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Thank you. In many of the countries where our News Organization operates, this doesnt resonate because the notion of independence doesnt exist in a lot of countries around the world. You know, and particularly for news agencies. I think the standard definition of the news agency in most countries is something that is tied government. And the type of agency that ap and reuters are is sometimes hard for people to comprehend. When i was based in asia, i often had to explain that ap didnt stand for american press. I think intellectual, it is the difference between government and independent but th...

I think that is an importantd point. It has auld happened. And will always happen. Gets one thing that is really encouraging even for this room is at least the younger at journalists and the journalists coming from the businesses ivee been meeting are amazingly intrepid and investigative and have tools that we dont have. Theyre really good at using social media. Theyre really good at searchind on the web and figuring out whats going weon. There are people working for vice and all sorts of ll organizations. Theyre doing really exciting work. And i think thats a very positive indication ore the ...

Starling is. If were just talking about the nsa, there are so many of them. And they are so technical, that i would be really surprised if the highlevel people know the details of more than a small number of the most major programs. I think you would be wrong about that. Yeah . I think so. Many could not perhaps describe the engineering details, but i would be surprised if there are more than a handful of programs that are not youre right, but there are i mean, impossible to count how many programs there are in the nsa. We can talk thousands, and probably more than thousands. And i just imagin...

From its normative moral power abroad. I dont think that the United States wants to join cuba in becoming the only other countryr in the western hemisphere to have an imprisoned journalist. And thats whats at risk here. T it is much harder for the u. S. To be taken seriously when it advocates for press freedom and journalistic rights abroad when they are abridged at home. Governments have many obligations, to enforce the law, to protect citizens, to provente attacks. But they also have an obligatio to uphold the constitution and to uphold democratic principles upon which this society is built ...

The director of the nsa, admiral mike rogers. Then improving congressional transparency using wikipedia. Town hall meeting with nancy pelosi and representative hoffman. The drafter of the nsa says his agency is committed to following the rule of law and providing transparency from gathering intelligence. He spoke about the future of the nsa at an event hosted by the National Security alliance for minutes. [laughter] [applause] x good evening. Can you hear me in the back . Can you hear me in the back . Excellent. First and foremost, thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to spend it t...