Well, good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. Im cliff may, the founder and president and im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 20 laechb 11. A naval navy s. E. A. L. Team got osaum ma bin laden. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. The most resiferous pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look bike mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to thand conversation over to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. I should note that todays event should
Well, good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. Im cliff may, the founder and president and im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 20 laechb 11. A naval navy s. E. A. L. Team got osaum ma bin laden. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. The most resiferous pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look bike mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to thand conversation over to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. I should note that todays event should
Welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through the massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. I think you all know the background in may of 2011 a navy s. E. A. L. Team went to pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden. They had a second information to take as much as they could from his compound. They did so. We should have learned a huge amount of information but we couldnt because it was under lock and key. Fdd tom and bill were among the advocate and lobbyists and pressures to release that information but most recently 470,000 documents have been released and we were given an advanced look by mike pompeo who said this should be available to scholars and journalists and others. So with that im pleased to hand the conversation over today to our moderator, Kimberley Dozier who has had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq from 2003 until she was wounded in the car bombing in 2006. Last thing by way of
And roger, a man who i dont would not say i agreed with on probably any, any point on the continuum of opinions, has nevertheless been a good friend, a good source, incredibly funny person to spend time with and someone through whom you really get a glimpse, you really get to know something about how powers has worked over this how power has worked over this, practically speaking, generation. So i have known roger. When he was thrown out of fox, i was perhaps among the few people who kept speaking to him, and he was moving to palm beach in january. He was going on january 4th. I said come for dinner the night before, roger and his wife. On the spur of the moment, i think probably that day, i shot steve bannon a note. I said rogers coming for dinner, hes moving to theyre moving to palm beach the next day, do you want to come . And i dont know what i expected out of that. But when i went, when he responded that he would like to come and then i had to go to my wife and say, guess whos com
His 2012 book, private empire, exxon mobil and amend in america, power is a study is of the elio chime in. Im please to have steve cole at this table, welcome. Steve thank you. I can imagine they said this, it is an exciting time, i cannot remember a more exciting 10. To be looking at what is happening in the world, to be a journalist. It is exciting to be at a journalism school, all these young reporters going out into this environment, trying to figure out how to do their job professionally. It is a time i think, when the tax on the premise of has strengthened the press, made clear were what our role is, and also raised the bar on our performance, we have to earn it. In this environment of trying to g legitimize, or by the press. It is an exciting time to be in his profession. Charlie should we as journalists have learned something from the campaign . Steve yes. There were lots of mrs. In the of mrs. In the runup to the election by journalism. We have lots of journalists in this coun