Consumer of intelligence. I wonder ambitious revisionist china. The persistence of a weak but troublesome russia. Id like to draw you out on how we should think b about this notion of competition. With china and russia, maybe we should deal with them separately. And the practical priority steps for both the Intelligence Community and the Defense Community to really make that shift and focus. Yeah, thanks. That was a great question. I think at a very high level, i think this is the competition is about influence, ideas and control of technology and perhaps the internet and some other things here, so at a high level, i think thats what the Great Power Competition really means. Certainly at the military level, we look at it as a competition for maintaining competitive advantages. I dont just mean weapons systems, but it also means other things like access facing overflight. It involves influence. It involves partnerships. Theres a lot to be said for United States having head of the line p
[applause] good afternoon, everybody and thank you for that warm introduction, and thanks to the sponsors for pulling such Amazing Group of professionals together this afternoon. It is took an honor for me to share the stage with general joe votel. He was a fantastic colleague but also a wonderful role model of the sort of servant leader for all of us who were in government. Joe, you served as commander of u. S. Socom, as commander of Central Command during probably the busiest time ever for armed forces in the middle east. You are an avid and regular consumer of intelligence. I wonder given the conference and its theme in this audience if you start by just giving us a war fighters frank assessment of the intelligence support you received. How were we doing . What were the strengths, weaknesses, the gaps . Thanks michelle. Let me add my thanks to the insa leadership and all of you for being here. Michelle, thanks for joining us here today for this panel. Youre right, i do consider myse
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Am president of the Research Center and academic most of my life. Chief economist at a variety of different universities take chicago, stanford and yale. But i will talk about the misinterpretations of guns and crime. Im very empirical normally i can show you lots of graphs but i am stymied on this technical history but there are a lot of issues we can talk about. O off the top of my head, a couple of the claims we frequently hear about is background checks stop about three. Five dangerous people. Everybody wants to stop criminals or people who might be dangerous to get a hold of g a gun. The problem is theem claims made simply are not correct. Rather than saying three three. 5 million, what they say is therely has been three. 5 million initial denials and almost all of those are mistakes. It is one thing to stop somebody who is a felon from its another to stop them because they have a name similar to a felon so for example the last full annual report put out on the background checks i
We are having some technical problems hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you know who i am. From the Crime Research center chief economist at the Us Sentencing Commission like Wharton Business School university of chicago and stanford and yale. And those miss impressions of guns and normally i am a very empirical guy and with that stymied issue but there is a lot of issues we can talk about. And a couple of claims that we frequently hear about that the background check stop three three. 5 Million People and then to try to stop criminals or other people who may be dangerous. That the claims that are made simply are not correct. To say three. 5 Million People but to say there have been three and a half initial denials. Those who were a felon its another to stop because they have a name similar to a felon. And then to have 76048 cases referred for prosecution. But often you will hear to not enforce the law but in that rage prosecutions is true under clinton and under obama