High everybody i am david and neck schist, columnist for the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival in this difficult time of the pandemic, one thing we can do i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who is struggling with one of the central problems of our times which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today to people who wrote two of those very best books of this summer, about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First i want to introduce bart gelman, my colleague at the washington post, wrote an extraordinary memoir that led to the revelation about nsa, technology and surveillance. And the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also into introduce another outstanding author, thomas ridden who teaches at john hopkins. Whose book active measures is a history of what
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911 emergency. has the jury reached a verdict? we the jury find the defendant a young student. she lit up every room that she entered with her smile. a loving mother. she was born to be a mom. both apparent suicides. total strangers, but with one thing in common this man. i would describe him as jekyll and hyde. did these women really kill themselves or did this well to do dentist kill them both? what are the chances that two women who were both involved in volatile relationships with dr. corbin would both kill themselves in the exact same way? it couldn t have been a coincidence. but with a mostly circumstantial case, could prosecutors prove this was murder? the defense said no. we re very confident that there can be a reasonable doubt. the prosecution was confident, too. we determined that barton corbin was himself involved in a long-term sexual relationship. and then, just as the trial begins, a last-minute twist that finally reveals the