Television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Book tv weekends, they bring you author after author and its like the work of fascinating people. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. This is book tv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup. Starting shortly, former Washington Post reporter provides a history of the military industrial complex. Sarah discusses the cost of Higher Education on book tv after words at nine pm eastern. At 10, he takes a critical look at the official crash of twa 81996. We wrap up six. We wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 1115 with the recent appearance on cspan washington journal. Talking about his book on the supreme court, supremely partisan. That that all happens next on cspan to book tv. First up, heres marlene mccartney. Okay, will begin our program now. Can you hear me okay . Okay. Good afternoon and early good afternoon and thank you to everyone who came to our
Television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Book tv weekends, they bring you author after author and its like the work of fascinating people. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. This is book tv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup. Starting shortly, former Washington Post reporter provides a history of the military industrial complex. Sarah discusses the cost of Higher Education on book tv after words at nine pm eastern. At 10, he takes a critical look at the official crash of twa 81996. We wrap up six. We wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 1115 with the recent appearance on cspan washington journal. Talking about his book on the supreme court, supremely partisan. That that all happens next on cspan to book tv. First up, heres marlene mccartney. Okay, will begin our program now. Can you hear me okay . Okay. Good afternoon and early good afternoon and thank you to everyone who came to our
By filling out a survey, this information assist the staff as they plan future programs so thank you in advance for doing this. Following the lecture there will be a book signing outside the door of this room. A Service Provided by the campus bookstore. In addition to the books, todays event is cosponsored by the National Affairs committee of the democrats, also the book would not be possible without such sponsors. The book featured today is the product of 2 two distinguished career journalists. James mccartney, now deceased, and his wife, molly mccartney. For nearly four decades as a reporter for the Chicago Daily news, james covered the principal institutions of the federal government with special emphasis on war and conflict which he covered in more than 30 countries. Molly worked as a reporter for 30 years including 14 years at the Washington Post. After her husbands death in 2011 molly continued the research and writing of the book he was working on in his retirement. Americas war
Forthcoming with these documents and materials to these other entities as opposed to oig . Our presumption is because were independent and theyre not. So there appears to have been a conclusion that there indeed does need to be a finding that our reviews are of the assistance to the leadership. Its selfevident for the other entities, opr, nsd, because they are working for the leadership. We are statutorily independent. Congress set it up that way. And therefore it would appear the decisions been made that somehow we need to go through this process so that its clear our reviews are being overseen or are being of help to the leadership. And of course thats entirely inconsistent with what congress has set up in the i. G. Act. All right. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Chair thanks the gentleman and recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. Gohmert for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, Inspector General. Appreciate you being here. And we appreciate your candor and your
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