Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. So, i think to answer that question, its important that you understand the nature of the corruption thats in afghanistan. So corruption is like a disease and there are different kinds of disease, all right . One of the problems with using the term corruption is its this big banner that can mean anything from sort of low level shakedowns at check points all the way to a cleptocratic form of government. Low level is illegal and not tolerated by the system is actually very easy to deal with. Corruption by sort of individuals that when the larger context of the system is corruption is not tolerable, you can eventually put enough pressure on those individuals and deal with the problem. When its in a sector like the ministry, thats an even more aggressive form of the disease. It could be treatable if you isolate it. If youre a crelecleptocracy. The difference between patronage is that money flows from the top down and loyalty goes up. And in a cleptopracy, goes
That you can joined us for a rollout on a report of afghanistan and moving forward. As we were thinking about the president ial transition we thought it was prudent to put together papers for the next president really recommending our way forward that would protect american interests in any number of topics and seemed to us that afghanistan a war that continues 16 years on that it was a critical area where a new administration was going to have to grapple with u. S. Strategy objectives, and the way forward for the campaign. And so, we commissioned chris colenda, here to lead the development of the report. Chris is now president and ceo of the colenda leadership group. Hes also a former military officer four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne Infantry Task force in kunar, and has been written up in many case studies and books as a sort of model how counter insurgeoncy can be effective. I was fortunate to have him as my Senior Advisor on policy for afghanistan and pakistan
In many aspects and its held on the quad area of the campus in different buildings of surrounding it. There is a wild cat statue in the middle to represent the university of Arizona Wildcats and in just a minutes one of the panelists that you just heard, joe conason will be joining us and he will be taking calls. His book, his most recent book i should say is man of the world the future endeavors ofe bill clinton. We are tight about bill clinton and post presidency. If you have been listening to this panel and joe conason is now with us. T will thank you for being with us . Guest thank you for having a. Host how much money has the Clinton Foundation raise andnd given and spent . Guest i think the estimate is over 2 billion at this point. They have been in operation really says he was in the white house. They opened the foundation to raise money for his president ial library initially in 1998, i think, so its now been operating for about 20 years. It ramped up a lot after he left the wh
In many aspects and its held on the quad area of the campus in different buildings of surrounding it. There is a wild cat statue in the middle to represent the university of Arizona Wildcats and in just a minutes one of the panelists that you just heard, joe conason will be joining us and he will be taking calls. His book, his most recent book i should say is man of the world the future endeavors ofe bill clinton. We are tight about bill clinton and post presidency. If you have been listening to this panel and joe conason is now with us. T will thank you for being with us . Guest thank you for having a. Host how much money has the Clinton Foundation raise andnd given and spent . Guest i think the estimate is over 2 billion at this point. They have been in operation really says he was in the white house. They opened the foundation to raise money for his president ial library initially in 1998, i think, so its now been operating for about 20 years. It ramped up a lot after he left the wh
Melanie woodrow joins us live with the late details. Melanie . Reporter well, all of this began with a call from in a woman to 911 at whether about 8 20 this morning. Take a look at some of the video from earlier today. You can see here dozens of Union City Police officers, also s. W. A. T. Teams from fremont and newark, they arrived here within minutes. The woman who called 911 had told police her exboyfriend was holding her hostage in her own home for two days. Police officers say though when they arrived she was initially uncooperative. She says she didnt really want to tell the officers that mans fame and she would only say that he was in the home alone and armed with some type of gun. Law enforcement was negotiating with who they believed was that womans exboyfriend when another man called police and said he was coming out of the house. Police initially took that man into custody for questioning first. Hes not the subject that were looking for. Again, we did not know that he was t