War college in carlyle, pennsylvania. And these are legitimate questions. What would we have done or should we have done or both. I threw a lot of information at you tonight, but at least there were pictures, not totally words. But i must remind you that it is very complicated. I spent a long time trying to figure it out. It is a big puzzle, but a very interesting one. And there are several books, several blog sites and now we have the template from afghanistan being reproduced in iraq and syria. This is what Osama Bin Laden wanted to do, take over afghanistan. I dont think he realized or believed this could happen. But now we have a caliphate deck lated in iraq and syria and it comes directly out of the model from afghanistan. So when we took our eye off the ball in 2003, on march 19th, went into iraq, that sent another signal to the world, that we werent serious about afghanistan. And if you talk to a lot of many of you must have military friends or friends that are still serving or
I think we will start if everybody has their coffee and we are ready to launch this. My name is jacky gillan and i am president for advocates of highway safety. I have the honor of introducing this mornings speaker, dr. Rosekind who is the 15th administrator of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration and he was sworn into office this past december 2 22nd. I got to know him after he was appointed to serve on the National Transportation and safety board in 2010. We worked together on semple safety issues with impaired and distracted driving. Marks dedication is rooted in his professional life and professional career. He spoke about his father publically San Francisco Police Officer who tragically died into the line of duty by a driver who ran a red light. And like many other room in the men administrator rosekind married up. His wife is a successful pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco bay area. His studies and professional career prepared him well for the challenge of
Because of the change in a Business Model were not going to be able to devote the amount of resources and time to investigative reporting in the sense of longterm in depth work that takes reporters months to produce. And at the time a lot of different kinds of elements of a noose ecosystem started to spring up. Propublica raised money from foundations, from individuals, and has built over the last six, seven years a newsroom of about 50 people, focused only on the journalism in the public interest. And that, of course, includes a big swath of reporting on consumers, on how abuses unfairness, abuses of trust, fraud, and what propublica brings to the table is a longterm commitment to working on stories, however long they take to do. A big commitment to Data Collection and analysis, and a feeling that every time we produce the story, that is based on the huge amount of data, we try to extend that reporting to local communities by partnering with people across the country who can do their
I had the first interviews with the cuban five spies since theyve gotten released by obama. And we were able to put together a sevenminute video that ran on the web that had really great stuff. Both from interviews and walking the streets of havana with these guys who were celebrated as National Heroes down there. If i had to do that for one of the network news, it would have been, if i could have gotten two minutes, it would have been a real gift. But i was able to do something much more in depth, and much more satisfying actually. Jack brian, is that proliferation of what youre able to expose the public to one of the reasons why abc chooses to make a very large investment in your team . Brian i think so. Jack if you just had the nightly news maybe you wouldnt , be able, they would want to make that investment. Brian im not sure about that but i know that we are encouraged, almost demanded of us, for instance, the story about the iraqi army and allegations theyre committing war crimes
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