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This was produced by the center for strategic and budgetary assessments. Montgomery, here at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments, and i want to thank you for joining us as we rollout our latest report, due dollars follow strategy, by travis sharp, a Research Fellow here who also directs our budget studies program. I will say a couple of quick words. Travis can highlight the findings of his report and field your questions, but two things i want to mention. First, this is an important event for us here at cspi. Defense budget csba. Defense budget analysis is something we have done here for decades and something we have done extremely well, and travis hayes the latest in a long line in a travis is the latest long line of analysts who have spearheaded these efforts over the years. It is important to note that the Defense Budget analysis we do here is not about dissecting Defense Budgets, not just about going through line by line to understand what is in the budget. It is abo
Cspan is also here so before we get to the meat of the program please make sure phones are turned off or in silent mode to hamper our discussion and the q a portion as we get to the end of this and wait for the microphone and then ill have you announce your name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular fascinating and terrifying book and i have to point out a video version from lord of the rings for the content of this book and what we are discussing but six years ago this month the nsa by the name of edwa snowden with his absolutely amazing revelations about government surveillance taking place with the war on terror. And with those revelations and in some respects and with electronic surveillance. And i guess todayod brings us and with that technological news with those minority reports scenario is not so farfetched but theolog was inspired by a different movie. So now o here a journalist researcher and founder and codirector. A from Johns Hopkins in 2014 and in between is
The subcommittee will come to order. Today welcomed the chief of the board of patrol and i would note that the chief provost is the first woman to hold this important position. Chief, thank you for being here today. First, i want to a knowledge the men and women of the Border Patrol have faced a multitude of challenges this year with a high numbers of migrants missing common across the border. I know they worked long hours and have been asked to do work they have never imagined would be part of their jobs. I continue to believe the majority of your personal carry out their mission in a professional manner and treat those into custody with humanity. I have significant concerns about the reports of this treatment by some Border Patrol agents. Im also concerned that the Border Patrol culture may be too tolerant of a minority of bad actors. Understanding the many challenges facing the Border Patrol i hope we can Work Together to effectively address those challenges. That is part of why we
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