Express appreciation to this evening sponsor, Teresa Crawley dds. [applause] dont get carried away. Shell, you know. [laughter] obviously, i could do this privately come and i have, but i would like to say a public thank to tarry for her sport terry for her support for her advice over the years, including topics. Thanks to her suggestions, so would you please stand up . Tonight speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success both as a musician and writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. Career asher second an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. Cannot regard, she is the former future editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, a sciencefiction article. The thing that particularly commends her to our attention and bring
You to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. Terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, a vices sciencefiction chronicle. However, the thing that particularly commands her to our attention and brings are
Guest thank you, peter, for having me. I help on cyber issues in the deferment of justice. It hosts at host of issues from Election Security issues to supply chain issues to crypto currencies to encryption and access to data. Host and what exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated law . Guest as you know, the garment of justice we are to enforce confederal, committal lot. An important part of what we do is bring terminal cases against individuals, organizations, foreign nation state actors who violate u. S. Federal law and there is a policy component to what i do which is to help the attorney general, Deputy Attorney general formulate policies working with the Congress Working with our interagency to advance rule of law. Is your position political or career . Guest i served in a political office. My role as a career, im a career employee. Its a little bit of both. Im a career person who serves in a political office. Host how long have you been at doj . Gue
To look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in themiddle east. From yemen to syria to interact, and now with ran , the region more than ever seems in a permanent of turmoil if it cant become a land of endless wars and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure of billions of dollars, jewish policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to fosterstability and a better life for the people of the region. The ones ultimately responsible for a countrys success or failure are the people who live there but the catastrophe of todays middle raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how . In this regard, the editor of seven pillars Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their cocontributors have given us and get. Identifies seven factors tha
More than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and its become and land of endless wars. Despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention. U. S. Policy had more often than not been a failure. More often than not is too kind. If one accepts that the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible ot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how. In this regard, the editors of seven pillars, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their co contributors have given a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify art is long gone era ideology by the military, education, economy and governance. Ive found many of the authors perspectives to be unique and to begin looking at al old problemn new ways whether it serves as the basis for a bipartisa