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Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of all my colleagues, i want to welcome you to todays event, the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to president s nixon and ford. My name is joe lambert. Im the director of Information Management at eia. Events like this take a lot of work and i want to acknowledge the efforts of the cia officers who reviewed and declassified these 28,000 pages over the last year. They are assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one in particular deserves special thanks, the National Security agency. Todays event marks the cias 25th major declassific...

[inaudible conversations] welcome todays International Spy museum maya vase curator welcoming you to one of our author debriefing programs. We are appreciative of you coming out tonight we know that it is friday night. We are pleased to have any jacobson here and the best selling author about government secrecy not to mention intelligence. Her best seller area 51 has been published in five languages as her 2014 nonfiction best seller operation paper clip was one of the best books of 2014. Her new book the pentagons brain was published on tuesday and after reading it it will not be long before ...

Getting underway. Please join me in thanking our elite underwriters, adobe and cdwg. [applause] our strategic underwriters, hp and marklogic. [applause] our industry underwriters, drs technologies, ibm and monster government solutionings. [applause] you know, we say this all the time, but events like this would not be possible without their generous support so, again, i would like to thank them. And now id like to introduce your host for this morning, kevin barron, executive editor of defense one. Kevin is a veteran of washingtons defense, National Security and Foreign Affairs scene. Hes previ...

Fragile that it led to the class. Thank you very much. Were through our appointed time. Well break for now and come back at 3 30. I believe theres a break outside for all of you. Then mcraven will have his remarks. [ applause ] let me also thank director jim clapper and director john brennan, two very Close Friends who have worked with me side by side for many years now. We are really blessed to have these two gentlemen in the positions they are in. I cant think of any two guys that have done more to protect this nation over the years than jim clapper and john brennan. Gentlemen, thank you ver...

Has acknowledged they do not perform oversight of these programs. Remarkably, a similar argument for collection under these programs is marked by the arguments under the section 215 program. This is the promise of big data. This is the Technology Age in which we live. What it means is that massive amounts of information can now be collected in order to anticipate threats and to anticipate individuals who might engage in wrongdoing. That approach is what the founders rejected. While information is being collected under foreign intelligence authorities, in certain circumstances, it may be used a...