In texas, and its a long and tangled tale. You can read about it in the book. But its really astonishing that schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the third reich, was living in texas. But as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. The threat was that the soviets, who, bill the way, had their own program of german scientist, they got a lot of rocket scientists, but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists on pedestals. Pedestals and treated them with great regard and made them the top dogs of our program. The soviets loathed the germans. There was deep animosity from the war, and so their german rocket scientists were kept at a second tier and they were actually squeezed of the information, and sent back to germany by the russians, at which point the cia stepped in, grabbed up all those german scientists to learn what they could about the soviet missile program, but what they learned was nothing, because the soviets didnt share with the gem ger
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Challenges, facing us today in this very different world. He said, americas leadership and prestige depend not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interest of world peace and human betterment. Throughout americas adventure in free government, such basic purposes had been to keep the peace, to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Very, very wise words. Now, the challenges that face our world, our nation, and all of its institutions are great, so is our unprecedented capacity to deal with those problems. Never in the history of man has a nation possessed a world possessed so much capacity to deal with these problems. We must not fear change, but rather embrace it. To vive for less would be unworthy of our character and our purpose, and we would fail future generation
Further ensuring that individuals privacy isnt properly protected without sacrificing operational effectiveness. To that end, we support the usa freedom act as an effective means of addressing the concerns that have been raised about the impact of our activities while preserving the authorities we need for National Security. We are urge this committee to give the house bill serious consideration as expeditiously as possible, consistent with this committees elaborations. We are ready to work with the senate to clarify language in the bill as necessary. In closing, we appreciate the committees leadership, in particular your support over the past year in considering issues related to our intelligence collection activities and privacy and Civil Liberties issues. We also appreciate your support for the men and women working throughout the Intelligence Community that includes the nsa, that remained dedicated to keeping our nation safe and protecting our privacy, and to have upheld the oath b
Meet to receive testimony and discuss the legislation passed by the house of representatives on may 22 two reform the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. That legislation, which is called the usa freedom act, was approved last month by the two committees of jurisdiction in the house, the house judiciary committee, and the house permitted select committee on intelligence. After amendments on the house floor, the ale was passed by a vote of the bill was passed 121, and that303 is about three to one and it sends a large signal to this house there was a large majority voting for it and votes came from both sides of the aisle. The bill makes major changes to existing intelligence programs conducted under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act,. R what we call fisa first, the house bill will and nsa collection of telephone by reference to the Business Records provision in the usa patriot act. The program has been approved more than 37 times by the fisa court and upheld a further three