that is information.s the fact of application nothing but emblidge -- information? that is it permission acquired from the applicant because the fact of the grant of the permanent -- of the permit? >> that is confidential information. if the u.s. attorney's office calls up a company and says that they are interested in in formation about their company. that is confidential information. >> that is a request for information. that is different from somebody coming to the window of a government office and asking for government to take action on behalf of that person to give them some privilege or some benefit. that is an action of the government. >> is both. -- is both. -- it is both. >> there is nothing that happens in the world that cannot be described in terms of information. everything that happens, there is information that it happened. are you saying that everything that happens in the world is information? >> the key point is that it has to be confidential affirmation. that is -- confidential informati

the statute says financial information. this is clearly financial information.here has been discussion about obtained from a person. i would like to focus on privileged and confidential. there is no question that since 1913 when the depository window was set out, the fed has consistently taken the position that this information is confidential. banks going to the discount window have relied upon the expectation of confidentiality, something that this court can take into account. it is something the should consider. no other central bank discloses loan by loan, bank by bank, emergency landing information. the terms of the -- >> they have a freedom of information act. >> what we do is beyond what other central banks do. what they are seeking here is to have this court do something that goes beyond it. they want this information bank by bank and should go to congress. >> it seems to me that is the other way around. if the fed takes the position, and it might be a very valid position, that very bad things would happen if it were observed, then the fed and the banks

one is the collection of information and analysis of the information. the second is the sharing of information and the collaboration of things such as passenger abet thing. the third is raising collectively, international aviation security standards. of and the forth is development of deployment of information in the screening technology and our commitment to put our best forward for the future generations of screening and technology. afterall, al qaeda has used and is using it's best mines against data national system -- the international aviation system. now we must do no less. >> there are others on the podium with us today and the meeting this morning on the strong advocates for improving coordination and strengthening the bonds of aviation security. we are willing not only to work with the eu and the countried rented here today, but we are also setting meetings with leader in africa and western hemisphere with iko, which is the body of united nations that deals with the aviation standards. this is a problem, an issue, a challenge that all of us sha

one is the collection of information and analysis of the information. the second is the sharing of information and the collaboration of things such as passenger abet thing. the third is raising collectively, international aviation security standards. of and the forth is development of deployment of information in the screening technology and our commitment to put our best forward for the future generations of screening and technology. afterall, al qaeda has used and is using it's best mines against data national system -- the international aviation system. now we must do no less. >> there are others on the podium with us today and the meeting this morning on the strong advocates for improving coordination and aviation secur. we are willing not only to work with the eu and the countried rented here today, but we are also setting meetings with leader in africa and western hemisphere with iko, which is the body of united nations that deals with the aviation standards. this is a problem, an issue, a challenge that all of us share in. we must approach it joi

use the same information to give to the tobacco companies to market information about students at local colleges. . . type in basic information about the individual, and when they come back and swiped the card, they can populated at that point. we're not talking about a major -- and swiping the card is ok to make sure that it is real. the question is about using it to populate information that can be used for many multiple purposes. >> thank you. senator, i am not sure which one of us is chair right now. perhaps i should be saying thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, very much, madam chairman. mr. baker, as you may have heard in the first panel, asked the governor douglas about the sustained use of grant funds. you expressed concern in your testimony about the prioritization of identification security. you recommend that the pass id include language ensuring that grant students with approved driver's licenses are a higher priority than other state projects. would you recommend the federal government requires states comply with the secure identification standards before they can use fu

>> there's a lot of credits fil classified information and a lot of information that relates to people overseas that have ride to come here but they've been able to stop people. but david headley, other individuals that were captured, the five guys that left northern virginia, when their parents brought if to the attention of the fbi, that's exactly where the system should work. we went out there, we contacted the pakistani authorities, they're currently in prison. and what we're doing is trying to ensure that the system works in all these cases as in future events that come up. >> let's switch now to the larger terror threat. cnn is reporting that there's a radical american cleric born in yemen, very well-known to you, anwar al awlaki, that had contact with both the shooter fort hood and the christmas day bomber. if there's a link, do you now consider the ft. hood shooting a terrorist attack? >> he can what we're clear about, there are indications that he had direct contact with abdulmutallab. mr. al awlaki is a problem. he's trying to instigate terrorism. what we naed to do now is ma

whether i had been informed of the decision. and i can't recall whether i had been informed of the-- >> were you asked to give your opinion on the matter? >> no. >> apparently was mr. blair or secretary gates since this i think is a matter of the associated with al qaeda with whom we are at war. westy asked his opinion about how the interrogation should be-- >> very senior people in the fbi had input in the decision. >> and, is there some protocol-- what is this high value detainee's interrogation group? shouldn't they have been activated as part of this and in the future shouldn't they be activated as immediately upon such an event as this? >> yes, but quite often one of the reasons we are putting it together is to identify potential persons that may come into thoracostomy-- custody. some expertise in this particular area of the world, which as it relates after we learned, after we did the initial interrogation that it was yemen so you have to fit together with the expertise to do their own terry and-- interrogation. >> i would

that was the fragmentary information. in hindsight which gives you a better opportunity to see it, the plot was developing. from the developing we did not know they were talking about sending the attacker to the united states. >> your first recommendation is to assign responsibility on high priorities. it seems like that would be the basic premise of and the intelligence system. i am sure people wonder if that is a reform. >> we want to help distribute information throughout the community and increased capability buried there are many different organizations involved. we want to make sure that as these threats develop and there are so many of them that it is clearly understood who has the lead. most times, cia, and others are working it but we want to make sure that there is a lead that they will make sure that it moves forward. >> you mentioned intelligence sharing before 9/11 but after 9/11, the commission report came out and was about a connecting the dots. there is a pledge that time to do better at connecting the dot

we had snippets of information, we had information about faruk, but we didn't have anything, information that allowed us to identify mr. abdulmutallab. the system didn't fail. >> but as i said -- >> a lot of people buy their tickets in africa with cash. that is the way in fact things are done because there's so much fraud there. so that wasn't a necessary bell. people in the airport didn't know that he had bought the ticket for cash. he did bring on carry-on luggage. so there are a lot of things that were out. we're now doing the diagnosis, we're figuring out how we could have stopped this early on. >> are you saying there isn't a way could you have stopped it? >> i'm saying there was information in the system that should have allowed us to stop it and that's what the president is to make sure -- >> what was the information that was -- where? where? >> as you mentioned, the puzzle pieces. there were a number of pieces out there, but for whatever reason, they weren't brought together. we, as a government, need to make sure that we're able to bring those pieces together. every day there ar

once the airplanes door closes and they receive that a batch of passenger information, passenger informationt we call -- officials at the national targeting center begin a more in-depth analysis to determine who will require more attention once the flight plans. on christmas day, it was that in depth analysis that led cpb to uncover abdulmutallab's father 's concern about him. it was far too late to stop what he intended to do. a one to ask you if waiting for the airplane's doors of the to

whether i had been informed of the decision.and i can't recall whether i had been informed of the-- >> were you asked to give your opinion on the matter? >> no. >> apparently was mr. blair or secretary gates since this i think is a matter of the associated with al qaeda with whom we are at war. westy asked his opinion about how the interrogation should be-- >> very senior people in the fbi had input in the decision. >> and, is there some protocol-- what is this high value detainee's interrogation group? shouldn't they have been activated as part of this and in the future shouldn't they be activated as immediately upon such an event as this? >> yes, but quite often one of the reasons we are putting it together is to identify potential persons that may come into thoracostomy-- custody. some expertise in this particular area of the world, which as it relates after we learned, after we did the initial interrogation that it was yemen so you have to fit together with the expertise to do their own terry and-- interrogation. >> i would

we received information from all of our partners and that they provide us with information that sayst this individual is a danger to national security, we revoke that to be set immediately. >> i'm happy to hear that. as you know, mr. outdo mattel up was offered a multi-your visit in june of 08. do you believe it's in the united states purity and just to issue visas that allow entries over several years or more than one visit to the united states? >> senator, because we receive information every day from our law@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @Ãr if new information comes to our attention that says that an individual who was not a threat when we ran his or her application against our partners' databases, if those circumstances change and we are notified by the intelligence community or law enforcement that this individual circumstance have changed, we then immediately revoke his visa. >> all right, it just seems to me we still have a lot of learning to do. this committee at the counselor officers before it who gave visas to certain of the 9/11 hijackers, and those visas should not have been

, sharing of criminal data information. and recurring auditing our review that we have with these countries to a value weight overall security, which we don't have without the visa waiver countries. so they're a number of enhanced security that supplement security and the dwp programs and so i'm not sure i'd agree with the characterization but i understand your concern. >> i'm not sure i could agree with what you said that we can debate this or discuss it separately. thank you. >> we're going to do senator feingold is going to be next. and then senator cardin is going to chair the hearing. i have to go on the floor or on a judicial nomination. making notes here, think all of you probably will be giving for the next few days or an awful lot of follow-up. >> thank you all for being here. i join all members of the committee and my horror at what happened on christmas day and the northwest fly from amsterdam wanted time tonight and in the tragedy we must understand how and why the bomber was able to board that flight and what s

and those five parties on the information and typically that sensitive information doesn't receive a lot of protection and then a law enforcement can access it in the same way that many other entities like marketers and other individuals can. there's a lot more to this but i don't want to step on the other panelists so i will pass it on line. >> thank you, chris. i think from a law enforcement and corporate perspective i wear two hats, one from a consulting role to protect the u.s. postal service and one is in law enforcement officer to investigate crimes that relate to citizens, companies and our government. i think from a search and seizure perspective, chris made a good point about having shared information across all systems in order to be able to authenticate and to systems and the like. i think from all enforcement perspective is there is not as much of a change between physical search and seizure laws and online. we still have to get search warrants and two court orders. the legal constructs that we have to build on investigation around are still present. i think where we of t

it gets a piece of information. and it doesn't have to go out and find a human being to do this, an analyst. >> lehrer: let's say they found something about al qaeda in the yemen. >> in this case they find the name of this fellow from his father. and they say well he might be in yemen. the software should by itself go out and see is there any mention of a nigerian in yemen, number one. is there any mention of anybody with a name like this, two. and if the software had done that, they would have found him. because there was previous reporting. the two pieces of information, if you looked at them alone, they weren't shocking. but if you put the two pieces of information together, would you say aha!, this guy is the terrorist who is about to do something. i thought we had software that would do that, that could go into multiple database was a human in the loop. apparently we didn't. >> lehrer: did you think that kind of software existed mr. zarate. >> that kind of software does exist in parts. but there are still datab

there is a lot of good information. we have had many good caucuses with the senate here in massachusetts. when you talk about transparency and the ability to do things the right way, one thing i have always admired about the senate president here in massachusetts, i have said this publicly some time. by republicans in the senate right now, but we have every opportunity to have full and fair discussions and agreement. we've come together and transportation, pensions, the ethics reform, we have made some very super moves when it comes to the stem cell built and dealing with some of the budget issues. there are times in massachusetts that we can come together. i am hopeful that i will go down there just like i have always had, and i will caucus with the party, but i have made it very clear that i am not beholden to anybody. i have made that very clear. >> john kerry took some shots of you during this campaign. have you had any communications with them with working with them within the senate? >> it was the second third per

finally, under information sharing, hand in glove with an effective information sharing program is thetrol system that it supports. a robust program and the accompanying command and control structure to convert information into specific decisions and actions requires more active information gathering onxd potential threats and dissemination and analysis of the assessments to every level of command. the secretary tasked us specifically to look at the area of i.d. being employees who could potentially pose a threat. the most summary statement i can provide you is that there is a lack of clarity for comprehensive indicators, which then limit the commanders and rest of the chain of command's ability to recognize these threats. certainly detecting a trusted insider's intention to commit a violent act requires observation of behavioral cues and anomalies and this is a difficult task. let me shift briefly to a comment on health providers. the secretary asked us to look at this and they are a very important part of the security equation. the tendency is to focus on the care of combatants. heal

that is information.ct of application nothing but emblidge -- information? that is it permission acquired from the applicant because the fact of the grant of the permanent -- of the permit? >> that is confidential information. if the u.s. attorney's office calls up a company and says that they are interested in in formation about their company. that is confidential information. >> that is a request for information. that is different from somebody coming to the window of a government office and asking for government to take action on behalf of that person to give them some privilege or some benefit. that is an action of the government. >> is both. -- is both. -- it is both. >> there is nothing that happens in the world that cannot be described in terms of information. everything that happens, there is information that it happened. are you saying that everything that happens in the world is information? >> the key point is that it has to be confidential affirmation. that is -- confidential information. that

