Whom if you remember hed been reacquainted with allowed to stay by, he replaced rumsfeld by george bush and was close to the bush family. When obama came he reappointed him at two and a half years later there was tension inside a republican doing things and he was very much against some of the things that happened in the operation. He said lets bomb the place and let it go but that would jeopardize the seals because of something had gone wrong they would be accused of, they had no protection. They were basically committing a war crime. They executed prisoner of war and went into the country without any notice of what happened so anyway, here is what the issue was basically for dave and for me as a journalist what is so important about pakistan. Why do we spend so much time cozying up to the generals that run it coming because they control right now when i wrote about it in the new yorker in 2009 wa2009 with more than 100 r weapons. We worry about their weapons and their safety. There i
Question none of what happened in the trial would happen today. It does matter that question and this is the originating moment. This is the originating thing of 100 years really of injustice. Thank you all so much for listening. [applause] anyone to read a book as prose is 25 off and he will sign it for you right now. Think so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] that was Patrick Phillips with blood at the root that i will tell you a little bit about how we at Publishers Weekly choose their list of best books each year. There are eight of us in the reviews department and at the end of the year a pool of freelancers who do the reviews asked them what they think are the best books and in the course via we read as many of them as we can ourselves. One that i personally have read and really enjoyed as a textbook by ed yong i contain multitudes which is about the largely unexplored world of the microbiome. [inaudible conversations] thank you all f
Book tv. Org. The tv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Now, we kick off the weekend with a panel on viruses from last months brooklyn book festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you are in a panel called microbes, viruses, and destiny this is a discussion in which we will reveal how microbes our our secret puppetmaster. As a Science Writer i should start out by pointing out that the virus are microbes as well, but it made sense to call this microbes, viruses, and destiny because of the two writers we have here. This is ed yong, a Science Writer for the atlantic, author of a new book, contain mulitiudes the microbes within us and a grander view of life. Here is carl zimmer, a Science Writer for the New York Times and author of many books including most recently a planet of viruses. Im sonia shah and an author of a book called the pandemic. All of these books will be for sale by barnes noble and we will be sending them after this session at science table h
Were in their height, the number of private security contractors outnumbered the us troops. How did that come to be . Again, i think we are like that one of the unintended consequences of relying on the all volunteer force and allowing the country to slide into a condition of permanent war. We ended up with too much work, too few warriors and so policymakers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to try to fill the gap. At a very high cost. At a very high cost and i would argue with little evidence that they that they were worth the money. I know youre going to stay around and sign some books i want to thank you, colonel, professor,. You know, we barely scratched the surface of this book, so i really encourage you to pick up a copy and you will have a very indepth although somewhat pessimistic understanding of the wars of the middle east. Thanks again. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is book tv on cspan 2, television for serious readers. H
In addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. They also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. Its no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as Speaker Boehner did before him. Its also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. Chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. He told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. I think its time to move on, into quotation. Senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in impeachment activity