Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. The senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i come to the floor today to talk about zero dark 30. Not the movie, but a report on the movie. The report was supposed to tell us how the movies producers obtained topsecret information from the federal government. But the report never took us there, the department of defense Inspector General stumbled and fell and lost sight of the goal, and the need for independence. People were exposed to harm, the taxpayers money got wasted, alleged misconduct by top officials was shielded by a policy that may have been abused , bureaucratic bungling causeed confusion, turmoil, and dissent. For certain, the whole thing was a fiasco. The zero dark 30 report was driven by the hemorrhage of leaks of highly classified information by Senior Administration officials after the Osama B
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Will you defense news welcome to defense news t. Im vago muradian. The auauthor of a new book on hw the predator aircraft changed warfare forever. The service continues to develop new combat vehicicles. The biggest longrange program is the future fighting vehicle. It would replace the armys vast fleet of bradley fighting vehicles, including an armored vehicle. We met witthe Program Executive officer for armored vehicles, including the m1 tank and the and 113 person of character and the m113 personnel characr. A any ruest or future proposal is a n number of years away baseded on overall affordability. I think the real i intent here s we go into this next phase of the future finding vehicle is to take the years that we have and ththe resources cononstraint to understand the details of whahat the army is looking for in a futurere fighting vehicle. We will be lookingt science and technology. Re is some ongoing times Science Technology going on. We wilill look at some of the other investmen
Russianjapanese war, the first great war of the 20th century. Roosevelt invited envoys on both sides and he took them to portsmouth, actually in maine budgets across from the Portsmouth Naval facility, pretty secluded, and there they hammered out a peace treaty. George mitchell in Northern Ireland is an example. The soviets, but really in the whole history of the world theres just a whole lot of examples where two warring parties are brought together and compelled to make peace. My favorite example is in the 15th century when Pope Alexander the vi or solenoid that decided to resolve the dispute between the spanish and portuguese, so he divided the world between the two of them. The spanish were going to get the new world, and there was a line on the globe so north and south america, spain, and africa were all going to portugal. But the pope didnt know that brazil stuck at a little over the line. Thats why they speak portuguese today because they didnt, it became a portuguese province.