Pay and abolish a team of officers that just helped get homeless residents off the streets. The councils decision would come despite several hundred people gathering in seattle this weekend to rally in support of police officers, antifa thugs burning an American Flag nearby as they did so and reportedly assaulted a propolice protester and a photographer. Just another day of democracy, seattle style. Leftwing violence also carried out this weekend in other large democratrun cities. Insurrectionists rioting in portland. Thats right, the Law Enforcement, federal Law Enforcement officers left just hike they said they would like they said they would. The protesters, well, not doing nearly so well. They continue to be violent, to loot, to vandalize, and everyone has forgotten what they are demonstrating about at moments of, well, quieter moments than these you see on your screen. Thieves scurrying around the city of chicago. 21 people shot at a cookout in washington d. C. They killed 1 perso
Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o
Surveillance and the sort of central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful at protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same Citizens Rights . Especially the right to dissent. In other words, are liberty and procurity compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been real throughout u. S. History and they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what the Cato Institute described as, quote, Strong Political views that run count toer to the prevailing government paradigm. This challenges the notion by those who support a state of some sort if you have nothing to hide, you hav
From foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been a real threat u. S. History. I think they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what is described as Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. Will this challenge is the notion often expressed, by those who support a surveillance state of some sort, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And i want to come back to that later on in our discussion. Maybe you would hear to that you, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you firmly reject it. That is fine, we will have an opportunity to discuss that later. But the history of abuses in domestic surveillance, in this country, necessitates that discussion. Because the same tools that can
The first case that we will argue stay is down from versus the usa. Mr. Chief justice, the subpoenas at issue here are unprecedented in every sense. No court hadcases, ever upheld the use of Congress Passed subpoena power. Had toittee of congress the records of a sitting president with a broad swath of the president s personal papers to the let alone purpose of the a potential legislation. There is a reason this is the first time a set has attempted such a gambit. Because, grist has subpoena power, it is subordinate and when that power is deployed against the president , it must yield absent any longstanding tradition or compelling showing of need. The committees consent is neither condition and that should decide this case. The committees contend the subpoenas satisfy the limits this court has always applied to congressional subpoenas. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. They claim congress can you subpoenas