new york city remains a top target for terrorists. the white house wants to cut the $180 million terror funding budget in new york city cut it by half to $90 million. nypd s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, john miller, joining us this morning. john, welcome back to campus. former abc colleague, of course host of 20/20. nice to see you before we get to the antiterrorism, there s breaking news. we re recording this on a friday. i want to talk to you about what s going on with apple, and you have been the nypd s point man so far this week about this. today, late this afternoon, the justice department urging a judge to compel apple to help the fbi crack open an iphone that s locked right now that belonged to one of the san bernardino terrorists. you are joining the fight because you have cases here. you re making the case against apple, as well, though. well, yeah. we have a couple of hundred apple devices operating on their new operating system that cannot be p
delighted to be here. this place is a vibrent center celebrating its 10th anniversary. i am asked often for advice on how to promote a book after it has been published. . provocative coverage ever since he gave up practicing law nine years ago, to write columns and books. he started his first blog in 2005 because, as he says in the introduction of his new book, he had become alarmed by the bush administration s post-9/11 their arrives executive power and wanted to make a broader impact in his career as a constitutional and civil rights lawyer allowed. by 2007 he had become a contributing writer at salon, and in 2012 he signed if one the guardian having himself as a dogged pursuer of stories involving government overrow. it was glenn s aggressive coverage of such controversies arizona warrantless wire tapping by the nsa that led snowden to seek him out and enlist million in the release of the classified files documenting the nsa s vast information collection apparatus. glenn
i want to maximize every platform i have two go-round the world and talk about why the surveillance policies are so dangerous and why government secrecy is dangerous urging people to protect their own privacy and talk about why that s so urgent. it was announced today that sony pictures purchase the book to make a film about it. i m thrilled about that as well. [applause] when i was growing up i was accessed with the film all the presidents men. it reached me about the duties of journalism and i think the book and film will reach people in all sorts of ways that wouldn t otherwise engage people. it would be great if we could spend five months pouring out my heart and soul 10 hours a day into a book without being paid. like pretty much every journalist in person from noam chomsky to everyone else you need to get paid for your work like everybody else. i don t make apologies for that as well. my duty to my sources to bring the message he wanted to bring to the world as effectiv
i don t think any meaningful change will come exclusively or primarily from within this fundamentally corrupt system. it takes all sorts of other things from those who aren t in it to take action and not rely on punching a hole every two years next to a name in order for it to happen. [applause] you started a talk by talking about the various attacks on snowden which is the only way they can attack information i m curious if you can think of effective attacks they have been doing and what your thinking will be on reasonable offenses to becoming a tax on snowden and information. do you mean other things that they could deal with effectively that they haven t yet thought up that you want me to share? i said earlier actually there is a really interesting debate that is critical in nature of the work that snowden has done and that i have done and warren has done and others of us have done among people with whom i have been long allied that says the disclosures that we have ma
have career choices. the nsa needs young highly adept people for programming to work in their system or their corporate partners like silicon valley partners need those people to operate those systems. they waste money mayor faces of the people they want and then there s the other side where their tech companies that use privacy tools of the kind that you said were social activism groups. you may not make as much money doing that but that s the kind of choice we all can make to have an ultimate impact. the last point you made i want to underscore which is this remarkable there are tools now bike tour browsers that can protect the internet. the nsa is pulling its hair out over its ability to convey communications in one of the things that is credible is the nsa scours the internet looking for people who are using pgp to protect their e-mails because they regard anybody who uses pgp e-mail as inherently suspicious on the grounds that if anybody wants to keep their communication