Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
41 year career in the air force and in the National Intelligence and National Security area and talk to us about his book, playing to the edge american intelligence in the age of terror. The title playing to the edge is kind of a Sports Metaphor i think. Its like pushing the envelope or playing right to the edge of the field with truck in your cleats and its appropriate that general hayden would use Sports Metaphors. He practically was born in the shadow of the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium. They tore down my home to build three rivers stadium. All right. And we didnt mind because it was the steelers. Modestly dangerous comment. He was born in pittsburgh, of Irish Catholic family and the son of a welder. In Junior High School he was quarterback of his Football Team and coach of the Football Team then was the son of the founder of the steelers, the connection with his team who goes way back and theres actually a road now along the side of the stadium called Michael Hayden road and he was
Thank you so much. One of the questions i wanted to ask is about making sure women have the information they need. Having access to contraception. It is more of a technical one. Guidelines for women that are exposed or that are testing positive for zika. When they might give information about potential problems for the fetus. They had been saying 28 to 30 weeks is when they might be able to. I was wondering if you could comment on the state of the research, when women are getting information. Or is it really just dependent on an individual pregnancy. There is no answer to your question. They are presumably infected in the first trimester. It is a wide range. Report. One case the fetus was severely affected. The councilwoman. Third kely likelihood of that, how long it might take to develop. It would be difficult even in insurance context. How does it get paid for. And i think that is also what we have to bear in mind. There are guidelines asking women to get tested. Insurance coverage h
[applause] thank you all for being here. Looking for to this discussion. No one appears congenitally shy so im hoping all of you can ignore me and ask each other questions. Have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. Lets start with the basics and then towards the end of the conversation i want to move into the world we are in now, the digital age, age of social media which creates a whole new set of questions. Jill, let me start with you. Editorial decisionmaking, for our colleagues in the audience, it is a little bit like case law. Yesterday principles behind you, certain standards and then casebycase try to apply them to complex stuff. When the reporter come to you with a story that reveals National Security information. What are the principles that you have in mind when you evaluate what to publish . Example, iy in that wearingless it was some something externally sensitive are innately i would stake, i lives were at would encourage the journalists and reporter with
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