War in the middle east. Tonights debate could not be in more timely. Our debaters also could not be better suited to giving us different points of view. Here below we have john yoo on the left. John, stand up. Jen was Deputy Assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel and the bush Justice Department. John wrote a number of key legal memo supporting bushs post9 11 counterterrorist policies. Then bruce, standup bruce was associate Deputy Attorney general under president reagan and also was chief policy adviser to rand paul during the 2012 president ial campaign. And harvey is going to be our moderator. Harvey is currently the dean of the national war college. Harveys last job was director, the Less Government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. So thank you Harvey Rishikoff. [applause] there wasnt a single founder who doubted that going to war with the most important decision a republican made. The war power is the most important are because war is th
Officers think about the world the way we do our security professionals. The general counsels are rightly worrying about things like liabilities so what will happen again if this leaks what will happen . Will this be used against us in the competition . The Government Contractor supplies something so what happens to that end is there an incentive not to reveal things because my competitors not revealing them . Antitrust questions people often raise. Those are the gc questions which i is to ask myself so they are good questions. Congress has to give comfort to those general counsels to remove those concerns from the information sharing pipeline and i think they are well underway. Thats fairly easy to fix harder to fix would be, not sex but to develop wouldbe machine speed sharing in the hardest of all frankly is the cultural impediments that i attribute to be theres a lot of people who dont want to be seen with us. I will make meet you behind the 7eleven in the dark but i dont want to b
After decades of service to the country, women warriors are the gold women lawyers are the gold standard. She said why should we trust nsa or any Government Agency to put the technical side of this together . Why should we and then why do you trust them and i said well, i start with this there are bad guys out there trying to attack us to read what sort of the terrorist piece of this. I want to know who they are and disrupt them before they do that. My assumption is most of them are in some Foreign Place and are not u. S. Persons. But at any rate, some of them could be. So, congress tried to design a system, and i think they did so pretty well. Building in safeguards. Court reviewing the congressional oversight. Now the system got a lot bigger since 9 11. Is it the right size . I dont know. I dont know if its the right size. But i know im not the person, or if i were a member of congress now or even as the slowly beat up president and ceo of the Wilson Center just getting im not the pe
Forth. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask further that the committeereported amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that the Energy Committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 2440 and the senate proceed to its consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 2440 a bill to expand and extend the program to improve coordination by the bureau of lefthand management and for other bureau of Land Management and for other purposes. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that udall new mexico amendment whic