how was the information shared? did the information get in?o we have adequate means of -- do we have a system in the national counterterrorism center of making sure that all the information relative to a single suspect or a single activity can be colated, can we get it out to the agency that needs it? we may need more i.t., better information systems. but with all of the, with all of the leads dangling out there, somebody screwed up by not reporting it. and clearly the screening was a disaster. that's homeland security's area. >> chris: let's talk about that. the president has repeatedly said that he intends to hold government officials, top government officials at all levels accountabaccountable. you heard on this just a moment ago mr. brennan praising several top officials. put them on the screen. secretary napolitano, intelligence chief blair, c.i.a. director panetta. question, have you lost question in any of those? >> well, i work very closely with leon panetta and admiral blair. i think, i think they're doing the best job they can. the p

a lot of pieces of information.they had been shared, shared by the intelligence agencies the way they should be and the way the system in congress is set up to design to compel, then this guy would have never gotten on the plane. >> we've been spending a lot of time this week re-reading the 9/11 report. which i happen to have here. and we also have been re-reading that final report card when the 9/11 commission did an update an where we were on security issues. this was in december 2005. airline passenger prescreening, gave them an f. airline passenger explosive screening, you gave them a c. government wide information sharing, a d. have the grades improved? >> i think they may have improved some. >> still an "f" in airline passenger screening? >> no, i'd give them a higher grade now. still not good enough. we have to reach an "a" on that level. we cannot allow our people to don't a plane and not feel safe. so, you know, it's still not good enough, but now, thank goodness, perhaps due to this incident we'll get to w

, information it did yield was known to be highly suspect. but it is not really about the information that you get from special interrogations, a nice way of saying torture. it is also not about what rights he deserves. what is really the question is what rights we have to give people to maintain our credibility around the world. that is the way the world view the bush administration was that george bush often looked almost caesar-like, sending some people to federal court, some to military tribunal, some people got no trial at all. in this case we had richard reid, virtually identical in his act, he went to federal court. zacarias moussaoui went to federal court. i think it is a problem if we treat our legal system as improvisational, we go by case by case of what we feel someone should have in term of rights. the credibility of a legal system is its consistency. without consistency, it lacks coheren coherence. i think what mr. ridge is saying is that when we don't like you or think we might get some information out of you, then we won't giv

the comment about informational overload is important. information flowing.o the ntcc needs to be nimble and take that information. there does need to be some sort of reform. this is a systemic failure. it is not the failure of one person. you need to look at reforms. martha: i wasn't suggesting that dennis blair should go anywhere. that office, that whole group was created. it did not exist before 9/11. the idea that you're going to have a director of national intelligence that would oversee and tie this together, it seems to me that is where they think the flaw was in putting this together. that is a good place to start. >> that is interesting. the thing is, martha, they made it clear that they are not looking to reorganize the entire system. they are just asking for tighter controls and the watch list, selectee list, and obviously a better sharing of information. they're asking every agency to look at what their actual jobs are all the way down the personnel change and to define what their jobs are and make sure that they are sharing information and doing

information was collected.e c.i.a. had listed two of the hijackers. onceç those hijackers came to the country not shared with the f.b.i.. had it been, the f.b.i. presumably could have tracked them down because they were living underç their own names in san diego in the phone book. similarly here as the president said again today, the nsaç intercepted messages that said a terror attack was being planned in yemen using a nigerian. theç suspect's own father, a respected nigerian banker went to the state department not once but twice. talked to uxe central intelligence agency too. then followed up with telephone calls and with written communication. as the president said that was enough at a minimumç to get him on the no-fly list in which case he wouldn't have boarded the flight at all. >> lehrer: mr. simon, youç know this. you've worked in government as a career. you're a specialist in this particular area.v: do you leave the words... hearing the words of the president with a sense of confidenceç "now, fina

these are informants who are willing to give us information, not necessarily involved in crime or haveime. maybe they are a victim of crime and they want to cooperate. >> let me ask you to describe the prosecution theory. to some extent how is the opposite of what they say on the popular show, law and order." can you explain how it works, the integration of the prosecutors and the analyst working together, and the time line you are trying to achieve in your prosecution? >> we have had to stay ahead of the computer age. we had to tool everything up so everything moves faster. the older tradition of the will federal white-collar monolith to issued dozens of subpoenas and unleash analysts and accountants, and at the end of three or four years, indict a series of people in one investigation and one press conference. times have changed. the defendants have changed, and the schemes have changed. we target everybody that the data indicates is an offender. we charge them quickly, and instead of issuing dozens and dozens of subpoenas, we determined what is chargeable now and gets our biggest ba

