Okay. I dont know if theyre doing that feedback into pentagon. Are you hearing that . You are not hearing that . Its done now. And gone do you got me . We got youth just fine. We got you just fine. Someone hung up the phone. We hear you just fine. Can you hear us . Can they see me . Hello hello . [inaudible] [inaudible] we will take anything. We will take audio only. Hello hello . [inaudible] we are calling him back. Okay. He had a hard stop time of right now. Is Still Standing by bill. He is Still Standing by. [inaudible] can you hear us . Spirit he may have dropped off. Are they seeing me or was it never on we are seeing you. Can you hear us . I have you. Yeah, i have you. I know your time is short. Do you have time for two more . Yeah. Let me just finish up on the last question on the targeting and the strikes. If you just submit that as an articulate i can look at the date and give you a better answer. Lets start start to talk myself into an answer publisher just looked at the data for you. We are going to call on louis louis. Luis martinez, abc news. Ive had a couple of all a. We talked about the chemical investigation just adore the other ones ongoing. But there was an incident in syria two weeks prior to the one you mentioned there seems to been confirmed also. As if im some kind of blistering agent it was at the same kind that we found on august 11 . There was also an incident two days later to the august 11, 1 that was reported allegedly involving, the weapons. Involving chemical weapons. Thanks for that question. The question that i received earlier was ongoing investigations. One in syria in june was completed so those tests came back and i dont have those results in front of me. I can get those to you on what that deduction was and what of all results came out to be. That was and, i think those in the third week of june. I am aware of reports of an additional allegation that there might be a chemical detection or a weapon of some sort that was found, but itll have any details on that. To my knowledge that is not an ongoing investigation. So i can look in that to see if theres something there but im focus on what happened on the august 11 type because there again we had a fieldtested came back with a positive indication. Thank you. If i could follow up with one more. In order, they made about the antiisf, is it capable of mounting an offensive against the city . I think the isf forces in iraq and the antiisil forces in syria are on the aleutian air power, are capable of defeating isil overtime to i think the strategy is a sound one and i think its yet to be seen how soon raqqah is taken but certainly that is a jewel for isil and will not go down easy. I of all the confidence in the antiisil forces and coalition and airpower to defeat this threat that needs to be defeated. Thank you, general, thanks for your patience. Australian broadcasting corporation. Further to the question earlier about australias potential involvement in syria, could you talk to the differences between the air campaigns in iraq and syria . Any particular the different risks of operating syrian airspace as opposed to iraqi airspace. Those are Great Questions you know, they demand some detail with regard to how the feedback prosecutes. I would defer that question to get the proper people from the combined force Component Command at who control that had and to give you a proper answer on that. General, i know we have used other time. Lucas has one follow up which he promises to be short and in one part. General, lucas thomas with fox news. Did they just pick up these fragments with their bare hands and deliver them to the americans Just Announced . And is the u. S. Doing the final test right now on these fragments . Thank you. So i dont have the details on how they transported those fragments back to the site where we did the field testing. I can get that. The second part is a process to do the formal testing on these fragments is under way. General, thank you very much for your time today, and thank you, everybody, for coming. Thank you. While congress is out on break we eventually booktv programs normally seen weekends on cspan2. Also cover bobby jindal of louisiana will be tomorrow at 1 p. M. Eastern at the iowa state fair. Follow the cspan cities to her as a trouble outside the washington beltway to communities across america. The idea behind this is to take the programming for h. E. P. , American History can be a booktv out on the road beyond the beltway to produce pieces that are more visual, that provide a window into these cities that viewers would not, go to that also have rich histories and original literary scene as well. People have heard a history of the big cities like new york and l. 