Special Reports & Tweets - Clinton Wants Manhattan Project for Internet
Aired: 2015-12-21
Duration: 02:06


=== Manhattan Project for Tech Collaboration (02:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Would you force him to give law enforcement a key to encrypted technology by making it law? - I would not want to go to that point.
[00:00:10]  I would hope that given the extraordinary capacities that the tech community has and the legitimate needs and questions from law enforcement, that there could be a Manhattan-like project.
[00:00:23]  Something that would bring the government and the tech communities together to see they're not adversaries.
[00:00:28]  They've got to be partners.
[00:00:29]  It doesn't do anybody any good.
[00:00:30]  If terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after, there must be some way.
[00:00:42]  I don't know enough about the technology, Martha. - So there's Hillary Clinton proposing a Manhattan Project for the internet That's what she's going to do as president.
[00:00:51]  Of course, it's interesting that she goes with the Manhattan Project, considering that was one of the most complex intelligence and security operations during the Second World War.
[00:00:59]  Of course, it created the most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
[00:01:02]  But it's also going to be really awful for the Internet.
[00:01:06]  But it's interesting because in 2011, the AFP actually reported that the State Department under Hillary Clinton was actively working with Arab countries to help them evade security forces.
[00:01:20]  And this was coming from Michael Posner.
[00:01:23]  He was the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor.
[00:01:26]  They were talking about sponsoring efforts to help activists gain access to technology that circumvents government firewalls, secures...
[00:01:34]  Telephone text and voice messages and would help prevent attacks on their websites.
[00:01:39]  So basically they were giving these activists all of these tools to circumvent their government, circumvent their totalitarian regimes.
[00:01:47]  They actually spent $50 million in two years to help develop these technologies to help activists protect them from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments.
[00:01:59]  So clearly encryption is okay when you're trying to topple Somebody else's government.