Welcome all of you in the audience in the theater as well as those of you watching online tonights Program Limits of justice. Cosponsor of tonights program, youll hear from representative of the embassy a little bit later in the evening. I also have the pleasure of serving as the cochair of the museums Washington Lawyers Committee. My husband and i have also enjoyed a long and extremely meaningful relationship with this extraordinary institution. The institution of the museum is one that not only honors the victim victims of the holocaust but stands as a stark reminder to the importance and relevance of lessons of the holocaust and the relevance of those lessons to issues of conflict in todays world. The museum has found compelling ways to engage many audiences, people from every background, religion and political perfect situation. While the experience is grounded in holocaust history, it serves as a powerful springboard to reflect on contemporary issues, especially genocide. The muse
I also have the pleasure of serving as cochair of the Museums Committee and my husband and i have had a long and extremely meaningful relationship with the institution and museum which honors the victims of the holocaust and stands as a stark reminder to the importance and lessons of the holocaust and the relevance of those lessons to issues in conflict in todays world. The museum has also found compelling ways to engage many audiences, one that people would never expect, from every background, religious and political persuasion. While the engagement is grounded if holocaust history it serves as a powerful spring board to reflect on contemporary issues, especially genocide. It is a stark reminder that the notion of task is never ending at a time when hatred and systemetism is clear across the world and in the United States we must all stand up. When a time when soshl and rapid changing world magnified that hate the lessons of the holocaust are more challenging then ever and the museums
Eric first got into journalism at the Los Angeles Times where he worked for 15 years. Los angeles time is in washington covering the Justice Department when shifted to the New York Times 12 years ago he continued to cover justice. This lifetime well positioned and very well soars after the september 11th attacks to report on the Bush Administration to step up domestic spying operations. In 2006 he and another New York Times reporter, james arrived and, received a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as the Pulitzer Committee put it they are carefully sourced stories on the secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a National Debate on the Boundary Line train fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberties. Eric reveals an extensive recruit. Of former nazis, in years later, when the Justice Department was searching for former nazis in this country the investigations were complicated by thefts of other Government Agencies to cop seal their own involvement in the past of those be