and also lowered dick holbrooke who tries to indoor or call colin powell reit? would be great to have the book from crocker on diplomacy are a book from kennedy on management inand diplomacy? lowered from grossman? i believe this is an area foror improvement and i assume this is what the academy of diplomatic studies and training has in mind with thise series on diplomats and diplomacy and also for the high value tigerpark rose second proposition is that the effective counterterrorism needs a strategy. i argue in this book that counterterrorism should not be conceived nearly as an intelligence matter or a military question, but rather as a broad strategy. in yemen be encapsulated the strategy is no development without security and no security without development.wo it works very well in arabic and that strategy alone from extensive contact officials are average individualsildi individuals, makes what is important to us move against an effective way to a waswhic important to them which was to melamine? it was summarized in a simple formula which the yemenis could

the forces of soviet conduct or to learn how someone like holbrooke tries to end a war or how colin powell leads. wouldn't it be great to have a poke from ryan crocker on expeditionary diplomacy. from jack kennedy on management and diplomacy. gorey book sunday from marc grossman on diplomacy. so i believe this is an area for improvement. masm of diplomatic studies and training with this series on diplomats and diplomacy and its ambition for my titular book, "high-value target" appeared in the second proposition i'd like to meet you this morning is that effective counterterrorism argues in this book that counterterrorism should not be conceived narrowly as an intelligence matter or a military question, but rather should be conceived as a broad strategy. and yemen, we encapsulated our strategy is no development and no security without development. to work very well in arabic. and that strategy arose from extensive contacts with the yemenis themselves. high officials and low average individuals. building 12 is important to us, moving against al qaeda and in effect the way to what was importan

or how colin powell leads. wouldn't it be great to have a book from ryan crocker on expeditionary diplomacy, or a book from pat kennedy on management and diplomacy? or a book someday from mark grossman on afpac diplomacy. so i believe this is for state an area for improvement. and i assume that this is what the academy of diplomatic studies and training has in mind with this series on dip ro mats and -- diplomats and diplomacy. and it's an ambition for my particular book, "high value target." now, the second proposition i'd like to make to you this morning is that effective counterterrorism needs a strategy. i argue in this book thatdown terrorism could not -- that counterterrorism should not be conceived narrowly as an intelligence matter or a military question, but rather it should be conceived as a broad strategy. in yemen we encapsulated our strategy as no development without security, and no security without development. it worked very well in arabic. [speaking in native tongue] and that strategy arose fro

army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell matthew just political policy analyst and director of middle east progress at the center for american progress as well as jordan secular director of international operations for the american center for law and justice and from our studio in new york jeremy scahill national security correspondent for the nation magazine who's also been reporting on the elite military unit that killed bin laden for several years so i want to thank you all for joining me tonight i have a feeling it's going to be a good one jeremy to start with you over there in new york and one thing that president obama said last night when he was addressing the nation is that justice has been served justice is done especially for those families for the victims of the attacks on nine eleven do you think that's true. well i think for a certain segment of the world's population that's true i think that there are a number of people who lost loved ones nine eleven that probably feel that way and i'm sure that there is a great number of americans that feel that way but if yo

of taiwan do and several others. >> and i know colin powell has lent his name and he believed in it so much and sheila johnson will be there and sue palka will be this and some of our hankers there. willie jolly, motivational speaker and chris coste. now what can we expect that night? >> phenomenal entertainment. these are the future of stars of music in this country. we have chelsea green, who is playing a combination of classical and jazz violin and viola. and we also have the jolly brothers nate and nathan and noble jolly, pianist and drummer. and they will play jazz. we have matt wiggler a piano progeny. alicia ward, a celloist and some blues and rock 'n' roll. >> and it will be held at the mansion at strat more in north bethesda. it is on friday may 20th and it opens at 7:00 p.m. and program starts at 8:00 p.m. and tickets should be bought in advance. and a live and silent auction with a lot of great items. we'll be back after the break. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you.  >>> and you are looking at more video this morning of the ceremony

