to the bay of pigs to the nixon tapes to obama u.s. government has a secret history of willing then dealings that ekes out decades after the fact unfortunately the revelations these documents often provide are just a mere afterthought sturrock a revisionism that's already been carved in stone so joining me now to dive into this issue a little bit further is breaking the separate manual put up with. me on after after governor do you know do is go know the pressure and let's go over some of these because there's i mean there's so many to go over j.f.k. fifty thousand documents they have said it's only one percent it's not that much what's the big deal really what is the big deal about fifty thousand documents they're not releasing and there's only one percent of the total the big deal is that when the national archives made this poll and asked the american people what's the number one document that you want to see released as far as what the government's been withholding from the american people it's exactly this specifically the majority

covert action people bay of pigs. the plot to assassinate castro. can insertions pacification in the philippines in malaysia in southeast asia the hot tired of that really was in the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. . the it began to decline dramatically you see it again with iran contra. any really see it reemerge with. the rise of international terrorism or the perceived threat of international terrorism primarily because you're dealing with an enemy that is not immediately identifiable with a national government it's transnational it's it it operates between the seams in the international system and so i think that's one of the things that's led to a revival of tactics that. the u.s. used really against the. in the phoenix program in the late one nine hundred sixty s. in fact colby who headed the who oversaw the phoenix program phoenix the drone program is a reincarnation of the phoenix program phoenix program. intelligence south american television. a cadre and eliminated them some twenty thousand of them killed of. what fr

you write about how the clandestine operations have evolved then your talk about iran contra the bay of pigs passionately supported by cheney and rumsfeld they did not. the operation itself is a scandal but rather is a model for how the us should conduct these wars and take it as a framework how has the u.s. government taken what they learned from these covert operations in the eighty's and really apply them to the strategy of the current war on terror i mean it's funny because cheney was in congress at the time of iran contra and actually authored a minority report enthusiastically backing iran contra at the time it was a big story viewed as this epic scandal i mean obama like cheney before him believes in this idea of the unitary executive that the executive branch should be a dictatorship when it comes to counterterrorism policy and that congress should play a minimal if role if any in overseeing anything and just fund the operations that the white house determines should be done in secret around the world so you have this covert action being done by by the cia director orders from the wh

you write about how the clandestine operations have evolved then your talk about iran contra the bay of pigs passionately supported by cheney and rumsfeld they did not regard the operation itself as a scandal but rather as a model for how the u.s. should conduct these wars and take it as a framework how has the u.s. government taken what they learned from these covert operations in the eighty's and really apply them to the strategy of the current war on terror i mean funny because cheney was in congress at the time of iran contra and actually authored a minority report enthusiastically backing iran contra at the time it was big sort of viewed as this as this epic scandal i mean obama like cheney before him believes in this idea of the unitary executive that the executive branch should be a dictatorship when it comes to counterterrorism policy and that congress should play a minimal if role if any in overseeing anything and just fund the operations that the white house determines should be done in secret around the world so you have this this covert action being done by jay sock by the cia di

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in the midst of the cold war, president kennedy was mired in the bay of pigs fiasco when the soviet union followed up with the first successful human space flight in april 1961. with no intention of being out done or outgunned, kennedy fired back with a big bold mitsch tiff. the moon. >> i believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space. none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. >> expensive indeed. that first call for a man on the moon which launched that giant leap forward for mankind ended up costing an estimated $170 billion of the contemporary american kind. not to mention countless hours of manpower, political energy and public attention. public attention that was looking up into the stars along with president kennedy while young men and women of this brave new world were getting on buses to test the desegregation jim crow south. the