so i want to compliment the archives and maybe ask michael if he is a second, how do the archives getl this stuff? it includes all the captured german war records from all the salt mines that hitler did the stuff in. and briefly -- >> and all the documents of the first detectives on the scene who didn't understand at the time -- >> it is due to the national archives that we know this. >> back in the late 1990s, ambassador eizenstat, i don't know if you recall this, but you asked me for some report you are producing, how many pages of material do you have? and i said, 10 million? sounds like a good number. but actually i think i probably underestimated as we uncover more and more material that was created. [inaudible] spend you want to respond? >> very briefly. the national archives was the inheritor of the records that were seized by the army. the army or the process over many years and the national archives pick up the project, microfilmed all the captured german records in order to preserve them. and eventually we rescued records when we sent the microphone to germany. so we kept al

from the foreign minister's archives and vatican, jesuit and other church archives now only recently available. as we put thieves together we get a picture and richness of understanding we never previously had. just to give you some idea of before we get back to those last fraught years how this relationship worked and here if we can go back, there's a picture a few slides i think ahead of a jesuit, this one, yes. this is absolutely crucial figure in this history who has never before been understood or even known about. nothing, hardly anything has been written about his role yet it was absolutely central. shortly after mussolini comes to power within a couple months the pope and mussolini agree they need a private intermediary and private envoy, they choose this man a prominent roman jesuit venturi. he would meet one-on-one with mussolini over 100 times in these years. basically once a month. no one outside of the inner circle of the fascist party met that often with mussolini. before going to meet with muse lienly he would go to the vatican and meet with the pope. what was he doing

. >> a fabulous archive on soviet material. the world premiere archive on that. >> i believe so. there is much that that is not elsewhere. the story is told that he ended up at the hoover institution doing research for some of his later writings and had wreckers that he obviously could not have access to. >> you have written that hoover said that this might be the institution with its library, his greatest accomplishment. very interesting. just say a few words about that and we will close for the break. >> said that in 1959 at the end of this phenomenal career in which she was 50 years in the public eye. for him to say that bob was a remarkable statement. i think it illustrated his great concern that history be understood at the lessons of history be assimilated by people and that this great archive that he found it could make a singular contribution to better understanding of the world of revolution, the world of communism, national sea to of socialism, this tremendously tumultuous and bloody 20th-century. here he was collecting from all over. the documentation that future histo

i want to ask how the archives got all of the stuff.sfwl it is due to the national archives we know this. >> back in the late '99s, you asked me for a report you were producing how many pages of material do you have. and i said ten million? sounds like a good number. but i think i under estimated probably as we uncover more and more material that was created and rc's from our enemies. yes, ma'am? oh, you want to respond so? >> the national archives are the receiver of the records from the army. we microfilmed all of the records to preserve them. and then we sent the microfilm to germany. we have all of the records of the united states army as it relates to all of the functions of combat and post war operations. when i started the research in 1979, there was no google or greg finding aid. and so now i would like to mention the united states national archives following up on what they are trying to achieve with the washington principal -- principles -- has created a portal for nazis era property. it is treasure mine. if you need to as a f

special collections and archives at the state are open to everyone. you don't need any special permission to come interact with these materials or to do research and we welcome students of all ages and all levels of experience. spee.. >> host: hello. the book is "the crusade years 1933-1955" herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath. the editor is george nash the most esteemed scholar of herbert hoover today. herbert hoover, he served from 1929233 which means he was the president who saw the worst years of the depression. the great depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out whose fault that depression was. many people blame hoover down the decades increasinincreasin gly so. the 31st president in first president united states was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u.s. news poll. that magazine voted hoover he was known as the poor communicator who fueled. wars have exacerbated the depression. not only those on the left but also sometimes on the right assigned blame to herber

part of that is possible because of hoover's work in the hoover archives.not everyone reported to moscow but some did. for example harry dexter white. so hoover wasn't exactly wrong that the soviet union was or did have some influence. >> guest: hoover regarded one of the great mistakes of roosevelt that being the recognition of the soviet union in 1933. it gave him respectability and easier access into american public life. in the 30s they develop what was called the popular front. 100,000 members in the common estate. they were small but concentrated and energetic and so forth and hoover was worried about this. he thought this was pulling the new deal to the left. >> guest: . >> host: people thought hoover was hysterical perhaps mccarthyite and he was not inaccurate. we want to give him credit. he was also not inaccurate about the economic and social prospects of the soviet union. >> guest: hoover argued if we were not careful in her destruction of the nazi empire we would have another empire in its place. that was part of the argument for this other luck

