Hello. Mr. Bob woodward, congressman chavez, Michael Horowitz, good afternoon to you all. My name is Camille Nelson and i have the great privilege of serving as the dean of American University Washington College of law. It is pi great pleasure to welcome you to this beautiful campus for such an important conversation on government oversight and accountability in conjunction with the launch of our new student publication, oversight project. Org. This project is yet another example of the stellar work of our student leaders in creating a go to source about the work of federal oversight, accountability and ethics wash dogs. We do not be more proud of our students, their effort and enthusiasm here at Washington College of law. And our law Cool Community is a especially gracteful that the launch of this project is made possible and elevated with the cadre of leading experts who will share their insights on oversight and accountability with us today. So my warm welcome to all of you, again,
And boy contribution and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to be joined by laura poitras, director of citizenfour, which has generated a great deal of conversation around the world about our government and specifically the role of the nsa in its surveillance operations. Citizenfour focuses on contractor Edward Snowden and takes a deep dive into the what, why, when, and how was his decision to leak classified information. Well take a look at a clip before we start our conversation. Ill come out just to go, hey you know this is not a question of somebody skulking around in the shadows. These are public issues. These are not my issues, you know. These are everybodys issues. And im not afraid of you. Youre not going to bully me into silence like youve done to everybody else. If nobody else is going to do it, i will. And hopefully when im gone, whatever you do to me there will be somebody else who will do the same thing. It will be the internet p
He was a great friend of mine. Thats a personal note. He was significantly important and necessary in venzuela penn is not afraid of controversy and of questioning those in power we put 11,000,000,000 into pakistan. Pakistan is not our friend. He knows his position in Popular Culture is based on what he believes in including haiti and pakistan. After he presented an International Human rights award to a womens group in dublin how do you prefer to be known these days . As an actor or an activist . It never occurs to me to differentiate anything that i do, you know, whether its making coffee. I tend to live my life in flow, and i do whatever it is that i reporter you have been at a ceremony honoring those people who are defenders of human rights. Their work is far removed from the industries we are both involved in which, as you know, can be quiet superficial, quite wealthy at times, privileged. Is it hard to be a part of that industry and then watch, as you know you do, the injustices .
Respect itself we will discuss his roles as an actor, activist and his controversial relationship with hugo chavez . He was an electric personal thety. He was a great friend of mine. Thats a personal note. He was significantly important and necessary in venzuela penn is not afraid of controversy and of questioning those in power we put 11,000,000,000 into pakistan. Pakistan is not our friend. He knows his position in Popular Culture is based on what he believes in including haiti and pakistan. After he presented an International Human rights award to a womens group in dublin how do you prefer to be known these days . As an actor or an activist . It never occurs to me to differentiate anything that i do, you know, whether its making coffee. I tend to live my life in flow, and i do whatever it is that i reporter you have been at a ceremony honoring those people who are defenders of human rights. Their work is far removed from the industries we are both involved in which, as you know, can
An actor, activist and his controversial relationship with hugo chavez . He was an electric personal thety. He was a great friend of mine. Thats a personal note. He was significantly important and necessary in venzuela penn is not afraid of controversy and of questioning those in power we put 11,000,000,000 into pakistan. Pakistan is not our friend. He knows his position in Popular Culture is based on what he believes in including haiti and pakistan. After he presented an International Human rights award to a womens group in dublin how do you prefer to be known these days . As an actor or an activist . It never occurs to me to differentiate anything that i do, you know, whether its making coffee. I tend to live my life in flow, and i do whatever it is that i reporter you have been at a ceremony honoring those people who are defenders of human rights. Their work is far removed from the industries we are both involved in which, as you know, can be quiet superficial, quite wealthy at time