Journalist and most recently published spy masters and the first with the modern directors of Central Intelligence and then to be interpreted of their jobs and to talk about all those issues and the Intelligence Community doing a fairly good job to warn and anticipate the pandemic is coming so the data that points in that direction . Can i just say that thank you for the kind words i was lucky enough and even luckier to talk to you about sure the book would be as good as it is. I have an epilogue in the book the history of the cia from Richard Helms but at the end of the book what the president knew and when he knew it from the emerging Coronavirus Crisis and with the Intelligence Community told him. And with those catastrophic consequences of a president who ignored warnings about the coronavirus and the daily brief throughout january and february. And those whose name had emerged through that time and trump later said its the first he ever heard of the coronavirus and then said it wa
Most recently published the spymasters which is a book about how the cia directors shape history. Its a really pathbreaking work at her book. Its the first book that looks at the modern directors of Central Intelligence and evaluates [inaudible] and how they have interpreted their jobs. Well have time later in the program to talk about all of those issues. There is a link available to brookings in order to purchase a copy of the book at a think youll find [inaudible] its really something quite [inaudible] were going to focus today at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community appears actually did a fairly good job warning and anticipating that the pandemic was coming. And ask you to give us some of the data that point in the direction . Yeah, bruce, first of all before i do can i just say that thank you for the kind words for the spymasters. I was lucky enough in doing this book to talk to almost every living cia director and i was even luckier to be able to talk to yo
Published spy masters and the first with the modern directors of Central Intelligence and then to be interpreted of their jobs and to talk about all those issues and the Intelligence Community doing a fairly good job to warn and anticipate the pandemic is coming so the data that points in that direction . Can i just say that thank you for the kind words i was lucky enough and even luckier to talk to you about sure the book would be as good as it is. I have an epilogue in the book the history of the cia from Richard Helms but at the end of the book what the president knew and when he knew it from the emerging Coronavirus Crisis and with the Intelligence Community told him. And with those catastrophic consequences of a president who ignored warnings about the coronavirus and the daily brief throughout january and february. And those whose name had emerged through that time and trump later said its the first he ever heard of the coronavirus and then said it was no big dea deal,. There are
Keep . Are we in agreement . I think i agree with supervisor ronen that these are interrelated and if we do find some funding, either from this or from, i dont care, you know, to fund the civilianization, then i am in agreement. Chair supervisor mandle man . Ok. Chair so i think that we have said that we will cattleya academcut threeAcademy Classes e chief which Academy Class to keep and not keep any of the Academy Class on reserve. Lets get to the overteam. Theres been a proposal from supervisor walton to cut the budget to 75 and by supervisor yourself eesupervisoryee to cute 50 in reserve and then theres a use of the overtime money for some of the overtime money to civilianize the police force. Now, supervisor walton, you have put a proposal of 75 of the 17 million to be cut from the overtime budget. Would you comfortable with supervisor yees proposal of a 50 cut and 25 of that 50 being put on reserve . Yes, yes. Thank you. Chair supervisor ronen, are you comfortable by cutting by 50
Maybe some of these positions wont be necessary. I do not support layoffs this year. Supervisor walton, how do you feel about supervisor ronens proposal. We are hearing from supervisor yee and mandelman that they are opposed to layoffs but open to putting money in the second year on reserve. Excuse me, you are on mute. I am definitely open to putting 7 million on reserve for the second year. Again, it is hard for me at this point. Not an impossibility without knowing the officers it is an issue now. What you are hearing there is an appetite to put money the second year on reserve, not for layoffs. Chief, what you have heard now is that what we are saying is that we are thinking a substantial amount of money on reserve the second year. This committee is opposed to the layoffs. If we put reserves amount of money on the second year, colleagues, we would put it in budget and finance reserve, is that correct. Yes, that is. I think we have a proposal on the table. We are looking at superviso