Incessantly for the last two weeks, this whole issue of whistleblowers. My name is patrick edington, im your moderator today. Just a few housekeeping notes before i introour guest. I want to make sure everybody have your phones at least on silent or off. Any other devices you may have whether they are smart watch, etc. , please make sure they are also silenced. When we get to the q a at the end of this event, i will ask you all to, please, wait to be called upon, wait for the microphone so that everyone in the room and our audience watching online can hear the question, and ill ask you to identify yourself to include affiliation where applicable. I think its fair to say that the anonymous whistle blower and ill continue to use that term of art throughout is just the latest in a long line of individuals who have come forward in the course of the last several decades to make various and sundry allegations about government and its conduct and, in some cases, corporate, nonprofit conduct.
A great interview but this sentence stuck out the u. S. Has ceased being a republic and has become a National Security state elaborate on what you mean go ahead. Well the National Security state you know really essentially formed with a 947 National Security act which created the cia the n. S. A. And really created a secret underground government that is not really is not really subject to democracy and i saw a lot of this when i was on capitol hill and in fact the term deep state was coined by a good friend of mine on capitol hill michael often but on capitol hill you had Permanent Committee staff 6 members who are not subject to democratic elections they wrote the legislation they worked together regardless of party they were beholden to special interests i remember sitting there and having a bill dealing with the middle east and one of the permanent staff or says dont worry about it this is a pact proved it happened all the time they were they were they were subject to special inter
Security state you know really essentially formed with a 947 National Security act which created the cia the n. S. A. And really created a secret underground government that is not really is not really subject to democracy and i saw a lot of this when i was on capitol hill and in fact the term deep state was coined by a good friend of mine on capitol hill michael often but on capitol hill you had Permanent Committee staff 6 members who are not subject to democratic elections they wrote the legislation they worked together regardless of party they were beholden to special interests i remember sitting there and having a bill dealing with the middle east and one of the permanent staff or says dont worry about of this is a pact proved it happened all the time they were they were they were subject to special interest not to democracy these people you know politicians come and go representatives or elected or unelected but these people stay forever and theres a real theres a lot of it on cap
Happened to american countries we keep seeing you. Around the clock across the world this is your r. T. International from the team myself you know. Our top story north korean negotiators have arrived in sweden to resume your clear talks with the u. S. It comes just a few days after said it had successfully tested a new launch missile in a move that caused alarm in western capitals. The search area had a call with japanese minister defense kono where they discussed north korea they both agree that the north korea tests are unnecessarily provocative and do not set the stage for diplomacy in that north korea should cease these tests north korea says its missile is capable of being launched from a submarine which would represent a major advancement of its weapons capabilities some analysts are calling it the most significant test since the country entered into dialogue with washington in 28 days. Just a few hours later the us started its so launch it fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Mi
Corner broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our Team International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us my north korean negotiators have arrived in sweden to resume Nuclear Talks within the u. S. It comes just a few days after pyongyang said it had successfully tested a sea launched missile sparking condemnation from washington the search area had a call with japanese minister defense kono where they discussed north korea they both agree that the north korea tests are unnecessarily provocative and do not set the stage for diplomacy and that north korea should cease these tests north korea says a missile is capable of being launched from a submarine some analysts are calling it the most significant test since the country began talks with washington last year in 2018 and just a few hours later the u. S. Fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile over the pacific saying the test was for National Security purposes mop and takes a closer look at the clai