Good afternoon everyone. On behalf of the archivist of the United States, i like to welcome you all to the theater located in the National Archives building in washington dc. Id also like to give a special shout out to our good friends from cspan2 who are also joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his new book, the cia and the post 911 world, like to be about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater. This friday august 16th, at noon, William G Hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten family father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. Then on tuesday september 10th at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln all powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1886 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and error exhibits, please visit our website at archives. Gov challenger. Weve also find some printed materials of the lobby about upcoming coming e
Thank you for your service past and present to the country and to fellow veterans. We are honored to work alongside you. That is exactly what we will do over the next few days. We will be working together. Not in a typical way and not our daytoday work. You will have an opportunity to pause and take a step back from the day to day grind and challenges. All of those things we struggle with every day and think about what we are doing and why. Are going to think about what we know and what we dont know. Those of you know me know that formal remarks are not my specialty. I want to show hands, how many of you that when we set it will be data, where like all. A show hands. It is okay. I am a selfprofessed data geek. I had that feeling to. I want to talk to you about why data is important. Sometimes it feels abstract and disconnected from reality. Sometimes it is dry and boring. Not really connected to the veterans we serve every day. We are here to serve veterans but data can help you we can
Shout out target friends from cspan who are also joining us today. Before we hear from Gloria Venlet about his new book id like to tell you but to upcoming programs taking place in the theater for this friday august 16 at noon when t. Jr. Will tell us about a forgot founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday december 10 Sidney Blumenthal will talk about his biography of Abraham Lincoln all powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln in 1856 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and our exhibits please visit our web site at www. Archives. Gov account and you will find. Material in the theater lobby about coming events as well as sign up sheet so you can receive an electronic version of her monthly calendar. Philip mudd joined the Central Intelligence agency in 1985 on a panel specializing on asia and in the middle east. After the september 11 attack he was a cia member of the small Diplomatic Team that helped piece toge
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Shutdown of hong kong airport as well its actually been 2 days now without any tear gas fired in hong kong that is something of a record in recent weeks but well see what happens later on saturday richelle so enter across the border and mentions and thats when theres been this this build up of. Chinese military what is the reaction been to that in the last few days and hong kong. Well weve seen new video of that troop build up in a stadium in shenzhen overnight into saturday hong kong time weve known about this troop build up in that stadium in shenzhen here in hong kong for about a week now and people here think its scare tactics by beijing they dont really expect that china is about to send in the military over the border into hong kong that would be a very very radical step hong kong has essentially a mini constitution the basic law now there are 2 relevant clauses in that one of which they explicitly say that the home clones government is responsible for public order and hong kongs