credibility and accountability and will tip to do so. do you have another question. i m going to make a quick note on that. and see if dan agrees. afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt patronage system to a system which will be professional, transparent and noncorrupt. that is a long hard road to travel. and if president ghani moves too fast he will break his politics. and he will cause so many groups to be disgruntled with him and organize against him. so we have to be patient and recognize that this kind of transition is very difficult. he s got to be on that road he has to be convincing of the afghan people, but we have to give him a little slack. because if he moves too fast and breaks his politics and we lose the government, then we lose the possibility of moving to a professional, transparent and nonrupt system and go back to the old afghanistan and that is not good for anybody. sorry. and i absolutely concur with that. and i guess finally the last question on
customers a day. host: you will have to leave it there. we appreciate your time. we will now bring you to the senate homeland security and government affairs committee. they are looking at the bureau of oversight. and the challenges facing the federal prison system. you can see the chairman, ron johnson, who will be gathering there shortly. senator johnson: good morning. this hearing will come to order. i am looking forward to this. i was telling the witnesses, i have read all of the testimony, and i generally do that to the best of my ability, sometimes the testimony can be a little dry and will put me to sleep when i m reading later at night. in this case, not whatsoever. the testimony was fascinating partly because i am new to the issue. i will keep my opening statement brief. i know senator booker wants to make an opening statement and he is been involved longer than i have. being a business guy i am dated driven data driven. the data on this with a high level incarce
this panel will look to what we can and are doing at home and internationally to counter those threats. specifically, the panel will explore questions the rise of these threats and the parallel rise of the new world of ubiquitous connectedness and the internet of everything raise for policymakers. how do we protect connected societies? who s responsible for what? what are the rules of the road? what are the ways where we think it a place where normative behavior is agreed upon internationally? moderating the session we have john, probably the longest and oldest reporter covering this, going back to the 1970 s. writing the same stories until most recently. a reporter in the science section of the new york times. part of a group of reporters who won the pulitzer prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. he has a book coming. request for common ground between humans and machines. [applause] thank you, everyone. my panelists to my left, the director of the national security agen
down and say, can we do both? what about our allies and other countries? that is the debate. it is not an easy answer. you can see both sides of the issue. aside.e to set that one we have to solve that problem. without it, we are going to have something bad happened. security, that is a different issue. how networks are secure. we should talk about that. it is not the same as communication s. if i look at that particular use case. what it tells me, security issues are only going to become more and more personalized in our society. the situation where you have terrorist organizations recruiting people on twitter. ofis a pointer to me technology becoming a more personalized aspect of our lives. in particular, the upcoming generations. i think is going to be important for us, not just a focus on what is happening technology becomes more personalized and a part of what we are doing, we have to think around what are the indications of that from a policy perspective. a security per
up next, you will hear conflicting testimony on how women are treated in the federal prison system. charles samuels of the federal theau of prisons testifies system does not practice solitary confinement, while p kerman totally a different story. this is three hours. not so in this case whatsoever. i think the testimony was fascinating, partly because i am somewhat new to this issue. i will keep my opening statement somewhat brief, because i know senator booker would like to make an opening statement. i am happy to have him do so because he has been involved in this issue longer than i have. i just want to make a couple of brief remarks. being a business guy i am pretty data driven. the data, the statistics, on this particular problem the severe prison sentence with a high level incarceration rates are pretty stark. in 1980, there were 25,000 people in the federal prison systems. today there are 29000, a 736