House appropriations on wednesday at cspanm. Eastern on tape. John brennan, former cia director appeared before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing investigation. This is two hours and 10 minutes. Good morning. It is my habit and tradition to begin with a quick prayer. Heavenly father, we come before you humble in desperate need of your wisdom and guidance. We pray for the families and those affected by the bombing in manchester last night. A clear reminder of how dangerous this world is. We ask for your comfort and healing for those involved in that horrific experience. We ask that you be with us this morning. We ask for your guidance and wisdom. In your sons name, jesus, amen. Good morning. I would like to welcome our witness, john brennan. Thank you for being for a for agreeing to be with us this morning. I would like to offer up our prayers for the deceased and injured. The tragedy reminds us of the crucial role our Intelligence Committees. This morning session
House appropriations on wednesday at cspanm. Eastern on tape. John brennan, former cia director appeared before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing investigation. This is two hours and 10 minutes. Good morning. It is my habit and tradition to begin with a quick prayer. Heavenly father, we come before you humble in desperate need of your wisdom and guidance. We pray for the families and those affected by the bombing in manchester last night. A clear reminder of how dangerous this world is. We ask for your comfort and healing for those involved in that horrific experience. We ask that you be with us this morning. We ask for your guidance and wisdom. In your sons name, jesus, amen. Good morning. I would like to welcome our witness, john brennan. Thank you for being for a for agreeing to be with us this morning. I would like to offer up our prayers for the deceased and injured. The tragedy reminds us of the crucial role our Intelligence Committees. This morning session
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Public affairs, heres a phone he will run to you and hit you on the head. Be careful, we are dealing with some dangerous people. The best thing thats on who introduced us can do is to get out of the way quickly. I will try to do that. I like to welcome everybody to daniel morgan. Graduate school of national security. Its a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers. Also, a thanks to the cspan people who are here as well. I am an old spy. I started off in the Clandestine Services of the cia in the sovieteuropean division. We were always very curious as to what those military before doing on the other side. Today, i get to find out. Our speaker has a new book, special forces are when Clandestine Operations of the cold war delete from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, the midwest and did a few stints is a very special place in the very special forces. Then onward to work with some ngos and then over to my own home at the cia. That is quite a c
American Foreign Relations as well as the American History book prize. It was a 1976 finalist for both the nationalist book award and the Pulitzer Prize and the current paper back edition of a world destroyed is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Visiting as the fund visiting professor of American History. And is a visiting professor at wellesley college. Hes taught at uc berkeley and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the institute for the advanced stud and the Woodrow Wilson National Center for scholars. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. So please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [ applause ] okay, thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that int introducti introduction. I hope you liked it. It was more folsom because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Im re