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Really to two root problems. The first is that the Cyber Systems that we rely on are inherently vulnerable. So the commercial operating systems, the commercial software packages, the commercial hardware platforms, these are all designed rimarily to address profit motives. They are easily obtained by the attacker. They can exploit and find the vulnerabilities in those systems and that is largely what they take advantage of. Thats probably not going to change any time soon. And then the second pro...

Phones we are caring around. It is an criticized by attorney general holder and the head of the fbi. How much did what apple and google, what they are saying they are going to do, how much did that hurt some of the work you did . Was a going too far between the balance of security and mike, you start. We want to be respectable people jobs. Move to protect privacy of individuals and mobile. Isis we give up so much information. They want to get into our content, look at information. Justiceur depa...

Remarkable, a coming together of all of these federal agencies working seamlessly together. To give you an example, when we have the denial of service attacks that were hitting our financial institutions, we were was working to these were bot nets. The fbi was reaching out to their counterparts. There is a lot of noise out there. What we did, and this is unique. To state department decided do. I was thought it was a bad thing. You can have a positive, where you say i need your help on something,...

Complete deniability. If i was the United States or the iranians i would want to keep it that way. Mark, in your presentation you mentioned that in iraq and the United States and iran are kind of tacitly in alignment supporting the central government, perceived as a broader shiite government. In syria the interests begin to diverge over the future of assad. How do you see that tension playing out over time, particularly when you have u. S. Forces in iraq where you also have iranian forces. Some ...

Before the release. Your honor. Orrect, but there is no doubt best mark information ssi. Before it is going out . Correct. S. S. I. Ion can be whether or not it is marked that way. Regulations are clear on this that details of federal air deployment are covered as s. S. I. And this issue was the ated before administrative judge. If there were no regulations on the books tes at that point are there any disclosure . On there can be no s. S. I. Without regulation . Me thats correct, your honor. Wha...

Deferred action and in arizona versus United States, the Supreme Court relied upon the broad discretion exercised by the federal immigration officials including, quote, whether it makes sense to remove all, and strike down all of arizonas sweeping Immigration Law. Because it could result in harassment of sole aliens, thats their term for example, a veteran, a College Student or someone assisting in a criminal investigation, should not be removed, the law, quote violates of the the principle that...

Very good, and im proud of it. It supports d. H. S. s frontline personnel and essential Security Operations and maintains fiscal discipline. Specifically for customs and Border Protection, this agreement adds 42 million above the request to ensure assure 24 7 surveillance of all land, sea and air approaches. It increases air and marine flight hours from 74,000 to 95,000 per year. This agreement fully funds 23,775 Border Patrol officers to reduce wait times of passengers arriving at the Nations I...

The fed is easy, easy, easy. Keep talking about data dependent but i think all they will do is keep Interest Rates at zero percent. I dont think they will ever raise rates. Any blip in the economy and bad market they may start another round of quantitative easing. Gerri oh, my goodness. Gary, peter, im sorry to you. Do you agree with that . Will they never raise rates . I believe they intend on raising rates. The real question whether russia or some other event disrupts global economy. Were in a...

Hackers stole information on salaries and copies of unreleased movies and rendered thousands of Company Computers unusable and taking the network offline. President barack obama spoke about the attack in his year end News Conference. He said hackers caused a lot of damage across the country. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the united states. We will respond. We will respond proportionally and respond in a place and time and manner t...

Belgian media are reporting that two people have been killed during a Police Counterterrorism raid in the eastern town of verviers. A third person was seriously wounded, and several others detained. The raid was reportedly against a suspected radical islamist cell. Belgian public radio says an operation was under way in brussels as well, apparently targeting a Jihadist Group that recently returned from syria. We want to go to our correspondent, who is in brussels with the story. This is breaking...