When president bush instituted it and president obama continued it, they didnt have an open discussion about whether the country should have such a program. And actually that seems to run through a little bit of yesterdays opinion by judge lynch. Even dick cheney. This is something that i discovered in writing this book that nobody had ever seen before. When he wrote his dissent in the irancontra matter, he said if you have a hard Foreign Policy or National Security issue, a wise president first would not engage in excessive secrecy, and, second, a wise president would have a full and open democratic discussion in which he would attempt to persuade the public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example
Also directionally correct. It is time to look forward, not backward. This is not the time to dwell on the reasons why the federal Communications Commission and department of justice reached the conclusion that this proposed transaction would not be in the publics interest. But it is important to understand the Tipping Point from cable to broadband came while this transaction was under review. We recognized that the skri had changed and we saw concrete evidence of the new competition and Business Models made possible by high Speed Internet access. Try in other words, we recognized broadband had to be at the center of our analysis. And the video was in essence an application that flows over networks and that could be supplied both by the owners of facilities and by competitors that use broadband pathways to compete against the owners of those broadband pathways. This shift has implications far beyond this transaction for the industry at large. When i appeared before you in the Second Qu
Oshaughnessy history professor at the university of examines their tactical decisions and presents his thoughts on why they lost the war. This program from the Kansas City Public Library is an hour. [applause] thank you for reading the book so carefully and thank you also for wearing the monticello tie with Thomas Jefferson signature. I am very grateful to the Kansas City Public Library and their outstanding book program, for the opportunity to give this which is my first post publication talk about my book the men who lost america. I particularly want to thank henry who is the head of communications and tom who arranged the logistics so well, a sign of the quality of this program and of course Crosby Kemper the third who mentioned his director of the library. He mentioned that he was only born in the Thomas Jefferson foundation oversees monticello. The foundation is also my employer where i spend most of my time not talking about the british side of the American Revolution but about T
Well first of all, brooke youre not allowed to fly drones in d. C. Let alone around the white house. That is a restricted air space. What we can tell you here and we see a picture of this drone, the small uav that was used in this case. The secret service just releasing this statement basically saying that secret Service Uniformed Division Officers saw this man flying the u uav. He was then detained by secret service and instructed to land the small uav. The statement says that he did comply and the small uav was recovered in lafayette park. Of course that uav was swept by secret service and subsequently declared safe by the metropolitan Police Department. We now know that individual was turned over to the custody of the u. S. Park police. But brooke, this is the second time in a few month where is a drone has been near the white house. We know one landed on the white house lawn back in january. It turns out there was a malfunction with the drone and the operator was not charged in tha
Agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the watergate scandal as the president s personal lawyer. Kalmbach showed no emotion. He said id like you to know how deeply embarrassed i am and how sorry i am to be here thjudge announced the sentence. Not six n 18 months with a fine of 10,000. He left the court and went straight to a waiting car without comment. He is the 14th person to be sentenced for a crime related to watergate. As president Richard Nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach and his firm did a lot of runofthemill personal legal tasks for e president. They, for example, signed the checks for president to make his mortay they made sure he kept up on his property taxes they arranged the purchase of the mansin san clemente, california, that the Nixon Administration liked to call the western white house. Before maralago there was san clemente. But as nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach also ended up up to heck in a lot of different kinds of shady and ultimately illegal nixon s