On behalf the day that i would like to welcome you all to the theater located in the National Archives building in washington, d. C. And id also like to give a special shout out to our friends from cspan who are also joining us today. Before we hear from philip mudd about his new book black cite the cia and post9 11 world i wouldve liked to tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater. This friday augus august 16 at , william g. Hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten founding father, george mason, the founding father who gave us the bill of rights and then on tuesday september 10 at noon, said a blumenthal will tell us about this recently released a young three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln, all powers of earth, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1856 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and our exhibits, please visit our website at archives. Gov calendar and youll also find some printed materials held in the lobby about Upcoming Events as w
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
Profile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail, Bernie Madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra bland case which is one of those high profile encounters between africanamericans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago which was a conversation between a young black man, black woman and a Police Officer who pulls her over and the conversation goes off the rails. And i wondered why is it, why is it that were, that we fail in these conversations with strangers. Thats where the book comes from. Host each one of your
Our good friends from cspan are joining us today. Before we talk to philip mudd about black site the cia in the post 9 11 world, i would like to tell you about what is taking place in the theater. On august 16th at noon, William Holland junior will tell us about a forgotten founding father, george mason who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday, september 10th, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume, his biography of abraham lincoln, all the powers of earth, 18561863. To find out more about these programs and our exhibits please visit our website, www. Archives. Com calendar and you will find some pretty theater in the lobby, and sign up sheet so you can receive an electronic version of our monthly calendar. He joined as an analyst specializing in south asia and the middle east. After the september 11th attacks he was a ci a member of a small Diplomatic Team that helped piece together a new government for afghanistan. After returning to the cia he became Dep
Following nato nation tradition as for the perpetrator of the september 16th massacre not only u. K. Labor member tony blair but also the frontrunner to lead the us democrats into next years u. S. Election both read eulogies at his funeral his joe biden currently under 5 a fossil fuel Campaign Financing driver say it doesnt just feel like the loss of a leader. Issues like a death in the family well biden remains the prowar u. S. Democratic stablish one choice for 2020 but Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of his october corruption trial may not even be Prime Minister after tomorrows vote count which takes place even in occupied land palestines ambassador to the United Nations we had months or joins me now from the turkish capital ankara where president s do on putin and rouhani had today meeting for talks ambassador thanks for coming on the show there is this meeting in ankara what have you made of the russian presidency of the u. N. Security council this month well 1st of all you know thank yo