Of the senate to discover why there been any pervasive and how the committee came about and set the stage for the 1975 noncompliance in the matter of hearing with William Colby. Orrin orders directed to the Church Committee was present or from the dci on the part of subordinates . Created in 1975 by the senate. In other words, as this reached in response to a series of revelations and allegations a greater proportion than might about Domestic Intelligence have been revealed here is a abuses in the United States. The senate created this result of our discovery of their committee by overwhelming significant instances of vote of 824 that insubordination . Would discuss the specific issue if it has been pervasive, isnt of intelligence abuse and how there a need for much tighter they were violating controls at the top . Constitutional protection. I believe we have a tight the Church Committee, to understand the context of the Church Committee, you have to go back to 1970. Discipline. I am n
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Colonist and editorial cartoonist is an awardwinning graphic novelist and the author of nonfiction books about domestic and International Current affairs. His cartoons appear at approximately 100 newspapers around the United States and from 2008 to 2009 he was president of the association of the editorial cartoonist and hes won several awards for his work including the journalism awards and the National Journalism award and best book of the year award. Joining him on stage tonight is chris hedges who spent barely two decades as a correspondent in Central America the middle east, africa and the balkans. Hes reported for more than 50 countries and has worked for the Christian Science monitor and the National Public radio at the Dallas Morning News and New York Times. He was part of the team of reporters at the times and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage about global terrorism. Hes also the author of several bestselling books including ward gives us
Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to disappear in the middle of the night because the question i have we talk about lawyers, from a legal perspective is what the surveillance needs for Attorney Client privilege and when the government does ims surveillance, how that is protected and that might work. Depends on what mass surveillance you have in mind. That is a hard question to answer. On the journalism question there has been too much
In my case its a republican distri district. Fortunately thanks to some of the efforts in this room, and thanks to the efforts of rand paul and another pieces of legislation. I campaign on that. It was obviously, it worked and im here. Extremely frustrating. It was stripped behind closed doors from the appropriations bill bills there was nothing left of it. That was very frustrating to see. Ill get into that little bit. Let me describe my colleagues and myself as well. When i came to congress, im an engineer. I thought if you had all of the facts on your side you could win the day. And your case would be a closed case. Open shut. What i discovered is that were all were not voting algorithms. Were soft mammals that go there and press buttons and we possess all of the faults that the general population possesses. No additional intelligence to speak of and a greater degree of humorous. Some people think they got a chip that instructs them on how to know everything better than their congre
Than good intelligence. I think it doesnt tell us much that we didnt already know anyway, but it significantly endangers americans around the world. Gwen we delve into the debate about when and whether interrogations go too far. On capitol hill, a budget standoff angers liberals and conservatives. This is a ransom. This is blackmail. There was no compromise. This was a top down, jam it down your throat bill on both sides of the aisle. Gwen priorities, partisanship, and the race to avoid another government shutdown. Covering the week, mark mazzetti, National Security corespondent for the New York Times. Doyle mcmanus, columnist for the los angeles times. Jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for abc news. And alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Award winning reporting and nalysis covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much mo