Phones we are caring around. It is an criticized by attorney general holder and the head of the fbi. How much did what apple and google, what they are saying they are going to do, how much did that hurt some of the work you did . Was a going too far between the balance of security and mike, you start. We want to be respectable people jobs. Move to protect privacy of individuals and mobile. Isis we give up so much information. They want to get into our content, look at information. Justiceur department of is having discussions with specific organizations. Or havee subpoena search warrants for this information . That s changed a little bit in the recent past but i am not sure where those discussions are. We look to work for the companys and how we can get the information we can gather in a National Security type of information in one of the means do that . It is back to the basic question of what is available . What are you capturing that we could get . We run into this problem before in
Remarkable, a coming together of all of these federal agencies working seamlessly together. To give you an example, when we have the denial of service attacks that were hitting our financial institutions, we were was working to these were bot nets. The fbi was reaching out to their counterparts. There is a lot of noise out there. What we did, and this is unique. To state department decided do. I was thought it was a bad thing. You can have a positive, where you say i need your help on something, i want you to elevate this. For about 20 countries, we said, this is serious. We want your help. We want to build a cooperative framework to deal with these threats. That has been part of our mission, working with the other agencies. More and more countries are taking this seriously. Is not just a technical issue. That is another transformation. , you would to go in person, youlk to a are the tech, you deal with it. Now, people understand it is a National Security issue. Human rights issue, for
Worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our web site at press. Org can. On behalf of our members worldwide, id like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so its not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] id also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclunch. After our guests speeches conclude, well have a questionandanswer period, and i will ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced, and from your right, skip cottonhauser, an independent journalist who coincidentally organized ralph naders luncheon at the press club in 2004. Rehem
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Spellings, president of the george w. Bush president ial center. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today as the announcer said i am Margaret Spellings the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible they are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public S
Will apply during and after the program. They will also learn from leaders and other sectors as well as in the stat distinguished faculty from universities affiliated with each center. Participants will visit and learn to give them a firsthand look at the resources of the libraries and the stories to tell. The president ial Leadership Scholars Program is at the stage iv the participants to expand the scope of what they believe is possible, to build upon their already proven track record of success to achieve significant and measurable good in their community and in their future work. They will also bond together and learn from each other as mentors, resources and partners to advance their own personal leadership projects and help each other over their challenges they face and importantly this program is at no cost to the participants thanks to the generous support of our founding its been terrific too clever with my colleagues and now its my pleasure to introduce bethany streett the ex