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a truly great public servant. he was a director of the nsc under bush i say public servant and at days when that meant something and it really mattered. and we respected people who hold these high positions. we look to hearing from him tonight. i think now, without even leaving the stage i m going to get the first panel underway so we can start this. as a college professor to get your notepads out, discussion. were going to start the first panel. i want to invite the panelist to come up to the stage. tim from the university of toronto was here at smu is going to come on up, tim, he s going to chair the panel and lead the discussion about this. he works on other things, nato think nato has been in the news quite a bit so make a note of that. megan o sullivan who is a kirkpatrick professor in the kennedy school at harvard, an expert on north america among other things. one of the officials of the trilateral commission and former member of the bush security council. and fi ....
a pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. so tuesday was really the first time we were kind of getting back to work. : : : driving to work and it was really just very normal. according to nine in the first reports came of it plane hitting the twos the first of the two world trade towers what did you thanks? we were planning out the week and the month as well looking at our training priorities looking at a range time transitioning to a new phase of flight and so we were working on administration details and getting back into her training rhythm when a knock came at the door and one of us open up the door and he poked his head in said hey somebody flew into the world trade center and we looked outside the windows and as everyone remembers in washington d.c. it was the crisp september morning. lou skies, a very clear day. it was lovely and we looked at each other really puzzled because normally the weather pattern is not that different from what ....
but dental spies and now is developed a striving business in private security. and he recently won that multi 1000000 pound contract. well tim spices with me now. tim. good morning. what s your summary of the situation in terms of chaos or lauren order? i wouldn t advise people to go that if the measures in put in place for their protection or sound me. contract in iraq, we still see the communication and coordination for all of the private security companies on the graph. the, the, me make that they work a general in charge of all of the private contracts. at that point, the us military was the largest military presence in iraq, but i did get all of the private ministry contract pricing with respect to be in charge of the 2nd largest on 4th. and me, spicer is a fairly well known figure in british political and media circles. me. but at the time of the award of the contract for iraq, it was awarded by a logistics contracting sell in virginia. not in iraq by a group of y ....
some of them they have ordered and left guns to day enough. i found right now making money lose my mission didn t was on my mind. so how, how many of the persons that you re sending out have used to be a child? so just in the when i got there, i can t. i can t tell about how many do you think i can t, i can t i can t have we deal with a minute people and we re doing this and it is this and this the method in effecting dismounted by the office as a quote. ah, ah, the one low enough for the to hear you know, a full you learn how to tradition if you don t know for it with distinct from the spirit with arrows, the tradition. so if you are trying to single me the story in to them, say political, i m sorry for that is not the case. may be critical of people who used to be fighting when they were very young, that they now go to war. ready you think that s a problem? not that s not a problem. not a problem. because yes, fiction people take, it s not from us. capture. even if th ....
joining us is david corn, the washington bureau chief of mother jones and an msnbc analyst, and quin hillyer, a senior commentary writer and editor for the washington examiner and contributing editor to the national online. they are here to talk to us about the 9/11 commemorations and the political news of the day. good morning, gentlemen. guest: good morning. guest: good morning. host: what do you think about the commemorations for 9/11 yesterday and what you think the legacy of 9/11 is the united states? guest: those are two big questions. let me start with the second. it is something i ve been thinking a lot at mother jones and my newsletter. i think we can talk about political, psychological effects of having been attacked and americans feeling insecure. we saw what happened with tsa. if you had to boil it down, in retrospect, history will look at it this way. the biggest impact of that in terms of america were that we launched two relatively pointless wars that led ....