Questions from the back cue. Were using the microphone in the back of the room. And again, general rules. If one can identify ones self, we get cracking. Steve wu again. I wanted to thank you for your thoughtprovoking paper. One of the things ive been thinking about is generally the transition from physical to digital and how the law doesnt seem to have caught up. And the example that i give is in the 1990s when i was really first thinking about the internet and i was trying to do, quote unquote, computer law, i saw some of the cases having to do with Insurance Coverage for the loss of some kind of data center. And a claim was put in by the insured to seek compensation for not only the loss of the hardware but also the loss of the data. Of course policies werent very sophisticated at that time but the courts said you can cover for the loss of the hardware but data intangible and not covered by the eyes of the policy and in the eyes of the court, this data have no worth. And im saying t
Cases that deters access to justice and the terrors some of the important things i referenced. You are correct that courthouses have not been on the sensitive list. I know that some months ago i. C. E. Determined to put courthouses in a special category of serving him some sort of special treatment. I agree that courthouses are special places in the nature of the church but i can readily see for reasons of Public Safety why any Law Enforcement officer would feel compelled to take action with regard to an individual in a courthouse. Ive asked our folks to better develop an exception with regard to courthouses. Thank you mr. Secretary. We have also talked about customs and border in terms of overtime inspections related to agriculture. The port of wellington and many of the ports have folks who would like to pay overtime so wenhold shiploads arrive they can get inspections in a timely fashion and this is subject to a very complicated interagency budgetary issue. My understanding is that
People, and then just looking at the past videos of him versus that video. It was pretty clear to me that his health was deteriorating. Mr. Secretary, theres been some previous questioning about the risk future risk potential future risk to American Service members if they were to have to recapture these five individuals who were swapped. In the prisoner of war exchange. Is there any evidence whatsoever that any future risk for those five is any greater than the 532 folks who have previously been released by the Bush Administration or, for that matter, the 88 that have been released from the Obama Administration, a total of 620 prisoners. According to our Intelligence Community, the answer is no. One final question for you, mr. Secretary. Sergeant bergdahl, when he was captured, was a private 1st class. Correct . For those who are not familiar, that would be an e3. And today he is a sergeant, or an e5. So hes been promoted twice by the army during his period of captivity. Isnt that cor
Coming up on c span 3 tonight, the confirmation hearing for the nominees for qatar, iraq and egypt. And in a little less than two hours, a hearing on sport security. In four hours, a conversation on u. S. Plans to withdraw military forces from afghanistan. One of the things people dont always recognize is that during the war of 1812, it was fought from 1812 until after 1814, early 1815, and it was really about the america reestablishing its independence against the british. This was sort of our second american revolution, and this flag is the object for which Francis Scott key penned the words which became our national anthem. The image in 1995 that the flag was made to look whole and restored and theres a whole bottom section that was reconstructed. When the flag was moved into the new exhibition space, there was a deliberate decision not to do that again and what we wanted was that the flag becomes a metaphor for the country. Its tattered, its torn, but it still survives. The message
To what we heard over the weekend from senator graham and from others. And i think what were going to see in the coming weeks is probably more of these sort of closed briefings to try and figure out what exactly is going on on the ground there. Obviously one of the immediate concerns is the safety and security of the embassy facility in baghdad and other issues with u. S. Personnel who are on the ground there. But the other thing thats going to come up and senator graham was one of the people who mentioned this over the weekend is that if there are in fact, as were now seeing reports that there are these back channel negotiations or conversations of some sort with the iranian regime, that will be something that will certainly get the attention of congress. And it tells you what kind of a world that were dealing with and that were seeing in iraq if talking to the iranians is necessary for regional stability, which is something that im sure not a lot of people could have fathomed just a