100,000 in cash prizes with a grand prize of 5,000. For more information go to our web site, studentcam. Org. Next, a conference on government surveillance and privacy. Law professors, Security Experts and former government officials talk about oversight of the Intelligence Community. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the cato institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here, and im grateful to everyone who has come out bright and early to the cato auditorium for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by foreman nsa contractor edward snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency, unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by a report from the, from the Inte
Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intelligence Committees. Even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a in a way that was unp
Didnt come out before usa freedom was voted on. Fbi sort of obstinately refuses to tag the source of their data. Some of which comes from nsa. Which nsa has had to do since 2009. So the same things that nsa is required to do, just for spying, fbi is not required to do, yet theyre the ones throwing people in jail. So i mean, we made as a nation a policy choice after 9 11, there was a lot of discussion about should we set up a separate Domestic Intelligence agency. And the choice was made, no, were going to keep it in the fbi. That necessarily means weve got an agency that does both intelligence and Law Enforcement. That creates a lot of complications, particularly in an environment where every commission thats looked at every terrorist attack has said, we need to share a greater flow of information back and forth. Im not really in a position i dont have that much because the fbi is part of the department of justice, i dont have the same visibility of the oversight there that i do with r
Automatically, and you are going through your world whether your smartphone or your credit card, you are doing this hundreds of times a day, maybe. All ofue is nsa can use that to establish a profile. That is a good thing. Why do you have to do it to hundreds of millions of innocent people . That is a problem. That is where i have a problem. I do not want to hurt nsa. I served 30 years there. And it is a needed capability to keep us safe, but my goodness, we need to observe the three legs of the government, the legislative process, to the judiciary, as it was always intended. We do not need to say that we are at perpetual war and can never go back to a democratic visible. We need to get away from that. And that is on the idea that theres a lot of information that is limited to the dish it to the leadership. I can only speak to what ive that is really quite only for sensitive operations. Abbotobad aid on when youre talking about the kinds of things from the surveillance nsa does, those
Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch