James bond novels written by ian fleming. Ive pictured him with his Brother Robert kennedy because the brothers together had great influence on Us Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about Us Intelligence center kennedy, even though he served less than a full term because of course he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist a disturbed former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald at the end. Ill have have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration. I want to mention a couple of other developments that theyre not as spectacular, but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in Us Intelligence history and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist when i first came to cia in 1990 i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never use the company, but they
Record. And in corporate news, comcast is buying the rest of nbcuniversal from general election for 16. 7 billion. Its wednesday, february 13, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everyone, welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. We are following major stories. After yesterdays close on wall street, u. S. Equity futures this morning, well, you see they are fight a little bit higher. They are fight a little bit higher. After gains yesterday, the dow up more than 45 points yesterday. Our guest host is westwood capitals len bloom. The next hour, famed investor and billionaire real estate tycoon, sam zell. Topranked money manager don yakman. His fund have seen annual returns of 10 over the last five years. Well also talk about how Business Leaders and investors are reacting to president obamas state of the Union Address. Among the topics high talked about last night, jobs and the economy. Even mentioning some companies by name
Former division chief of the cia office of soviet affairs argues that our current level of spending on defense is excessive and is making us less secure. This 45 Minute Program is next on book tv. Thank you for that introduction and for the invitation to come out here to discuss the book. Let me say a few things on why i wrote the book in the first place. Several years ago, bob gates the secretary of defense noted before he announced he was going to leave the administration that he was going to go back to the state of washington. This is someone i followed closely over the years. I testified against him in 1991 when he was nominated to be the cia director. And as an obama supporter of course i was shocked to find out who was crowned be kept on as obama secretary of defense but when he told people i found interesting and was the major reason i wanted to write this book and what he said was we are moving towards a smaller military that will do fewer things and be able to go fewer places
Table. They are reviews. We use them we review them very carefully afterwards. That is why we think our programs have improved over the years because we listen to what you have to say and try to give you the type of programs you really are interested in. We would also have another announcement. Our committee will be having on friday november 15 an address addressed by ambassador marc grossman. He is the vicechairman of the cohen group. He will be speaking about the Diplomatic Campaign in afghanistan and pakistan. He will be at the University Club at 8 00 a. M. On november 15 so please take out your black areas in iphones. We also have another speaker. The Senior Adviser for transnational Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the center for strategic and international studies. That will be wednesday december 4. Also at 8 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. And that also will be held at the University Club which is on 16th street in the northwest. I also have a very special announcement.
Spoke at the Cato Institute of washington. This includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im david boaz of the institute of her trying Something Different you are doing an event after work hours. Well see how that works out, but hopefully its good for people who have jobs and cant come to the events we do usually at noon. Required to have a very interesting discussion of ron pauls revolution. About 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the Libertarian Movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. Not all of him, but more than anything else. I think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. As we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and cato policy studies, w