Im tom blanson onn r the to floor of the main library of George Washington university. Which is where we live. And were in a room ful of declassified documents. A lot of the people using our collections are using them online. For a lot of these kids, if its not online, it doesn exist. Part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources loose from the government through frae dom of information act request. And then get them into digital format how are you funded and where did you come from . We were started from a group of journalists to save their family, i think they created the National Security archive as a institutional memory and a follow up. We inherited their pending information of class. The really sensitive documents, theres a debate about is this kl ally secret . ejnni or can this be released . It can take years to get a declassification request through the system. This has been an iterative story for 50 years. To get the documents loose. Bits and pieces and not t
Great issues forum has brought the campus noted thinkers. Elliot richardson, the former attorney general, known as a hero of watergate. David gergen, a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court sandra day oconnor. Tennis icon and humanitarian arthur ashe. Governor of new jersey and chairman of the 9 11 commission. So jack, you have got to live got a lot to live up to. Today i had the privilege of introducing our speaker jack rakove. An exceptional student and teacher of history, a Pulitzer Prizewinning author. He will share his insights on James Madisons ticklish experiment at constitution making. Will prompt us to question and reflect on the concept of polity, something we cherish at st. Johns. Is is the one you the William Robertson professor. At Stanford University where he has taught since 1980. He is also taught at Colgate University from 1975 to 1980 and has been a visiting professor at nyus school of law. He is a visionary scholar and author. His book, original meanings, po
Northwest. This is associated with a cold front and every now and then you may hear a rumble of thunder. Weve got our lightning tracker on, one strike over the last hour. Theres not too much lightning going on with this. Its a stable environment. A couple of cold fronts sweeping through, a couple of showers embedded in this. Were mild because of cloud cover. Pilots, 59, quakertown, 64. Tannersville wurp 48 degrees, today youre 58. The clouds are on the increase throughout the morning. Vineland, 64, smyrna i cant, 66. Bring along the umbrella, but its not going to be a wash. Sunshine is expected, but a one to twohour window where you run the risk of seeing a popup shower. 73 by 10 00 a. M. , 3 00 p. M. , 84 degrees, later this week we have chances of showers and storms and some of them will be heavy. When we come back ill have all the details for you. Police in ferguson, missouri squared off with protesters overnight as they imposed a curfew on the town. The protesters turned violent at
Embarrassment for the embattled secret service. Two agents allegedly drove into a barricade near the white house. According to the washington post, they were drunk, in a government vehicle after attending a Retirement Party last week for a fellow secret service agent. Officers on duty wanted to arrest them, but a supervisor let them go home. It comes as a brandnew director heads the secret service. I think when you fail, and we have failed we own it. Its up to us to correct it. Reporter strong words from Joseph Clancy whose agency is on major damage control. Before this incident there was the prostitution investigation into more than a dozen agents in columbia in 2012. Agents drunk on president ial detail in amsterdam in 2014. Just months after that perhaps the most embarrassing a man who scaled the white house fence making it to a stairway leading to the first familys living headquarters. The white house is going to be secure. Reporter the white house will only say that president obam
Saw up to an inch of rain for the north and east bay. The rest of us got up to 1 2 inch. Definitely more than expected with series of storms that rolled through the bay area. this is Cathedral Hill heading out to most clear skies little chilly out there. Racing low 50s 40s for some protected valets north of the Golden Gate Bridge pre three this afternoon were talking about partly cloudy conditions gotta be a little windy. Looking another storm system will to the north could bring a few showers during the overnight hours. said rose of tralee spot 37 cheered 39 degrees in fairfield upper 40s for downtown San Francisco. Into afternoon were talking about fifties and sixties. Significantly cooler temperatures around the bay area but talking about a warming trend as we head into next week. Talking about eighties and yes even 90s in the forecast of about one thats expected to happen coming up in 15 minutes. making overnight to people that after car overturned on highway 101. This is the crash