Combating Global Corruption

Shared Standards and Common Practice?

3-4 February 2014

A Chatham House Offering.

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Speech on the NSA at the National Press Club by James Bamford The Committee for the Republic

Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
National Press Club, DC

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See Also:

Steven Levy: 2 Hours with NSA Chiefs — They Are a) Suffering Cognitive Dissonance and b) Seriously Pissed-Off

NSA: The Totalitarian Temptation

NSA: 10 Myths Debunked — Opting Out is Not an Option

NSA: Subsidizing Foreign Intelligence Services Includes US-Only Space & US-Only Equipment – the Dutch Example

Bamford on NSA @ Google

Bamford @ Phi Beta Iota

THE BOOK (Forthcoming): No Place to Hide – Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State

Rob Dover: Putting the Steele into intelligence reform

Robert Steele: Rethinking Intelligence — Seven False Premises

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic (Reality Sandwich, 10 Janury 2013)

2013: The Evolving Craft of Intelligence 3.6 As Published

Xi to Obama: This Is Me Being Inscrutable — LOL! + Snowden RECAP + US Cyber-Idiocy RECAP

Berto Jongman: Building Trust in Cyberspace + Robert Garigue RECAP

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP

2014 Symposium

Governing Intelligence

Transnational Threats and the National Security State

May 2, 2014 at Stanford Law School

February 1, 2014 is Deadline for Abstract

The goal of Governing Intelligence is to move beyond the rather narrow focus of today's debate — largely about surveillance — to have a much broader conversation about the power and limits of intelligence agencies.  We will convene academics, policymakers, business leaders, and civil society groups to analyze the challenges of intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective.  The premise behind the symposium is that the debate to rein in intelligence gathering should occur along with an examination of the power and limits of intelligence agencies in the face of transnational threats such as terrorism, cyber-warfare, drug trafficking, and weapons proliferation.  Only then will we appreciate the imperatives of freedom and security in their proper context.

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Open Data Day #DC

A yearly hackathon in the District of Columbia and on the same day as open data hackathons around the world.

February 22-23, 2014 at The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

Organized by Josh Tauberer (GovTrack.us), Eric Mill (Sunlight Foundation), Sam Lee (World Bank), Katherine Townsend (USAID), and Julia Bezgacheva (World Bank) and hosted by The World Bank.

What You Can Expect

Workshops

New to open data or hacking? We’ll have an introductory tutorial covering open data from the ground up, including exploring APIs through the web browser and using command-line tools to process CSV files.

We’ll have other workshops as well, to be announced.

Hacking

Come with your own project, or join someone else. We typically have people interested in government data, transit, international development, and issues local to the District.

You don’t have to be a coder to be a hacker! Designers, statisticians, subject matter experts, and anyone with a passion for open data will find something to do.

The Environment

Our goals are to strengthen the open data community and to make connections between people and between projects. There is no beer or pizza at our hackathon, no competitions, and no time pressure.

Also this year we are joining other tech events by adopting a code of conduct.

Learn more, register.

1/31, Washington, DC: “The Ivory Tower, the Beltway, and the Fourth Estate.” Organized by the Carnegie Corporation and the Stimson Center, the workshop's objective is to highlight the promise and challenges of bringing together academic social scientists in the area of national security affairs and strategize about how to strengthen the bridge between the Ivory Tower and the Beltway in a sustainable way in this area (including one panel focused on the Minerva program). Invitations are limited and targeted toward government and academic leadership; contact Michael Desch at Michael.Desch.4@nd.edu for more information.

Robert Steele will be attending the full program.

Below is a draft of the program:

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As the first step in rebelling against a broken system and a dysfunctional Congress, the NHRebellion invites you to continue Granny D and Aaron’s work by walking down through New Hampshire.  On January 11, 2014—15 years after Granny D began her walk, and beginning on the day Aaron died—we will walk the state from the top to the bottom, recruiting as many citizens in New Hampshire to this cause as we can.  Our walk will end on January 24^th, the day Granny D was born.  We hope you will dedicate yourself to joining this monumental cause, as New Hampshire’s citizens light the first flames of sweeping, nation-wide reform.

This walk is just one project in a series of projects that the New Hampshire Rebellion will be taking on in the lead up to the 2016 New Hampshire primary with the focus on just one question…