That was alan greenspan. Yes. Cspan where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Yudhijit talks about agent trying to sell to libya. Thank you all for coming out. I think what we will do. Judhijit can talk for first 20 to 25 minutes and image there would be questions particularly in the book and issues that the books have raised about more contemporary cases and so we can sort of spin off from there and so i guess where should we start, yudhijit, thank you for inviting me to do this. No, absolutely. Thanks to the Wilson Center where i was a fellow january through may 2015 when i was hard at work on this book so its very nice to be able to speak to all of you here at this great institution. Nick, has been a friend of mine, hes obviously a very accomplished journalist, im really glad that youre doing this, nick, with me, im delighted to talk with you about
At this great institution. Nick has been a great friend of mine and is an accomplished journalist. Im glad that you are doing this with me and delighted to talk about the buck. Lets get started. My first question is why dont you talk about how you found the story in this case and give us the back story of how you sort of ended up working on this project. I came across the case in 2009. His life story his name was dan olson and he told me about a variety of cases and most of them involved those that person prison gangs use them in his ten minute talk to me he described the case instead i worked on solving some of the code. I thought surely this is an old case and the conviction occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper i saw that it hadnt been covere had been d the reason is he was arrested two weeks before 9 11 after the u. S. Invaded iraq, so it was almost as if his story was book ended in these major events and it is a low hanging frui
Thank you so much for coming out. I think we will talk for the first 20 to 25 minutes and then i imagine it will will be all sorts of questions both specifically pertaining to the book and other questions that they may have raised. So, i guess where should we sop where should we start. Thank you for inviting me to do this. Thanks where i was a fellow. I was hard at work on this book. Its very nice to be able to speak to all of you here at this great institution. Nick has been a friend of mine hes obviously a very accomplished journalist im really glad youre doing this with me. Im delighted to talk to you about the book. Lets get started. My first question is what you talk a little bit about how you found the story into this case and a back story of how you ended up working on this project. Assuming i actually came across this case who in the book. I came across the case back in 2009 on the lark i have gone to an fbi lab in quantico to interview an analyst and i wanted to hear about his
Posted this week on the communicators a discussion of the fccs proposal to open up the settop box market to competition and what that might mean for consumers and businesses. Joining us are two guests on both sides of this issue. George ford is a chief economist and mark cooper is Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america. Mr. Cooper what do you think about what they have proposed . Guest competition the settop market. We want competition, competition, competition. We think consumers would have lower prices and more choices if we got bigger as competition to. Host george ford. Guest they asked the question whether the settop docsis competitive. Actually the first question this is their market for set top docsis and the answer really in terms of what is delivered over cable network, no because the settop boxes are a component of the network as opposed to delivering Cable Television service so its the cheapest way to do it in the most efficient way to do it. Host lets brin
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