Experienced National Security staff. I think the people on this panel are aware of that. They have a lot of interaction with the people on our staff. We do rely on their expertise and their history of navigating the most sensitive subjects imaginable. We recognize that there is tension between national between selfgovernance in this country and national selfpreservation and selfprotection. Theres no question about that. And we are not dismissive of National Security concerns. We do take them very seriously. We recognize that its a dangerous world. As weve heard already. We certainly know that. Nor do we doubt that the government needs to engage in surveillance activities. Its not a question whether she should have intelligent activities or no intelligence activities or no surveillance whatsoever. So as a result of that our reporters communicate quite regularly with the pentagon, the white house, the intelligence agencies, you know, on the nsa documents that are at issue here. We spent
Information. So names, affiliations, titles, could be council on foreign relations. When you query the data to see if anything comes up. You can actually query this database which the fbi has comingled with traditional fisa and there no record kept of this. Under to the right of the people, which is understood as the political entity of u. S. Citizens, not nonu. S. Citizens. So the right of the people to be cure, their persons, papers and effects, against unreasonable search and seizure shall not be violated. Right . We have this right, yet person identifiers are being used to query this database. Now the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court offered reasons saying why there was not a warrant required for the collection of the information in the first place. They were good reasons. That when the purpose of the surveillance is not garden variety law enforcement. When the oj÷igovernments inter is particularly intense. And where there is a high degree of probability that if you were to
He is known for his work in peace and conflict studies. Hes director of the duke program, an american grant strategy. From june 2005 to july 2007, feaver was on leave to be the strategic adviser for planning at the white house where his responsibilities included National Security strategy, regional strategy review, and other political military issues. Hes written widely on such matters as National Security, military civil relations, and the military cost of war. It will focus on the larger politically and public dynamics and how these dynamics impinge on policymakers decisions. Each panelist will present we said five minutes, but they may bleed over their particular matters, and then well have an exchange where they apply to one another. Then well have a qa open to the audience. Without further delay, lets start with laura donohue. First, id like to thank don its a wonderful opportunity to come together to discuss these issues and id like to thank my fellow panelists in advance. There
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