Minutes. Our attention today will be on capitol hill itself, on our own neighborhood. But with an eye, of course, toward the global implications. In 1973, a leading member of the Senate Subcommittee responsible for overseeing intelligence activities, told director of intelligence james schlesinger, and i quote im not going to try the accent here, it was thick no, no my boy, dont tell me. Just go ahead and do it but i dont want to know. Well, since then, members of congress have on and off wanted to know. And congressional oversight of intelligence is a recurring flash point in executive congressional relations. Our guests, professor Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law School and mark low enthaul, the director of the Intelligence Community is going to explore the dustup between the senate and the c. I. A. About not only reminding us about past struggles between congress and the intelligence communities, such as Church Hearings but helping us understand why this context matters. Everything h
Journalists reactive turkish lawmakers breaking the headscarf taboo in parliament. Andy taxing times faced by french footballer whose bosses are threatening to strike over seventy five percent tax on wealth above one million euro loss of getting out of the leaders from james credence in our media watch second study art in the newsroom its a low once again to not be a chart clarion calls levies on headlines they sound intelligence Officials Say they needed the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a suspected us drones truck humans are causing to put a dent in the pas. This time in sentences that to be planning his funeral. The resistance from the Syrian Opposition peace envoy. He was against new delays in peace talks sharons departure is the main obstacle to getting all psyched to the negotiation table. In reality he is in washington president obama for assistance be back later and said to finance a country suspected cause of the growing unrest that the war. Yes this developing story co
The pope announces his resignation that is something that hasnt happened in nearly 600 years. Well tell you why he says he has to do it. A record breaking reward in the man hunt for a former police officer. Why the mayor of los angeles says this reward is urgently needed. A surge in copper theft across the bay area could be leading to more traffic. Well tell you why cal tran and other agencies are having trouble keeping up with prepares. Bioclean big cleanup on the east coast. Good morning. Welcome to a brand new day its monday, february 11th im dave clark. And im pam cook. Thank you for joining us this morning. If you like a mild winter, you are pretty happy right now. I will tell you though weve had three good months in a row. Now this looks like two back to back months below. We are running out of time here. Even the ten day outlook doesnt show any rain. It will be a quiet pattern and sunny and warmer. Well get there with temperatures upper 50s a few low to mid 60s. Here is sal. Ste
But long ago, it was the world of the maya. Not an empire, nor a country, the classic maya culture flourished from the third to the ninth century in a far flung collection of citystates. At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the