You have a third leg in the movement which is a judicial like. Youre talking about the dreamers, on the latino side, the black lives matter movement. You have a Racial Justice third wing of the party with no candidate no voice and no pretense to mask all of that and they exploded into public view. Coming up sunday evening at 630, the the Republican Jewish Coalition on reform featuring republican president ial candidates. For the full we can line up go to our website, cspan. Org. National drug control policy director Michael Botticelli testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee urging congress to reauthorize the programs. We also hear hear from the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program and the government office. This is is about two hours and 15 minutes. We will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The the office of natural drug control policy is charged with guiding the big picture strategy for addressi
We will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. The the office of natural drug control policy is charged with guiding the big picture strategy for addressing illicit drug problems in this country and the consequences thereof. I think we can all agree this is a problem that merits meaningful solutions. Over the years we as a nation have tried a variety of approaches to address the drug problem from the last reauthorization in 2006. Still today, the o and dcp has been intimately involved in the drug control efforts. Todays hearing hearing will look at the o and d. C. Since its last reauthorization which expired at the end of fiscal year 2010. There ten. There are important questions for consideration, one has it evolved into mask the drug control strategies, too, what is the value of this office and is a correctly placed an appropriately resourced to fulfill those functions . Earlier this year, the agency sent a letter to chairman and Ranki
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome our witness, acting director botacelli, this is the first time he appeared before the Appropriations Committee and i appreciate you coming to testify and thank you for your service. The office of National Drug control policy is charged with extremely Different Task of coordinating multiple efforts to it address many different drug related issues at home and abroad. In addition, you administer some of the very effective Drug Prevention and enforcement Grant Programs. And today the committee will examine the office of National Drug control policies fiscal year 2015 budget request along with your efforts to develop and coordinate our nations drug policies. The budget request submitted by the president has interesting priorities within this subcommittees jurisdiction. While the administration is requesting and increase of over 1 billion for the irs, increase over 500 million for the gsa, the administration has recommended a decrease be
Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community has established a blog on tumbler which i just learned about recently called icing on the record so you can just google i see on the record and you will find redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court pleadings and we are working hard to put additional matters up there. I cant say that they are selfexplanatory. They are written in densely blocks of redact the text. Another issue that we have to think about is not only the need for a person to have clearance and the ability to review things
Issues of personal data so that needs to be worked out. I do want to followup and the chairman is generous with time that we are deeply concerned about privacy with lawabiding american with the right to privacy. Texans are passionate how do you do that . How is it in this era of the internet with the cellphone how should day approach this problem to attack protect the lawabiding citizens is to identify those like hassan did to talk to the site go overseas . Why cant they do to help you do your job to protect the privacy rights when they use their cell phones . This is so ubiquitous as a quick side story that the cell phone is so ubiquitous i have to see my wife she sobbed that neither she used to resent all the autograph seekers and she said for the first time in my life i walked past the long line and most of them never looked at me and they were all doing this. The ones that did spot her appointed a selfie. How do we protect our privacy but still allow to spot with the psycho communi