Draconian new Voting Restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help. To ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on Voting Rights that no state thats the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united States Senate right now basically because of one democratic senator named Joe Manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. Theyve met with White House officials up to and including the Vice President , kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families and away from their jobs and businesses. Away from beloved theyre likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure that theres no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrests when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested po
And what they think the stakes are, and what the options are in terms of the senate rolls. We will see. We will learn a lot tomorrow. Thanks rachel. Go fishing i am, i am going, bye [laughs] go most united states senators never have a oneonone in the oval office, meeting with most President S of the united states. And even if they are in the same party, President S Meet Oneonone with Senate Majority leaders especially through the same party, sometimes they meet with the chairs of important senate committees. And in a 50 50 senate, the president of course, of course, has to Meet Oneonone with senators who are a problem, which is why Joe Biden had a Oneonone Meeting with Joe Manchin today. And Kirsten Cinema. Separate Oneonone Meeting with her. Who, she is in her first term as a senator, and would not have been in the room with the President Today if she was fully on board with the President S agenda like arizonas under senator mark kelly, who is not a problem for Joe Biden. And so, well
Will come back to the auditorium. Both those president here and watching at home. I am again senior fellow, burried pleased to welcome you to the second panelist of the 2019 Institute Surveillance conference. This continues the theme, focusing on oversight. With respect to two controversial programs. Surveillance on section seven oh two of Foreign Policy and a provision of section 215 that provides for a burried large scale automated collection of phone records. Both of these programs have had some serious complaints. That come to live over the past year. And so we thought it useful to examine how those arose, what the nature of the problems of the discovery is and how the Intelligence Community is responding to them and whether the response is adequate. So the discussion will be headed up by prizewinning port reporter, Charlie Savage. His book power wars is probably the best portrait of nast National Security policy making. In a president ial ministration. I will pass you on to Charli
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel