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Big announcement regarding its wnba team. From the bay station, youre watching kron. At noon. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. Were going to start with some breaking news that were watching here. First at noon, the Hamas Militant Group says it has accepted egyptian qatari ceasefire proposal to hold its war with israel. The group says its Supreme Leader delivered the news in a cell phone car with cutters. Prime minister and egypts intelligence minister, t...

Milo agency with the tobacco sounding acronym was great in 2008. Basically congress realized that were spending a lot of money there. We didnt do a very good job of overseeing how the moneyon was spent in iraq so they created a special agency. We are an Inspector General office. We do audits, criminal investigations. About 200 of a. We we only focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. One of the Reasons Congress did this is because weve spent more money on reconstruction in afgha...

School, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. Tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. He went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco examiner and chronicle. I stayed in touch with him all those years. I have known him for at least 30 years. For all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s. Book,sult is this subversives, the fbis w...

To go. To end it, above all things, i think prosecutors and perhaps Police Officers have to understand that with all the we have, and its enormous, there has to be a goes along with exercising it and an toerstanding that we want make sure that we have tried to facts and tothe not conclude simply because we firmly thatthing that shouldnt be questioned. And i think thats kind of self awareness and self analysis in all of us and maker office is going to us do better at conviction integrity. I think...

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...

Efforts to the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. I went to west africa for a ofk to oversee the elements the responsibility and visited all the countries that were endemic and in senegal where we are helping neighboring countries be protected in case they get a case. And when i came back, that was the week that there was a lot of Media Coverage and there was an understandable but palpable fear even in communities where my kids go to school, for example in washington, d. C. And wanted to know [laugh...

And im picking on the way the government works. So this is my last hoorah probably in the government. Especially after my reports who would hire me. But we have to turn it around. I said one of the reasons we publicize the reports is to try to turn the ship around. Yes, women be rk yes, we embarrass some people. But when you get embarrassed, many times you change what you do. And lets pot kid ourselves. Most people in the United States today think the government doesnt work. The vast majority no...

Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan ...