Ever, i dull into nate than ever i sort of began realizing i was going to be gay. Theres no verb about it at this time it was only a noun or an adjective. So the response i get from people now and i think its one of the exciting things about writing for young people is when you write for young people, you dont just write for them you write more their parents and aunts and booksellers and librarians. And so what i hear just like you said, ellen is people who write to say im a 70yearold gay man, and if i had had this book when i was in middle school, i wouldnt have maybe have been in the close earth for the clottest for the or 12yearold boys who say im the only boy in my dance class in utah and it was so cool to read a character like nate. Whatever that boys going to grow up to become, i dont know but its exciting to know that there are voices on the shelves that are being published, by the way, so many publishers that are doing this. And simon and suiter has really put it out there for
During world war ii and said that this provision permits the government to criminalize and her words an entire group of people and hold them in essence and internment camps or military facilities where they can sit without ever seeing a lawyer. What is happening now, we are not in a state of crisis i dont think the state needs to employ those draconian forms of control, but should the society disintegrated, should there be the kind of unrest that we see in some European Countries like greece they certainly will bring in the military if they feel that they need the military in order to retain power, and they will use these legal mechanisms which they have created for themselves against us. Were not in a moment of crisis right now. We are in a moment of relative stability. I think they put tanks on the streets of ferguson missouri against unarmed protesters, you see glimpses of the capacity of the military state. I think we would have to be i kind of freefall for us to begin to see this
Initiative is so important. It only covers one small slice of abuse, it covers ofeally important part abuse, one that needs to an dressed and we do need to bring to bear. Urce on the hope solo situation and the Michael Phelps situation, you know, both of those cases ie pending and it would be think inappropriate for us to comment on what may have happened or what should happen we have a version of the facts that either has been party ord by a third that all of the parties have acknowledged. Expect future repper kegses the the phelps . Clauses haveal been part of those contracts for a long type. We have a code of conduct that we ask each much our athlete to sign and they do sign. The truth is that if you look at of london, they were almost without exception, incident, buty almost would you exception the american athletes comported way that made us all proud to be americans. So one of the things were trying to do is focus the athletes attention on it in opposed to after the fact. So we a
That kind of costco warehouse, something last seen from raiders of the last arc starts to glow. It is something you have learned in 2007 or 2008. You have to treat this as a tapestry. That is the only way to consider it. One of the things you told me was that intelligence is like putting together the puzzle without the box. It is like putting together a puzzle that there are no edge pieces and you do not get to see the cover on a box. There are a whole bunch of puzzle pieces that do not belong to this puzzle. If you can talk to someone who has glimpsed the cover of the box, and that is the detainee, it eliminates an awful lot of things you may already possess but cannot quite fit into the pattern. In this case, the man who drew the cover of the box. The movie is about the information to get Osama Bin Laden. Theres a lot more to this story. That is the destruction of al qaeda. The enhanced Interrogation Program was key in destroying al qaeda. Osama bin laden came 10 years later. We had
Sometimes you have to forgo things that in your mind are ethical, legal, and effective because secondary and tertiary effects of taking that course of action main lets take target of killing. I said on cnn sunday morning, there was a time i knew there were secondary effects was the primary effect was so important because of the degree of danger that existed at the time. Now the environment as changed the degree is somewhat different. Now those effects might become dominant. Yes, i can see a down side for doing things that you believe are effective and legal and appropriate if it denies you the cooperation of others who see it in a different way. I think were all aware of that. We knew that. In 2006, it was huddle up, the world has changed, what is appropriate Going Forward with no judgment whatsoever on what went on before. Different circumstances, different people. Not not having read the report, i would say that become its released it needs to be fixed if, in fact the Interrogation P