The Intelligence Community to try to increase the amount of transparency about what that community does but thats running against the culture of that community and its a challenge because there are legitimate security reasons you dont blab about what you do but i do think that the lessons the last two years are that to the extent to a much greater extent than in the past the Intelligence Community would benefit from Greater Transparency about what its doing and why. Which is easy to say and hard to do. Do any of our panelists have any comments on the usa freedom act pending in congress and the differences between the house and the Senate Version of the bill, one of our questions related to the provision thats not in the house bill but in the senate bill regarding the special advocate for to be present before the fisa court. There was a provision in the house bill thats somewhat different than the senate bill. So i mean the house bill also had its not exactly special advocate. What it i
To be our last question. Hi. Hows the reseptember economic struggles impacted how states align with federal support and ability of the federal government toates align with fe support and ability of the federal government to give support . So here is the bottom line. There is a lot of downward pressure economically at all levels of government. And so, states and their political subdivisions, we have seen an increase in request for federal assistance, both inside and outside of the disaster declarations, to help offset the impact on budgets. Ill give you a great example. When it snows, there is a need to do removal of snow and ice from the roads. One would expect that most states and local governments would plan and budget for that. As a policy matter we generally dont provide assistance for road treatment unless there is a record or near record know fall. That policy is meeting resistance because record or near record snow falls, governments are struggling to meet their snow removal bud
These cops. At the end of the day. We be locked up more than anybody in this own community. Know what im saying apc . [indiscernible] everybody on this police force needs to get fired. From the courthouse to the streets, all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A grand jury here in st. Louis, missouri has chosen not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the Fatal Shooting of unarmed africanamerican teenager Michael Brown. The decision follows three months of deliberation by the jury of nine whites, and three blacks, including fouhours of testimony from wilson himself. The decision set off outrage. The grand jury decision set off outrage in ferguson and communities across the country who see browns killing as part of a widescale pattern of Police Mistreatment of people of color. Shortly after the verdict, police fired tear gas on protesters in ferguson. At least a dozen buildings in ferguson or broken into
66, 95 looking good. Prince georges county side of the roadways also completely green. Branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, no problems there. And tom, you have a very nice forecast for me. At least today. Looks as good as your traffic right now except there on 270. We have drive pavement, no real weather problems travel wise this morning. Heading out of town early, youll be driving by annapolis and crossing the bay and bay bridge, temperatures there in the mid60s. Elsewhere, most of the region in the 50s. That includes the nearby suburbs, Prince Georges County, fairfax, arlington and machinery, it will be mostly sunny today as well as the rest of the region. Into fairfax county, between now and 8 00 for the morning commute, it will be right away 60 whether walking or driving. Bright sun. Youll need your shades. Upper 60s by late morning. And your headlines for today, yeah, youll need long sleeves this morning. It will stay cool between now and around 8 00, 9 00. Sleeveless afternoon, t
On the roads or about to hop in a car. Megan mcgrath is live near the bay bridge toll plaza. Megan, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, aaron. We are right here at the toll plaza itself. You can take a look for yourself. It doesnt look too bad. You can e the ez pass lanes absolutely no wait at all, folks are cruising right through. The lanes where you have to give cash, theres a little bit of a wait here but nothing too bad. In the last 15 or 20 minutes, they started running twoway traffic on whats normally the westbound span, so that helps as well. Aaa estimating over 800,000 people from our area are going to leave town this weekend, most of them by car. So expect a lot of company out there on the areas highways. Rush hour along 395. Uneventful this morning, but area highways are expected to slow to a crawl this afternoon as thousands leave town for summers last hurrah. Gas prices are lower this year, a plus considering that nearly nine in ten travelers will leave town in their