Rexit u. S. Launches its as china joinss its maritime drills. Europeanour headquarters. Angie it is half noon. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. We are working looking toward Central Banks and a possible the virgins but really expected to stand fast on rates, right . Decision dost rate later on today. Having said that of course the expectation of all economists surveyed by bloomberg is there is no change. We have them seen them do a lot already. Some have suggested they have done too much. We will get a gauge of how the economy has been affected. Lets go to the corporate news. Were going to get some analysis now of this buyer monsanto story. You can tell us where we are going next. Have andrew standing by talking about that buyer deal with my center. It has been years in the making but what about the 66 billion deal that could be hung up in regular regulatory issues. There is some investors that are kind of concerned about that. Andrew there are regulators concerned. The companies concerne
Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the
The result was overwhelming. The house stood up to the American People and for the constitution. That is something we can all celebrate. We sent a strong signal; that if the government wants to collect information on u. S. Citizens, get a warrant. Thank you for your hard wok on this important issue, and i look forward to working together with each of you to keep pushing for safer, more secure internet. All right. Thank you, congresswoman lofgren. And next up, alan grayson, representative alan grayson. mn congressman alan grayson. Thank you for inviting me to share this panel on the nsa, and thank you for all the good work you do to protect private and security in america and throughout the world. Listen to me. If the Chinese Government had proposed to put in a back door into our computers and then paid 10 million to make that the standard, wed be furious, wed be angry. Wed do something about it. What about if its our own government that does that . Thats exactly what the nsa has become
Now again, we come back to the nsas dual functions and see over and over again whenever they weigh Information Assurance it gets surveilness, this side wins. So its very unclear how this weighing process is going to play out. And actually one of the reasons its unclear is that theres no transparency built into it. I think one of the key things we continually talk about throughout this is the need for Greater Transparency and how things are being applied. And they havent talked about if any numbers are going to be made public about this process. Who is going to be aware of how many vulnerabilities they turn over every year and how many they keep back. How many days on average that they keep things back. So these are core questions that need to be answered. Things that can be made public. Numbers that can be made public without great risk to National Security if any risk at all. And its not built into this process. Its just inherently kind of tilted in one direction from the very beginni
Declared the winner of the primary Runoff Election by 6700 votes after finishing second in the first primary driven to his victory by courting support from africanamerican democratic voters. The House Veterans Affairs committee is holding a series of hearings looking at medical care problems at the va and tomorrow the committee will look at how they handled whistle blower complaints. That is like at 7 30 eastern. We invite you to join the converation about the va on facebook and twitter. From roll call, john boehner is moving to a late july vote to authorize the lawsuit against president obama as he tries to check executive power and stoke the republican base. Committee staffers are discussing several executive actions boehner could target and widdle the list down to the fewest number of actions that will give the suit the best chance of being heard. Again that news item from roll call today. Now you can keep in touch with Current Events from the Nations Capital with cspan radio. 20226