Eileen good morning, and welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im eileen oreilly, the president of the National Press club and the managing editor of standards training at axios. This morning we have a special headliners newsmaker event, featuring diane foley, the mother of journalist james foley who was murdered by isis in 2014. The Foley Foundation is announcing its new Journalist Safety Task force and will have a panel of experts discussing how to address important issues. As we all know, unfortunately, this is in dire need now as a journalists remain in harms way all around the world. The National Press club is actively working with the wall street journal to release the reporter evan gershkovich, who is being unjustly detained in a russian prison. We continue to advocate for the release of austin tice, who has been held captive in syria for more than 11 years. We have a hugely active press team here that works tirelessly to promote the freedom of the pr
Today. Get out israel overnight, telling hundreds of palestinians living in rafah to evacuate as the Israeli Military prepares to take out hamas in its last stronghold. The Evacuation Order coming in the midst of a growing humanitarian crisis as the Biden Administration reports, israel may have violated International Law using weapons supplied by the u. S. Commencements and clashes. Colleges and universities nationwide. Bracing this weekend for more protests over gaza as graduation season gets into full swing. Star witness Michael Cohen, Donald Trumps former fixer turned foe, now set to take the witness stand on monday, their face off expected to be the most critical moment yet in former president trumps hush money coverup trial. Well have a preview. Oprahs about face. I have been a steadfast participant in this diet culture. The talk show host now saying she regrets how much focus shes put on diets and weight loss over the last few decades, and why she says she still regrets this memo
Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Damien carr said he carsetti . Interrogator sent to afghanistan to be an interrogator at the collection point which was the name for the Detention Center that the u. S. Was running at the air force base and later he was an interrogator at abu ghraib for the army. Have i tell a story in my book about how he came back from iraq and afghanistan after being involved in harsh interrogations with ptsd based conducted a lot of interrogations. And it is a story that i think is very important because it ,hows and he said this to me virtually everyone he knew from his unit involved in interrogations came home with ptsd from conducting harsh interrogations. That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture and the american torture program, we now call it torture. They came home tortured by what they had done. The people who had to go into to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military al
This week on q a, our guest is New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author james risen, out with his newest book, pay any price greed, power, and endless war, which exposes some of our hidden costs on the war on terror since 9 11, both around the world and here at home. James risen is an Investigative Reporter with the New York Times. He has been pursued by the bush and Obama Administrations as part of a sixyearold leak investiation related to his previous book,state of war. The governments case against him is still pending. He has stated he will go to jail rather than cooperate. Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Who was Damien Corsetti . Damien corsetti was an army interrogator, an enlisted man, sent to afghanistan to be an interrogator at the collection point which was the name for the Detention Center that the u. S. Was running at the air force base and later he was an interrogator at abu ghraib for the army in iraq. And i have i tell a
That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture in the american torture program, we now call it torture. They came home tortured by what they had done. The people who had to go into the cells to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military all created, this infrastructure for enhanced interrogation, the people who had to lay their hands and do it physically themselves. I came home deeply warped and flawed by the experience. Where is he now . He is living in savannah, georgia. He only has 100 disability from the army because of his ptsd. And he is trying to recover and rebuild his life after and he still suffers very strongly from ptsd. How long was he assigned to abu ghraib . The very beginning of the u. S. Involvement for a few months. He came from belgram. He was involved in interrogations for a year. In his experience, he found that there was virtually no rules when he first got involved in the interrogations, the army and military was