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Information dissemination. [inaudible conversations] can we have everyone sit down, please . Thanks. Thank you. Hi. Welcome to the second session of todays sim pose yuck. This titled combating online information operations. Im karen, senior fellow for digital policy and were lucky of the hes experts to discuss this issue. Renee, thomas, and clint. I anticipate a very lively and fascinating conversation. Want to start with thomas. When the Supreme Court decided Citizens United it predicated the whole idea that corporations should be able to spend my in elects because the internet, which was then seen as this great engine of transparency and democracy, the arab spring was going on the internet would be full transparency to american elections, and that was the magic bullet. And at the time i was in the obama administration. We were really taken with the idea of internet freedom, ....
Wrote in a letter to congress in a letter of unrelated case they have learned about emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation and he agreed he should take steps to allow investigators to review the emails to determine whether they contain classified information as well as to assess their importance to our investigation. You heard the mention of an unrelated case. New york times is reporting while the f. B. I. Is investigating the Anthony Weiner scandal. Came across emails worthy to look into. Anthony weiners wife is huma abedin who has been under the microscope of Hillary Clintons top aide. It may be how it is connected. Larry the clinton camp have they had any reaction since the news broke . Scott she did not address it in the rally but an hour ago the chairman of the campaign issued a statement where he said it was extraordinary that the f. B. I. Would do th ....