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Day which he can do every day and does every day. Hes constantly driving the message and therefore having us around really allows him to do that. Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland Security Officials talked about what theyre doing to combat threats to the u. S. , focussing on interagency communication and efforts to improve efficiencies. They spoke before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. Good morning. This roundtable of the Homeland Security Gove...

Processes that will enable us to match individuals as mr. Scott described. There are multiple tony scotts so we are working through the pilot and i think this will be an ongoing process and where the places we need human intervention where the places that technology can help with that resolution. Mr. Evanina can you speak to some of the challenges associated with verifying social media data . I think challenges cannot be understated in terms of number one Identity Resolution as my colleagues men...

Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The he...

A specific fashion, not in oblique mention in wind up statement or some generality. There needs to be specific requests made so that we can engage whether or not vietnam is about to move in the right direction or continue its deterioration when it comes to human rights. There are a number of areas where Human Rights Violations are worsening, human trafficking, religious freedom and administration could, today, designate vietnam as a cpc country, country of particular concern, the facts are warra...

The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individu...

Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to de...

You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours ...

Mr. Lynch the cost estimate. You know, we had some pilot programs that tell us its somewhere between, you know, 100 and 500 per person for a private vendor to do this screening, this gathering of social media information. Is that pretty close to what the in practice what were finding . Mr. Scott yeah, i would say some of the pilots that have run the estimates are within that range. Clearly one of the things that will have to happen, and i think the pilots will inform this, some greater level of ...

Laughter . This particular group, and we take it as a very serious threat stream, one that were concerned about and sometimes it gets lost on the public the threatbased on of isil. Is that is a threat. Probably threat is more immediate and what concerns us most about it is the working with aqap and other affiliates to put together an thats successful mainly targeted at aviation targets, i think all of that has public, but its serious and its rising up. And its interesting that where you see thes...

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. ...