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In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight...

I have to think about that for a minute. I just came here, really, today, to thank everybody involved with this. I was not involved with this petition drive at all. And anybody who knows me knows i couldnt organize a onecar funeral. The fact that this has happened just leaves me speechless. And the main thing that gets to me is i realize i dont deserve all this. But i also know its really not about me. Its about some basic issues that affect all journalists and all americans. You know, when the ...

Also less known about you also is the work youve done in academia. While you were an adjunct at the Richmond Law School or whether you were at the Columbia Law School as a Senior Research scholar. This is it a row fou profoundly fascinating career and i think when you were sworn in, i couldnt improve on the word, a proven leader and faithful advocate for the American People. And with that welcome, thank you for being here. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much. And hang you, lad...

Snyder and democrat mark shauer. Campaign 214. Coming up on cspan 3, programs about journal oichl. Well begin with new york reporter james risen fog about freedom of the press, then bob woodward of the Washington Post moderates a discussion on journalism and National Security. Later the National Association of black journalists hosts an event on government and the media. After that association of black journalists mark rogers. New york times reporter james risen was subpoenaed in 2008 to testify...

Some way going forward. That may or may not be clear. It may get up to the Supreme Court in the next few years. I think yesterday the 4th circuit heard a case heard oral argument on a case whether south side data is protected. 5th circuit says it is not protected. These are issues working their way up to the Supreme Court. I think in general justices tepid to be relatively sensitive to how Technology Changes privacy and this is a theme if you look back, the thermal imaging case from 2000. Jones ...

That said we really want to take a chunk of the i]budget, go over it and see whether we could do ataq things more effectively whether we could do emphasize some priorities better. I dont think you could do the owhole budget. You certainly couldnt do it every other year. ut you could set up a mechanism the budget say every three years or five years to see if the money could be spent better and the priorities were what congress reallyco wanted them to be. Bob . Can i just ask you a quick question ...

Is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. And if you didnt have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. Again, i know its repetitious, but its important. Thats the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. Again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. And over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. And so we need it to plan....

They feed on each other. The f. B. I. Is complaining we are going down because of encrypted operating systems et cetera. People are taking these on because they think of themselves of living in a surveillance society. It causes the government to take on more and more sfwrusive surveillance techniques. In the absence of reform, i dont think this is going to be a helpful cycle for anybody involved. If i may, and this gets to the issue ultimately of trusting governmental institutions. That is one o...

The first time i went to the kingdom, it was in a prior job. The first call i made was to fran to say, what can you give me for advice . I would echo what fran says. The key factor is, youre going to represent the president. Whether it is saudi arabia, which weve had a close, terrorism partnership, or, frankly, yemen, which ive been to more than anybody in the administration in the last year for sure. Very different environments, but the key point is, i have been sent as the president s emissary...

Intentions, no other nation joint is an imposing the sanctions. And they have had little effect, beyond providing the cuban government for rationale for restrictions on their own people. Today, cuba is still governed by the castros and the communist party that came to power half a century ago. Neither the american north cuban people are well served by a rigid policy that is rooted in event that took place before most of us were born. Consider that for more than thirtyfive years, we have had rela...