national intelligence. he has a long track record of support for intelligence education and is a special friend to this university both director of dia and the national spatial intelligence agency as well as the undersecretary of defense and now serving as the fourth director of national intelligence, there's no one that has served our nation and continues to serve our nation during so many trying times that director clapper has done. from his first serving our nation as a united states marine, during his time as a young airman in vietnam, throughout all the difficult times our nation has faced over the past five decades of peace, war, and conflict, what many do not know is that in the mid- 1990's he served as an instructor teaching a course, entitled the future of the intelligence community, little knowing he would go on to shape this great institution. that is very true, amazing, little knowing that he would go on to shape this great institution that the community has become and to lead that tens of thousands of women and men who make up our tremendous workforce. director clapper was awarded an honorary doctora

national intelligence. he has a long track record of support for intelligence education and is a special friend to this university, as has been highlighted. as both director of dia and the national spatial intelligence agency as well as the undersecretary of defense and now serving as the fourth director of national intelligence, there's no one that has served our nation and continues to serve our nation during so many trying times that director clapper has done. from his first serving our nation as the united states marine, during his time as a young airman in vietnam, throughout all the difficult times our nation has faced over the past five decades of peace, war, and conflict, what many do not know is that in the mid- 1990's he served as an instructor teaching a course, knowing he would go on to shape this great institution. that is very true, amazing, little knowing that he would go on to shape this great institution that the community has become and to lead that tens of thousands of women and men who make up our tremendous workforce. director clapper was awarded an honorary doctorate by niu in 1992, and it w

eastern, if national intelligence director from national intelligence university. u.s. economy. and secretary of state john kerry and the un secretary from a security council meeting. will take a look at a portion of that meeting now. this is the african great lakes include thespeakers special envoy to the legion. forledged $1 billion development programs. this is about one hour and 40 minutes. >> the 7011 meeting of the security council was called the order. supporting the great lakes framework. objection, the agenda is adopted and it is my pleasure to warmly welcome the distinguished secretary general, ministers, and other distinguished representatives in the security council chamber. everybody's participation is an affirmation of the importance of the subject matter under discussion. under rule 37, i invite the representatives of belgium, burundi, the republic of the condo, mozambique, south africa, and mozambique to participate in this meeting. that under the provisional rules and procedures, i invite the president of the world bank to participate in the meetin

university. he has written extensively on hacktivist actions against private intelligence firm's and the surveillance state. his recent article for the nationcalled, "the strange case of barrett brown." talk about this case. >> it is important for two reasons, first of all, it is showing to some extent all of us could be targets because the principal reasons they're going after him with this sort of claim that he was involved in credit card fraud or something like that, i mean, that is completely salacious. in effect what he did was take a link from a chat room and copied that and pasted it into the chat room for project pm. that is, he took a link broadcast widely on the internet and it was a link to the stratfor hack information and he just brought it to the attention of the editorial board of project pm. because for whatever reason there were unencrypted credit card numbers and validation codes among those 5 million other e-mails, the government is claiming he was engaged in credit card fraud, that project enterprise.iminal basically, for our interest, what is interesting to us, it makes this dangerous to even link to something or share

universities. the statutes enabling those activities were the subject of a house hearing today with the justice department, directorate of national intelligence, n.s.a. and the f.b.i. deputy n.s.a. director john inglis warned snowden's revelations have the potential to do great damage. >> the impact associated with snowden disclosures can be very harmful, it's too soon to tell whether in fact whether adversaries will take great note of the things he's disclosed but those capabilities gives playbook how to avoid time attention of u.s. intelligence or for that matter domestic intelligence organizations. >> brown: lawmakers complained too many innocent americans are caught up in the process. republican jim sensenbrenner told deputy attorney general tom cole that part of the patriot act, underpinning the metadata collection, is in danger of not being renewed in 2015. >> it's got to be changed and you have to change how you operate section 215. otherwise in the year and a half or two years you're not going to have it any more. >> brown: california democrat zoe lofgren agreed there is great skepticism on the left and the right. >> i share with mr.

