Reconstruction, 1862 1920 with Manisha Sinha in conversation with John Stauffer, the American Antiquarian Society is located on the ancestral homelands of the nipmuc Tribal Community who remain an active presence here in central massachusetts. Tonights program is being recorded and will be available on our youtube page or channel following this program. And we are delighted to welcome both those of you who are with us tonight in antiquarian hall in worcester, massachusetts, and those of us who are joining us across the country and around the world on youtube. My name is scott casper. Im the president of the American Antiquarian Society. And tonights event is a special one for us because we are honored to help launch a brand new book published today by an author who has been part of the a community for many, many years. And i would note that her book has already today been reviewed in the New York Times. Indeed Manisha Sinha and her exemplify a us mission which is to cultivate a deeper
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
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 century like the paper timecards we are stuck with it. Not kidding. Bottom line if we want a workforce with secure and talented our approach to security clearances needs an overhaul asap. The way we do business right now and at least three serious problems. First, we are not getting the right people in the door. More than ever we need individuals with Language Skills and cultural staff working in National Security but its too hard for a native
The institute for public knowledge. You are in the kind of annex space that we are hosting at this evenings event and we do a lot like this at the part that tries to take ideas and intellectuals that might otherwise spend too much time inside the ivory tower and project them out into the world, so we aim to generate conversations between Bank University world and have a lot to say to one another and we do many events like this and urge you to get on the mailing list if youre not already a part of the community. So tonight is especially exciting to me for many reasons. One is that our distinguished guest tonight was hugely hopeful to me and my increasingly well known, operator when we were writing the book modern romance over the last couple of years we drew heavily from the foundation of her knowledge and she said so many things that were interesting to us but she told us a whole lot about conversation and technology and things to look out for. I will always remember one of the most am