And served 19992005. After his tenure at the nsa, general hayden went on to serve as the countrys first Principle Deputy director of national intelligence, the highestranking Intelligence Officer in the armed forces. May 2000 six, president george w. Bush appointed him director of the cia, and he served there until 2009. He is a frequent commentator at many major news outlets, as well as having been a foreignpolicy adviser to mitt romneys 2012 president ial campaign. He is currently a principal of the chertoff group, a distinguished visiting professor at george mason university. Barton gelman is a twotime Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and lead reporter on disclosuresens nsa at the Washington Post. He has actually met snowden several times. In person wants. Spent 20 one years on the staff of the Washington Post and has won numerous awards, which i will mention only a few. His first pulitzer was awarded in 2002 for reporting on the september 11 attacks. The second pullets are was awa
People are keeping track of you, let alone every time you use an email on massive accounts. To make an informed judgment about the nsa programs, we have to know what they are. I want to spend a lot of the time during our our talking about what those particular programs are, how they work, etc. But first, since we are hosting this at a political theory institute, i would like to start by asking a few normative questions around which i think all the others will revolve. So what i want to do, i will ask my first question to each of you now, so you will have a few seconds to think while im asking the other. First, what right do you have to publish secrets determined to be such by our duly constituted political authorities . How can you justify supplanting your own judgment for that of the peoples government . And for general hayden, there is a parallel question. What right does the nsa or any other governmental body have to keep secrets in the first place . Democracy is based on consent an
Vote to be held on march 16th. Obviously president putin not responding well to threats and inflated white house rhetoric and intended to persuade him to stand down. Putin has also ordered a month of massive air force exercises just east of the russian ukraine border. The exercises include live firing drills and deployment of russias air defense system. And russias foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov cautioned president obama on his language and warned the calls for sanctions are, quote, hasty and reckless steps capable of causing harm to russianamerican relations, particularly sanctions which could and would inevitably hit the United States like a boomerang. President obama not uttering a single word on the events in ukraine today. Spending the day in florida, where he pushed federal Student Loans before he headed out on yet another vacation. The obama family will be spending the weekend at a posh key largo resort. This is their third vacation so far this year. The president intend to bui
Vote to be held on march 16th. Obviously president putin not responding well to threats and inflated white house rhetoric and intended to persuade him to stand down. Putin has also ordered a month of massive air force exercises just east of the russian ukraine border. The exercises include live firing drills and deployment of russias air defense system. And russias foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov cautioned president obama on his language and warned the calls for sanctions are, quote, hasty and reckless steps capable of causing harm to russianamerican relations, particularly sanctions which could and would inevitably hit the United States like a boomerang. President obama not uttering a single word on the events in ukraine today. Spending the day in florida, where he pushed federal Student Loans before he headed out on yet another vacation. The obama family will be spending the weekend at a posh key largo resort. This is their third vacation so far this year. The president intend to bui
Ever seen since we have been alive. But were coming out of it, and there are many, many bright spots in the economy. We get good Economic News pretty much every day. We also get some mixed Economic News pretty much every day, so its not happening as fast as we would like it to. Its not happening in every sector of the economy and every sector of the economy like we would like it to, but it is happening, and one of those bright spots is manufacturing. Last year, manufacturing contributed 1. 87 trillion to our economy. 1. 87 trillion in manufacturing, thats how much a difference it made in our economy. There are 17. 2 million u. S. Jobs, thats jobs in this country, one in six private sector jobs are tied to manufacturing. It also provides a very strong return on the investment we make. So if you invest a dollar in manufacturing, what it does is it adds 1. 48 back into the economy. America is a powerhouse when it comes to manufacturing, and we need to keep it that way. Everybody knows, yo