intelligence officer in the u.s. air force. thank you for your service and welcome back to our subcommittee. ambassadorll welcome from the national defense universityprior to this, the ambassador was the ambassador to ukraine and his pakistan and retired in 2010 with the rank of career minister. he served at the reconstruction stabilization, overseen the creation of the civilian response corps and interagency group of 1000 civil servants trained and ready to deploy quickly to crises abroad. he is a two-time recipient of the presidential distinguished service award and has also received the state department's distinguished honor award in the secretary of state's career achievement award. mr. with his daughter sophie and interning with the veterans affairs committee and the ambassador is here with two interns, and we welcome them as well. do you have a one minute opening the interest of time, i think that will forgo that. >> thank you so much. we will begin with the honorable stuart bowen. it is indeedread an honor to appear before you again to discuss our final lessons learned report, learning from a rack dosh iraq. on a personal note, madam chairma

colorado and from the university of california at hastings in real fortunate to have him and his expertise with us today. or second guest is from the director of national intelligence a partner at arnold and porter a.m. served as a member of the fisa of the standing committee of law in security at the american bar association 1994 through 99 served as attorney and a deputy attorney general to work braddish is of national security including the fisa applications. . .

national security analyst for nbc news. doctor hoffman is at the center for security studies and a tenor professor at georgetown university. he was at the central intelligence agency between the reservoir in 2006 and he served and as adviser on counterterrorism to the provisional authority in baghdad, iraq, during the spring of 2003. thank you both for being here today. >> a full statement will appear in the record. we now recognize mayor giuliani for five minutes for the opening statement. [inaudible conversations] sumac it is a privilege to testify before you on this important subject. since september 11, 2001, it is really a day that goes by that i'm not asked by someone are we safer today than we were before september 11. the answer to that question has never been a clear yes or no. in some ways the answer is yes we are safer. we know the ways, but we haven't given them enough attention to certain areas that make us vulnerable or we have not anticipated this as of yet. i would say that probably the prevailing view right now among most experts is that we have improved our safety and security with regard to attacks by air in our safety and security with r

intelligence officer in the air force. thank you for your service and welcome back to our subcommittee. next we will welcome the director of the center for complex operations at the national defense university. prior to this, the ambassador was the ambassador to the ukraine and uzbekistan and and retired in 2010 with the rank of career minister. he also served as the state department coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization overseeing the creation of the civilian with 1000 civil servants trained and ready to deploy quickly to crises the ball. he is a two-time president of the presidential distinguished service award and has also received the state department's distinguished honor award and the secretary of state career achievement award. he is here with his daughter sophie interning with the veterans affairs committee. otheralso here with two intern's. we welcome them. the gentleman from ohio has just come in. i wonder if he has a one-minute opening statement. >> in the interest of time, i will forgo the. >> thank you. we will begin with the honorable stuart bowen. >> thank you. it is an honor to appear before you again to discuss our final lessons learned report, learning from iraq

university of california at hastings. we are pleased to have his equities with us today. our second witness is the second general counsel of the office of director of national intelligence. previously he was a harder at arnold and porter, and serve as a member of the advisory committee to the standing committee on law and national security at the american bar association from 1994-1999. he started -- he served as deputy general. he began his career for edward weidenfeld of the southern district of new york. he earned his bachelors degree from harvard university, and his law degree from el. we welcome his expertise. the third witness is john english,s -- john acting as the agency's chief of investigation. he was promoted to nsa senior hecutive service in 1997, subsequently served in a variety of senior leadership assignments, and twice served away from headquarters as a nicestg professor at the military academy, and later as the u.s. especially eggs onto the united kingdom. special envoyes in united kingdom. he holds advanced degrees in engineering, and computer science from columbia university, johns hopkins, and the george washington university. we thank him for joining