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There are other bodys like this elsewhere in the state of california . Actually there are not any local Sentencing Commission to my knowledge that exist anywhere else in the United States and we are the first of its kind, local Sentencing Commission, and there are 21 states, that have state level Sentencing Commissions. And so, without the other similar bodies elsewhere and in other county in the state of california who are your partners around the state . That you are working with to help, look...

Serve we pleasure of the appointing authority and on page, 3, lines, 14 to 18 and we have added the language and regarding the member attendance and the requirement and on page 5, lines 17 through 18, we have amended to indicate that the members will serve for the life of the commission. Thank you. Okay. Very good, thank you for your presentation and your work on the commission. Yes, thank you for your work. And we can go to Public Comment, any member of the public that would like to comment on ...

Congress reacted to snowden and theyre saying hmm, maybe it is not quite so scary as we thought to go against the government. I want to move on because of the time. But, mieke, i thought you might have the best view into how might this ruling influence the politics of this, the congressional will . I think that the court the Second Circuit clearly put this back in congress lap and said, look, congress did not explicitly authorize this Bulk Collection Program under 2150 and if they want to be exp...

When president bush instituted it and president obama continued it, they didnt have an open discussion about whether the country should have such a program. And actually that seems to run through a little bit of yesterdays opinion by judge lynch. Even dick cheney. This is something that i discovered in writing this book that nobody had ever seen before. When he wrote his dissent in the irancontra matter, he said if you have a hard Foreign Policy or National Security issue, a wise president first...

Or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email, journal cspan. Org. We will get your thoughts in a minute. Joining us on the phone is sarah mimms, staff correspondent at national journal. Lets begin with what is happening on the floor in the house and senate. Guest sure. The senate particularly is really interesting. They are coming in in very much the same position they were last week. They still have a Human Trafficking bill holding them up. They still need to confirm Lorett...

Patrick to explain it and bob to comment, but to present the severe dissonance that exists in terms of what this is. Nancy, described it as phoning up investigations and said shed never heard it anything like it. And senior dea officials called it decades old, a bedrock concept. And nancy was a judge, by the way. Patrick . Mr. Toomey to describe what and some of the critical criminal cases we litigate, and articles described, and articles have expended on especially to the deas program and recen...

As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly cl...

Is the balance that has to be struck in any kind of legislation like this. Mr. Vitka i would think the most informative part there, for policy makers, would be the number of americans who are affected, and i do not mean the numbers who are targeted, that it would indicate a pretty broad number that would not drive down to something that would compromise surveillance operations. Bob, is that the case, or am i mistaken . Mr. Litt it is difficult for me to answer that. There are other consideration...

Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Colle...

Forces. But they will not be responsible for securing iraq. Tonight we are going to update you on the political realities that have led to the present ends than of his plan to degrade and destroy the Islamic State. Joining us is k. T. Mcfarland democratic strategist doug schoen and National Reviews Jillian Kay Melchior. Also herotorus srecynd idologal aitiowhave be cahingupthilary clton. W ll nbershowthe jori ofmerinsave cide tha the former secretary of date is anything but honest and trustworth...