Director Michael Hayden provides an inside look at National Security. Hes interviewed by james woolsey, former cia director in the clinton administration. Host mike, first of all very fine book. Enjoyed a lot. Going to start right off with a couple of interesting chapters in the middle. One about pittsburgh and her history of growing up there in the same neighborhood. And the other about your family and what its like to have a family in the midst of espionage. I thought you might want to say a word about those before we jump into things like metadata and the rest is the first of all, and you. I didnt have a chapter on me in the book i had the manuscript and the publisher says what about you . So i went ahead and put one together. As you suggest i put it near the end. It all began on a dark and stormy night or anything. Its tied to a speech i gave at Duquesne University in 2007 after i was struck at the cia. To a graduating class. Duchesne was my alma mater. I use that to pay that off o
Please consider joining the friends of the tucsonoi festival of books. Your taxdeductibleyour taxdeductible contribution allows us to offer festival programming free of charge to the public and support critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones. This morning it is our pleasure to have with us timothy egan, pulitzer prizewinning New York Times columnist and author of seven books including the National Book awardwinning worst hard time. The National Bestseller the big burn. Tims current boat just released last week is entitled the immortal irishman, the Irish Revolutionary you became an American Hero and biography of thomas mark. I would like to begin by asking tim, may not be a household word, but there was a time when his name was a household word, both here and in ireland, but he has sadly been largely forgotten crowd, thank you. It is great to be here in this lovely arizona morning, huge crowd, cant believe it. People
He wrote anarchy in the u. K. [singing] i am an antichrist, i am an anarchist. However, lydon is now an american citizen, who says the people have an obligation to vote but. Dont be voting in billionaires. Just dont be doing that, because that would be nothing but bad news for all of ya. Lydon grew up poor in north london. As a child he had meningitis, he survived with the virus shaping his life, but erasing his memory. When i came out of that coma, i could not remember. Not only my own name or how to speak, move, walk or talk. But, i did not recognize my parents. In anger is an energy, lydon says he wants to set the record straight about his life. Its a second book following one with a contentious title. They did not want no irish, no blacks and no dogs. And thats blatant racism but that in the 60s and 70s that was. You know, normal behavior. Lydon is still at it. He was writing a new album for his band Public Image Limited when i sat down with him in new york. Anger is an energy my l
Absolutely not. I just hope that you will stay on this because, as you know, better than any of us, if you dont have good intelligence, youre not only going into the battle blind, if its cooked intelligence, youre going into the battle with one hand tied behind your back. So i just am extremely concerned about this issue. This is a question for the record. You use the term progress in your statement a number of times, progress here and progress there. Not now but for the record i would like a very specific list of what you consider progress, where we are where we are succeeding because generally it doesnt look like that. It looks more like a stalemate. I would like a onepager on where you think progress has been made. Id be happy to provide that, sir. Well get that to you right away. Thank you. I think from a broad question of policy and this comes off of a lot of the other discussion weve had, assad and isis are evil twins. Isis largely came into existing in reaction to assad. And in
With Cardinal Turkson and cardinal who had been given the responsibility fof drafting. I was invited with a congressman from the philippines, mexico, south africa, to talk about the impacts of Climate Change, especially on those poorest countries in the world, and then what could be done in order to avoid the worst consequences. So it was a great honor for me to have been invited there, to help to shape the way they were thinking about the drafting of the incyclical. And they made it quite clear, by the way, even then that the pope had taught high school chemistry. Its dangerous to name a jesuit, this this city they say i am not a scientist, i dont know if the planet is warming. The pope says, i am a scientist and i know. And im infallible. And so but he relies on science. So what the incyclical says is this. Number one, the planet is warming, the science is clear. Two, human activity is contributing to the problem, the science is clear. Three, the poorest people on the planet are thos