Partner in monitor breakfast land the past couple years. Shes heading off to graduate school and today is her last breakfast. Jared gilmore, who just graduated from the school of journalism at northwestern will be taking over. As those of you who dealt with her, caitlin brought gace under pressure and unfailing kindness especially to the elderly. To the many logistical tasks these gatherings involve. Thank you, caitlin. [applause] now to the more mundane process matters. As always were on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short no filing of any kind while the breakfast is under way to give us time to actually listen to what our guests says. Theres no embargo when the session ends. As regular attendees know, if you would like to ask a question, please do the traditional thing and send me me a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will be happy to call on one and all in the time available. Lets offer our 0 guest to make opening comments, hes threatening to make news
Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to disappear in the middle of the night because the question i have we talk about lawyers, from a legal perspective is what the surveillance needs for Attorney Client privilege and when the government does ims surveillance, how that is protected and that might work. Depends on what mass surveillance you have in mind. That is a hard question to answer. On the journalism question there has been too much
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