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call the senate foreign relations committee to order. we thank our witnesses for being here, and i m looking forward to your testimony. as much of the world concentrates on the isis threat and instability in the middle east, the committee takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the united states and other partners to counter extremism in the sub-saharan african area. long-term development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. ben, even with large letters i can t see anymore. [laughter] including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power africa legislation, which we re all very proud of and appreciate the way the administration has led on that effort also, that we hope will help bring investment to a key sector for economic growth and opportunity. whereas in the middle east we have been reacting to abhorrent state and terrorist violence and the uprooting of millions of people, in africa we ve had the opportunity ....
that s all kosher. but doing the same type of data development through surveillance electronic surveillance and you can kick the tire on specific people you identify is somehow prohibited by the fourth amendment. it cannot be. well, i disagree with most of the details that david laid out, but i m going to try to go to the core of your question. your name was edward, right? which is why do so many conservatives depart from the text of the constitution and the original intent and so many liberals do likewise depending on what the particular issue is, rather than consistently trying to honor both the text and the original meaning or understanding of the constitution. and i have some comfort to offer you, which is that on a number of very important recent privacy cases in the united states supreme court, before justice scalia died, when the court had nine contentious individuals who would often split 5-4 and being even more fragmented, we ve had a number of recent decis ....
no. and we looked at that thank you. now i have another question. this question is directed to ms. bristol and mr. rinaldi. it s related to staffing. but it s more about 9 equipment and the ongoing efforts by the faa to modernize the control towers. last week there was an article in the a.p. it ran across the country and including in my district in las vegas. and the article was entitled union: new airport towers must be remodeled before opening. in the article, mr. rinaldi, you specifically identified the new control tower in las vegas saying it requires an overhaul before it can be operational. i reached out to our local controllers, our safety engineers and the faa because i m concerned this overdue project is going to have to be delayed even further due to a failure by the faa. and i m also worried that people around the country are going to read there might be a problem flying into las vegas and might not want to come there and we certainly can t have that. ....
terabytes of data, the newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. with such a large number of people going to the database, they needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration and for parsing out the research, as well as the joint process of holding off until everyone was ready. this is something foreign to american media. we are not used to co honoring editors. we will talk about some of the work and the findings. it is sponsored by the journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the national press club. left elcome, from i i m sorry. from my right, will fitzgibbon, a reporter from the national consortium. to my last, ms. walker, the deputy director of the national consortium of journalists. and kevin hall, the chief economics correspondent for mcclatchy. thank you so much tom and the press club for this invitation. what an honor to be here. so, yes, we re going to talk about collaboration across borders. when we think about investigative jour ....
honestly, we at the club had no idea what they were talking about. until now. that was one of the first meetings of the consortium of journalists who are investigating what we now call the panama papers. documents some 11.5 were late to a german leaked to a german newspaper. i am sorry. i got close. possibly the biggest leak in history. mossack fonseca, with 2.6 terabytes of data, the newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. with such a large number of people going to the database, they needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration and for parsing out the research, as well as the joint process of holding off until everyone was ready. this is something foreign to american media. we are not used to co honoring editors. we will talk about some of the work and the findings. it is sponsored by the journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the national press club. left elcome, from i i m sorry. from my right, will fitzgibbon, a reporter from the ....