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If somebody is watching this they should be enticing enough that they can get the id of the story but also feel as if its just in our backyard, lets go see get. We want viewers to get a sense that i know that place just from watching one of our pieces. The cspan mission as we do with all of our coverage bleeds into we do out on the road. You got to give to communicate a message about this network in order to do this job. So its done the one thing that we wanted it to do which is build relationships with the city and our Cable Partners and gather some great programming for American History tv and booktv. Watch a cities tour on the cspan networks to see where were going next see our schedule at cspan. Org cities tour. Now a look at a state of journalism, Dartmouth College hosted a discussion by newspaper editors on the state of the missing a National News coverage topics included government nonstate threats to Free Expression, American NewsMedia Coverage for the u. S. Global power and the state of in depth News Coverage. This is about two hours. I have to admit that this is a special treat for me today because in addition to being a news junkie, i am a former newspaper reporter, and i truly value great journalism. And this age of disruptive digital communication, its gratifying to know that we still have some fascinating, fabulous newspapers like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the wall street journal, the valley news, among others. And so i am honored to introduce our first speaker. Marty baron grew up in miami. And graduating from lehigh since then hes been a newspaperman. Worked at the miami herald, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the boston globe, and since 2012 2012 is the executive editor of the Washington Post. As editor of some of these newspapers, particularly the miami herald and boston globe and the Washington Post his team at these newspapers have one, by my count 10 enterprises for excellence in journalism. The most recent one [applause] at the Washington Post was earlier this year when he and his team won the pulitzer for the series on the secret service lapses in protecting the president of the United States. Great series of stories. Marty is a fine journalist. He also has a keen interest in art, art museums collects art. And altogether im very proud to be able to present one of the best newspaper editors in the nation, marty baron. [applause] thank you very much tom for the very kind introduction. And im delighted to be up to speak with you all here today. Im especially pleased to be able to share the stage today with transform. Restored our careers together in the late 1970s at the miami herald as reporters there. So wonderful to be with her here today. The subject of want to discuss that is the subject that is close to my heart, critical to my profession. And i believe vital for democracy, Human Dignity and personal liberty. The subject is freedom of expression. The case for freedom of expression was made long ago and among the most eloquent proponents was john milton and his ideas helped set the course for own principles today. In 1644 milton wrote this. Give me the liberty to know to either and to argue freely according to concepts. Above all liberties. Today in much of the world that liberty is either nonexistent or in jeopardy. And let me start by telling you about two recent encounters of mine. In january of last year i spoke with a defect in in the government of the internet. We talked about surveillance by the National Security agency and now the agency into International Data networks. This is a subject we covered intensely of the Washington Post and for which we along with the guardian in Great Britain had won a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. I was interested in what this is the official was hearing as he traveled the world in the aftermath of disclosures that originated with edward snowden. Snowdens massive leaks of highly classified documents have revealed some of the nations most sensitive National Security secrets. Much of the worldwide reaction until the point have fallen into the category of outrage. Rights activists and government officials have decried the use of governments aggressive intrusion into the privacy of citizens of other countries. Foreign governments protested that even the privacy of president s and Prime Ministers in countries that were our allies have been breached. The nsa had listened in on their phone conversations. But as this their official traveled asia outrage was not what he heard. What did he hear . Jealousy. Leaders told them we have excellent Computer Sciences at why havent have we been able to do this . And they aspire to monitor their own citizens as skillfully as the u. S. Government had. That story is number one, and now story number two. Early this summer i was visited in washington by the owners, editors, and Legal Counsel of a leading newspaper in ecuador. They sought to bring attention to the ways in which the government of ecuador was strangling the press a dictating what it prints, threatening crippling fines. Pressuring Media Outlets end of they would become gossip, deferential, compliant. Is june they were fined 350,000 by the government on the grounds that it failed to satisfy all requirements for publishing a response either government to one of its stories. A twoyear old Communications Law provides that individuals who feel the dignity or honor has been damaged i immediate report have the right to respond. In this case they have published a story about Ecuadors Health care system under the headline 1. 