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This is one hour. Good morning everybody. I am the Senior Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies at aei, and it is an honor for us to welcome the director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo, who i think for the first time is in his current role. I am going to read your bio. This is something i dont always do. I have sat down and look through the directors bio and i was enormously impressed. So i am going to read it and embarrass you. Sworn in as the director of the cia in january of 2017, mr. Pompeo was a congressman on the committee on intelligence and the committee on energy and commerce prior to that. He served on the benghazi committee, but he wasnt in business for himself, he was the head of his own company and was a graduate, number one in his and along the iron curtain, when we had an hiring, although we are on our way back. He graduated from harvard law school. That is pretty impressive. An honor to have you serving in our government, and delighted t
With the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back, first of all, from the break. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being willing to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic du jour, i would say, for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community, dealing with election cybersecurity and securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election, where we saw nation state actors targeting state level election systems or registration systems as well as vendors in a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security. So on this panel today, i hope we can delve into some of those issues, talk about the operating environment that Election Officials are in today, share the expertise that you all have, your experiences, and most importantly, what step
Announcer earlier today, former Vice President joe biden discusses the article he recently cowrote on russia and look at current relations with the kremlin, russias interference in the middle east and the foreignpolicy approach of the Obama Administration. From the council of Foreign Relations, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to odays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Liek al iron ridge you to read thisurge you to read issue. Havelk about how countries failed or either dealt with the legacies of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa and also the United States, given our complicated legacy. As well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss, i work here at the council on Foreign Relations. [applause] richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served
Baltimore. We have an excellent panel. We have, actually, appropriately enough, to leaders of liberal arts colleges and two leaders of large universities, all of whom share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Are you im sorry . Louder. Louder, okay, sorry. Do i need to start again . Okay, everyones heard us so far. So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones, and pull them toward them, everyone up here. I want to introduce our four panelists briefly. Carol quillen, to my immediate left, president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, spent much of her career at Rice University in houston. To her left is jonathan holloway, provost of northwestern university. And until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college and edmund s. Morgan professor of africanamerican studies, history and american studies at yale. Jonathan is working on many interesting projects, including hes written an introduction for a new edition of