Former producer for the bbc talks about americas use of drones in yemen, pakistan and somalia and reaction its caused. He says the targeted groups in the countries are figuring out ways to protect themselves from attacks and working on making their own drones. We changed our name and gave people many. Its wonderful that youve come here for this great events. Event. We are excited to have chris come and present his new book sudden justice, which i think is going to be probably the book for people who are interested in this important subject and of course, the book tour coincides with the very interesting moment in the tragic death and other recent revelations about the program that have come out in the last couple of weeks. Chris is a former senior producer at the bbc also ran the Drone Program in the Investigative Journalism which did anything work on the subject and hes going to talk about some of the themes and stories in his book and then we will open up to discussion. Thank you ver
Distortions the way the story was told and other public records. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Were back now with more live original to of thing a annual gaithersburg festival. Melvin goodman will talk about his time with the cia. [inaudible discussion] welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. Im audrey and im washington independent review of books representative here helping at this festival. Its a city that proudly supports the arts and humanity. Were pleased to gripping you this fabulous event thanks to the generous support of sponsors and volunteers. When you see them, please say thanks. A few announcements. Please silence your cell phones. If youre on social media, use the hash tag gbs and i think i see gbs17. Your feedback is valuable to us. Surveys are able. By submitting a century ray you will be entered into a drawing for a 100 series to gift card. Melvin goodman will be signing books after the presentation. Copies of his book right here are on
For a 100 series to gift card. Melvin goodman will be signing books after the presentation. Copies of his book right here are on sale the politic and prose tent. This is a free event but helps the book city of if you buy a book. The more books we sell another our events, the more publishers want to send the authors here to speak with us, and purchasing books from our partner, politic and prose. Benefiting our local economy. So we hope youll buy a book today, or several books. Melvin goodman was a soviet analyst the cia in the department of state for 24 years and a professor of International Relations the National War College for 18 years. He serve the u. S. Army in athens, greece, for three years and was intelligence adviser from 1971 to 72. Is the working for the center for International Policy in washington, dc and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins university. His latest bikes hissing blower the cia an insiders condition to the politics of intelligence and coauthor edi
Thank you. Thank you for your talk. It was very informative. Im curious ive always been interested in a lost cause art. Things like the famous last parting of the end of jackson. But once upon a time in the paintings and also Stonewall Jackson got many homes now what we say that i grew up in petersburg and in petersburg it was like they were still on the other side of the river waiting to attack. As if so that was different, but many people in nice homes had a sort of somber reminder of their confederate heritage. But, you know i never saw any confederate flags in the homes so im curious where you would put them in the whole panoply of lost cause art. There are a lot of lost closeparen in that battle flag. Its a good time now to make sure that i do not leave the impression that other confederate flags were forgotten but certainly the battle flag became the primary flag even in a lost cause art. Usually the first, second and third down together. What i alluded to earlier in the this use
Next year and youll have up grades and the cycle is maturing. Its the most profitable project in the world and trying to replace that is very difficult. The watch has done okay but hasnt lit the world on fire. Its really just growth. Its a huge company, its got a very good business, its still generating a ton of cash but where is the growth its going to come from. Rose we conclude with a look at russia and its possible involvement in u. S. Politics and u. S. Political institutions. We talked to dana priest of the washington post. Weve got 10,000 comments about this story and i would say the majority of the comments rather than focusing on the fact that the democrat state is actually now here trying to do something that it has not done since the cold war. But its so much more sensitive because of the elections and because people want to paint it as propaganda by one party or the other. Rose politics, apple and russia when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by t