7 billion in federal debt impairs Health Care System. That paper has sought to into the Health Care Officials prior to publication even sent a list of questions. The request went on answered. When the story was published it was sharply criticized by ecuadors president. E. That question the statistics, statistics as it turned out came directly on the Health Care System itself. And in his secretary of communications ordered them to publish a rebuttal, which it did. But the rebuttal did not carry also written by the secretary of to communications. And it did not carry a headline crafted either secretary that accompanied its rebuttal. The secretary ordered the summary published and it ordered its headline published, and el universo then complain. So the headlines and then read the Health Care System has made progress that will improve even more in the coming years. On top of that the newspaper now have to pay a fine for alleged noncompliance with the law regarding rebuttal, a fine equivalent to 10 of its average revenue in the previous quarter. So the fine total 350,000. With each occurrence of a particular offense, a fine is doubled. It continues doubling without limits. Defined and pressure are having what seems to be the intended effect. In 2014, four Media Outlets closed largely as a result of this socalled organic to Communications Law. In short in ecuador the press will either buckle to the government or the government will break it. El universo calls these legal maneuvers expropriation, and rightly so. The two stories ive told Say Something about Free Expression. Can be threatened from many directions, and that is what is happening. Not long ago the world hoped for better. We seem to be entering a new era of Free Expression brought about by the internet, social media and smart phones. Some concluded that since mutation would flourish in a way previously unimagined. And that governments, even the most autocratic, would be denied a tight control that kept him in power. This idea took firm root during the arab spring which began at the tail end of 2010 with the tunisian revolution, and then spread to the arab world. With protest in egypt against the regime of mubarak the world marveled at the impact of social media. How can be used to organize and facilitate Free Expression, how it might overcome repression. It was a hopeful time for those who believed in the liberating power of technology over the traditional too often tyrannical powers of government. Truth moves faster than lies and propaganda becomes flammable, wrote paul mason in 2011. He said that only this of the network more powerful than the hierarchy, but the Ad Hoc Network it becomes easier to form. In a book Digital Media and the arab spring philip howard, professor at the university of washington and a doctoral student noted social media a little did not cause the people in north africa but Information Technology including mobile phones and the internet altered the capacity of citizens and Civil Society actors to affect domestic politics. To be fair hopefulness came with caution. The authors of those commentaries recognized that the technology also together with the opportunity to monitor citizens ultimately distinguish their voices and their movements. Professor howard noted in one interview that authoritarian regimes have come to value Digital Media also executed services in bahrain iran, saudi arabia and syria observed how democracy advocates were using social media in egypt and tunisia, develop counterinsurgency strategies that allowed for them to surveil, mislead and entrap protesters. Just the other week in the Washington Post we published a series of threats to press freedom and journalists worldwide. That document how the security associate of the arab world now exploits sophisticated surveillance technologies to suppress dissent. We wrote egypt is implement in a social Network Security hazard monitoring project that allows for keyword searching and Trend Analysis on facebook, twitter, instagram, google, and other such. At any time a minimum of 30 analyst to monitor huge streams of data in both classical and colloquial arabic, according to 2014 interior ministry request for proposal leaked to the egyptian media. The question now is this. And it is a big win. Who will prevent any competition as each side deploying technology as tools and weapons. Will be the ordinary citizens and activists who aimed to circumvent undermine it out with autocratic government . I will be the governments which possess the capacity to monitor communication as never before . In the book, the new digital age, failing for optimism. Authoritarian government, they wrote, will find the newly connected population more difficult to control, suppressing influence what their critics this will be forced to include many more voices, individuals organizations and companies in their affairs. And yet they noted, how often authoritarian government will have powerful weapons of their own. The ride as they were from the position is the keeper in the world of conductivity. States had the enormous amount of power over the mechanics of the internet in their own countries. Because states have power over the physical infrastructure connectivity requires. Transmission power the routers switches, to control the entry, exit and waypoint for internet data. They can limit content control the hardware people are allowed to use even create separate internets. Regimes may compromise the devices before they are ever sold they pointed out. And individuals who use Encryption Software to avoid censorship or surveillance or something to protect their most