offering a substantial sum of money towards the cost of this christian archive. and early this morning i contacted the national library the pond of arts heritage hill talks on them to like it to say they respond to very quickly and with the suggestion that we buy at the archive jointly. that is between natural ivory of arms and to please him to open stores very grateful and very excited. i must say. to see teeny teeny and pasted into museum and panache than i prefer working together to ensure the archetypal be presented to the people of ireland is ruby has between the two institutions. it is to nationalize these two teams. the collection is made in japan after such resorts i know this here museum to be shilling select items from the action thriller. this past weekend we will hop is here for researches and in the fifties to the museum the archive will be available during the year early this year. they really are seeing is believing is seeing the doctor. the video showing the young man in need of the line on the streets and be attacked by a group of youths on st pa

the world premiere archive i'm not. >> guest: i believe so.the stories told when he was expelled from the soviet union, he ended up at the hoover institution doing research for later writings and had record there that the embassy could not have access to or would not have been in the soviet union. >> host: you've written and hoover said it might be the institution with this library his greatest accomplishment, which is very interesting. just say a few words about that while closer break. >> guest: he said that in 1959 at the end of this phenomenal career in which he was 50 years in the public eye. for him to say that i thought was a remarkable statement. heatsink illustrated his great concern that history be understood in the lessons of history be assimilated by people and that this great archive he found it could make a singular contribution to better understanding of the world of revolution, the root of communist in the national the national socialist on the so one is tremendous a tumultuous in bloody 20th century and here he was collecting

on soviet material especially, the world's premier archive. >> guest: there is much there that is not elsewhere. expelled from the soviet union ended up at the hoover institution doing research for records that he obviously could not have access to or would not have been in the soviet union. >> host: you have written that hoover said this might be this institution with this library, his greatest accomplishment which is very interesting. to say a few words about that and we will close for break. >> guest: at the end of this phenomenal career in which he was 50 years in the public eye and for him to say that is remarkable statement. illustrated his great concern that history be understood and the lessons of history be assimilated by people and that this great archive he founded could make a singular contribution to better understanding of the world of revolution, the world of communism and national socialism and nazism and so on tremendously tumultuous and he was collecting a fascinating story, the documentation that future historians could delve into and he thought maybe that was his g

have any of them been stolen from archives or museums? archival recovery team agents kelly maltagliati and mitch yockelson are looking for. what would you be happiest to find? >> mitch yockelson: we're missing the wright brothers' patent. that would thrill me to no end to recover the patent for the flying machine of 1903. >> simon: when did it disappear? >> yockelson: we don't even know. we discovered it was missing around 2003 when a staff member had wanted to pull it for an exhibit commemorating the centennial. >> simon: also missing, the bombing maps of hiroshima and nagasaki. so where do these things end up? >> rosenstein: in foreign countries. for example, in eastern europe, there is a market-- a black market-- for american historical documents. >> simon: how do these black markets function and where are they? >> rosenstein: i think it's like any illegal market anywhere in the world. if you know of somebody who has a lot of money and wants to collect significant, unique items and you make that connection, then you may well be able to

they could have e-mailed their john hancock's in. >> the archives collect millions of data every year. >> if we were look at the exhibit 100 years from now, it would be a combination of some of the artifacts of today with and a reallys, interesting and creative snapshot of the various ways people have been communicating and making their mark in the electronic environment. >> what technology could replace a signed sport shirt? and what do we learn about a person whose signature says sent from my cell phone? they can still create a unique compression. >> what do you use for your e-mail? your signature line? and then we have options of thoug -- of font. too out of control with colors and backgrounds, but i think that just showing what signature you use and how you close your e-mail says so much about you. >> what historians will make about electronic communications is anybody's guess at one thing is certain, the pen may be mightier than the sword, but it is no match for e-mail. jane o'brien, bbc news. >> but electronic sign offs do not have the weight of some of those we saw. that brings

