A monday the 6th of july reportedly while standing in front of his wife. Just 48 hours of the United States celebrated its independence our heart goes out to his family another soldiers life lost to the longest running war in u. S. History a war with no end in sight because my friends just before the tragic suicide of Master Sergeant marcus sato the United States House Armed Service Committee Led by Congressional Democrats were patting themselves on the back after passing an amendment to this years annual n. D. A. The Natural National Defense Authorization act which would prohibit the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of u. S. Troops deployed in afghanistan below 8000 without a series of conditions 1st being met yes reduced and just what are these socalled conditions well according to the men according to the amendment the department of war sorry the department of defense must be able to certify that leaving afghanistan will not will not increase the risk for the expansion of
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Been explored, and an investment like that or support like that would come with specific strings attached. And that would protect the taxpayer. Francine i know you have to go, but a final question of public debt. It is a huge deal now, bigger than the economy. How long can you live with that situation . When can you start paying down some of the debt . Rishi so we have absolutely this year to help us facilitate response for the crisis. Was the believe that right thing to do, and some organizations would agree with that assessment, that the situation longterm would be far tose if we had not moved now limit the longterm scarring on the economy, and it is the longterm scarring that causes structural deficit in the future, which we should be most worried about. Toemain very committed strong and Sustainable Public financing over the mediumterm. Right now the priority should be to reopen the economy safely, to drive the recovery. But of course what were are doing this year is not sustainable
The u. S. Military command in vietnam, with his retirement from the cia he went to the Georgetown School foreign service. Hes also founding member, and is the author of a new book the foundations of the cia harry truman, and the origins of a cold war. Rick, come on up. Think you all for coming out when you could be at the Christmas Market across the street. I appreciate that. As vince said ive been with the sea i a for going on 50 years. For the last 20 years ive taught intelligence in georgetown. In teaching their at george town ive discovered from participating with the museum that theres a great interest in the cia and the general subject of National Intelligence. Also considerable misunderstanding, suspicion and outright hostile itty about National Intelligence. So one of the reasons that i wrote this book is as a primer to try to explain not to knowledgeable people like yourself or my colleague, but the general public what it is that the Intelligence Community does, and the kinds
Author tevi troy will be here as well as by Karen Skinner to moderate this book. We will talk a little bit. We are looking forward to have some of you ask questions as well. The reason im very excited about our book. There is a red rare thing to be a person in action. In a rare thing to be a scholar and be excellent at the study of something. Tevi troy brings that to the table. Teddy was someone who worked in many places in Public Service to several departments. But also very importantly at the white house which is what these books are about. He is also a published author who has written in addition to this piece on the white house intellectuals in the white house as well as Emergency Preparedness in the white house and the use of social media by president s. I hope you will take the time to listen but also to think about buying this book. We head fourth of july coming up. Anytime is a good time to really learn more about the white house and presidencies. Karen skinner is also a person