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
Sacrifice in the name of security . Does the fbi used drones for surveillance on u. S. Soil . Yes. In a memo a minimal way and very seldom. The heart and soul of america is a free country. Just over a month ago we devoted a program to a discussion of the modern presidency. The response to the program was overwhelmingly positive so were going to try something similar this week which will also enable us to take the week off to celebrate the fourth of july. This time i want to focus on civil liberties. The jobs of power are always open to devour and her arm is a we stretched out to destroy the freedom of thinking, speak in, and writing. John adams. He sounds like arch campbell. About two and a half years ago the bill of Rights Institute conducted an Online Survey of knowledge of the constitution and the other founding documents. 42 you could find a phrase from each according to his ability, his needs, in those founding documents. Unfortunately that came from karl marx. [laughter] 60 could
Extent that the local build out is the reason people might sign up for us, we do have to recognize that for all of the Unanswered Questions that we have on this part this is the simple one. This is by comparison a piece of cake, both to analyze and to implement. Much more difficult. The program thats been put forward for the local build out, this is a very aggressive program. How many what was the bond size . A billion dollars. A billdollar bond issue, thousands of Small Projects that have to be managed in a its a very ambitious program. So that all of the difficulty were having grasping just this first phase, if the first phase becomes dependent on the second phase, we have to get a lot smarter before we do that. Because a lot of those questions frankly havent been posed in a correct form yet let alone answered. That is to be continued. Further comments . Jason breed, i think you wanted to make a comment. Mr. Brookes . Mr. Finestein and ms. Ackerman. Jason freed laugh costaff. A coupl
Is a free country. Just over a month ago we devoted a program to a discussion of the modern presidency. The response to the program was overwhelmingly positive so were going to try something similar this week which will also enable us to take the week off to celebrate the fourth of july. This time i want to focus on civil liberties. The jobs of power are always open to devour and her arm is a we stretched out to destroy the freedom of thinking, speak in, and writing. John adams. He sounds like arch campbell. About two and a half years ago the bill of Rights Institute conducted an Online Survey of knowledge of the constitution and the other founding documents. 42 you could find a phrase from each according to his ability, his needs, in those founding documents. Unfortunately that came from karl marx. [laughter] 60 could not identify the principle that the government derives its powers from us from the american people. In that survey, 20 of adults correctly pick the 10th amendment as the
Think we gave you a copy, mr. Secretary, i would ask you to look at for example your budget last year was at least 39. 2 billion. There is probably a number that we attribute out of that to Counter Terrorism someplace. It depends on what aspects of our mission do you consider Counter Terrorism . One aspect of the budget goes to Counter Terrorism. I suspect there is is a number assigned to that and i just dont have it offhand. If you can get that to us later on roughly. I would venture to say it is billions of dollars . Is that correct . And then your number one goal, your number one goal is to prevent terrorism. And then there are measures. Now, what you would you venture to say that i would ask you to take a look at this . If you spend billions of dollars and your number one goal, your first performance measure is the percentage rated higher in customer feed back to understand the threat. And then you go on the second one, the percentage of Intelligence Report rated satisfactory or hi