constitution and any way and this would mean a slippery slope to things like bigamy and widespread of semidey and he said a marriage. and then justice thomas writes for himself saying but while he believes they are silly to, to use his expression, quoting from an earlier justice, and if she were a texas legislator he would vote to repeal, he was a judge and not a legislator and there's nothing in the constitution he says protecting the right of privacy. so, he provides a third vote. >> host: of the kennedy scalia division on these is so interesting because ronald reagan appointees from the late 1980's, both of them catholics born in the 1930's had some similar background, but they agree on a lot of things on the criminal cases, corporate cases and on a sort of cultural war cases, justice kennedy always seems very much of a california republican, very different as a completely different instinct then justice scalia. justice scalia -- i remember reading those opinions and it was just such a start to fight because kennedy spoke about the importance of teaching respect and dignity today and lesbi

constitution in any way that this would be a slippery slope to things like bigamy and widespread of semidey and she said they marriage and then justice thomas writes for himself saying that while she believes they are silly to use his expression quoting from the early justice, and if he were a texas legislator she would vote to repeal these she is a judge and not a legislator and there is nothing in the constitution he's as protecting the right of privacy. so he provides the third dissenting vote. >> host: the kennedy scalia division is so interesting because the ronald reagan appointees from the 1980's, both of them serve as catholics born in the 1930's had a similar background. they agree on a lot of things on criminal cases, corporate cases, the, sort of cultural cases justice kennedy always seems very much of the california republican. a very different, a completely different instinct than justice scalia. justice scalia i remember the reading of those opinions, and was just such a stark divide because kennedy spoke about the importance of -- giving respect and dignity to the gays and le

[laughter] so, a lot of that money has gone towards tools, technology, sophie ann semidey enabling technologytools used by people here and used by police and people in other countries come so tools i would call for the most part collectively neutral and some of it has also gone towards training and then of course we have also seen a lot of contention over with the money is going to and what they are effective for safe and who they are targeting so there's been a lot of back-and-forth in washington over specific tools and i won't get into that but the broad answer i think is the have been incredibly useful enabling the safety of activists in a number of countries all over -- and in that sense they are wonderful but where that money is coming i haven't seen a whole lot of output, i haven't seen a lot of -- i'm trying to couch this language but i just haven't seen proof that the money has gone to the right place and is making a difference. so it is wonderful, don't get me wrong. they do have people get around censorship in a number of places but they are not a silver bullet and i personally beli

semidey think the lawmakers would be generous funding the art of money was donated for the educationrge projects or organizations? >> i don't know. i think that they got rid of the individual grants and i think that was a mistake. that is the freedom of expression. as i said before, they wanted people -- the setup the mechanism for a while if you were given a grant and is proving to be obscene to come if he were taken to court and you were a local jurisdiction in the municipality and the laws or violated with money he would have to pay the grant money back. and i thought that struck me as odd because i don't want the government to fund the art but number one, the number of things that were proven to be obscene i can't think of any actually that were proven in court the judge ruled they had broken the obscenity law we and where that was applied was a minuscule amount, and i felt this idea that the government wants to fund certain aspects of the government what to fund a type of work but preemptively hamstring that where they want to say to the artist we are going to give you money to

we support the efforts of the house agricultural committee to initiate during semidey pluggable the success of wall street speculation that having on gasoline and energy and food prices. remember 28 commodities covered by the provisions decompositions and food to feed and we also further support the revitalizing of the board of justice task force on speculation the was started on july, 2011. and something that part of justice is indicating it is going to be doing immediately and i share professor greenberger' sentiments with respect to the idea that you shine light on the behavior of something its behavior is likely to change. there is no reason not to be in that today. and i think you very much for your time and attention and the opportunity to be here to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you both very, very much for the compelling testimony, and the clarity of fought and candor. very much appreciative of that and with sat let me recognize the ranking member of the ways and means committee. we're going to hold firm to a five minute rule to get everybody in to be able to ask their

>> tawes the semidey stole our tent tv to -- it tells me somebody stole our tent.can only get a airborne infantry. let me talk about military commissions. we are dealing here with an institution that in its previous iterations were flawed. they worked hard on reforms and believe strongly that these military commissions can be fair and can do justice and talk a little bit about some of the procedural protections with some emphasis on the reforms that have come in the 2009 military commissions act, and then i will talk about some of the actors in the system, some of the officials. it's very comfortable in a lot of ways to the court system that you know about but it's worthwhile to talk about some of the different officials in the system. then i will raise several to get you thinking so we can start the conversation and maybe you will be warmed up. i will raise some of the criticisms and what i believe are now decisis counters to those criticisms. o.k. so, military commissions. in military commissions presumed is innocence. the prosecution must prove the accused guilt