Afghanistan. The discussion hosted by the Stemson Center in washington, d. C. Included analysts like stuart bolin, Inspector General for iraq reconstruction and his recent report arguing that a the u. S. Does not have a well executed plan to implement and oversee the reconstruction efforts. Defense department and u. N. Officials also participated in the discussion. This is an hour and a half. Good morning everyone. I am Ellen Laipson and im delighted to welcome you to the Stimson Center for this muggy of this conversation about war and peace new tools for messy transition. We are gathering at the time that we can see the end of both the iraq and afghanistan engagement, and this event in a way is pivoted around the offer by the special Inspector General for the iraqi reconstruction to present some of the findings for the final report so the special Inspector General office created in 2004 is now completing its work so it is a moment of reflection and looking back at what are some of the
Discusses this in massachusetts for 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. Its an honor to be introduced by a fellow nantucketer both of our kids were educated by them and it is great to see you here in brookline and its wonderful to be in the Coolidge Center theater with this great bookstore and cosponsored with the massachusetts historical society, which has been an institution that has been absolutely essential to my life as a historian. I sometimes sort of feel like ive taken up residence in the archives there, and every book ive done there has been a Central Information that has come from there but among the more so than bunker hill. One of the characters i delve into, the papers are there at what we call the mhs and it is an organization that is essential to anyone that is looking into not just the history of boston, but this country. And the genesis for a bunker hill really goes back to the summer of 1984. My wife and i had just moved to boston fulltime. We were living on prince stre
If you want to represent what you said accurately, im happy to answer that question, but i dont appreciate what was originally said being changed. I dont give a damn what you appreciate, agent strzok. Trey gowdy. I guess he went back to being captain benghazi. Remember he said, these hearings are all about political partisanship. And huff and puff. This was more about making allegations than asking anything. And the result, frustration. Sir, it is as frustrating to me as it is to you. I can tell you, sir, i would love you know what, agent strzok . Mr. Chairman, may the witness be permitted to answer . The gentleman will suspend. If its so frustrating, answer the question. If youll allow him to, im sure he will. He has never answered the question. Stop interrupting him. Were showing you the highlights, but i have to tell you this was unique what we saw today, the level of disarray, the level of dysfunction on really all sides. A standout moment, though. A republican made trumps case tha
Lawyers recommended that that change be made and now looking back he says that apparently that is what he did on his computer. What have we learned about the issue of gross negligence and that change . Well, first of all the fact that he is trying to claim dana his his political bias against donald trump had nothing to do with his ultimate conclusionses that just does not pass the smell test and i think that you saw the smugness of him throughout the hearing and he never once apologized by the way for what he had done in the Text Messages. He acknowledged that the Text Messages were there. This was his opportunity to go and explain that that was not what he said or to apologize and he did neither, which is very telling. Dana it is the first time that we are hearing from Peter Strzok Strzok publicly, he has been behind closed doors as members of the house have been investigating this and listen to what one of your colleagues, trea gowdy had to say and he is speaking of bias in this soun
Counter Intelligence Division of the fbi in the effort within our government to find that out, to investigate it, and to stop it. Part of the fallout of the russia investigation and the republican backlash against that investigation is that Peter Strzoks career has been dismantled and the president and republicans who support the president have held peter strzok up for public scorn as a terrible person. Thats one of the ways hell go down in history when this is said and done. America was hit by a massive russian intelligence operation that infected our democracy. Right . That was designed to sway an election the way russia wanted it swayed. And to hurt our country in the process. The Political Party that the benefited from that attack responded to that attack in part by destroying and removing the top official in the u. S. Government in charge of fighting russian intelligence operations on our soil. So thats one of the ways peter strzok will go down in history. Another is the remarkabl