May not want to admit his age. But this clue we were in the same bullpen at the New York Times in the previous century. He wasnt astonishingly good. Reporter i could tell you stories. And by the way, reassuring to note, hes still an astonishing good reporter today. So some things dont change. To dive into this conflict with us and the Lessons Learned, we are very glad to have with us Lieutenant General sean macfarland, u. S. Army retired general macfarland served as a three star commander of the coalition against isis in syria and iraq during his command from 2015 to 2016, Coalition Forces recaptured nearly half of the enemys territory and set the conditions for enemys final defeat. Well, well talk about that a little more today. Were equally honored to have michele flournoy, who served as undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2012. Shes the cofounder and chair of the cnrs board of directors. Shes also cofounder and managing partner of west exec
Welcome. I want to thank you for joining us today. Im cliff may. Our methods founder and president and were really pleased to have you here today joining us for this event cohosted with the center for a new American Security to mark the release of michael gordons. Excellent new book degrade and destroy the inside story of the war against the islamic state. From barack obama to donald trump. Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders. And because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from the battlefields, hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. M
Conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. Michael gordon currently as the National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his latest book, he is the coauthor with the late general bernard trainor, a wonderful man of three definitive histories of the United States wars in iraq. Full disclosure. Ive known michael for a rather long time. I wont tell you how long because he looks so young and may not want to admit his age. But this clue we were in the same bullpen at the New York Times in the previous century. He wasnt astonishingly good. Reporter i could tell you stories. And by the way, reassuring to note, hes still a
Supervisor tang and campos. [inaudible]. [foreign language] my name is chris highland. Thank you for having us appear before you once again and working to fill these very important seats. With my opening greetings in three languages, i want to emphasize my multi racial and diverse background and i appreciate you going through that. I failed to mention three weeks ago but did two years ago when the committee selected me for seat nine. My mother is of turkish descent and my grandmother was of turkey. My grandfather was an an ambassador of the nation and i lived in turkey and yemen. It instilled in my for the appreciate to interact with people from all races of life. It has been a great value of life to deal with the cases brought before us on the task force. We are indeed a diverse city and it takes a Diverse Force to serve our constituents. Thank you chair yee for supporting my reappointment to seat nine three years ago and i would like to say campos and tang to support me for a second
Continue is establishing the small price programs and strengthening the programs and we want have one property but we want to continue and get into that momentum and assisting non profits and insuring that they could possibly own their own property in the future. Thank you for your consideration. Next up is ellen alono. Good afternoon, supervisors. I had to take a deep breath. Sorry. I he wore a new shirt for you guys. Were honored. Excuse the shuffled look right now. My name is allen and first of all, thank you for this opportunity to speak before you. Im a cac member representing the Community Base organizations south of market. Ive been on the Stabilization Fund cac for three and a half years now, so ill confess, it was a learning curve for me, but now ive been seated and i feel my time on the cac, i feel that ive really helped ive learned so much and i feel that i can help the community by continuing my participation in the cac. Ive been living in San Francisco for a total of 28 ye