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Let me especially thing your outstanding principal. [applause] there are all kinds of notable guests here but i just want to mention a few. First of all, our outstanding secretary of the department of homeland security, and janet napolitano. [applause] our wonderful secretary of the interior ken salazar. [applause] former secretary of labor, hilda solis. [applause] two of the outstanding members of the congressional delegation from nevada, steve and gina. [applause] your own mayor, carolyn goodman. [applause] we also have some mayors who flew in because they know how important issue we are to talk about today is. Maria from arizona. Qassim from atlanta, georgia. Rick from phoenix, arizona. And ashley from fresno, calif. [applause] than all of you are here, as well as some of the top labor leaders in the country. We are so grateful. Outstanding Business Leaders are here as well. Of course, we have wonderful students here. [applau ....
Institute hosts this 90 minute of that. Good morning. Welcome to this mornings panel. Separating fact from fiction. I am a member of a task force on detention and interrogation policy. Captain bigelows recent film sparked controversy. Recentryn bigelows film sparked controvery. Its graphic depiction of eight torture. For the most part, the outrage has come from the left. You are a conservative like me, when you see the washington left with the hollywood left, your temptation is to sit back and destroyed a fight. And enoy the fight. That is why many of the cia and defenders and supporters stayed out of this debate. I interrupt while the progressives are fighting it out. But the fact is, culture matters. Many americans will form their opinions based on what they see on the silver screen. It is important for those who know the truth to set the record straight and separate fact from fiction. Today, we have a distinguished panel to help us do that. Three veterans. There were directly involv ....
When he came into the office, the program had been suspended. He was not involved in its initial creation. He conducted a partial assessment. He gathered all the information and had to advise the president whether or not to restart it. He concluded he could not advise the president not to have an Interrogation Program. We will ask him to explain why that is. Jose rodriguez is the former director of the cia service. He was an undercover officer, becoming the head of the cias counterterrorism center. Including the Interrogation Program defected in this film. He is the author on what i considered the best book on this topic. He is in my view an american hero. John is the former chief legal officer of the cia. He spent 34 years in a cia office of general counsel. He has been called the most influential career lawyer in the cia history. In his memoir, a former direct ....
Im in. Depends on your definition of attach the reforms of you get into what those words really mean, and i began to say that is not reform. There is nothing in the plan that asks everyone to pay there is nothing that ask the wealthy to be part of the solution. What we have here is a disagreement as to the basic problem. We are still hearing talk about tax on the wealthy. We just got some tax on the wealthy. It will pay for about a week of running the federal government. If we confiscated everyones income that make over 250,000 north, it pays for one year of the deficit. I am just saying, if we brought it down to what the president wanted to bring it down to. The medicare situation, the Social Security situation, medicaid, the Congressional Budget Office and everybody taking a look at it basically said it is not sustainable. The trajectory, there is no way aroun ....