Company man thirty years of controversy and crisis in the cia. The man who represented the cia in the irancontra scandal and approving rules for waterboarding with an Agency Evolution from an organization in the shadows to one frequently at the center of political controversy. This program is about an hour. John, good to be here with you. I wanted to start in the beginning is probably the easiest way to go. Can you just tell me why you decided to join the cia . Well, it was 1975. I have been out of was go for about three years. I had a good job, good entrylevel job in the treasury department, as a lawyer in the service, which was part of treasury at that point. It was a good job, but i found the atmosphere, the viet treasury. In retrospect i was young, ambitious and i was just rest is. About the same time, the Church Committee hearings for being televised msu now, and these were congressional hearings that its as cia misadventures, follies from the 50s and 60s by senator frank church.
Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried to thank the two influences in my life; one was kennedy and one was phil graham and the Washington Post. So i thought giving something to the Kennedy School, endowing a chair, would be appropriate, and i did and theyve been looking ever since. Cspan why has it taken so long . Guest i dont know. Cspan when you. Guest theyll find somebody. Cspan when you give an endowment to a school like the Kennedy School at harvard, how does it work . Guest well, you have first thing, you have absolutely no say
[ bells tolling ] that is st. Johns Episcopal Church and other churches around the nation ringing their bell to pay tribute to john lewis as his Funeral Services are about to begin there in atlanta. Van jones, im sorry to interrupt you, just making the point that this is this is the final march. Yeah. You know, its its such a powerful moment. This summer you have the death of a legend and the rebirth of a movement happening at the same time, and it feels like this this birttersweet of a circumstance. He was the young voice, the voice, what you now call black lives matter and its so controversial and people dont know what to think about it. This was the student nonviolent coordinating a committee in the 1960s through the mid1960s and he was that young voice, the youngest guy on tage already a National Figure at 23 years old, a couple years later beaten within an inch of his life, and now as he passes on what an unbelievable movement, all these, you know, thousands and john lewises and j
Steele and that subsequent dossier were paid for by the Clinton Campaign with money that was facility erred through a dc lawyer. The fbi has also been able to keep their connection to fusion gps concealed in the name of protecting the ongoing mueller investigation. The washington journal has called for Robert Mueller to re sign as special counsel of the russia investigation. They argue he ran the fbi for ten years and if the investigation turns to the interactions with fusion gps and what they may or may not have known about the efforts to use russian intel to dig up dirt against the u. S. President donald trump theres questions about whether or not Robert Mueller can be impartial on this case. Trace gal her on a very busy night joins us with the back story. High trace. High martha. The bank records are key because they can layout exactly who was pay for what and when. Byron york is now the reporting that the Washington Freebee condition which is a conservative publication in initially
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