in my presentation about terrorism out cut it out out this amount this is just within an hour george tenet the director of central intelligence made a spectacular bombshell presentation we have just learned from a hollow evill al qaida operative under interrogation about significant contacts between baghdad. and al qaida. this was devastating. here's the director of central intelligence telling the secretary of state that he has interrogated evidence ready well the secretary turned to me and said put it back in. to continue to have a deep interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction as with the story as the kawi in his network i can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how iraq provided training in these weapons to al qaeda later i learned that that was shake out libby that had to happen just instantly happened it happened months before that he been water boarded in egypt when he did this no u.s. personnel were present and he had recanted within a couple of weeks and we never were told about that every statement i make today is backed up by sources solid sources the

george tenet, cia director was immersed in counterterrorism and insisted but counterterrorism get some level of primacy, he insist on budget and insisted on ensuring there is leadership there that was well regarded across the agency. not common in the 1990s including the director of the center, who raise the profile of counterterrorism, increasing the quality of people who were going over there, increasing the respective counterterrorism at the cia before 9/11 but make no mistake, the peace dividend for intelligence, lack of focus on terrorism men's on that day, on that day, the cia and the counterterrorist world was not only not prepared, they could not be prepared. they all talked to me about feeling before but especially in the searing months and years after 9/11, that they were on the back foot. on that day, this is not over dramatized, everything changed. years of debate about armed drones, done. years of debate about raids in afghanistan, forget about raids, the cia will be first in with operatives, with money, technology, guidance and weeks of 9/11. forget about raids, the u.s.

george: madisonian persuasion, the catechism has three tenets. is this still broadcasting? hello? there we go. is that better now? thank you. the madisonian persuasion which was the founders' persuasion was a, a belief in natural right, that there are certain rights necessary for the flourishing of creatures like human beings who have a fixed human nature. that human beings are not simply creatures that acquire whatever culture they're situated in. second, first come right, then come government. most important word in the declaration of independence is secure. all men are created with certain inalienable rights and the governments are instituted to secure those rights. the primary function of government is not to give us rights, but to secure pre-existing rights. and third, to make the government strong enough to protect those rights, but not so strong as to threaten them. we need a separation of powers. this checks and balances will produce an institutional equilibrium. so we don't count on virtue now in our leaders, we count on institutional restraints. relationship between the