Trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a great group. We are going to start with a conversation among us, then move to some audience questions, which you can enter in the q a box on your screen, and we will also have a couple of polling questions we will weave in throughout so we can get a sense of what the audience thinks about some of the topics. Lets start with Homeland
To discuss them with a great group with us, jeh johon is the former secretary of Homeland Security answers as general counsel of the department of defense among other positions. He also represes new jersey in th seven state council the coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nation secondhighest intelligence post and sheerved in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in a variety of senior positions. Carrie corderode is the robert gates senior fellow at cns and organizations general counsel. When she was in, she served at the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. Its a great group. We i have got to discuss today. Well start our conversation among us and then moved to some audience questions which, can enter in the q a box on your screen and we will also have a few questions as we done in our past couple sessions that we will we then throughout so we can get
I richard good afternoon, everyone i am richard fontaine, ceo of the center for new american security. I would like to welcome everyone to the discussion on Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and intelligence on the Biden Administration. This session pulls together several critical issues, all of which are moving targets in the trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a gre
Mr. Secretary, please call the roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair sesay thank you, i appreciate that. Secretary thank you. Directors, the next item, item 3, is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the published number, 18552826330, and enter access code, 126 729 5295. Then pound and pound again and listen to the meeting. As they wait for Public Comment to be anno
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 29, special meeting of government audit and oversight. I am the chair of the committee joined by vice chair and Committee Member haney. Thank you to the clerk and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. To protect the public, Board Members and City Employees the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to all various local, state orders and directive. Committee members are participating in video conference. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Sfgovtv has the calling number on the screen. Provide comments by phone calling 4156550001. Once connected into the meeting id is 146 6994959. When prompted press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but your line will be in his senning need only. When your item comes up dial star three to