Joining us this morning from los angeles. He is from George Mason University law school, the founder of the National Security both for area thanks being here this morning. Jamil jaffer, we will start with you. Theave a conversation about usa freedom act and what congress has to get to and reauthorized. Tell us first what the usa freedom act is and why it was passed in the first place. Caller sure, well, bill, you aspiringe are three provisions in the usa freedom act that would be rubberized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Reauthorized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Somewhere he added years later your specifically, the provisions expiring now are one that allows the government to identify and surveil terrorists who do not have a proven connection to a foreign power, and the second is called the wiretap authority, that gives ability to follow suspects when they switched their cell phones or emailed address rapidly to avoid surveillance. And th
Some of whom i havent seen in a year or two, it seems, but there is a little bit more to my background than what harvey said, and i want to recall it for some of the law students or younger attorneys here because its kind of integral to my life in Public Service. In 1982, im sure we have people who werent born then, i was a law clerk, and its a law clerk and you immediately have to start looking for your next job, which i was, and i had a background in finance and im a cpa, and i thought well, i would be a perfect commercial litigator, so i thought, and i was interviewing with the chicago law firms and to date myself further, the largest law firms then had about 230 partners in the chicago area to show you how things have changed, but i needed litigation experience, i thought and so i applied for the attorney generals honors program, and lo and behold they wanted a fouryear commitment. When youre 27 years old, four years seems like a lifetime and i very much run my hands over that deci
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har
Were having a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act 2015. We have two panels basically there for parts of the act. I want the panels to tell us the good the bad and the ugly, why we need this for tools, why we need to reauthorize the program interview. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what would those changes be. And rather than reset your testimony, i am interested in hearing from a National Press security perspective how the freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond. But the tools available to Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Committee provided by this act, how are they relevant. Baghdadi is dead puts it caused lives. The efforts to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorist groups is a lot of different names are trying to come here and cause us harm. The war is far from over. I wish it were but it is not. There is no air force to shoot down, theres no navy to saint, theres no capital to conquer. This is an ideology that must
So it is my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editorinchief of the hill who will moderate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm orenstein, michael steele. Bianca carmen. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly North Carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. But the first question would be if we did change the system and, norm, ill start with you. What would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . So, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said awfully close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count, and candidates would have an incentive to try and maximize the turnout even in places like north dako