Politics and prose along with my wife in behalf of everybody here at gw, welcome. I thank you very much for coming. He does a number of events each year end jean w on the great auditorium integrate other revenue and we value our partnership with gw and the crew here is terrific and they make events like this possible, for us and i want to express our gratitude for effort that they put into tonight event. The featured author is Josh Campbell he spent more than a decade at the fbi in various roles and kidnapping investigation and multiple overseas assignments as well as a stint as a special assistant to fbi director james comey. Josh resigned from the bureau about a year end a half ago in february 2018 and walking out of the field office in los angeles for the last time and for the Law Enforcement that he had really enjoyed and he says played an Important Role in his own career development. He says he left because he could no longer stand silently by in the face of a Relentless Campaign
Mr. Isakson madam president. The presiding officer the senator from georgia. Mr. Isakson madam president , i ask unanimous consent to be able to address the senate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Isakson thank you, madam president. Its an honor to be here today on whats not my last day but everybody is acting like it. A few months ago i had to an announce that after much consideration to be able to serve the people of georgia, when i knew i couldnt do the job i was going to quit and let somebody do it who wouldnt be hampered. Im not hampered yet. Im pretty tough. But its getting close. In august i decided to tell my wife about it, and we decided to go ahead and retire at the end of december, which ive announced and said i was going to do. The governor of georgia is making an appointment to take my place and you might look in the history books, current history and it might have an isakson in the glossary, but i doubt it. I have been here for 15 years. This is the most enjo
That oversees the these programs and all of them have a very particular view of islam that im not too sure is shared by most people in the country and certainly not by our security. So its not what i mean there are. One Charles Kurtzman wrote a book in which he said that he actually asked why are there so few islamic terrorists now Something Like that is not a mainstream view in this country so he had to read it should be because there is no basis to the claim that the majority of terrorists are muslim or middle eastern this is literally a son of a phobia at its finest and the fact that we have scholars here like Charles Christman one of my professors actually they d. Bungle stereotypes and actively producing responsible and scholarship that should know about it should not be attacked im not so sure that that is the case when you look at the small percentage of people who are islamic and weve had a long series of incidents of islamic terrorism whether its the Boston Marathon the disco
Conduct even if you were not concerned and i cant imagine what elected leader would not be concerned about a sitting president using his office to gain political advantage for the next election you surely would be concerned about the potential that the white house intervened to stop the whistleblower complaint going its lawfully identified path the path that the whistleblower statute is very clear is required whenever there are a whistleblower complaints which is that it goes to the Inspector General for intelligence and once the Inspector General general says that the complaint is both credible and urgent that from there it must go to congress and the law is one of the clearer laws that we have in the us its a rather clear example of obstruction of justice and abuse of president ial power its hard to overlook it great talking to you thank you so much for your time do appreciate it. 2 other news in the u. S. Secretary of defense has announced america will be sending a battery of Patrio
Here in gw theater, we will. Thank you very much for coming. We do a number of events each year here at gw, and this great auditorium and then a couple of other menus, we really value a partnership with gw, here is terrific and then make events like this possible. I just want to express our gratitude for the efforts that they put into it tonight his if it. Our featured authors this evening of course is josh campbell, spent more than a decade as an fbi, and various roles involving terrorism and kidnapping investigations in multiple oversees of assignments as well as assent as a special assistant to then fbi director james comey. Josh resigned from the bureau about a year and half ago in february 2018, walking out of the doors of the Fbi Field Office in los angeles for the last time. Away from service in Law Enforcement that he had really enjoyed. He says played an Important Role in his own career development. He says he left because he no longer could stand silently by in the face of a