Fiorina: I Would Call Tech Companies to Help Defeat ISIS

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VAN SUSTEREN: “2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina goes ‘On the Record” from Iowa. Good evening.”
FIORINA: “Good evening, Greta, how are you?”
VAN SUSTEREN: “I’m very well. Using the private sector. Debates don’t give you much time to talk. I want to find out a little more now. Who would be the first call to you in the private sector in the technology to help you out?” 
FIORINA: “First let’s remember since 9/11 technology has moved on at least four generations. The I phone was invented in 2007. The iPad was invented in 2011. Now we have the iWatch. We didn’t have social media back when these procedures were written and now, of course, social media has moved on several generations. Technology is by its nature disruptive and innovative. And bureaucracies are by their nature slow absolutely terrible at innovation. They are process driven. I would make calls to the heads of every social media company. I would make calls to the heads of Google.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “And tell them what?”
FIORINA: “I would talk to the equipment companies as well. What I would ask them is to help us defeat this enemy. Just as an example. We now know that the Department of Homeland Security has not been checking social media. Are you kidding me? We know where these jihadi websites are. They are all over the world. Every parent in America is looking at social media. And by the way, employers look at social media as well to vet would-be employees. The government hasn’t thought to do that we know where these websites are. There are absolutely ways in both hardware and software to understand who is traveling to these websites. Let’s use that capability. Instead of getting hung up in a bunch of high bound bureaucratic procedures, including the fact that many of these departments are clearly being told oh, don’t do that it’s not politically correct. You might harm someone’s civil liberties. We’re at war. We have the tools we need to defeat this enemy and we can do so within our constitution. But arguing about laws that started in 2001 isn’t going to help us.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “All right. So, Facebook maybe a phone call from you?”
FIORINA: “Of course.”