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Son, was been involved in lot of Grassroots Efforts to get military families involved in various democracies, strengthening National Service and thirds. General Craig Mckinley who ran the National Guard bureau, a fourstar general who is our senior military leader on matters concerning the reserve and National Guard. Then our own Elaine Kamarck who has a tradition of military service and her family and her kids are in the military and she has worked on a broad array of issues in strengthening and...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening. Im al hunt filling in for charlie rose. We begin with retired general carter ham. He oversaw u. S. Defense interest in libya and nigeria. He was a Top Commander in iraq. He was one of the few Army Privates who rose to four star. I am pleased to have him. Thank you. Happy to be here. Is al qaeda on the rise . It is very episodic. It depends on what locale you look at. That is one of the challenges of africa. We as americans ha...

The first dispute will be colonel morris davis. He retired in 2007 and now teaches at harvard law school. And then we have andrew worthington, he went to new college in oxford, and we have known each other for a very long time. He has been at the forefront of investigating who was at Guantanamo Bay. He wrote a book called the guantanamo files. It talked about the stories and he has codedirected a film about it as well. Also we have tom wilner and he has established the right of habeas corpus for...

California. Privilege and pleasure to host a group or by military veterans and families called we the veterans but it includes a coalition of different specific organizations that are fundamentally unified around the idea that veterans have a lot to contribute to our country and at a time where our country is in turmoil and maybe even in danger. They have a big part of potential solution to this problem not that we should be relying exclusively on the almost 20 Million People who have served thi...

Can you explain that to me . I think so. The basic gap in understanding is what the consequences of ruds are. The treaty thats adopted includes the reservations in understandings and deck collar rations that accompany it. When we say were not going to do something that we specified we do not include within the am bit of the treaty amended by ruds, it doesnt mean we flout convention, but that we implement it with the ruds in mind, and thats true not only of what the United States does, but other ...

We announced these changes than the secretary of defense, general dempsey said it will result in better aligning our structures and resources with dod Strategic Interests and priorities. And earlier this year we directed the management review in that review developed options to help the dod plan for a range of future budget scenarios, including the persistence of sequester lover untracked level cuts. And as all of you know, these threats, and less changed, will represent a 500 billiondollar redu...

War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio...

Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 52, the nays are 42. , and the nomination is confirmed. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of sharon y. Bowen of new york to be a commissioner o...

Judge heaphy. Mr. Bachus im appearing as a conference witness and i can only speak on issues on which the conference has taken a position and its not taken a position on the mansaray. As you know the commission focuses on penalties and not the elements of the crime so we have not taken a position either. Im sure it wont come as a surprise to mr. Chairman that most of our clients are not facing regulatory misdemeanors. [laughter] im sitting here asking these questions and kind of the elephant in ...

We have mobile security teams and agents on the ground with u. S. Marines that are there. Those agents are going to stay for much longer period of time, probably up to 90 days until we are sure that we have a proper security that we can then start replacing them with a permanent personnel that we are going to have on the ground. The 30day rotations as the arb pointed out were not conducive to security operations. Are there any incentives that the department can provide or can think to provide fo...