In the paper, but then you can say like one person was telling me that, he was telling me that the memoranda they read, that there were not a lot of mistakes in those memoranda because nobodys going to put on paper what host carefully be, yeah. Carefully. Guest but he said that once he sat down with people id say, well, you know, youd think you might want to organize geographically the nsc this way, but we tried this, and it just didnt work, and it didnt work for the following reasons. So that was particularly important to be able to have that time, that obama appointed people early enough that they could do that. But also important was the work that steve hadley did. And so they could take those memoranda which had been passed through the intelligence community, state department, and president bush. So they could take those and ask questions about them. Those were the ones that didnt have a lot of things that had been done wrong but they were willing to be very open in their discussio
To russia, mike mcfall, became one of the most followed twitter voices in russia because he would, he would be sharing, you know, went to a basketball game with my kids, met with the human rights activist, and it was a way of getting the message out especially when youre in countries that try to control what the United States ambassador or a secretary of state can communicate to the public. So it was both a tool to convey information, but also it became a source of information. What are people saying on social media about the United States, about our policies . And then we saw through the era of the arab uprisings how many of those were catalyzed and organized by social media. So we have to be on social media. There isnt any choice. The other piece that i focused on was how we did, how we debated and tried to check mate jihadist groups, particularly alqaeda and atill yates like alqaeda affiliated like alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or alshabaab or any of the other groups. They were u
Hightech planes. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. With just 27 days to go until all of us are hit with tax increases, takes it across the board a cut of 55 billion. People have it in their power to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff arent negotiating, theyre not debating right now, so many of them simply leaving town. But theres more going on than meets the eye. Lets bring in our senior Congressional Correspondent dana basch, she has the latest. Reporter theres so much political theater around here right now, you could say tickets. One of todays acts was the house leaving. Lawmakers streaming out of the capitol hill, racing to their cars to get to the airport and go home. Its a scene you usually see on a thursday afternoon or friday morning, not wednesday at noon. Good morning. House Republican Leaders told members theyre free to leave, because they have nothing to vote on. I understand that you are saying legislation has been put on the floor. When it comes to just pure opti
We did that last week. Again, the more we look into it, the more we find people in powerful and influential places saying things that just dont square with the fact. Its about a u. N. Treaty that failed to be ratified by the senate. A treaty that was meant to encourage more countries to be more like the u. S. On equal rights of the disabled. If other countries adopted better treatment of their disabled, americans who visited or lived in other countries would also benefit. 125 countries ratified the treaty. It was supported by george bush, signed by the current president , and has support from both sides of the aisle like john mccain and bob dole. He was wheeled onto the senate floor, you can see, for the vote he hoped to see the treaty ratified. Instead after pressure from special interest groups, 38 republicans vowing to support the treaty voted no. One was the Home School Legal Defense association. The hslda, the powerful lobby group around the country whose leader youre about to mee
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