History and relationship between the white house and the cia through the truman years to today. He describes how the intelligence arm he came a source of covert operations. By thent was hosted National Archives and is about an hour. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for the invitation to come out here and all of the wonderful hospitality. It was a chance to get to the world war i museum. Remarkable. It has been a pleasant couple of days. This is a great topic because it is controversial. No matter what i say, it will be controversial. Let me start with controversial remarks of others. I would like to start with frank church from idaho. He was the chairman of the church commission. Started,investigation he made a remark that was unfortunate and called the cia a rogue elephant. That is entirely wrong. If they were a rogue elephant, it would be easy. Controld get it under and the president should be able to do that. The president has given all of the missions and a few of them that dcaat
Next on the presidency, author and intelligence expert Melvin Goodman describes the relationship between the white house and the cia from the truman years through today. Goodman explains how president becames intelligence arm a politicized source of covert actions around the world, from the pay of pigs invasion from the bay of pigs invasion to the iran contra affair. Thank you and good evening. Thank you to dale with invitation to come out here. All the wonderful hospitality to see the world war i museum which is a remarkable museum. It has been an extremely pleasant couple of days. Great topic to deal with because it is controversial from the outset. No matter what i say, it will be controversial. Let me start with some controversial remarks that others made before i get to my own. I would like to start with Senator Frank Church from idaho. He was the chairman of the Church Commission. When the Church Commission investigation started, he made remarks that were unfortunate. An elephant
Because for many people,especially in the district i represent, one of the poorest the North Carolina, one that has high unemployment rates, that this is a godsend for a lot of people who thousands of people as a matter that who have never had coverage, who never had opportunity to go to a doctor. And i think Preventive Care is going to be the key to oppose do the things that we need to do for our population. So im looking forward to this discussion into the dialogue tonight because this is something thats very dear to me. And ill just say that i grew up with a mother who is now 89 in another month she will be 90 but i did note that i didnt have health care. I had assister who is very ill with sickle cell anemia. We got our health care from the emergency room. And so for a lot of people like my family even today, dont have an opportunity to see a doctor and he would need to see a doctor this will help us i think in the long run in terms of making sure that we do have a society that is
The seminoles, the cheats. No one today would call a franchise a the redskins. You have to look into net can be change. It is another speed bump and a long road ahead of us. To watch all of the winning videos and to learn more about the competition, go to cspan. Org. Also, tell us what you think about these issues these students addressed on their documentary on facebook and twitter. Coming up tonight, photojournalist Robert Nichols berg talks about his 25 years documenting the modern history in photos. Later, kentucky senator rand paul announces his candidacy for president. Awardwinning photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg document to 25 years in afghanistan. He spoke about his career and the history of the region told through his pictures. This is just over an hour. Mr. Nickelsberg i am going to give you a brief introduction on how i got to south asia and begin a rather rapid 60 image presentation. Starting from 1988 and going up to 2013. In 1987, i moved from bangkok, thailand when an
This is the moment of impact. You can see the brass casing. He has just been hit. These are all the taliban that were caught, including us, the three journalist. He is going down, down. I had moved from this position. This fellow was about to fire an rpg into the doorway. This man had the look of death. He carries his friend away after firing a rocket and all hell broke loose. 36 hours later, this is what remained. Every single taliban was killed. They have no language in common. They are hated. The most strange think the taliban could have done was to ask the men to turn in their weapons. This treaty collapsed in 1997. These are red cross workers. It is in may, 100 degrees. The bodies did start to smell. In 19 it comes the taliban went back in and killed 2200 locals. Revenge in 2008, the taliban went back in and killed 2200 locals. In 2001 and february, we are getting closer to 9 11 so everything is heating up. The environment is not very pleasant for the taliban. Only three countries