Pentagons military Commission Defense organization. The show lectures at clumpy law school and a fellow here in the center of National Security and i must mention is a fordham law grad. Karen rosenberg will talk about his book, his awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with a pulitzer center. [inaudible] she started with the miami herald or before that she recorded from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize of breaking news in 2001. So, when we tell you the format. Michelle and carol we will talk and then i will come back on and i will pose questions that have come from the audience and if you have any questions at all please feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer q a then i will get to as many as i can do. Without further ado michelle, carol, take it away. Thank you so much. Tha
Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
Of the nation in broad terms, and strong encryption is important to strong internet defense and will defend it is in our best interests. Within the broad framework of though the challenge we cant figure out is realizing that communication that the use by very law abiding citizens, nationstates and companies engage in lawful activity is also being used by criminals, terrorists, nationstates who attempted generate advanced against the United States advocates are allies and partners. So were trying to figure out how do we balance these two important. Is a privacy and security, and realizing the world around us is changing in a foundational way. So were trying to come to grips broadly with how do we do with the reality of the technical world around us to yet the broader legal and social imperatives we have begun the first acknowledge we do not have a defined way to hit you in the end i think this is about how to get the best minds together to address this. When i look at our capabilities a
2002. After the news and photographs emerged from the United States military detention of iraqis at abu ghraib, the Intelligence Committee held a hearing on the matter on may 12th, 2004. Without disclosing any details of its own Interrogation Program cia director John Mcglocklin testified that ciaer interrogationse were nothing lie what was depicted at abu ghraib. The United States prison in iraq where detainees were abused by american personnel. This of course was false. Cia detainees at one facility, a described as a dungeon, were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells, with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. Ur the u. S. Bureau of prisons personnel went to that location in november 2002 and according to a con tame rain just internal cia email told cia officers they had quote, never been in a facility where an individuals are so sensorydeprived, end quote. Again, source, ci email, sender and recipient redacted, december 5th, 2002.