in 1830, and he was appointed as a territorial secretary at 19, which is a record probably that will never be broken. another record that certainly will never be broken was 1835 when at age 24, he was elected the first states governor. and in time the people of michigan and the people of detroit came to trust him as, even though a young person, a very skilled and dedicated leader. well, mason was regarded first of all by the people in his own territory as a bit of an interloper, just coming in from kentucky. when the logical thing for jackson to do what it into a point in michigan person, a detroit politician for the number two position in the territory. but because mason had made such an impression on jackson himself, they had met and jackson thought this young man had a lot of confidence in itself and a vision, so that i will appoint him. the strip of land that was dispute between michigan and ohio actually dated back to the northwest ordinance when that ordinance determi
been reprimanded for that. mr. bankston, what do you think? speaking generally we think transparency is critical to restoring trust in the u.s. internet economy and in the u.s. government itself. but it alone is not sufficient and that indeed substantive reform is necessary. cbp supports the bill you have introduced, u.s. freedom act aand we thank you for it. we look forward to working with you and the committee as it moves forward. i m worried about overclassification. i find oftentimes every administration s been guilty of this. it s easy to classify a secret classify a mistake rather than try to explain it. let me ask mr. salgado, are you permitted to tell us whether google s received any fisa court orders? i m sorry, mr. chairman. i would have to decline that answer until the bills that we re discussing today is passed. is our country safer because you can t answer the question? i can t imagine the country is safer as a result of that. thank you. that answer
better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. but let s be clear. it s not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support or no knowledge for nato. much of our parliamently our congre congressmen and senators don t know much about nato. most would be surprised that nato continues not only to run the afghan mission but have between a third and a half of the troops there from european countries. so we have done not a particularly good job of explaining the importance of nato to our own security, to our own to what it is that europe and nato contribute to what we do day in and day out. so before we start lecturing our european friends about how important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and
been raised company by company reporting that fisa might tip off those we re trying to track. but there s a lot of reporting available on criminal surveillance. is national security sufficiently different from criminal investigations, we have to have this kind of secrecy? i don t believe so, chairman. no. in the criminal context we re often investigating sophisticated organized criminals and in fact sometimes investigating terrorists. and yet we ve been able to publish and the u.s. government has been able to publish very detailed statistics about how the government is using its authorities, both the government as a whole and company by company without any suggestion that has harmed national security. and i just want to take the moment to address this issue of lumping all those authorities together. i think that combining numbers for targeted fisa intercepts with fisa registers, with fisa orders for records, with fisa warrants for stored communications, with all the range o
important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending is, we have a job to do here ourselves. our interim general scocroft that when we re thinking here how to engage in capitol hill that narrative. i ll take the woman in the back. thanks. my name is trina flocrant. while in washington i m at the trans-atlantic academy. what you said about the nato issue is music in my ears. i just wish it had been said by the defense and deterrence program or defense and deterrence posture review what s going on. because one of the things that was very apparent during that time was the silence from and i know that you as ambassador could probably not say what you said now, but from an american perspective, there was very little said to actually push the europeans in that direction you just outlined. i can say this because i m a european. i think without the americans taking the lead, and quite frankly, lecturing and pushing the europe