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that information is critically needed.d then what comes in behind that is the sense that doctors will check for themselves. i had a patient who led an onset of depression and went to her doctor, and they tried and i to present medication after its anti-depressant medication to -- they tried anti-depressant medication after an anti- depressant medication. they realized years later that they had forgotten to check a hormone levels. the problem was not too many or too little drugs. the problem was that they missed the basic check along the way once she got the thyroid -- along the way. once she got the thyroid hormone, within two weeks she was better. host: how'd you feel about drug advertisement? guest: i'm conflicted. i feel they are largely unproductive spending. the reason they spend money on the advertisements is that the surveys show that 80 percent of the time, when they come up with the advertisement, they get the drug prescribed to them. trying to argue out of it just takes too long. what we really need, though -- i

we can share that information with folks.so posted on our website so that people can get the information they need simply by clicking a button. we also have a mechanism by which they can fill out a voter registration form on our website to become members. you saw the picture on the front page, this right here, we have about three of these -- what we call voter registration kiosks that we take with us across the country to our natural resources, shows, shops, ranges, clubs. what this is -- we have two flat screen tvs where we have a looping video maybe a speech by charlton heston, maybe it's an infomercial, we have a laptop computer with a printer so that people can come by and if they're not registered to vote they can print out that form right then and there and get all the requirements they need on the spot. so we have a few of those that we take with us wherever we go. of course, we use the internet. not only for voter registration but we have a number of other features. first and foremost, if you want to find out the cont

information from the father, information from the intelligence service that the al-qaeda was working with the nigerian. in yemen. those should completely come together. i agree with evan, this beyond comprehension. >> associate myself with the governor jim thompson we saw in the opening piece, the 9/11 information, who talked about the full body scans. yes, they're expensive. yes, they're intrusive. and yes, they're effective. and i'm sorry if someone cease that i'm not built like an olympic athlete. as somebody who has two hip transplants i set off alarms everywhere i go. and i've asked for this. and i've found out that at several airports they do have it. it's not available because of privacy concerns that people have. >> i saw the greatest irony of all is that amsterdam has the most everywhere in the world but americans on the way to the united states are not allowed -- you're not allowed to use them on americans for privacy reasons. >> i saw the testing of these machines up in atlantic city right after 9/11. former vice-president chaney joined senator jim dimint claiming the pres

thankfully, a lot of people have caught him with information. -- called in with information. friend brita they contacted us. -- called a friend. they contacted us. one was staying in hotels. nobody heard from her. we take every piece of confirmation and try to follow up on it. we found a young woman alive. it is going to take a number more days before we can piece all that together. >> the number of countries that are providing assistance to haiti -- it need some coordination. the girardi consoled internationally? >> -- did you already consult internationally? >> the in 90 nations -- the united nations has been instrumental in coordinating the pasture for what we have done for haiti. the mission has been severely impacted. we do not know the exact numbers of lives that have been lost. but they are trying to continue their work. the united nations will be ivery much involved. we have to wait on that. [unintelligible] everyone is very willing to have. there will be an organized effort. >> the cubans opened their air space for humanitarian aid. >> we appreciate that. >> how sign

that organization that has information about potential or actual terrorist mushier that information withall who might act to prevent terrorist activities. as is becoming apparent such was not the case in idid the november attack by major hasan to had internet contact with al qaeda and yemen or the attempted christmas day bombing of northwest flight 253 by a terrorist acting under orders of the al qaeda and yemen. with regard to the ft. hood gittings cure reporters clip major hasan's supervisors were aware of his shortcomings as an officer and medical professional and fail to act appropriately. the report is strangely silent on whether not major his son gave any clear evidence of his radicalization or whether there were any substantial clues about that radicalization that his supervisors should have acted upon. i hope that your testimony will address these issues. the report also points out numerous personnel policy shortfalls that contribute to the departments and preparedness to deal with internal threats. among the many findings there was criticism of current policies, practices and pr