it's fine for me to go home and check the archive later if there is an archive, if there is not an archive then it's a genuine problem because it's impossible to know what happened at the meeting. i would love to echo kathy's statements if this is agreeable to the budget and i would like to thank you for including that in the budget for the retirement system. i'm not sure of the best locus to include the televising issue, but i think at this point especially with this kind of issue of public concern in front of them, it would be this time to make this happen. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, budget and finance. oh what a beautiful morning. oh what a beautiful day. i got a beautiful feeling on this item surely you will pay. welcome back walter. >> motion to approve. motion made, we can take that without opposition. madam clerk, please call item no. 2. city clerk: supervisor? >> i believe the department of real estate was proposing amendments to reflect the changes in the lease. so you should accept those amendments before you adopt the admonition. >>

a document i found in the national archives, which had never been written about before. that is how important ambrose was. and further, the reich was building synthetic robber as auschwitz. so this here is a satellite photo from 1944, june, and you have auschwitz,, and the gas champbers, and in the lower corner you have a slave labor facility run by the chemical company that was making sin tet sick rubber, and otto ambrose, who would become part of paperclip, was in charge of that facility. of all the photographs that i came upon in researching this book -- and we all know those horrific photographs of the bodies, nothing disturbed me more than this photograph, and that's because of what it says. it says: company sporting club ig auschwitz, up top and those or two of otto ambrose's colleagues fencing as they would in the evening after a long day of what they thought was hard work at the laboratory there at auschwitz. but as i learned from colleagues, academics at the institute who gave me permission to republish this photograph, this is well within the view of the chimne

truman signed the nato treaty in the white house here he made a statement which you can read in any archive when he said, i'm signing this treaty on the understand that the united states is committing itself to european defense as a basis for the establishment of a european union of states. in other words, the us will defend you. and so a venomous understands continued, continued, continued. and the result after all have been one of the most successful most democratic of most prosperous bits of international cooperation in all of history. if you look at what europe was in 1945, look what the american view of the world was in 1945, and compare it today. you can only say it's been an amazing, wonderful success and we should all be thrilled by it.

it was his only public not public, a private memo but there was in the archives. the only time i saw his specific response to sy. is cried out to sy to respond to the responses. i wrote to sy. i said you want to see? doing to comment? his answer was, yesterday's news. i don't give a shit. so didn't get an answer. but, frankly, i kind of did need. that sort of the way it went in our conversation. short, short little responses. sometimes he would direct me. you should talk to this person you should talk to that person. sometimes his hopeful. i found times that i knew more times about his work from 30 years ago the needed. not a surprise. these 72, 74 right now. but i was dredging up stuff from 30, 40 years ago and i sometimes knew more than he did. at one point in time i heard a tape, and he told a fascinating story. the story was this he had a housekeeper at his house and the housekeeper was taking care of his house and his children. a call comes to the house telephone call deep thick foreign accented voice and the person tells the housekeeper exactly where her thr

the monuments men foundation recovered a number of documents that were donated national archives and one of the german archives albums filled with photographs of works of art, albums in his position, look through like a mail-order catalog to decide which ones he wanted to have in his museum. i am not as focused on how stuff got back here as i am on what we should do. i don't care if a soldier took says something, we should honor them for their service and recover these things and get them back to their rightful owners. there was a case, the when you are alluding to in 1980, early 90s, where an american soldier, not a monuments' man but a soldier deliberately took important relics out of the church in germany, brought them home and after repasts, his state had them, attempted to sell them. ultimately these works were returned to germany. that was a precedent in a setting case, we know now today that these works can be sold. there are serious flaws in this country, the national stolen property act prohibiting sales of works of art or cultural objects that have been stolen. the monument

i understood where the sources were for it since we had developed and collected an archive of documents from general petraeus and they went to central command, then the national defense university and i am indebted to those folk for declassifying so many of the documents i used to write this. it would not have been possible without their assistance. what went wrong in iraq? the bush administration made assumption going into the iraq war that it would be a war of liberation that the iraq people by and large would support the take down of their brutal dictator. the government and infrastructure would remain entact since they were going to cooperate so the united states didn't need to plan for occupation or rehabilitation of the country. rumsfeld looked at it like a lab. the idea that robust intelligence agents could collapse a state at the center of gravity and wind up the war rapidly with fewer cadeath and this was the wave of the future that the united states military was going to take advantage of. unfortunately, the enemy didn't cooperate. the commander of v-cor as he is marching up t

special collections and archives at the state are open to everyone. you don't need any special permission to come interact with these materials or to do research and we welcome students of all

