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So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ...

Threat to projects and Homeland Security counterterrorism program. He will be speaking on treasuries war, the unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. One final reminder. When this panel concludes we have to clear the room just like we did yesterday so the hotel can set up for lunch about 50 minutes and then well come back in and start our lunch program. Gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this morning, mary derosa, distinguished visitor from georgetown law. Thank you. [appla...

Evening will be rebroadcast saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time on booktv on cspan2. This weekend booktv is live in florida for the Miami Book Fair international. Coverage kicking off saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan two cspan2. Coming up on c span two tonight debate on the Sexual Assault in the military. Then the Georgetown Law Center exam congressional proposal to change nsa surveillance programs. Thats followed by a hearing examining how security clearances are granted. On the n...

It clear that a particular practice is ok going on in the future. It means, well, this is what theyve done they have done, so were not going to go back and revisit it. Just like were not going to go back and take the cross out of every city seal thats been there since, you know, 1800. But it doesnt mean that it would be ok to adopt a seal today that would have a cross in it, does it . Not necessarily. But i think history is clearly important to the establishment clause analysis under this courts...

Sanctuaries to launch suicide and car bomb attacks into baghdad. Theres already some of that going on now. This is precisely the tactic they used against the United States, and so they were pushed out by the american surgery and general petraeus in 2007 and 2008, and i think its likely theyll return to that. Host michael gordon, were you surprised at how fasthis host were you surprised at how fast this seems to have come on or have you been monitoring this for a while . Guest these days even tho...

Make is that also critical to dealing with these set of enduring challenges is the continued economic and technological leadership of the United States, which as former secretary gates and others have said, is National Security imperative for us. Now i would like to talk a little bit about the relationship between intelligence and National Security. We always say its the first line of defense. This time going forward, we really do mean it. The benefits that it gives us is it informs our National...

One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my...

Many ideas. But there is also real darkness at the heart of the vision for the next four years. If there is engagement with the sunnis, it is about creating a new class of sunnis from the tribal and political groups at low level and trying to completely reduce and eradicate the National Level leadership of the sunnis. It struck me that the sunnis that wanted to support the sense of there being a Sunni Community who could Work Together, those people are the ones that the Iraqi Government were pla...

New sources of revenue. I think theyre attacking both of those things, but to focus on the revenue side. I think, one, looking for new ways to delight and hold consumers. So if you look at comcast and its investment in the x1 platform, if you can make video on demand more attractive, easier to use, the interfaces more weblike and more delightful, number one, dont lose what you have, right . Innovate, keep what you have. You also see them taking advantage of broadband, right . That is a blessed s...

Several developments today in the crisis in iraq. The pentagon said that the u. S. Military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect troops and diplomats. Human watch say there is evidence that Islamic State in iraq and the levant killed up to 180 men after taking tikrit. The ayatollah called on the country. Mike viqueira is live for us on the white house with more on these militants. Do the drones represent a major escalation. Reporter heres what we knew and what we know now. Forces have ...