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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 governments case against him is still pending. He has stated he will go to jail rather than cooperate...

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 living in savannah, georgia. He only has 100 disability from the army because of his ptsd. And he is ...

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 [laughter] they wanted to know. People now see that the sciencebased set of guidelines that the president ...

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 not vast majority, but a majority of americans dont support afghanistan. I think the fact that we have...

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 and would be in a fight tonight on the Korean Peninsula if god forbid we ever had a wart on the Kore...