, to utilize that information effectively.w a lot -- al qaeda had made mistakes prior to 9/11. we didn't exploit them. here, thank god, there was no loss of life or serious injury to anybody in connection with this attempted bombing. it's a wake-up call. so now we need to recalibrate. we need to rethink how it is we can ahead of individuals coming to the united states from foreign countries -- the 9/11 commission was very explicit about this, particularly individuals coming from third world countries through transit areas into major airports like amsterdam. >> this all reminds me -- sounds like shutting the barn door after the horse is out. when we see it's from nigeria, now we'll start focusing on african countries. when it was shoes, we took off shoes. you're saying the new streamline intelligence agencies do work. you're saying all the extra staff is helpful. what are you describing that could be the fix? >> there's always some amount of kiddie soccer involved where everyone rushes to the ball. here it's perhaps nigeria. we

that information is spreading, but, clearly, it's not the best. it's a huge problem in terms of the information that's being moved out to the people. by the same token, we're not hearing much from the haitian government, from president preval owhat the way forward is here. so that's a big question, and it's something people are not get anything solid information about. >> warner: requested bow of npr, thank you so much. >> reporter: you're welcome, margaret. >> brown: now, will consumers pay for news online? with the internet exploding with free content, the entire media world is struggling to find ways to support itself financially in the future. nowhere is that issue more urgent than for newspapers, which have seen huge drops in circulation and advertising revenues. today, the "new york times," with by far the most popular newspaper web site, announced that beginning in 2011 it will charge frequent readers for access to the site. the paper would use a metered

of such information?r unity and car parts -- european counterparts? and do these systems need to be improved? >> mr. secretary. >> on the issue of scanners. what they had been effective in relation of the time? the indications are, given where the six bosun was place, with them o -- with the explosive was ta -- where the explosion was in place, there was a 50% chance of being detected. i think that we need to see the next wave of technology with explosive detection as well as the body imaging issue. we need to see that ahead very quickly. i do not accept that we took so long that act. this happened on christmas day and over the christmas period we have been discussing -- my colleagues at the secretary of state have been talking about the availability of this equipment. there was one body scanner at manchester. there have been a number at heathrow on a trial basis, but whether they are serviceable or whether they need to be operated on to be serviceable, is still an open question. the issue of privacy, mr.

this, i mean, the information was there. i mean but there was a failure to integrate and a failure to act. i mean that, you know, that is i isn't bureaucratic as much as it is a human failure. >> lehrer: new subject, david. two democratic senators, chris dodd and byron door gann have said they are not -- dorgan have said they are not going to run again. how important of that in the course of human events tas relates to the democratic control but also to everything else that president oa and others on the democratic side may want to do. >> well, just for two it is not a big deal if you are thinking about the future of the senate t makes the democrats more likely to keep connecticut and less likely north dakota but it part of a larger climate. and there has been a significant shift in public opinion over the last, really over the last year when franklin roosevelt was passing his reforms he galvanized the majority behind him. what obama has done is recoiled the majority. so you have the pollster's list, who do you trust on this

we disseminated information. there was no indication, though, that al qaeda was trying to use that type of attack and that modus operandi against aircraft. we're concerned about it and we continue to look at all of the evidence that is out there so we can take the steps necessary to prevent any type of attack. >> are we safer than we were in the immediate aftermath of 9/11? >> i think that u.s. government has done tremendous work over the last eight years, nine years, to strengthen our system, strengthen our security perimeters. we have now a system in place that the fbi and cia, department of homeland security and others are working collaboratively together in. what we need to do is make sure that we're able to leverage that system every day and making sure it's 1,000% perfect. so yes, i think the american people can take comfort in knowing that the government has worked hard and made steady progress, not just i terms of helping to secure the country, but also disrupting and we're ultimately going to defeat al q

