Citizens are truly influenced. Get it straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are, because if the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer assistant secretary of state for intelligence and Research Discusses Foreign Surveillance and intelligence gathering and its impact on u. S. Diplomacy abroad during an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Section 702 allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of nonu. S. Persons located outside the United States. When it was reauthorized in 2017 congress concluded a sunset provision, and as a result of that these authorities are set to expire at the end of this year, unless Congress Reauthorizes its use. Todays discussion is going to highlight this one aspect of 702, which is the ways in w
Zuma confirms Robert Mugabe is under house arrest after the army seized power in zimbabwe. Im in harare with things quickly zimbabweans want to know what is going to happen to president Robert Mugabe and his wife grace. Lookin al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha today with me peter also coming up an act of aggression lebanons president says nothing justifies the detention of the Prime Minister. In saudi arabia. Just horrific the u. S. Secretary of state visits me in ma and condemns the Army Crackdown against her ngo muslims but stop short of calling for sanctions. The zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is under house arrest after the army seized control of the country although commanders denied the military takeover is a coup soldiers are patrolling the streets of the capital harare and they also control the state broadcasters t. V. And Radio Stations the takeover follows political infighting about who will succeed the ninety three year old hailing president the worlds o
Straighter Peter Neffenger testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on alleged misconduct at the agency this is about two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting on government and oversight reform will come together. Without objection, we will reconvene at any time. The public comes in regular contact with Transportation Security Administration, we have a fairly new administration who has had a chance to visit with, but it is important as the Oversight Committee that we continue to take a look at what is happening or not happening. What is not happening at the tsa. Today we will have a second hearing examining the misconduct and Management Practices that we have heard about, seeing about, and investigated at the Transportation Security Administration. This time of year traveling public picks up kids and families and people are traveling, sometimes at record levels. People get frustrated, they go to airports, there are long lines, there ar
You, senator. Youre now recognized sen to senator from tennessee. Can you tell me how many tsa employees make a hundred thousand or more a year . I will have to get that for you. Can you make a rough guess . I can make a rough guess. I dont really know, sir. Let me ask this, do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i have restrict it had number of bonus that is we do. I will get you the exact number but it was a significant smaller number and based upon performance, not based upon special act awards. Can you tell me, have you personally fired any employee tsa employees for misconduct or rudeness or incompetence since youve been in the office . There have been a number of people who have been fired from the agency at all levels. I came in and one of my first tasks was to determined what my agency looked like. I hold my leaders and demanded and i am confident of my team and im confident of team to help lead that team. Today i have been satis
Eer. H. And if anybody pops up in any category, it allows you to take a harder look at them which we do. We go back to the Intelligence Community and to the fbi and we do a scrib on those individuals. We have the methods, there is higher level of sensibility here, allowing these folks to actually work inside of secure areas . Yes, sir. That was exactly the question i had about that. Ive been working closely with director comey and the National Counterterrorism center to mr. Roth, you did a great job on the screening tests the a the big airports and you know, we had, we have very high failure rate the last time of that test. And i know, im not sure of enough time has gone by to allow admiral neffenger to sort of adopt a new protocol among the screeners. Has that happened yet . Have you done any new tests to take a measurement how were doing . Sure, what weve done is two things. One is a natural followup we would do any audit. For example, with regard to the Penetration Testing we have r