Commercialism that he gets to be unbearable. I dont know what to do without cspan. I love it. It is on my tv all day long. Thank you. Email us, or send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. At New York University law school, current and former federal prosecutors discuss strategies for reducing crime in a time of budget cuts. Report that argues for changes and how the performance of prosecutors is evaluated. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Im going to start with reef introductions here it i will make a few introductory remarks. Well engage in a conversation of the role of federal prosecutors in the 21st century and open up to questions. I will start in the middle and whooduce the vice chairman served over four years for the general. Attorney the closest to me is paul fishman. U. S. Attorney in new jersey. Paul served at least one term as the chair of the Advisory Committee that is an e
First got elected was the issue of the National Guard came up and i was on armed services. A lot of those guard folks were being deployed multiple times. And it was very, very difficult for their families. And a number of us recognized that what we needed to do is build facilities, upgrade facilities, get rid of those old facilities and replace them with Readiness Centers to train and equip our troops in the event that we had to send them overseas on a mission, which we id many, many times. But we needed to construct those facilities also for their families, for their spouses and for their children. On the Appropriations Committee what tom latham did was make sure we had the funding, to make sure we built those facilities as well. So we were able to work on that issue together. And then when the great flood of 2008 hit across iowa, but mainly across the eastern half of iowa, it included a lot of tom lathams district and a lot of it included my district, about half of the damage was in
Chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. But first, do no harm . We will look at the central role the Health Professionals played in the cia torture program. Ddid doctors violate the nuremberg code banning human experimentation . Then to the 25th anniversary of the u. S. Invasion of panama. Clear this invasion was illegal. It is not debatable. The goals of the United States have been a safeguard the lives of americans, to defend democracy in panama. How in the world do restore that which has never existed . Panama customer been a democracy since we created panama for own purposes in 1903. Thiss did was go down american control and dominance in panama. We will speak with former panamanian diplomat Humberto Brown and latin american historian greg grandin. His latest piece, how the iraq war began in panama. And colonel wilkerson. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New york city mayor bill de blasio
That we can join us soon. And they will be very healthy group, but there are a number of retirees who have asked, and because there are a lot of things and walking and all kinds of things that retirees are interested in doing. And we are trying to form some of our own groups through the rcsf and connect them with the other members who have things going on as well. But, they have expressed interest in some of the classes, at the wellness cell center and any time that there will be classes that will be specific to retiree and we look forward to that. Claire, do they need to be specific to retirees, we are actually in the hall and often i am the only one active, and the retirris in that class and they are welcome but i will acknowledge that we have not gotten out the enews but stephanie figured out how to get it for august and, so retirees might not have known about these classes but that will be the primary way of letting the people know where the classes are and retirees are welcome to
Work. Thank you for that. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, it has been moved and seconded. All in favor . Please say aye . Aye. Any nays i wanted to make an announcement that i have agreed to serve on a california Wide Health Information Exchange that is being formed right now called cal index. This is to be a very exciting opportunity for the state, to take a real step forward, blue cross and blue shield have come together, and recognized the importance of being able to share information, not just between their own members, but between and among allpro vieders within california. With the goals of improving the safety, the quality and the effectiveness, that is provided and also, trying to improve the cost effectiveness of the care that is provided, all while insuring that we maintain the privacy of patient information. I am pleased to have been asked to serve and i look forward to further the goals directors report . Okay. My report is before you, and i wanted to point out, tha