Variety of reasons. So the legislative portion of those reviews never reached fruition. There were a number of internal reviews and internal changes that took place as a result of the Church Committee inquiry and later the and that person has to report to kblg about what it finds about what he or she finds to be the problem internally. Kate scott, thank you. Thank you. Our coverage, 40 years later continues. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. 40 years ago they created a committee to look into the u. S. Intelligence services. They had a long title. The Senate Select committee with respect to intelligence activities. It took on the nickname of its chairman and best known to historys the Church Committee. It called 800 witnesses and the legacy includes the Senate Select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. Two former staffers are with us and wil
Militarizing Law Enforcement act does. And that is to stop that flow. And return control of the process of accusation of acquisition back into the hands of civilian authority. Thats the first thing that we need to do. And the second thing with need to do isening sure a good analysis of the personnel that we have doing the Law Enforcement, because as i said, if you have been to a war zone, the statistics show that many of those who return from the battle suffer from posttraumatic stress and other illnesses that affect the Mental Health of the people. And so, we must take better care of the Mental Health of our Law Enforcement personnel. Be they having or having been deployed or not, being involved in Law Enforcement is very stressful and sometimes that Mental Health can break down and people start making bad decisions. And so we must get a handle on that in this country. And then, once we get a handle on the militarization, there are structural issues that need to be dealt with, loss of
Our statutory authority. Increasingly we are finding ourselves unable to read what we find or unable to open a new device. That is serious. I think encryption is a good thing. I think there are tremendous societal impacts to encryption. Not only lock your cars, but you should encrypt things that are important to you. We have a collision in this country getting closer and closer to a head on, which is our important interest in privacy and our important interest in public safety. The logic of universal encryption is inexorable, that our authority under the fourth amendment, and amendment i think is critical to liberty and the right oversights to obtain information is going to become increasingly irrelevant. As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by encryption. Terrorists and spies will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to courtordered process. That i think should be very concerning. I think we need to have a conversation ab
Reasons i voted for the training and equiping measures that have been implemented but my frustration is that as you also have observed there is a huge gap between the goals and missions that weve outlined for the United States and the actual action that were undertaking the train and equip activities are way behind what we might have hoped by this point and theres no clear timetable for really achieving the level of capability that we expected or hoped. I hope this has been a very sobering morning. I thank you all for being here. Thank you. Senator mccain i also want to thank the witnesses. Its been, i think, helpful to all members and this is not an issue thats going oy way, so im sure that well be seeing you again. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] mexico motivated next, the vice chair on global threats. M behringe
Screeria nigeria. Adm wednesday the sitter hearing about what they believe are the most pressing issues for veterans including veterans health, suicide prevention, and budgetary issues. This is two hours. Ranking member blumenthal. There will be an opportunity for remarks. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Our witnesses will include the paralyzed veterans of america colonel Robert Norton Patrick Little commander of the military the witnesses here today and the organizations they represent serve a necessary and admirable role to ensure men and women of our armed forces have the care benefits, and opportunities they deserve when they come home. Im thankful for the dedication and the Noble Service of each of the organizations represented here today and their representatives have worn the uniform themselves. A returning war fighter deserves the best. Im honored in my position as chairman of the House Committee to work alongside these groups to make sure that is exactly what they get. I wo