At keeping our country safe. It is due in no small part to f. B. I. Vigilance in concert with the Intelligence Community partners that our nation has enjoyed a peaceful and safe Independence Day celebration this past weekend. As you are well aware, extremists remain intent on inflicting harm on u. S. Interests at home and abroad. Over the past year, we witnessed the islamist state, also referred to as isil, agenda attempt to inspire a wide range of individuals to conduct attacks against innocent civilians. The number of u. S. Based individuals seeking to conduct attacks in the homeland or overseas has already exceeded the combined number of individuals attempting activities in 2013 and 2014. Unfortunately, the threats faced by our nation are not limited to terrorist actors. Foreign governments remain intent on stealing National Security secrets. The f. B. I. Is charged with confronting all of these threads threats as well and is continually challenged in addition to these fairly unique
With passion and commitment, perhaps with a disagreement but with principal disagreement which is respectful. Because in my country and australia, editing perhaps here, too, there are a lot of people who yell at each other from one side or another but never really come constructively to engage with the issues of such profound importance that we face here in australia and around the world. So i welcome you to the first session. We have a marvelous panel were going to talk about history and what we are as an island. It is being shared by john podesta who is in the center and joining him [applause] please. John and henry, please welcome them all. [applause] john, your presence here, as to every hour of everyday of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory for the muscle memory of the experiences for decades ago with watergate, as we sit here in the week or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes o
Dean, carter speech writer Hendrick Hertzberg and reagan speech writer John Podhoretz offered their thoughts. This event hosted by the New York Public Library. Good morning, everybody. Id like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center, and on behalf of our partners in presenting this session, id like to welcome you. Id like to do so on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program and advance, which is a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant, i think, that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and i thought it was a delicious irony, but, in fact, its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are
I would like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session of shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff, executive director. On behalf of our partners in presenting the session, i would like to welcome you on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics in International Affairs as well as the bard globalization program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant i think that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and they thought it was a delicious irony. In fact its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. And the significance of the fool is often underestimated. In literature, we know from plays like king lear and also from medieval history that the role of the fool was to speak truth to power. Not just to speak truth to the p
To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.