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Hillary Rodham Clinton Talks NSA, Presidential Aspirations With Kara Swisher
February 24, 2015
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Americans feel “betrayed” by the revelations of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities and it needs to be more transparent, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday at a gathering of female Silicon Valley executives, in a conversation that touched on issues from gender discrimination to her presidential aspirations.
Asked if former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was a traitor, Clinton responded that “I can never condone what he did,” saying that his disclosures had damaged national security.
At the same time, the government also has responsibilities it needs to live up to, she said.
“The NSA has to act lawfully, and we as a country have to decide what the rules are and make it absolutely clear we will hold them accountable,” she said in an interview with Re/code co-executive editor Kara Swisher at the sold-out Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women after a speech that focused mostly on gender discrimination issues and the economic importance of women.
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Hillary Clinton dropped a number of hints about her expected presidential run in 2016 and laid out what could be the tenants of a potential campaign in front of a women's conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. The former secretary of state said she is checking the final items off her list of things that must be in place before she officially announces her campaign, saying she will make a decision "in good time." Clinton told Kara Swisher, the co-executive editor of Re/code, during a question and answer session, "I am obviously talking to a lot of people and thinking it through. Because here's my view on this, Kara: I just think that we have so many big issues we have to deal with that unless we can really come together and have a national conversations about those issues, we're not going to make the progress we need."Wochit
In Talk to Silicon Valley Leaders, Hillary Clinton Offers Glimmers of White House Aspirations
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Getty ImagesFormer U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a keynote address during the Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women on February 24, 2015 in Santa Clara, California.Hillary Clinton spoke at the Lead On: Watermark's Silicon Valley Conference for Women in Santa Clara Tuesday, amid speculation on whether the former secretary of state, senator and first lady will run for president.In her first U.S. speech of the year, Clinton spoke about women's empowerment, a topic expected to be central to her long-anticipated second run for the White House.Clinton called on female technology executives to do more to help women in leadership: "As women, let us do more to help all women lead on and lead. What you do doesn't have to be dramatic. You don't have to run for office. Although if you do more power to you."
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Yesterday I met all-star women of tech in Silicon Valley, but#GirlsCanCode anywhere & everywhere. Interesting story: http://ow.ly/JyvVC
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