As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.