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But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on severa...

Does matter from a lot of perspectives and makes us more capable if we do it right which is the key. I think escaped one up there. A partnership and collaboration. We are not doing this without partnership. There is person back there that talks to me more about the publicprivate partnerships. That is a we are doing right now with some of the folks. I think that is the key to a lot of our future. Proactive versus reactive. I cannot even jump on that. Proactive has to occur on both sides versus reactive. There is a global context. I am not sure everyone understands. I would argue that some parts...

Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the United States he understood much better how to maneuver power overs...

Partners. The irony is where brazil and india governments are, the bottom line is reforms need to happen internally that are about legal questions, but theres also a strategic level of interest that needs to go on here. [inaudible] do you think there is a possibility of a parallel within the United States . Great question. In the book, there is a chapter on the chinese approach. One of the key aspects besides the Massive Campaign of intellectual property theft, you have how this links into an assassins doctrine where youre looking at a potential enemy and saying, im going to turn their strengt...

He focus needs to be on the children. Another issue we are facing we are asking the parents to weigh in. We have educational reform that starts in january. We have asked the parents. The parents are getting together in writing what they want to see in legislation for their children. I think we represent a body of people. Form thatack to that government is for the people if we say we the people, let the people get involved and what we legislatively. They have hired us to do a job. We forget we are making decisions for them, but not including them in those decisions. We have parents groups provi...