the iec is also inviting international observers to take part. national democratic institution, ndi, democracy international, and the international crisis groups are the three american organizations who are currently fielding international observation groups accredited to the electoral commission. the european union and the osce also plan to send electoral monitoring teams. usaid has awarded $8 million to support two independent international election observer missions for the upcoming elections. the u.s. will continue to support the election process in a variety of ways while in no respect, absolutely no respect supporting any particular can kate or party. let me say a few words about the campaign to date. posters, as the presidential campaign kicked off in kabul beginning on april, sorry, on february 2nd, posters appeared overnight and thousands attended rallies. enthusiasm for the election is on the rise and afghan society is showing increased democratic political sophistication with lively media coverage focusing on candidate rallies, platfor

their motivations to leave where they are and what it is about then that goes beyond just being a .iecepaper >> it does not allow that interaction to happen -- doesn't it allow that attraction to happen more directly now? a company can say, i want these backgrounds and talents. they go out and press a button are 50 people who may not even be looking for a job. that.s about >> it is data analytics. it is mining. if you think about the beauty of linkedin business model, they have a fast-growing network. and on a valuation faces, right between twitter and facebook -- >> which is the better value? >> they are all pretty rich. but on an absolute basis, linkedin is $25 billion. i don't want to say only $25 billion, but it is the smallest of the three, even after twitter's pullback today. twitter is around $27 billion and facebook is around $58 billion. >> and you think with this acquisition of bright this justifies the $25 billion? >> i do. it gets back to the economic graph that it could ultimately be more viable than even the social graph. who you work with and how you can go about improvin

the iec is also inviting international observers to take part. national democratic institution, democracy international, and the international crisis group of the three american organizations who are currently fielding international observation groups are credited to the electoral commission. the european union and the oh union -- the european also plan to send monitoring teams. also do monitoring. the u.s. will continue to support the election process in a variety of ways, while in absolutely no respect supporting any particular candidate or party. let me say a few words about the campaign today. -- as the presidential campaign kicked off in capital-- 2, postersbruary appeared overnight, and thousands attended rallies. enthusiasm is on the rise, and afghan society is showing increased sophistication, with lively media coverage focusing on candidate rallies, platforms, and voting opinions. a series of television live debates focused on issues rather than ethnicity have been particularly well received. afghan news outlets offered minute by minute

by and large, we have been seeking some form of legislative support in terms of not only the iece, buton sharing peace communication sector isps are not supposed to share anything about a customer. we do not. if we have a banking customer, and the customer is under attack , i don't say anything. i tell my bank, maybe you should call your -- and share this. we who see so much and can manage so much are absolutely precluded by law, and we follow that, about following -- sharing information. it may be time to revisit whether that is appropriate. whether we might be able to share faster so others can protect. as one element. -- that is one element. there is also an element of, if we see something bad coming, what do we do? if we see bad things, cross, heading directly for major flaws, should we turn it off? do?there things we should are there things we could do? those are areas that need to be madessed, explored, understandable and repeatable e. in the current environment, we cannot do so. we might be in a better protection -- position to protect their customers. if we take action and him wo

biden iece about in the 2012 campaign and got to her staff and,of you know, see her and read up on her. point that they work well together. both e friendly, but they have very busy lives. so the idea that they're sort of hanging out very regularly just doesn't happen. being tion to you know the vice president's wife which comes with much fewer but some duties. joe biden also continues to teach at a local community college. she's an english professor. so often when she was travelling campaign, she had her papers with her and she'd be that kind of and thing. you know, thatt, idea that they're just enjoying another's company doesn't happen very often. >> also the lesson the second continue to pursue her career but so far the first lady has not been able to do, laura bush talked about with us during the series. she chose somewhat issue, oversial including the -- the eating well campaign. 's move >> her staff would argue with you about that. >> noncontroversial. can tell you from facebook comments it is controversial, yes, with some people. e have another clip with her talking to young peop

, as did ranking member ruppersberger, the negative morale impact this perfect storm has had on the iec workforce which are compounded by sequestration, furloughs and shutdowns and salary freezes. this leads me to my fourth point. we are thus faced collectively and by collectively i mean this committee, the congress at large, ma executive branch, and most acutely, all of us in the intelligence community with the inescapable imperative to accept more risk. it is a plain hard facts and circumstances that the committee must and will manage together with you and those who support the executive branch. but dealing with reduced capabilities is what is needed to ensure that faith and confidence of the american people in their elected representatives and we will work as hard as we can to meet the expectations he for us. and that brings me to my fifth and final point. the major takeaways for us, for me, from the past several months is that we must lean in the direction of transparency wherever and whenever we can. with greater transparency about these intelligence programs, the american people m