Strong arm Boris Johnson begins his campaign to persuade the British Parliament to back his new grex a deal and he has just one more day to do it. Plus qatar promises to reform labor laws for the Migrant Workers building the venues for the 2022 world cup will it be enough to improve the dire conditions they face. Im calling ousmane welcome to the program turkeys president recha tie affair to want is denying reports that his troops have broken the ceasefire in northeastern Syria Kurdish led Syrian Forces accuse the turks of failing to stick to a deal brokered by the americans after sporadic clashes broke out in one border town has hailed the deal as a victory for turkey. Saying adot quotes everything it what it. Sporadic clashes and artillery strikes are hitting the Syrian Border town of. This just hours after top turkish and u. S. Officials agreed to impose a pause in the fighting in the region today the United States and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. Turkish side will p
A specific fashion, not in oblique mention in wind up statement or some generality. There needs to be specific requests made so that we can engage whether or not vietnam is about to move in the right direction or continue its deterioration when it comes to human rights. There are a number of areas where Human Rights Violations are worsening, human trafficking, religious freedom and administration could, today, designate vietnam as a cpc country, country of particular concern, the facts are warranted and they also could be known as a tier three country when it comes to egregious violations of sex and labor trafficking, especially labor trafficking in vietnam. So the president has tools in his tool box, the president of the United States, we hope that hef us he uses them. Well send per your request and your testimony your strong appeal backed up by our strong appeal, well do it immediately. I hope its specific some general statement about human rights. It hasnt in any other country aroun
The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that meant talking to neighbors and family. Today, with more than a billion individuals on facebook, what a person says and does on social media can often give a better insight on who they really are. Since 2008, various federal agencies have conducted studies on using social media data in investigations and they all find the same thing, that there
Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that m
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