he tells readers to keep a file the one he did in his right there in the carnegie archive sale and it's called ken and i quote, dm for things i have done. what is fascinating about it is sony's injunctions to self-examination, there's nary a weird about spiritual feelings, falling back, anything of the kind. instead, but will focus is on social errors. and carnegie's rendering of this is to forget people's names, to blurt out negative comments, to talk too much around other people, to fail to make other people feel comfortable, to argue with people instead of tactfully suggesting new ways thinking about the, to overlook other people's viewpoints and not listen to them and to make sweeping statements that other people found irritable. those were awful things i've done and kerr-mcgee urged people to sort of like the side of one's personality. pardon me. here's where the frog part comes and i think. with carnegie in other words, what i would suggest is you can see american values shifting from the old notion of entry moral error to shaping one's advantage in the impressions you make upon o

jack has just completed a critical archival study of images and essays, "yellow peril," the subject of the discussion this evening. he's also the senior historian on the chinese exclusive period for the new york historical society, and his next book will be published alongside the the exhibition. to jack's right is dylan yeats, doctoral candidate in history at nyu. he specializes in united states history with a focus on the political demonology and structures of authority. he writes and teaches about american politics, asian-american history and islam phobia. he's also a public historian and a sight-seeing guide who is licensed to give tours in new york city. i'd like to take one sometime. >> all right. [laughter] >> finally, at the end of the table is dr. jack shaheen. his lectures and writings have focused on negative imimagines ander stereotypes of asians, blacks and other minorities and disadvantaged groups in the world. he has been a professional film consultant on popular -- on very popular hits like syrian that and three kings which i'd like to learn more about, and he's receive

>> actually, the archives is moving as rapidly as the archives move. >> after 13 years, hillary clinton'sice to her husband, the president, is finally made public. james rosen will analyze for us. >> son of god is generating a lot of heat because jesus is sexy. >> those comments from a cnn actor is causing consternation. carlson and mcguirk have some thoughts. >> are you the son of god? >> i am. >> also tonight, an update on the intense ukraine-russian situation. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. harmful entertainment. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. if you saw the factor last night, you know that president obama has launched a huge initiative to help children at risk targeting young black men especially. called my brother's keeper. it's a good initiative as we discussed with the president's senior advisor valerie jarrett. if you missed the interview it is bill o'reilly.com. what is missing is the entertainment factor. these are effecting unsupervised chil

. >> the archives of the committee on disclosure of the state security documents encompass 14 kilometers of documents. somewhere among them are the files on leading church figures, but the church has refused to cooperate and even tried to obstruct the commission's work. the church also refuses interviews. the archive foster rector is not surprised. >> in the meantime, we found dossiers on three more orthodox bishops, but our hands are tied. all we can do is inform the bulgarian people. by law, we cannot charge anyone. the bishops are free to react to the exposure as their conscience dictates, but so far, no one has shown any remorse. >> cooperation between the bulgarian church and the communist regime had a long tradition. exhibits at the museum for totalitarian art hint at how cozily the high clergy was in bed with the top political brass even after church property had been nationalized and many christian holidays had been all but prohibited. the authorities tolerated only a few orthodox rights. the communist authorities made systematic use of the church. >> the secret service's collabo

friends to use the archive from time to time.n a neighborhood where there were seemingly few amenities. >> stephen: let's show the next house here, jimmy. this house, there it is on the left first, ands and that you did to it on the right. when you turn the house on the left-- when you turn it into a work of art, do you give it a name? >> yeah, i do. >> stephen: is that called something? >> it's called a listening how. >> stephen: why? >> because there is a collection of albums in there there a record store called dr. wax, and we play albums there. >> stephen: here's the thing that worries me about your work, okay. is that you're turning things into art they use to not have to think about. ( laughter ). >> is there i've never gone up to a house or seen a house before and say i don't get this house the way i don't get some art. do i have to "get" your houses to enjoy your houses or do i have to be in them? >> i think it's super cool that people don't get the houses. and i think it's also really important that the houses not regist

i don't want that to be part of the silent archive. . . so that website address is a place that you can download everything she described and finally, the book obviously. that's what i've given you is everywhere not everywhere but most places you can find the scripts themselves that my book is based on if you were interested enough this is where you can find it so this is literally resource, don't be distracted during the lecture. so that is bad. and finallthat.and finally i aly that i'm very grateful that you bothered to show up. i'm very proud of this work and i love to be able to share it to the fact you are here allows me to share it so i have a gift for everyone before we leave. if i somehow seem to be forgetting that during the q-and-a reminded me very i have a small gift for the fact that you bothered to show up. so thank you very much. >> southern trees bear a strange fruit blood at the root, black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the trees. i trust that you recognize these lyrics that describe the

