Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
2014,k rasmussen, since has been the leader of the National Counterterrorism center, previously welcome to to white house as advisor the president on National Security. Both gentlemen leave agencies that were born out of the 9 11 commission report. I wonder if you could give us a perspective, 15 years removed. How do you see the role of your agencies as the evil . Thanks, evan. It is great to be here, thanks to events one. We were created in 2006 as a result of reforms recommended. The full range of problems could be tackled. In doing that, it meant looking at legal problems anyway whether it was department of defense, fbi, cia, nsa, that we viewed the problem as one that was intelligence driven, meaning we would look at what the intelligence showed the threat was. Our solutions should be tailored against that threat to disrupt it. A full range of legal tools to make sure that analysts and viewssionals had the full of what the intelligence picture was. Once they showed what the threat
Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungled as what happened at the watergate. It was james bond stuff, where they thought how could you walk in with an army of people to do what cat burglars normally do if youre working for a Foreign Espionage operation . When you discussed with mcgruder before his before his grand jury testimony, you talked to him. Some people used the word coached him. Did he tell you what happened . Absolutely. Absol
President ial directive 39. Interagency and white house then began focusing on threats aimed largely within the United States and pdd 62 was born. I came aboard to nsc to implement president clintons protection against unconventional threats to the homeland and americans overseas focusing on domestic cbrn preparedness and response missions. Whereas we had the usual core players state fbi justice cia, cod and joint stas we were adding hhs and other departments and agencies which played important roles protecting against unconventional threats aimed towards the u. S. In the late 1990s our office under Leadership National coordinator security and counterterrorism rather quickly realized in order to populate newer mission we would have to figure out a way who in the interagency should participate. One of the ways to do this was, one, uncover who had the mission, operational and it will capabilities and three budget authorities. Unfortunately this time and as it stands now theres still no w
Just a number. It does not a price tag that we have on this country. It is that outofcontrol control spending that is threatening the next generation. The next generation of american leaders and the jobs that they will have once they graduate. They need skills to make sure mirko will be competitive moving forward. Spending is a problem. We continue to urge the democrats to make the responsible spending cuts. We are committed to a smarter approach to spending reductions and reform and getting america back on track so that the next generation will have a bright future. Back in 2008, that then senator barack obama said it was unpatriotic that our National Debt had increased 4 trillion. Here we are halfway through an eightyear term for president obama and the National Debt has increased on his watch. We have a spending problem. The president continues to want to raise taxes. We have trillions of dollars on taxes and a healthcare bill and 700 billion at the beginning of the year. Now he is