His official title is Deputy Director and Research Director of the National Security archive now, of course, it is not that in and say. The nsa that he works for is one of washingtons greatest gems, the place where classified american meets its maker and as hopefully declassified allowing transparency in government that seeks to shine a light on what goes on behind the scenes inside of washington. He is also the coauthor of becoming enemies, a book on american diplomacy during the iraniraq war which i think is safe to say is the best book on american diplomacy during that war. He now has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amount of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals. It is literally a mountain of material and documents that i dont think anyone else has ever systematically and seriously looked at, unless you are a prosecutor. But in the end, as your book shows, they did not look as well as they should have. The picture that emerges