susan schmidt and her colleagues won a pulitzer prize. it was sleazy. >> lasttclip before we say goodbye. you use "mr. smith goes to washington." let's watch. >> it has become so accepted, so part of our political culture now that it's normal. your average citizen doesn't would expect to have because these voices are much louder and they're much better financed. ♪ >> this is the story about human failure. i mean, i don't thhnk that corrrption as a part is an issue. the corruption i was involved in as the human failure. it's an issue of power. i became just a machine. a cog in the machine. like hey, get up, go do your thing, get yours. iijust lost track of what brought me here. >> abramoff couldn't have flouuished if the system itself was not corrupt. were the need for money, the members of congress and their need for money is so huge that they don't have their guard up. >> this has all gone into a feeding frenzy with money. >> what do you expect me to do? >> i don't know what the solution is. i would have loved to have here's your money a

within the government, howard schmidt has the lead for coordinating the departments an3 cybersecurity. he has done a superb job and has been great to work with. for the team at d.h.s., phil ridinger, admiral mike brown and others have been great partners on a set of very complex issues. all of us in government recognized that government cannot do this without the help of industry, academia and our allies. securing cyber space is a team sport and we are proud to be a member of that team. we look forward to growing the partnership as we could electively address how we should secure our networks. let me talk about our portion of the team and our roles and responsibilities. two weeks ago i was privileged to participate in the activation of u.s. cyber command. as dr. hammery said, a ttsk long in the making and longer overdue. i think it was a brief confirmation process that we went through. that was a joke. i'm sorry. no more jokes. in 2005, the director of n.s.a. was the director of n.s.a. and commander of joint fugsal component command net warfare. the commander of the defense informatio

he brought google ceo eric schmidt on what was the first trip to iraq by any american ceo. during june of 2009, he intervened to keep the twitter network on-line, delaying scheeuled engineering work so that supporters of the iranian opposition candidate could continue using the network to organize their activities. in december of 2009, cnn released its top 10 internet moments of the decade, of which was included the launch of facebook, the introduction of the iphone, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the google ipo. in his spare time, he is an established author and as recently published two books. he received a b.a. from stanford m.phility and ihis from oxford, where he studied as a rhodes scholar. he will speak for 20 minutes and then take questions from all of us. [applause] >> thank you for having me this morning. it is a great way to start the day. the question of how technology ships of foreign policy is one that only becomes more interesting every single day. secretary clinton, in various remarks, has described foreign policy along three basic pillars -- defense, d

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