Of solid legislation. With that, thank you so much for being here. Thanks again. I want to single out my students. Proud of the School Public policy to have this program with the air force academy were some of the graduates come to us to get a masters degree. Is always nice to people who are embarking on a career in Public Service. Thank you both for being here tonight. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] the house and senate are both in for legislative business tomorrow. Or what to expect this week, we talked to a capitol hill reporter. Congress leaves town friday without taking care of the debt ceiling. The Treasury Department steps in. The u. S. House for bloomberg news. You are writing about that today. What does the Treasury Department have to do regarding the debt ceiling and what has been talked about by senator boehner and other Republican Leaders in terms of dealing with it on a longterm basis . The treasury started the first in a series of extra
Between Great Britain and the United States via cspan, what comes to mind . I think the great period of closeness between britain and the United States. Fluctuated. Ship has of course, we were particularly close in world war ii. It was revived under Margaret Thatchers premiership. There were some rocky patches had a close but she ideological relationship with ronald reagan. They were very fond of each other personally. Beginning of a it was not quite so warm under her successors. Tony blair became extremely close to bill clinton. And to president bush. I would say that that was a particularly interesting time of the transatlantic relationship. Politicians were sometimes embarrassed at what the public like to call the special relationship. Comeshe Prime Minister into town, some of those things are little unnecessary. You have watched our government over 25 years and your own government. What is the main difference for someone who has never thought about it, between the two democracies .
About it playing itself out around 2003 or 2000 or 2002 and it has not happened. I see articles all the time that says it will slow down because we have finally reached limits on how many circuit you can put on a silk and silicon. Old stuff. Look what is happening in nano and biotechnology. Lawpredictions that moores is going in is quantitatively balanced with those that say we are in for a whole new cycle of it. Intelligence and counterintelligence more specifically for our purposes of the evening really has to do with the constantly changing, volatile information environment. I talk about that within different aspects. First of all, the first one is privacy. The worst thing, and i told a group of former intelligence officers, the worst thing the Intelligence Community can do in light of the snowden event is to think that this whole controversy is about us. It is not just about intelligence. It is not just about nsa. It is about People Living in an information environment that we use
Not seen him before on cspan, but he has worked at cspan for over 25 years, just retired as our london producer. When you look back at the last 25 years and the relationship between Great Britain and the United States via cspan, what comes to mind . I think the great period of closeness between britain and the United States. The relationship has fluctuated. Of course, we were particularly close in world war ii. It was revived under Margaret Thatchers premiership. There were some rocky patches before that, but she had a close ideological relationship with ronald reagan. They were very fond of each other personally. So that was the beginning of a long stretch it was not quite so warm under her successors. Tony blair became extremely close to bill clinton. And to president bush. I would say that that was a particularly interesting time of the transatlantic relationship. British politicians were sometimes embarrassed at what the public like to call the special relationship. When the Prime
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