And the attack is still ongoing. The Colonial Pipeline Jichs more than 5,000 miles from texas to New York. Its responsible for roughly half of the fuel on the East Coast. And they described the impact of the hack. This is an attack on u. S. Energy infrastructure which shows the vulnerability of our system not only impacting us on the wallet immediately by raising gasoline prices, but raising the cost of transporting Gasoline And Diesel because they have to take more stringent security measures. In a statement, Colonial Pipeline says we proactively took systems off line to contain the threat which halted Pipeline Operations and affected some of our i. T. Systems. A leading cyber Security Firm was engaged and weve launched an investigation. The reports this was Ransomware Attack using encrypted files to shut it down and demanding ransom to turn it back on. And after the Winds Attack on russia, and an attack on china. And at Super Bowl was blamed on aran. And it could impact the u. S. Mil
the mission of the government proliferated to such a degree the government couldn t accomplish all it had to do. we ask it to do it with a lot of restrictions on management, people, money, contracts, that make it almost impossible to get the job done so if you find someone who is getting something done in government, that is a true talent. it is also true as your boss said, the only thing we have close to eternal life on earth is a government program. once in place, it is very difficult to repeal or eliminate the program. david s work, rachel s work document evaluated programs and though i wouldn t say the logical conclusion is eliminate everything, it is true when subjected to rigorous evaluation methodology, programs not having intended impact, enormous room for improvement. every president until the 80s had the authority to organize the government and it is high time we re-empower administrations with that authority because it is so hard to do it othe
thank you very much for joining us, i am paul saunders, executive director, pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. the traffic led me to think the city was depopulated that it clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate you taking the time to be with us. we have interesting conversation about the new us sanctions on russia, and highly experienced speakers will give us some perspective and quite grateful to them for taking their time to be with us. tomy right, dan russell, the president and ceo of the us russia business council. dan is a former career diplomat, deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, belarus, arms control and other matters. during the previous administration, the obama administration, deputy chief at the us embassy in moscow in dan. to the left is george beebe, senior director for director for intelligence programs at the center of the nassau interest, george was career us intelligence profe
civil war magazine. it s heyday the best years that it was in existence, still is obviously. he s the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily the civil war but also 19th century u.s. southern u.s. history. think about that for a minute, 60 books. he among those just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history 40 years after it was written. i think it s one of the best small battle history s that have ever been written on a civil war battle. biography of john c breckinridge, book on the end of the war in florida and other locations when i was working at the florida state archives corresponded with him about the escape of some of the confederate cabinet members down through florida. he was the editor of the now it s 20 years old but the newer photographic history of the civil war which i believe was imagine of war which is a great supplement to the older history. mr. davis, also was the on
colonel in the civil war who formed his own ranger battalion known for its raids behind union lives. up next on c-span 3, a conversation about the battalion known as mosby s rangers. from longwood university in farmville, virginia, this is an hour. our first speaker today is mr. eric buckland. mr. buckland is the author of five books about the men who rode with john mosby during the civil war. his first one is mosby s cadet rangers with deals with the men of bmi, men not boys. who served with moss bby bmi. and he s subsequently done four other books, the mosby men series, which overall tell the story of 110 men with mosby. there s a fifth volume at press right now which will be the final volume in that series. he s received two awards. the jefferson davis historical gold medal. mr. buckland is a graduate of the university of kansas and has had a 22-year career in the u.s. army in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, slightly higher than i got to when i was in