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Introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography, and what is it you love about the genre . First we have a professor in the graduate acting program at new york universitys tish school of the arts with an affiliation in the graduate musical theater writing program, and is particularly interested in the history of broadway and of comedy. He has written biographies of xoeter Richard Rogers and p playwright. His most recent is a documentary film sammy davis jr. Ive got to be me. So, larry, tell us what has drawn you to biography. Well, i may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So obviously in entertainment youre dealing with the public persona of performers, what they sang, what they danced, what they acted. And then, of course, what happens off stage or behind the curtain is equa ....
On the foreign intelligence act or fisa. The Senate Judiciary committee is and just a clarification senator ranks member is diane fi finestien. This should start in just a moment. Todays public hearing will be followed bay classified briefing tomorrow afternoon. This Committee Last held an oversight hearing on section 702 in may of 2016. Since then the drum beat of terror attacks against the United States and other countries particularly our allies has continued. A month after our hearing a terrorist attacked an orlando nightclub killing 50 and wounding 53. That same month a terrorist detonated pipe bombs in new jersey and new york injuring about 30. Last month Great Britain suffered its worst terror attack in over a decaddecade. It is at a concert in manchester. Ma ....
I will get started in encourage everyone to congregate again. Thanks to those who stuck with us, at the 2016 cato institute. This is going to focus on the intelligence aspects. We tend to focus on the Fourth Amendment and do medicinmestic. This is really global in scale and so as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interest of u. S. Businesses who hope to do business around the world. We have allen butler who will talk about the sh rerems case. And talk about cross data, in figuring out what kind of jurisdiction applies with regard to Law Enforcement. Thanks for having me. Im happy to be here today to speak with you about a new International Dimension o ....