Civilians from 1942 to 1948. Many u. S. Visit from german japanese and italian descent. This is about 45 minutes. [inaudible] good evening. Thank you and what a pleasure it is to be here in austin texas the greatest bookstore in the country. Im the editor of Texas Monthly magazine and im so pleased to be here. The one secret that i have learned is when you like and admire the author that youve are introducing you keep it short and get her appear onstage. I would say how special it is to be here and what a nice pleasure it is. As we all know jim was raised in the pine woods and got the book for writing and reading in her household when she was growing up because there were books about because of her mom and dad in at the age of 16 took a parttime job at the weekly newspaper in her hometown of cleveland at the cleveland advocate and from then she has never stopped writing and went to the university of texas the teenager list covering politics first in san antonio and then off to bigger l
But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database
Does matter from a lot of perspectives and makes us more capable if we do it right which is the key. I think escaped one up there. A partnership and collaboration. We are not doing this without partnership. There is person back there that talks to me more about the publicprivate partnerships. That is a we are doing right now with some of the folks. I think that is the key to a lot of our future. Proactive versus reactive. I cannot even jump on that. Proactive has to occur on both sides versus reactive. There is a global context. I am not sure everyone understands. I would argue that some parts of industry and not fully understand the impacts of that particular piece. But i think it gives the market. That is an important part. Road map with midterm and far term. We made a conscious choice that dynamic sharing in this last spectrum change was not available to us from both a technological side as well as the regulatory side. In the next change i think that it will be which is a critical p
The whole business to manage your money is made more confusing and difficult because of the arcane terminology and wall street jib rush you hear every day. Youve got to remember that theres an entire industry of people that want you convinced that investing is too hard. The safest thing is to give your money to a pro. Now, maybe that is the right thing for some of you, but if you put in the effort, if you do the homework, the fact of the matter is that many of the pros are just about to your fees. More interested in taking your money than making you money. Look, theyre strong. Theyre like the wizard of oz. They dont want you to understand. If you did, ewe take control of your own finances, and not do the things youre perfectly capable of doing yourself. Pull back the curtain and explain everything. You can comprehend off the mythical categories as long as you have a translator, a coach like me who can explain what the darn words mean. Think of me as the defector. Someone who defected a
Partners. The irony is where brazil and india governments are, the bottom line is reforms need to happen internally that are about legal questions, but theres also a strategic level of interest that needs to go on here. [inaudible] do you think there is a possibility of a parallel within the United States . Great question. In the book, there is a chapter on the chinese approach. One of the key aspects besides the Massive Campaign of intellectual property theft, you have how this links into an assassins doctrine where youre looking at a potential enemy and saying, im going to turn their strengths into a weakness. The ability to mobilize massive Human Capital behind it. This is used to describe the internal selfcensoring model, the human flesh Search Engine is how it translates. When you talk about the number of folks involved, a mix of cyber militia and patriotic hacker communities, the scale is enormous. It is measuring and hundreds of thousands of folks. Most of those are people who a