We have heard a rumor about the case where they have prosecuted the japanese for waterboarding. We sent a young marine captain out to go dig out the records. I dont think its seen been in six years at that point. It is a story you just described. Of the doolittle raid which was the most celebrated operation of world war ii. It was a story about torture and justice. And revenge. I felt sitting there. I was reading this episode from 1945 to 1946. The United States is prosecuting the japanese for doing all of the things we were doing in the war on terrorism i dont mean to be naive or it just kind of hit me in the chest. With 60 years of time. And im seeing right where im sitting at that very moment. There was a thing in the back of my mind that give context to all of the work that i ended up doing for a number of years after that. I decided. In 2014 to try to make a book about it. And thats how we got the book we have today. I had been talking to michelle now for guantanamo. 2007. One is
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Pentagons military Commission Defense organization. The show lectures at clumpy law school and a fellow here in the center of National Security and i must mention is a fordham law grad. Karen rosenberg will talk about his book, his awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with a pulitzer center. [inaudible] she started with the miami herald or before that she recorded from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize of breaking news in 2001. So, when we tell you the format. Michelle and carol we will talk and then i will come back on and i will pose questions that have come from the audience and if you have any questions at all please feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer q a then i will get to as many as i can do. Without further ado michelle, carol, take it away. Thank you so much. Tha