American democracy. For those who dont know this is a National Education think tank and we work in the great state of ohio, an Advocacy Group and we oversee a dozen Charter Schools most of them urban, one world. We get to see how these deviates play out nationally. We are excited to be hosting this event today with the help and work theyve done promoting the event. We expect 500, many 800 of you sitting in this morning and we are superexcited. I want to thank you, many of you for suggesting questions for todays dba, 200 of those came in. I have tried my best to incorporate the questions you have and to take a look at the q and a. Can add more questions. Needless to say this topic, how to teach us history is getting a lot of attention with the backlash on Critical Race Theory and on the heels of controversy over the 1619 project, Donald Trumps 1776 commission and more. No need to be depressed about another culture war at a time when it feels we have too many already. It can feel like we
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r
Theres one models in the usa freedom act which allows surveillance to appoint friends of the court either lawyers to argue legal issues and also interestingly an organization that helps the court understand the Technological Development or Something Like that. Thats one example to get the public a little bit more involved in something that is ine secret. Traditionally the Sticking Point has been its all secret staff. Anybody that gets involved has to be clear. Im thinking beyond that, by necessity we have to go beyond that. Even the folks in the government on my left and right might can see if the government doesnt come with lawful mechanisms continue to be lots of people taking into their own hands. Im just throwing ideas. Im not speaking for everybody. And with all due respect, i dont necessarily mean order people like laura and bob once he goes to private service, although theres a role for that. It would simply be like a jury. I know the jury has a constitutional dimension and this
The countrys borders as a way to protect u. S. Citizens privacy. So Higher Standards have accompanied the collection of information on citizens on domestic soil under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. The problem is that our communications no longer stay window midwest i can bounds. So in 2008 the government made a strong argument that it didnt make sense any more that if communications outside the United States, if you had a bad guy in london calling a bad guy in paris, traditionally under fisa you dont need to go to the court to get a warrant but now if those same two actors use email and it happens to go through the United States, the government has to go to a court to intercept those communications. A very strong argument for 2008 fisa amendments act. The problem is it works two ways. Now if im sitting in this room and i email jen and it goes internationally, now it can be collected. So data is not territorial and not bound by countries borders in the way traditionally wev
There is some roadwork on highway 101 and getting into the south bay and also on highway 101 and 17 and however it is not causing any traffic. Lets go back to the desk. We have new information and dramatic pictures and video of a Deadly Bank Robbery in stockton which left parts of the area looking like a war zone. Unbelievable to hear that. Now when the entire ordeal ended, two robbers were killed along with one off the on it. This hostage. This began yesterday. They carried high powered assault arriveels with rifles with ammunition striped strapped to their bodies. One hostage was later killed. Her daughter was in the car at the time of the robbery and she even texted her dad to say her mom had been taken hostage. They stole a Bank Employees suv and then took three female hostages. They chased them on to city streets and highways, they went from stockton to load eye and back to stockton. They were ending changing gunfire with police. The gunfire was so reckless that multiple residents