Is a country with unrivalled skills and creativeness, a country with such good humor and such great compassion. And i am convinced that if we draw on all of this, then we can take these islands, with our proud history, and build an even prouder future. Together, we can make Great Britain greater still. Thank you. [applause] [applause] [applause] ed miliband thank you for your kindness, friends. Friends, this is not the speech i wanted to give today because i believe that britain needed a labour government. I still do, but the public voted otherwise last night. Earlier earlier today i rang David Cameron to congratulate him. I take absolute and total responsibility for the result and our defeat at this election. I am so sorry for all of those colleagues who lost their seats. Ed balls, jim murphy, margaret curran, douglas alexander, and all the mps and indeed candidates who were defeated. They are friends, colleagues and standard bearers for our party. They always have been, and they alwa
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 clear that he is thinking about the 702 program when he talks about not wittingly collecting. After this hearing, i went to him and said, you know, you were wrong. It was perfectly clear that he had absolutely forgotten the existence of the 215 program. This is not an untruth or falsehood, this was a mistake on his part. We all make mistakes. I would say i made a mistake as well thereafter because i did not think to counsel him that we should immediately send a classified letter to the committee c
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 considerations that go into the issues of exactly what we can and cannot report beyond is it a good idea to report this or not and those are the kinds of things in many instances that i cannot talk about in this kind of a session. Mr. Vitka would you agree it would be exculpatory for the community to say that 100,000 americans were affected versus 300 million americans . Mr. Litt i am not comfortable with the word exculpatory. People would be happier if there were smaller numbers than if there are larger num
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 Collection Program ten years before 9 11. One of the concerns and maybe this is pessimism or paranoia depending on who you ask, is that stopping a program like the telephone Metadata Collection Program that is ongoing under authority, how do we know it does not show up under another 30 . It is a sincere question that premuch everybody, because theres no reason to hold the community to such a paranoid standard, but how do we get to that point . I think this question is a real challenge because of the
With rajoy and to her sister for her birthday present. There is a lot of hope literary figure two fair sister for her birthday present there is a lot of hope in that. Were going to achieve this big idea. And nothing was going to stop them. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. In his weekly address president obama talked about his support for the usa freedom act. Senator deb fischer has the republican address talking about the importance of authorization for defense programs. President obama hello, everybody. As president and commanderinchief my greatest responsibility is the safety of the American People. In the fight against terrorists, we need to use every effective tool to defend security and protect the freedoms and Civil Liberties enshrined in the constitution. But tomorrow, sunday, at midnight, important tools will inspire because congress has not renewed them. Want to be clear about what this means. Today when investigating terrorist Networks National Security