if you wanted to get something from the archives you have to go and write a letter. so everything is set up for physical copies that we live in a digital world. we certainly don't use that card catalogs anymore. i wonder what happened to the cases. some of them are quite lovely. and we gave material to people in digital form. so what we do? whdo we do?why is this steam pu? because under the limitations set out in congress it may be okay for a library to scan the work and attached it to the cards and the e-mail and send it off to the requesting patrons that it might be illegal for them to post it on the website. that's not contemplated with the fair use rights given to the libraries and archives and that seems silly if i can send it to you in digital form. then we have what i called the redheaded stepchildren of the intellectual property. we have in the 21st century i don't think we can debate how software and computer coded at the same rules that apply to the literary work databases are important. we don't have a way of protecting them. the database is a collection o

edsall, which included a panel discussion at the national archives. both programs re-air this sunday starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern and are available to watch anytime at booktv.org. and second is the memoir 12 years a slave. the book was originally published in 1853 part of this. and then alone survival or. the eyewitness account of operation red wing and the lost heroes. booktv spoke with the author in 2008 and you can watch the program online at booktv.org. twenty-five years after its initial publication, richard rhodes and the making of the atomic bomb is the fourth best selling e-book according to "the wall street journal" followed by delusions. then we have journeys on the silk road by con rod walters on the discovery of the worlds oldest printed book. and then eric the task is profiles a stand against nokia germany and wrapping up the top 10 as bill o'reilly and historian martin duke guard in his account of the murder of jesus of nazareth and killing jesus. these are some of the current best-selling nonfiction e-books according to "the wall stree

and a part of that is possible because of hoover's work in the archives.not everyone reported to moscow but some day the -- but some of them did. so he was not exactly wrong the soviet union was evil. >> guest: he regarded one of the great mistakes of roosevelt, that being the recognition, diplomatic recognition of 1933. he gave respectability and much easier access into a american public life and in the 30s they are developed in what is called at the popular front. perhaps at one point there were 100,000 members of the communist party so that might seem small l but they were concentrated and effective and energetic and so forth and hoover was worried about this and he thought that this was pulling the new deal to the left. >> guest: >> host: he was not inaccurate on some of those and we want to give him credit. he was also not an accurate about the economic and social process of the soviet union. >> guest: he argued if we were not careful in our proper description of the evil empire, we would have another evil empire in its place and that stalin would win

the archives direct to know what's the freinds. in the time we found the season three more orthodox bishops in her hands are tied. all we can do is inform the bulgarian people all the time i we can't urge anyone. conditions are free to react to their furniture as their conscience dictates but so far no one has shown any remorse. what should be the bnp's. cooperation between the bulgarians heads in the coming this regime had a long tradition. it is a bit sad stuff isn't easy and takes a ton of terry and aunt hints that al qaeda's leader mike lindsay was in bed with the top mystical bronze. even often says property had been nationalized and many christian holidays the rule prohibits it. the authorities tolerate is an eft the orthodox try this fifth the meanest of currencies and neat system and tt's the chance. for me to read go to class c a a book the secret service's collaborators in the church did great harm to the society some bishops failed to stand behind their priests or defend them. on the contrary often the informed the state

today she's resting a region of the game interim town of archiving first she delivers a friendly warning to the players to keep in mind the port conditions in the pitch to prevent injury then she places the ball on the center line. the men in the stands looks skeptical the cons eleven year old sisters at sprout. a car blows the opening whistle she's addressed the second division game in western turkey. here near the eastern border mail still aren't used to a woman calling the shots elena michaels as many blogs are right. i would allow my wife says to do the action including that of a car that edmonton. iran lies just beyond these mountains. until recently the city of aqaba he was the center of violent clashes between kurds and the turkish state. now they've agreed to a ceasefire but it's mainly men were out enjoying the new found peace there are few women on the streets. it's a mock car is one of them. she visits a friend who works at a travel agency. carr is that of a celebrity in her home city in a role model. like it was a blessed woman with brains and snatches it up because they can

