professor and you are all here, i think, if you all are here because you know him, he is your most popular professor. So ....
He knew it at the time. So they wouldnt sign the brief. They said were not signing it, were not going to defend this. Then they a big fight between departments and who was brought in to mediate, herbert j. Wexler. He was running the war part of the Justice Department was a Master Genius and he wrote a footnote, disowning the army on this issue and he wrote it in words that no one could understand. So he convinced burly to sign the brief and the Justice Departments position, i dont know, you read it and see if you can figure out exactly what it was. In fact, who won the case . The government. 63. Famous case. And who is it who upheld . The government. Black, douglas, frankfurter, the liberals who had, in fact, would sign brown versus board. And they were all on the government side. It was the three dissenters were ....
And 58th worst states. But at the top we see idaho, indiana, wyoming, kansas, and iowa. Now when you add fiscal policies and regulatory policies together we get Economic Freedom as a whole and there are other studies that measure Economic Freedom out there but we think we do a decent job at combining regulatory and fiscal as we see it and giving an overarching Economic Freedom index itself and that could be utilized even if youre not interested in the other aspects we measure here. In terms of Economic Freedom you see at the bottom we have new york, california, hawaii, new jersey, and maryland. At the top, New Hampshire comes in fifth followed by moving the scale to oklahoma, tennessee, idaho and the top ....