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Good day, everybody. Welcome to George Washington university and the jack morton auditorium. We like to say we are the crossroads in Public Affairs to where media, politics, communication meet, collide, explode, whatever verb you andse, they do it at snpa we are very pleased and honored to be part of this event today. I want to thank you again for joining us at this digital campaigning when he 12 and beyond event. And we hope youll join us for subsequent events as well. We have other ones upcomi...

Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Damien carr said he carsetti . Interrogator sent to afghanistan to be an interrogator at the collection point which was the name for the Detention Center that the u. S. Was running at the air force base and later he was an interrogator at abu ghraib for the army. Have i tell a story in my book about how he came back from iraq and afghanistan after being involved in harsh interrogations with ptsd based conducted a lot of interrogati...

This week on q a, our guest is New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author james risen, out with his newest book, pay any price greed, power, and endless war, which exposes some of our hidden costs on the war on terror since 9 11, both around the world and here at home. James risen is an Investigative Reporter with the New York Times. He has been pursued by the bush and Obama Administrations as part of a sixyearold leak investiation related to his previous book,state of war. The g...

That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture in the american torture program, we now call it torture. They came home tortured by what they had done. The people who had to go into the cells to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military all created, this infrastructure for enhanced interrogation, the people who had to lay their hands and do it physically themselves. I came home deeply warped and flawed by the experience. Where is he now . He is l...

Designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 1142 offered by mr. Desantis of florida. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 27, the gentleman from florida, mr. Desantis, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. Mr. Desantis mr. Speaker, i yield two minutes to my colleague from alabama mrs. Roby. Mrs. Roby i thank the gentleman, madam chair. I rise today in support of h. R. 240, the Homeland ...

I think both broad and domestically they are not going to forecast what we are going to be going through as we are traveling home to see loved ones but we are on high alert. Mostly abroad. I think there was significant concerns in thailand, pakistan but, thats the world were living in. Wonder, but at some point that is part of it but when will the enhanced threat end. This is something for the long term. Well, thank you both for being. Tomorrow, a federal budget analysis. That will be part of th...

We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at...

They feed on each other. The f. B. I. Is complaining we are going down because of encrypted operating systems et cetera. People are taking these on because they think of themselves of living in a surveillance society. It causes the government to take on more and more sfwrusive surveillance techniques. In the absence of reform, i dont think this is going to be a helpful cycle for anybody involved. If i may, and this gets to the issue ultimately of trusting governmental institutions. That is one o...

Consume. The chair does the gentleman claim time in opposition to the amendment . Mr. Conyers i do. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Conyers thank you very much. I am very disturbed by the nature of this it it blackburn amendment because it would prevent the use of federal funds or resources to consider adjudicate, renewal of any previously denied application for deferred action for childhood arrivals, daca. Or any subsequently similar program. This amendment is similar to the same bla...