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 don t 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 there s 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. it
to what we heard over the weekend from senator graham and from others. and i think what we re 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 that s 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 we re 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 we re dealing with and that we re seeing in iraq if talking to the iranians is necessary for regional stability, which is something that i m sure not a lot of people could have f
questions from the back cue. we re 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 thought-provoking paper. one of the things i ve been thinking about is generally the transition from physical to digital and how the law doesn t 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 weren t 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
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