Eyepoppers. Good morning. Im emily riemer. Randy and im randy price. Danielle vollmar is in for cindy on this monday morning. Danielle its been a warm stretch of weather weve had. Emily so nice. Danielle which is great. Were going to continue that trend today. Emily excellent. Danielle this morning though we are starting out with some fog out there. Please be aware of that if youre driving along the south shore. There is some fog around norwood as well as new bedford. Even in plymouth now visibility is down to about three miles. More fog up through southwest New Hampshire and my concern up here is because the temperatures are below the freezing mark, it freezing fog and some black ice. Right now though, were at 38 taunton. 38 in worcester. And over the next 12 hours in worcester, were going to warm up into the upper 40s and low we should be around 44 degrees this time of year. Were going to be anywhere from 52 to about 58 degrees, but a cooldown is coming from this cold front. There is
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