Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
Not in a crosswalk and police say attempting to cross busy kennelworth avenue just proved too risky. A jacket stuck under this dump truck, evidence investigators will examine as part of this deadly pedestrianstruck collision on kennelworth avenue. Prince georges county police say the victim was not in a crosswalk when the truck hit him. The truck kept going and turned at the intersection. At about 6 20 a dump truck was coming out of this business making a right turn, going southbound on kennelworth avenue when he struck the individual walking across the street. He did keep going just a short ways. He was going to get some gas. Once he got out of the truck, he realized, that, oh, he hit someone, so he came immediately right back to the scene. Reporter this is the lot where the truck driver pulled out on to kennelworth avenue. The deadly scene served as a somber reminder to those who danger. Nobody uses the crosswalk. People always in a hurry. Nobody you know following the rules. So that
We come up with a belt that a conscious the goal of the president and we will take it and move forward with it. We are moving on the tax reform. Lets get to work. The responsible thing, lets get back to work and do what we told the voters who are going to do. We never stopped working. All throughout health care as well we will continue to make improvement. We are planning to move this on the ways and Means Committee in the spring. Maria the drama in d. C. Sending wall street futures indicating a lower opening for averages today. Investors are nervous, wondering when the details come out on tax reform trading on a sixweek low of the dow industrials down to 33 . Expect a decline of better than 100 this morning. Investors really wondering what happens now in terms of tax reform and whether therell be a similar fight on that front as there was in health care. New details on the london terrorist attack at the tear is service what app before his attack. Police cannot get to the messages beca
You will hear his remarks to the obama administration. And we introduce you to huddle house, a Company Making a business footprints across the United States. Lets start in washington, d. C. Mark zuckerberg and five other Technology Executives meeting with president obama at the white house right now. They are talking privacy and government reforms. Bloombergs megan hughes is outside the white house and means me now. What do we know about this meeting . This meeting got underway at 4 00. No sign of them coming out just yet. They have been in there for an hour now. You mentioned facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg. Also google chairman eric schmidt, Reed Hastings from netflix, another from dropbox among others. Among those who declined the invitation, marissa mayer, the ceo from twitter. Some of the things were watching number one, zuckerbergs growing public frustration with nsa surveillance. We know that he spoke with president obama earlier this month over the phone. He posted of facebook blo
A jury found a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty on Wednesday of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so. Ortis, 51, had pleaded not guilty to all charges, including violating the secrets law by revealing classified information to three individuals in 2015 and trying to do so in a fourth instance.