Most recently published the spymasters which is a book about how the cia directors shape history. Its a really pathbreaking work at her book. Its the first book that looks at the modern directors of Central Intelligence and evaluates [inaudible] and how they have interpreted their jobs. Well have time later in the program to talk about all of those issues. There is a link available to brookings in order to purchase a copy of the book at a think youll find [inaudible] its really something quite [inaudible] were going to focus today at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community appears actually did a fairly good job warning and anticipating that the pandemic was coming. And ask you to give us some of the data that point in the direction . Yeah, bruce, first of all before i do can i just say that thank you for the kind words for the spymasters. I was lucky enough in doing this book to talk to almost every living cia director and i was even luckier to be able to talk to yo
The coronavirus, author chris recentlypoke about his released book the spy masters the c. I. A. Director in the future. By the brookings institution, this is about an hour. Hello, im director the intelligence of the project for institution and today were having a program on covid19, how well he Intelligence Community anticipates the worldwide pandemic which is now covering world. Ire im very happy to say that my chris whipple, he is the author and published a a few years ago called most recently publish spy masters which is a book about how policy directors shape history for the future. Its the first book that looks modern directors of. Entral intelligence they have s how interpreted their jobs. In the ve time Later Program to talk about all of and to purchase well be e book, [indiscernible]. Were going to focus today, at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community it ppears actually did a fairly good job of warning and pandemic was coming. Should i ask you, chris, to g
Historically, probably dealing with terms like fascism and populism and nationalism but before we do that i want to spend just a moment talking about what we are going to do with the technology. Number one, asking all the videos to stay off. So we dont get video bombed and so that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your question into the chat box, to do that, if youre familiar with zoom, if you run your cursor across the screen youll see at the bottom box that says chat, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand side of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type in your questions and comments. As we go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal, if youd be good enough to type in your questions as they happen, they will come directly to me, they will not be shared with the rest of the group because we suspect there may be some t
With the technology. Number one, were asking all videos to stay off so we dont get video bombed so that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your questions into the chat box commit to do that if youre familiar with zoom if you run your cursor across the screen you will see at the bottom of box that says chats, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type it in your questions. As you go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal, if youd be good enough to type in your questions as they happen they will come directly to me. They will not be shared with the rest of the group because we suspect there might be some trolls here who may want to bomb us with hatred and rage. We just assume not have to have all of you share that. They will come to me and thats fine, i dont mind being there psychi
Ask the question, how do we strengthen not only the quantity of time with people but even more importantly the quality of time . Watch book this weekend on cspan2. Good evening, everyone. And candace, one of the event managers here at town offered on behalf of townhall seattle im welcoming you to tonights lifestream with investigative journalist david wrote an conversation with podcast and radio host [inaudible]. As we get underway at like to acknowledge there are institution stands on the unsuited traditional territory of the [inaudible] people, [inaudible]. We thank them for their uses of their Natural Resources from their ancestral homeland. Were thrilled to be able to present this event virtually with concerns surrounding public health. Were proud to be unity focused organization and where we can sustain ideas and creativity. Like to think david and steve for appearing tonight to help make that happen. For viewers who want to watch this podcast with close captioning we recommend th