I will be back at the top of the hour with more newsday with sharanjit. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Its 18 years since alqaedas 9 11 attack on the United States. The impact still reverberate even as memories fade. The Us Government responded by adopting a counterterrorist strategy embracing enhanced interrogation, that was a euphemism for torture. We know what happened because of the work of my guest today, danieljones, who led a six year investigation into the caas darkest secrets. Now his story has been turned into a movie, but did america long ago sees to care . Cease. Danieljones, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. A film has just come out betraying your battle to write this report into what the caa did and its counter tourism operations up 9 11 cia. It was sometime ago, but is it you like Unfinished Business to you . In so many ways, the terms of how the United States responded to 9 11 from a policy perspect
In the writing and in the battling to get at least a summary of it published and before the eyes of the American Public. But that has happened. And i just wonder whether you feel actually some elements of this story remain unsold . Absolutely. So it was actually a seven yearjourney. It began after it came to light that the cia had destroyed interrogation videotapes of detainees in its custody and that they had destroyed his tapes in 2005 over the objections of cia leadership, over objections of the bush white house. When it came to light in 2007, the Senate Intelligence committee where i worked because they brought investigation into what would have been on those dates. At the same time, the Bush Administration launched a criminal investigation into the caa for the destruction, and you may remember the commissioners report. The enquiry basically said the report had engaged in destruction of evidence when they destroyed those dates. And you, despite the fact the tapes were destroyed, yo
2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death in the tenderloin, which i know there have been many across our city. We have lost 15 pedestrians and cyclists to preventable violence on our streets this year. In light of the lengthy and informative
Sometimes the inspectors were out there several times in one year, nso what can be done to make sure that this wont happen in the future . Im making sure that we get every permit required for all dispensaries. In the past, i wasnt part of the program, but from my understanding and the path a referral went to the department until land use was approved, then, the referral came back and it was marked approved or disapproved, but there wasnt specific conditions stated explicitly on that referral. Whereas with our referral now, when when we sent those referrals over, there was an explanation as to why they denied them and what they would have to do. Okay. But that thats all i can say. What i also want to say that i personally spoke to Larry Kessler, and Larry Kessler does not remember any phone call with anyone from bloom room authorizing him. At the directors hearing no, and i appreciate that. I dont think that is as concerning to me as the fact and i agree with you as far as and then, the
2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death in the tenderloin, which i know there have been many across our city. We have lost 15 pedestrians and cyclists to preventable violence on our streets this year. In light of the lengthy and informative