So americans at data are not indiscriminate research by intelligence authorities. This event was hosted by the association of former Intelligence Officers. Okay. Im up here during my tap dance. It is a pleasure to introduce hate is the chairman formal general counsel to the National Security agency. He is going to introduce our first speaker do it. Okay thank you. Jim. I am really delighted to be able to introduce matz olson. As you know we advertise and we did until the events over last weekend and she is obviously tied up permanently or at least for some weeks. We asked who can talk about this topic of pfizer . Her suggestion and the suggestion of the white o house wass that we ask matz olson to o it. Matt, we are grateful to you for doing this on short notice. Matt is perfect for this topic. He has a deep experience in the Intelligence Community. It was general counsel at the oe National Security agency, in between there before he came back to the Justice Department he now runs the
Walking us through what their journeys have been like. Thank you again. [applause] and some news about new york congressman Michael Grimm from the Washington Post. That he has been taken into custody facing federal charges, a 0count indictment 20count indictment against him connected to a restaurant he opened before entering congress and alleging that the restaurant hid more than a Million Dollars in tax receipts from local and federal tax officials while also paying workers hundreds of thousands of dollars off the books. Now, aides say that House Speaker john boehner has not spoken to congressman grimm about the indictment. Neither the speaker, nor majority leader, eric cantor of virginia, have commented on his political future. Well keep you posted with any updates on the story on the cspan networks. And in about 15 minutes, well be returning to the Antidefamation League conference where fbi director james comey will be speaking about ate crimes after the recent hate crimes after the