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Committee will come to order good good morning everyone. I want to think all of you who are attending this important hearing. Today we are going to discuss the International Response of the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health diplomacy act. It is written on paper, not on stone which will we will talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee will take up indeed, probably one of the weightiest matters that we will deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic is reaffirmed what we long have known and that is Infectious Diseases particularly those of a viral nature do not respect borders but they are a threat, a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on art of a sick responses to th
For the study of intelligence where he was the deputy director. He began his career in the cia, it age s you if i say in 192772. After two years in the United States army, also with the u. S. Military command in vietnam. Since his retirement from cia he was also National Security and teaches at Georgetown School for service. He is also a founding Advisory Board member at the International Spy museum, here since the beginning. Hes the author of a new book, the foundation of the cia harry truman, the missouri gang and the origins of the cold war. Youre not here to listen to me talk, so, thanks, rick, for coming out. [ applause ] and thank you all for coming out when you could be over at the Christmas Market across the street. I appreciate that. As vince said, ive been a cia officer for running on to 50 years now. And for the last 20 years i taught intelligence courses at Georgetown School of foreign service. And in teaching there at georgetown, ive discovered as well as from participatin
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
Members as well as the general public. Thank you for spend your evening with us. The conversation will begin in a second. We are going to have a conversation, the first part of it, and then we will welcome you to join into the conversation and ask questions. Those of you who are members of the Georgetown Community here in the zoom room, at the bottom of your screen, you will see a q a tab and you will click on that to submit your question. At some point during the course of the evening, our staff will let you know when your question has been selected and then a few moments later, we will put you up on the screen. So make sure you are broadcast ready at that point. You will get a chance to ask your question directly of our guests. Also, before we move on, want to thank our partners for social justice at georgetown. They have been tremendous partners in this event. Theyve got some Pretty Amazing resources on these topics. On their website. Csj. Georgetown. Edu. They are also on our websi