Is here. U. S. Commission on civil rights now. We will have with this later today both representative and representative derek kilmer. Expect we allas i do, that in this building there can be some challenges. We will bessed that able to have both congressional representatives with us. We also have several former commissioners. Dena titusntative with us. Thank you very much. Two fellow commissioners on the eooc. Eeoc. Thank you for coming. I understand that susan eisenhower, who is the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the u. S. Commission into existence. Thank you for that, for joining us. We have john fore, acting assistant gore acting assistant attorney for civil rights and the officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at dhs and also probably a former Virginia State Advisory Committee member for the u. S. Commission on civil rights. We have several of the u. S. Commissions regional staff who traveled to be with us from california, missouri, and illinois. T
Join us live next weekend to discuss all of her books and take your questions. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Former new York City Police officer steve osborn is next. Talks about some of the experiences he had throughout his career. Our you doing. My name is steve osborn. I used to be in new york city cop for 20 years and years, the accent is real. The funny thing is a didnt know i had an accent and a liking to savannah. I was a cop for 20 years and became a writer. People ask me how do you go from being a cop to a writer . I dont like telling this story especially at a book festival with all the writers because they want to strangle me. A happened by accident. After retiring from the Police Department my life went from the fast lane to the slow lane and all of a sudden i have all this time on my hands. When you are caught, like a real cop and living that life you have no life. Working aroundtheclock, working nights, we cans, holidays, and never home. Then all of a sudden
It used to be the case back when people just wrote did letters in longhand and put stamps on them that there was something i think called the mail match which would let the government tell the post office, if you see anything coming to, going from, we want to keep track of address theyre also reading the message, and people got very scared and worried about that. Could you help clear up whats going on . Theres so much said to be about that. The public got stampeded into what i calm the darkest corner of the room after that story came out. Ive done a lot of that on how, some of the press covered it. Frankly we should ems brace a little bit of that responsibility ourselves in the i. E. We probably could have been more forth come closing snowden telling our story in explaining what it was that we were doing. But to look at the essential element that you described, metadata is the outside of the envelope for electronic communication. American Law Enforcement traditionally has been able to
9 00 p. M. With Michael Hayden, nsa and cia director, former cia director to discuss National Security on both after words program. And thats followed at 10 00 with the panel on the history of the black power movement. That all happens tonight on cspan2s book tv. Give us some thoughts on what you all did, some of the things you did to create those relationships. Well, one of the things we felt strongly about a need for inclusion, and by that, the president and inviting leaders to the white house, we did that right after 9 11. President bush invite us down, he told us we had to be there at 7 00 in the morning every tuesday and that inclusion created a chemistry among us that allowed us to deal with a real crisis at the time and made a huge difference in the relationships that came from it really made a difference in terms of what we were able to get done. Joint caucuses, opportunities for republicans and democrats to sit together to break together and listen to the leadership together r
The Newman Foundation at Harvard University established the annual j. Anthony lukas worrieds in 1998 and recently announces this years finalists for works in progressnonfiction writing and history. The first award is for unfinished books. The finalist include sasha eisenberg, whose writing history of samesex marriage in america, and author steve luxenburg who is looking at the end of segregation in the united states. Another works in progress finalist is steve one who is researching the creation of National Public raid youre, and Meredith Wadman is examining cells used to develop vaccines. The lukas prize give awards for knock fiction writings. Finalizes including adam brigles, guide to fracking, which reports on thefts of a texas town to stop an oil companys use of hydraulic fracturing. Two dollars a day look at extreme poverty in america and the book reports on how newark, new Jersey School system used the donation of 100 million from facebook founder mark sucker beryl. Other finalis