That begins at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good afternoon. I am director of the center on National Security, i am delighted to be joined by ali soufan, author of the black banners declassified how torture derailed the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know ali soufan from some of the events weve done together, a special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 9 11 attacks. Is in recent years brought his investigative skills to the private sector, ceo of the founder of the center, his specialty is Global Security affairs from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will explore as much of that today as we can. I want to deck out each day, we publish the intel brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into timely issues that go to the heart of what we are thinking about even if it is not in the headlines. From white to premises him to what is happeni
The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a part start of the cold war. But these three men and their staff came to potsdam not to begin a cold war amongst themselves, but celebrate, really, the end of the war with germany, figure out what the post world war was going to look like, and plan for the final victory over japan in the pacific theater. This photograph very much reflects the spirit of potsdam, which i will talk a little bit more about in a bit, which was happy, which was victorious, which was joyful, wh
Decade talking about their books. You can watch our series at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer 2 three College Professors discuss the ways they teach about u. S. Involvement in the vietnam war. Panelists talk about their personal participation in peace and Antiwar Movements and how those experiences translate into their classrooms. This discussion was part of a conference in washington, dc posted in conjunction with the waging peace in vietnam traveling exhibit. And with that, i want to begin with two things. First, there are so many people here to credit. There are so many people who helped create exhibit which is now on the second floor in the atria. If you havent seen it, we invite you to go down during lunch, take a look at it. You have heard a lot about the book waging peace in vietnam. Com, what you havent heard about the publisher which is new village press, distributed by nyu. We are fortunate to have the director of the press Lynn Elizabeth i
freedom. we salute all of our military heroes. and with that said, we have a jam-packed show ahead, answering your sound out questions, so let s get started i guess i am first. nancy m, i m going to start with you, are you ready? what will you be grilling for memorial day? i laugh about this, because i am assuming that fox brought me here to cohost so i would not be grilling. it s a little problematic. i thought this was an intervention grubhub. by if you want to know in the house it s not just eating, it s more of a hazing ritual than a meal, we go with the basics. memorial day as drumsticks come burgers, dogs, and then you can get rad with a salad, macaroni salad, pasta salad, i make a world-class gruyere mac and cheese. so fact we bring a guy who saws off your foot to write at the picnic table. you will love it. dana: i might have to eat that over the course of a year. geraldo: nothing like blood clotting. dana: as i figure you have a grill at your house?
Like the most during ramadan, pres an action, the un condemned as excessive. I did receive days, thousands of alter nationalist jews, would be entering the most compound schools, advisory, the police, a booth condemned by the to daniel walks. The custodians of the both of us officials of long said they were sold to israel at a time in place of their choosing. But sundays attack seemed to take money by surprise nor hon. Ill just there are but lets just take a look now. The live pictures coming out of gauze and now dont, is breaking over the enclave. These are the latest pictures. The body shop is very far into civilian areas, into gauze as continued unabated program. The bottom line is next, but the full that will leave you the lights. This picture is coming out of gaza. You may find these images distressing the. 4 the a general election on the referendum on the same day, people in poland to fold on october 15th and make that choice on integration. Im National Security conform. Are you