Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Veteran suicide continue to be a national epidemic. Veterans are estimated to have a suicide rate thats 50 higher than those who did not serve in the military. Major driver of sued rates is the incidence of post Traumatic Stress among our veterans. According to the department of veterans affairs, between 11 and 20 of those who served in operatiOperation Iraqi freedomr enduring freedom suffer from pts. Veterans with pts may be troubled by intrusive thoughts, avoid people, places and things, and experience hyperawareness and nightmares. They mind find they are no longer able to trust and love those closest to them. Some may even feel that life is no longer worth living. Unfortunately, many veterans have had significant problems in receiving the health care they deserve. Issues regarding inadequate treatment of veterans by the va have been widely reported. These include long wait times and the overprescription of
President ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio, in cspan. Org. Monday on of the communicators, george ford, chief economist of the Phoenix Center for Public Policy studies and mark cooper, Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america, debate the secs proposal allowing consumers to buy their own settop boxes instead of renting them from cable providers, a move to open up competition in the settop box market. They are joined by lydia bay ude. We think we need competition in the settop box market, and we want competition, competition, competition. Someplace who has worked; some places it hasnt. This is one where it really hasnt. We the lower prices and more choices with vigorous competition. The first question is is there a market for settop boxes . The answer really, in terms of what has been over the cable network, is no, because they
Companies have taken extra steps for their data and you are very careful about it. But its certainly interesting about when it should be outdoors, and to be able to get into the content when they are investigating someone. It seems that they are leaving the back door open for potential hackers as well. And i wondered if you could just speak to this. Sure, we are on the cusp of this Information Age revolution and the we are connecting ourselves more rapidly than ever before, whether it is appliances in the home, those that are tracking the health and fitness or are smart phones. And we have all that personal information, Health Information doctors information and Financial Information all right there on these devices. And this is a very important moment to think about what you can do to make sure that consumers can trust all of that activity in their lives. And that is why i think Data Security is absolutely vital. And technology has pretty real concerns about the authority to have info
Question, first. In terms of the input, my opinion the devil is always in the details. I would want to understand the specifics of what we are talking about. That is a good duck. It just doesnt crack. Lets move on, i want to ask you about the use of encrypted information by terrorist and criminals. The fbi director came before us and gave us stark testimony about going dark and how big the problem was. Did you believe the increased use of this kind of encryption and apps as you pointed out poses a National Security threat . Yes, maam, i am concerned the direction we are going, if we make no changes is minted we have to get together with the government and industry and policy side. This is a complex network and there is no simple answer here. If we put our mind to it, we can come up with a solution that is september acceptable. You dont want me or an Intelligence Organization making those kinds of decision. You dont want us to unilaterally do that. I am the first to acknowledge that. Th
I would like to call this hearing to order. Admiral, welcome. I would like to welcome admiral rogers, director of the National Security agency. Mike, as you know we typically hold hearing in close session so we can review your classified programs. Given the sensitive nature of the programs and the need to protect methods which intelligence is gathered that position is understandable. Today, we want to take time to insure the American People have an opportunity to learn more about the nsa, the mission you workforce is tasked with and what you are doing to combat the increasing cyber threat to the nation. Cyber threats are top priority for the Intelligence Community. Attacks are increasing in scale, scope, and complexity and severity of impact. The office of personal management suffered from one of the biggest Cyber Breaches our government has ever encountered and there are count less other recent examples of attacks in the public and private sector. While the nsa typically works in secr