Just over an hour. [applause] im not used to the applause. Walter sackson or bringing isaacson for bringing some dignity to the Wilson Center. C. E. O. Of the nd center. I want to recognize my colleagues from the advisory council, especially my cochair, in the middle there, number two. D [laughter] and heres a list of other dignitaries. Let me first recognize my colleagues from that committee. We have on to michael, the director of the program. Formerly of some very Senior Intelligence posts. Crowley, raj day, mike ayden, another of the luminaries from the intel world. David hayman. Jim loy, christian who used to be chiefofstaff to jay him homeland ll number four. Former member of congress. Morell deputy c. I. A. Director. Head of majorrmer gency, intel agency at the pentagon. Xford, john pistol, former tsa administrator. Starnes walker and web sler. Demarco, who is and the ons wife, superior member of the johnson household. [laughter] secretary the deputy of the homeland department, s
Cspan2. Booktv live coverage of the Annapolis Book festival continues. Starting now a panel on drone warfare. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Annapolis Book festival. We will be Getting Started in just a minute. This is being broadcast on cspan booktv. We ask that you silence yourself and then remain quiet during the discussion. It is my distinct honor to share the stage with these tremendous authors. Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im going to let each of them talk for about ten minutes, then im going to take the power of the chair and ask a few questions and then open up to the audience for questions. On my immediate right is richard whittle. His book, predator the secret origins of the drone revolution, is the book well be discussing today. Richards a career journalist, he cut his teeth at the raleigh news and observer, then on to the Dallas Morning News where he covered defense issues for a numb
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
Former intelligence officials from the clinton, bush and obama demonstrations spoke monday about the Government Security clearance process and recommendations for moving the system. From the Wilson Center, this is an hour and a half. Good morning welcome bright and early on monday to the Wilson Center. I and jane harman, president ceo recovering politician for many many years, too many for some of my detractors. I spent time in the house of representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance knows what i mean. Parts of our system fit the 19th cen
Think the islamic people who are not terrorists do not condemn them . They dont openly condemn them . Why is that . You have not heard any examples of that . There are stories in the paper that areut groups forming, muslim groups that are forming International Groups to criticize and denounce what isis is doing. Georgia, democrat, good morning. Caller good morning to you. I think the president s speech was on point. We are not going to militarily be able to destroy terrorism. We can slow them down, stop them from coming here, but we are not going to destroy terrorism altogether. Host i have to leave it there. Sorry for the abrupt stop. That brings in and to todays washington journal. We will be back tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. And now i want to bring it to the Wilson Center discussing the Government Security clearance process with a group who worked for previous administrations. I am very excited that we are doing something truly useful as host a panel is to discussion on security clearance