A dozen mothers were ultimately selected on a first-come-first-served basis for the program.
Obama is expected to discuss his administration's rationale for keeping the program mostly secret, and for keeping the legal basis for the program mostly secret, too.
And he in my view hasn't fully grappled with the statute that is currently on the books and currently the basis for the program doesn't fit with the way the program is being operated.
The ruling party at the time, Fine Gael, did not act on the proposal, but the Fianna Fail government elected in 1987 made the document the basis for the Program of National Recovery PNRR), which set forth the policies that underpinned Ireland's economic turnaround.
A federal statute cited by officials last week as the legal basis for the program gives the National Operations Center the authority "to provide situational awareness" for officials "in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism or other man-made disaster" and to "ensure that critical terrorism and disaster-related information reaches government decision makers".
Still, the top Republican on the committee, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, asked skeptical questions about the legal basis for the program while criticizing the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, for making inaccurate statements to Congress about it in March.
"Transpose the percentage of dead that mid-19th-century America faced into our own time: Seven million dead, if we had the same percentage," says Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard, whose book "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War" is the basis for the program.
Surveillance under section 702 of the 2008 Act (the basis for the program called PRISM in Snowden's documents) is not significantly curtailed by the recent USA Freedom Act.
This model served as the basis for the program's subsequent three phases.
We checked whether using lessons as the basis for the program would concur with McGuire's Persuasion Communication Model [ 13] and to what extent general and specific didactic principles should be taken into account when developing the material.
