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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, legislation that gives Government Authority to monitor internet activities of nonu. S. Citizens. The Stanford University Hoover Institute hosted this event. This panel is an hour and 15 minutes. Tiny little table. All right. We are about to get started again. There are still a lot of seats in the front, too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. Im russell wald, the manager manager here at the Hoover Institution. For our next portion of toda...

My complaint is the way that its structured which, you know, i think is largely one side. Our adversarial system is built for a reason. Its very difficult to test programs of this complexity in a onesided way and i think thats why it doesnt come earlier and thoroughly examined as you want them to be. A broader point too, if you look at the opinions, these dont read like ordinary article, they read like reports, rules of the road for nsa, government and court and not normally documented like in f...

Different measure, they will rebuild the map and show where the money was coming from in San Francisco or outside of San Francisco, and this one was coming from morin. We are also showing the loans that are committees are receiving and so here is where we see, things that dont measure off and this is the half a Million Dollar loan and it has not been paid back. And we also revealed who the lenders are. And then the last thing that we show, are any inkind contribution and so for instance, again o...

Mark far ill has received the most money, and just to pick on him, what i can do is i can actually click the search box and this is actually interactive and so i can actually just type in farrell, and it will rebuild the chart so that we can look at some of these smaller lines and see which firms are giving the smaller ones as well. And i say, okay, there is this 400 240u, for the association of realtors and lets say that i want to do more research on that and all that i have to do at the bottom...

This is the last section lobbyist ands their contribution to candidates. And so because they are required on a monthly basis to report any of the contributions that they are making or arranging or delivering. We have been the starts that are lifting to the local office in november and then right here, it shows all of the firms and what you can do, you can actually mouse over any candidate and it will display the firm and how much money they have been giving. And so you can see here, that mark fa...

Charts and graphs and the powerful thing about using this tool is that when the new contributions come in, for instance, and lets say that you build a graph that was analyzing the contributions your graph will update automatically and you will not need to build a new graph every time that new Financial Data comes in and the last thing that you can do is that you can mash up the data so you can take the data and even if the data source is from another department and if, for instance, the citys Ge...

Where i should say, we are not going to post this until october, when we get the complete data because at this point, most of the committee is formed after the semiannual statement was due. And so, this is part of a sneak peek of how this is going to work, at the top here, we have a list of all of these questions that i just read off on the presentation. And then, at the bottom here, we have a list of all of the measure and what do you is i can click on one of these questions and for instance, w...

Most money, and just to pick on him, what i can do is i can actually click the search box and this is actually interactive and so i can actually just type in farrell, and it will rebuild the chart so that we can look at some of these smaller lines and see which firms are giving the smaller ones as well. And i say, okay, there is this 400 240u, for the association of realtors and lets say that i want to do more research on that and all that i have to do at the bottom is type in the realtors. And ...

This is the last section lobbyist ands their contribution to candidates. And so because they are required on a monthly basis to report any of the contributions that they are making or arranging or delivering. We have been the starts that are lifting to the local office in november and then right here, it shows all of the firms and what you can do, you can actually mouse over any candidate and it will display the firm and how much money they have been giving. And so you can see here, that mark fa...

Well, this hearing will come to order. First of all, let me welcome Justice Breyer and Justice Kennedy. Thank you for being here today. I know both of you have testified before our subcommittee in times past and we appreciate you coming back and being with us here again today. We all look forward to this time to have an exchange. Not often does the legislative branch and Judicial Branch get to talk to each other, so we look forward to that. I think all of us know that a fair and impartial judici...