Her photography work, which she now does every variety of places. It is on exhibit and at their home in maryland. She and tony have lectured in a variety of places, World Affair Councils colleges, and so forth. She is a regular appearer here on either a panel or as a single lecture. I will mention one book. I think this was your first book. Spy dust. It is about their years in moscow. Denied area operations. This is where you first hear the term moscow rules. It is used, this book, in, often with new intelligence personnel coming into the agency. Its that good, and it covers that many operations. So i have said enough. Jonna, it is delightful to have you here. Please help me welcome jonna mendez. [applause] good morning. There is no better way to start the day than to be introduced by peter. It is inspiring. In another life, in another time , i lived in d. C. And i was the smithsonian resident associate. I did so many programs with the smithsonian once we moved out of washington, d. C.
This is about an hour and half. Let me address our speaker today. Someone who i have known for a number of years. I should mention right off the bat, i see her quite regularly. She is on the board of advisors of the International Spy museum. And she and her husband, tony, whom many of you know from his fame in particular from argo. Tony could not be with us today but we are delighted to have jonna. Jonna began her career overseas in germany where she was working and was recruited by cia. In 1966. At that time they brought air into she became a technical operations officer. Tech ops, technical operations officers, often are crosstrained in a variety of things. In jonnas case she was trained in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging. I will let her explain that if any of you are interested in that. But her really top specialties were photography and disguise. She was assigned in the mid1980s, 1986 to what in the agency recall denied area we call denied area operations
The speaker members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you his excellency Mohammad Ashraf ghani president of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan. President ghani in the name of god the merciful and compassionate Speaker Boehner Vice President biden, Senate Majority leader mcconnell, House Majority leader Mccarthy House minority leader ms. Pelosi, Senate Minority leader, ladies and gentlemen of the congress, please allow me to thank you for your gracious invitation to address this unique forum of deliberative democracy. Above all else id like to begin by thanking the people of the United States whose generous support for my country has been such immense value in advancing the cause of freedom. More than one million brave americans have served in afghanistan. They have come to know our snowcapped mountains, our valleys our windswept deserts, our parched fields our rivers and our plains of waving wheat, but more important, knowing our gentlemenograp
Your honor, in this area the court has said that assumptions like that cannot be the basis of the way district lines are drawn because time is running out, there is in your presentation youre saying we are attack the statewide plan. We are not picking one district or the other. And you have been attacked on that point. The attack is that claims have to be district by district they cant be statewide. So i would like your answer to that question. There hasnt been a claim as far as i know that was statewide. Your honor, our claim is that the exact same policy was applied in every black majority district which is we will use racial data to repopulate as close as we can possibly do it to the exact same black percentage. Thats a policy applied in all 36 districts. And how are your clients hurt by that . It seems to me you have to come up with a client in one of the other districts that would have been as you put it more competitive had this packing not occurred. Your honor i assume thats the
Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge