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Is the National Security agency who was into our private phone calls and read our mail, and are a core component of our secret government that has done Everything Possible to my requests for access to their historic records. Has for decades been in the forefront of filing requests and occasionally legal suit to obtain declassification and release of highly classified and hidden documents. Nsa ise of the good chasing our store records, trying to pry open the hidden hands of the bad nsa, and most of the Covert Agency is, and our National Archives that have layers of classification and secrecy. Has beennbluh responsible for Major Projects at the good nsa and has extracted records. Hero. S my definition of a vital records have been obtained of the Nixon Kissinger overthrow of the chilean government in 1973 and, and his book was declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. They read like an outline of a novel. Obtained documents after the u. S. Attempt to overthrow the cuban governm
My dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifthgrade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. They worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that Better Future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. They talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, researcher Peter Kornbluh discusses president kennedys attempts to open up negotiations with cuba. He discusses the issues involved with establishing reliable dialogue in negotiations. He is coauthor of back channel to cuba. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you. Im here to introduce Peter Kornbluh, whom i have just met. I have just gotten a copy of his new book, co
Occupy movement. But i know that we will teach it on television and there are some russians who went there. And i guess the answer to this is that there is no reason why the u. S. Officials and european officials should not go and address the demonstration that they want. But i do think that it is true that it is not completely clear whether the majority of ukrainians want to go in one direction or the other. So i think that i mean, in 2000 faller during the arms revolution, the russians going to key have and doing similar things as well. They negotiated this as well. And so are the people in the United States who questioned why this was something that was democratically elected. Whether the u. S. Should be going there and trying to push the ukraine in one direction or another. So i think that there is quite a lot of criticisms and there were many people that enforce it. And i think that it shows also that russia played it very well. Host it is very important and informative with the r
So we begin tonight with a new ruling on the nsa spying controversy. A federal judge ruled at the time legal for the National Security agency to collect socalled metadata from persons cell phone. A week ago another judge ruled it basically violated are rights. John terrett could you tell us . Half us think its a good idea because it keeps us safe, the other half thinks its terrible. And now members of the judiciary. Not just any members of the judiciary, two federal judges, district judges, pretty high up, one in new york, one in washington, d. C, coming to completely different conclusions on basically the same issue. Take a look. In his ruling federal judge William Pauley of new york, connected fragmented and fleeting communications. He said the 9 11 attacks might have been prevented if the phone Data Collection system had existed then to help investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. He says the governments learned from its mistakes and has adapted to confront a new