ani think that understanding how to vet information, information that's ven to you ofthe record, that is not sourced--iean, this is a problem. and i see a lot of problems with some the blo, and i see a lot positive thin with a lot of the blo, as wel so that's the future. >> charles? >> i would say tt it's really importt to hear voices from all over the wor. but i would alsoay we need an american voice for internatnal news. >> which iwhat you've tried to with global voice. i mean, you stated thaas an objective. >> global post's--reay, its tone ivery intentionally and unabhedly american. >> what does thamean? yeah. >> th's--i constantly want to clify this because what i do nomean is jingoistic. i don't mean nationalistic. i don't mean american interests mattemore than any other coury in the world.hat i mean is we have a great tradition of stotelling america, and i think as an americ public, we all have an eafor that. we know the kinds of stories that wean--we can hear and wch resonate for us as a country. we're looking to tell stories ithe world that do tt. and if we don't, we' not goin

shifting to information sharing.h inside the department and externally, and by that i mean within the interagency arena, some of these policies are deficient. and they did not support detection and mitigation of internal threats. the time has passed when concerns by specific entities over protecting their information and how it is allowed to prevent relatives. innovation -- relative threat intervention, that time has passed. the people who need it most in this particular case are the commanders and leaders at the point of interest. as indicated this morning, there is a requirement to create a more agile and adaptive force. one that can deal with the changing security environment, anticipating threats, and bringing a wide and continuouslyÑi evolving range of tools and techniques and programs into play. finally, under information sharing, with effective information sharing program is the command and control system that it supports. a robust program and the accompanying command and control structure to convert informati

information to agency. they are sending what is called a dart team.se team. they've activated two partners. one come from fairfax county here in virginia. a search and rescue. and then also from los angeles, search and rescue. and they say that they have 72 personnel, six search and rescue canines and up to 48 tons of rescue equipment. they also have u.s. aid disaster experts who will help to assess the situation on the ground. one of the real complications as we've been reporting, larry, is communications. they believe that they'll be able to get this team in. that's the really, really important thing that they have to do. and we also have that number that the state department operations center gave out recently. maybe we can put that graphic up again which is the number for americans who are searching for information about the family members. that number. 1-888-407-4747. what they're doing, they also have what's called the warden network. that is a way of getting in touch with peel who work at the embassy and also, u.s. citizens who are in haiti. th

there is good information. we a bad could join caucuses with the senate president here in massachusetts. when you talk about transparency in the ability to do things the right way, one thing i have always admired about the senate president and massachusetts without an and lincoln coming there are five republicans in the senate right now and we have had every opportunity to have full and fair discussion and agreements, we've had joint caucuses in come together on transportation, pension, the ethics reform, we've made some very super moves when it comes to the stem cell bill and dealing with some of the budget issues. so there are times in massachusetts that we can come together and i am hopeful i will go down there just like i always have, and of course i will caucus with the party. that is how you ultimately find out what is going on. but i have already made it very clear that i am not beholden to anybody. i have made that very clear. right here and then we will go here. >> john kerry, he took it shots if you d

they informed the u.s.government and the fbi in september and this last week they went publi and the fbi in december and this last week they went public globally so if they wanted to protect the reputation and security the best way to do that would have been to have said nothing. >> michigan, good morning to becky on the democrats' line. >> caller: good morning. i just wanted to say go google because i remember when microsoft first went into china and i heard they were going to go along with others, not putting certain things on the search engine and i couldn't believe american companies, especially microsoft that do so many good things. and, you know, to think that they were actually going to go along with this and i feel the same way i guess about google originally doing it. but what they are doing now i say go, you know, and i just hope they don't get hurt by it. i would stand by them any way i can because it is just wrong and, wrong, wrong for people not to be able to know things. >> host: next is a nee

that was the informal piece of it.turned over to the army. we have the kind of data and records were we could examine this. that is part of the restricted access give us the kind of comfort where we understood the issues in a manner in which we could make a recommendation we did. we recommended that it be -- that the secretary passes to the secretary of the army for action and he did so, according to his words this morning. he said he has already done so. >> when he announced our formation six weeks ago or so, he said that this is not a review to point fingers. we follow his instructions but make no mistake, the army has addition information to do what it has to do. we thank you all for your time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> admiral michael mullins said he expects 9000-10,000 troops will be in haiti offshore by monday. that is in a briefing earlier today at the pentagon. as scheduled, in other 10 minutes, we'll take you live to the

