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Heres the cover. The Second Intelligence Committee Report on torture. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, James Robbins counts the life of George Custer including his childhood in formative years as well as time in the field of battle from the civil war to his final defeat at the battle of little bit worn. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] thank you, glenn. I would also like to thank arlene and paulie and all the Hudson Library team. Its great being the sum of human audience. A wonde...

It is looking right now like the number may have to go a. When will it be available . The official publication date is december 30th. Well have the book printed and in our warehouse friday, three days from now. We will start shipping immediately. It may start popping up before the 30th in various independent bookstores, but it will be fully distributed around the country and available on the online retailers and brickandmortar retailers and independent stores on december 30th. Dennis johnson is ...

When president bush instituted it and president obama continued it, they didnt have an open discussion about whether the country should have such a program. And actually that seems to run through a little bit of yesterdays opinion by judge lynch. Even dick cheney. This is something that i discovered in writing this book that nobody had ever seen before. When he wrote his dissent in the irancontra matter, he said if you have a hard Foreign Policy or National Security issue, a wise president first...

Patrick to explain it and bob to comment, but to present the severe dissonance that exists in terms of what this is. Nancy, described it as phoning up investigations and said shed never heard it anything like it. And senior dea officials called it decades old, a bedrock concept. And nancy was a judge, by the way. Patrick . Mr. Toomey to describe what and some of the critical criminal cases we litigate, and articles described, and articles have expended on especially to the deas program and recen...

As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly cl...

Is the balance that has to be struck in any kind of legislation like this. Mr. Vitka i would think the most informative part there, for policy makers, would be the number of americans who are affected, and i do not mean the numbers who are targeted, that it would indicate a pretty broad number that would not drive down to something that would compromise surveillance operations. Bob, is that the case, or am i mistaken . Mr. Litt it is difficult for me to answer that. There are other consideration...

Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Colle...

Leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to pull the country together and guide the iraqi people through this crisis. The Current Situation today in iraq remains extremely, extremely serious. Isl remains in control of mosul and it is targeting all iraqis, sunni, shia, kurds, who disagree with its twisted version of a caliphate. It joined in an unholy alliance with the baath party and some former insurgent groups like the islamic army of iraq. Going forward, the iraqi...

They have control of significant territory. They are tested in battle. They are a serious threat and while we dont assess right now that they are doing distinct homeland plotting certainly they are open about it that theyre coming for the United States. Mike strank is a defense official and a want that to faster. I want to do something about that. I thank you for that and i think you have done a good job of outlining the reason why this matters. Its not simply about iraq but about the United Sta...

The infrastructures not built, so part of what we have to do is to find ways to integrate africa. Much of that is a question of infrastructure, some of it has to do with coordinating regulatory systems between countries. Were embarking on some experiments starting in east africa to see if we can get uganda, kenya, tanzania see, you guys know all of them. [laughter] were starting to work with these countries to see can we get some blocs of effective trading taking place . Because, look, obviously...