of the nation. now, i think i may have misspoken by saying you re his attorney, u a legal adviser. can you characterize that? sure, look, i don t think that clemency is an exception to our legal system. i think clemency is part of our legal system as are pardons. we have in our history often used the pardon and clemency mechanism as part of our legal system, when for one reason or another we decide to turn the corner as a nation, whether that was vietnam war resistors or president nixon or people involved in iran/con tra, i don t think it can be said in most of those cases that the law breaking that occurred there helped the country as attorney general holder and president obama have both conceded with edward snowden, that this debate will make us stronger. i think that this global debate, that has been launched by edward snowden that could not have been started another way, people say
director, another white male. highly qualified but nonetheless. there are a number of women running defense agencies in this town that he could have chosen. the second was a woman michelle flournoy that he could have chosen. i believe we got to keep pressure on him. because i think this is really important. anybody you know that s equally qualified. name some people you know who are equally qualified to the people he named to the top jobs who are women? susan rice was. equally qualified as john kerry? i think so. fair enough. she was just one. michelle flournoy would have been. i think they were just pushing against kerry. against hagel. against hagel and be a con tra train to the president. one of the most important people in the president s inner circle in the first term was nancy ann deparle.