put out contrary information. the position that somebody might be taken. i hope that vietnam will move more in that direction because i think it was hand in hand with the progress that we have seen in the last few years. >> i am with the association for competitive technology. you mentioned that companies have to do the right thing, not just what is good for profits. what if i am a huge contract and -- co. and the chinese government is coming after my guy for information. he has resisted but he is being taken to jail and my equipment is being hauled away. what can the state department to in that situation? >> we speak out on those individual cases. we are hoping to engage in a very candid and constructive conversation with the chinese government. we have had a positive year of very open discussions with our chinese counterparts. i think we have established a foundation of understanding. we disagree on important issues with them. they disagree on important issues with us. they have their perspective, we have ours.

all the information is shared. there are millions upon millions of bits of data that come in on a regular basis. we need the bring the information to the surface that is of threat concern. we need to make the system stronger. >> you say millions upon millions of bits of data. facebook has 350 million users. it's always drawing connections. in the era of google, why does the u.s. intelligence community not have the sophistication and power of facebook? >> we do have it. and well beyond that. that's why we were able to stop other individuals from carrying out attacks because we were able to do that on a regular basis. in this one instance this system did not work. there were human errors, lapses. we're continuing to make progress. we've been fortunate to take advantage of the snms place. as americans, they were able to enjoy the holidays. the dedicates americans are working around the clock to protect their fell lowe americans. >> let's talk accountability. the president says he will insist on it at every level. last

in many respects, information has never been so free.eas to more people than any other moment in history. even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people to discover new fax and making government more accountable. during his visit to china in november, president obama held a town hall meeting with an online component to highlight the importance of the internet. in response to a question that was sent in over the internet, he defended the right of people to freely access information. he said that the more freely information flows, the stronger the societies become. he spoke about how to access to information helps citizens hold their own governments accountable. it generates new ideas. it encourages creativity and entrepreneurship. the united states'belief in that is what brings me here today. amid this unprecedented surge in connectivity, we must also recognize that these technologies are not an unmitigated blessing. these tools are also being exploited to undermine human progress and political rights. just as nu

it's not similia list of names and information that you blast information out to. instead, there can be a much richer interaction with people based on where they are and what they're doing. so if people are at a school and they sign up, we should track that, so that we can then give them information relevant to the school and i think campaigns in general, need to find ways to better utilize that. one noncampaign example is something that was just recently launched that allows you to track what congress is doing on your phone. it's an iphone app, and it's really interesting, because for those people that are interested in that issue, they might be walking around in the halls of congress or in the halls of the capital, rather and want to know, oh, wow, this bill was introduced even though i'm out of office and they're able to get all that information on their phone and so as these cell phone carriers and makers of the phones like apple, google, etc., they recognize this potential and are doing what they can to open it up, so that you can have the 65,000 applications,

put out contrary information.r might be taking. i hope vietnam will move more in that direction because i think it goes hand-in-hand with the progress we have seen in the last few years there. >> thank you. up in the back. >>Ñi i am with the association r competitive technology. madam secretary, you mentioned that companies have to do the right thing, not just what is good for their profits. but what if i am a company and i have a subsidiary in china and the chinese government is coming after my guys for information. and we have resisted, but my guys are being taken to jail and my equipment is being hauled away. in that situation, what can the state department do, or what will the state department do? >> we obviously speak out on those individual cases and we are, as i said, hoping to engage in a very candid and constructive conversation with the chinese government. but we have had a positive -- we have had a positive year of a very open discussions with our chinese counterparts. i think we have established a foun

what other information might you have that we can marry up with this information so we make a proper assessment as to their risk that this individual poses to the amendment into our interests around the world and then from that their recommendations that follow in terms of the appropriate actions that not only the state department can take but other agencies of government can take. in this particular case we don't think the misspelling by itself influence the risk assessment process. that was stipulated in a report that the white house released yesterday but we certainly understand in light of that this system failure, as the president clearly stated that there are things that we can do better and do more furtively, push the visa information into the process more assertively, so that it is evaluated along with other relevant information so that not only is there a proper risk assessment of the individuals that we think lead in some way to terrorism, but there is a stronger process of making sure that from that risk assessment appropriate action is taken. >> can i ask you one thing? >