. >> when i went to germany, and i went through a lot of different archives i was fascinated reading some of these original transcripts of these scientists. and these are sort of 70-page documents which show in a very subtle way how this program began. so you have these military intelligence officers learning about hitler's nerve agent programs that we did not know about. learning about hitler's biological weapon programs that we did not know about. interviewing the scientists an trying to find out all that we can, but also you see decisions being made and that real decision comes down no to this, should this scientist be hanged? or should this scientist be hired? >> you can watch this and a other programs online at book tv.org. >> here's a look at some of the best selling non fiction books according to "new york times." malcolm has the list with david and goliath followed by duty with robert gates. book tv covered talks by both be of the authors you can see them online at book tv.org. third is unbroken, the story of an olympic runner who survived scraps imprisonment during world war

>> actually, the archives is moving as rapidly as the archives move. >> after 13 years, hillary clinton'sthe president, is finally made public. james rosen will analyze for us.

i know that the national archives and other agencies participate in foia online portal. code like to hear from you about what we should consider when we examine this matter so this question but given the agencies vary in size and operation, how can a single online portal be treated that avoid one size fits all approach? and on this point has a failure to accommodate the differences between agencies caused in the agency to terminate its use of foia online? before you answer, i understand that the treasury department no longer uses foia online order. so i think it's helpful that we carefully consider how to establish online systems that are being utilized by multiple agencies of different sizes. so, can you answer that for me? >> yes, senator grassley, i hope i can answer all of those questions. foia online launched october october 12012, so it's been operating for about a year and a half. there are currently seven agencies that are partners in it. the national archives and records administration is one, and we would certainly be an example of one of the small agencies. we

i think it severely harms the credibility of national archives and needs to be resolved and tell him that. >> yes, sir. i will. >> the queue to both of you. in senator grassley. director, thank you for testifying this morning. i came late but there was a report that created those agencies that receive the most foia more than 90 percent that the federal government receives but none of those received the grade of f and i am concerned of the long delays that they undergo win day wait for records including groups that are seeking information to make sure the contractors are complying with labor laws. it seems like reform is necessary. what are the biggest problems agencies face as they work to comply with foia and how do we resolve those problems? vivid their primary reason for having a backlog croupiers' increase for the past five years steadily growing although agencies could increase those processed but the second thing happening is that the requests are more complex them they were before. as agencies post more . >> also always looking for efficiency as the focus of the guidelines is

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i understood where the sources were for it since we had developed and collected an archive of documents from general petraeus and they went to central command, then the national defense university and i am indebted to those folk for declassifying so many of the documents i used to write this. it would not have been possible without their assistance. what went wrong in iraq? the bush administration made assumption going into the iraq war that it would be a war of liberation that the iraq people by and large would support the take down of their brutal dictator. the government and infrastructure would remain entact since they were going to cooperate so the united states didn't need to plan for occupation or rehabilitation of the country. rumsfeld looked at it like a lab. the idea that robust intelligence agents could collapse a state at the center of gravity and wind up the war rapidly with fewer cadeath and this was the wave of the future that the united states military was going to take advantage of. unfortunately, the enemy didn't cooperate. the commander of v-cor as he is marching up t

and when i went to germany and went through a lot of the different archives, i was fascinated reading some of the original transcripts of these scientists, and these are sort of 70-page documents which show in a very subtle way how this program began. so you have these mill tower intelligence officers -- military intelligence officers learning about hitler's nerve agent programs that we did not know about, learning about hitler's biological weapons programs that we did not know about, interviewing the scientists and is trying to find out all that we can. but also you see decisions being made, and that real decision comes down to this: should this scientist be hanged, or should this sign tuft be hired? scientist be hired? this here is castle cranburg. it was very interesting, the scientists were all walking around here. you had spear out in the garden walking around to himself, you had karl brant leading gymnastics. some of the scientists would give lectures, and all the while they're going in and out of these little rooms and being interrogated by these different more than military of

in the making, and i understood where the forces were for it since we have developed, collected an archive of documents of general petraeus while the surge was ongoing with an eye toward history eventually. those documents which essential command and into the national defense university and i am indebted to the folks there, both those places for declassified summary of documents that are used to write this history. empanada been possible without their assistance. -- it would not have been possible without their assistance. what went wrong in iraq? the bush administration made some assumptions going into the iraq war that it would be a war of liberation, that the iraqi people would support the taking down saddam hussein, a very brutal and hated it to be. and that since they would cooperate with the american forces, government and infrastructure would largely remain intact and, therefore, the united states didn't need to plan for a long occupation or an extended rehabilitation of the country. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld also looked on iraq as a laboratory to test his theories and to

i don't want that to be part of the silent archive. . .