i will say this, my boss, colin powell has some reservations about what we did.ave to remember, too, that condoleezza rice was batting above her weight. she was surrounded by 800 pound gorillas. she had a choice to make. she could try to discipline the 800 pound gorillas, which is what they are supposed to do, or back off from it, build her intimacy with the president and become secretary of state. i'll leave it to you to tell me which one of those choices she made. >> i kept trying to get at the issue of saddam hussein as a threat. the distinction i tried to draw was, was he a threat to new york on the day we were marking 9/11? we have the death of osama bin laden, the president coming to new york, the attack on new york. let's listen to what she said about that. >> do you think he was a threat -- >> lawrence, you have a very different view than the u.n. security council. you obviously have a different view -- you have a very different view than those people who were flying the no-fly zones like the soldier in my class at stanford who was shot at by saddam husse

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senior fellow at the new american foundation and former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell'srence wilkerson. >> good to be with you, ed. >> you bet. steve why do you think the president should have released these photos? >> well, several reasons. one, osama bin laden has been living as a phantom for the last decade. and this decision, and i understand i don't know everything that went into president obama's decision, but this allows him to continue on as a phantom. i think that's a mistake. we need to demonstrate as hard as it is that we're a transparent government. that we don't withhold -- we don't throw everything into a veil of secrecy. and i also think, frankly, there are many both in the united states -- i remember hearing from a senior intelligence officer a few years ago. he said, steve you don't really believe osama bin laden is still alive, do you? but i think many people in the muslim world need to see two things. particularly moderate muslims need to see that osama bin laden is really gone and, secondly, they need to see out of respect to the muslim religion that

after 9/11, colin powell told pakistan's leaders they had to target al qaeda, but little happened. last year, hillary clinton said was many were thinking. >> i believe somewhere in this government, are people who know where osama bin laden and al qaeda is. >> reporter: today, the president's anti-terror chief said it's unconceivable bin laden didn't have a support system inside pakistan and he acknowledged people are wondering if that support came from pakistan's government, adding, understandably. >> andrea mitchell with that aspect of the story. andrea, thanks. >>> when we come back, we'll have the story of how those who lost a lot of brothers on 9/11 are greeting this news from overseas. . . . >>> back here at ground zero in new york, while 9/11 changed life in america for all of us, it staggered the new york city fire department. 343 firefighters ran into the world trade center and never made it back out. today, we revisited a fire house in manhattan that lost six men that day, engine 23. just to see how they were reacting to the news that the mastermind overseas was gone. >> f

would have had to be there instead we've engaged in once we went in there you know to paraphrase colin powell we broke it and so we owned it and we still own it and it's a pretty ugly thing that we own right now and the situation is worse in afghanistan as well as in pakistan so now that we've killed him and really there's only one or two outstanding you know senior al qaeda people who are directly responsible for nine eleven what do we do that's really the question if we if we just pull out precipitously but we don't change our other policies of supporting you know corrupt in their toil regimes around the region then we're just going to leave a vacuum that the same kind of forces who are very angry at western policies are going to fill and we could be back in the same situation again in a year or two if we if we if we pull out as patricia suggested do it in a way that also says we're we're cleaning the board and we're no longer going to be engaging in the policies that helped lead to the rise of these kinds of terrorist organizations then i think there's a chance that you know even if we hav

on this issue of lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to united states secretary of state colin powell and now a professor of government public policy at the college of william and mary and also larry klayman attorney author former federal prosecutor in the reagan administration and founder of the organization's judicial watch and freedom watch dot org colonel wilkerson larry i figure i'll come to welcome to both of you colonel you're on the record as saying that you believe that the war in iraq was in part at least driven by a desire to get oil to change famously said ten percent of the world's oil reserves are there it's cheap oil back in two thousand and one. can you elaborate on that what causes you to believe you know i i'm not sure it was to get a well i'm not sure that's the way to put it i think it was to ensure that one of the greatest reserves of oil known reserves of oil in the world was well protected and i wouldn't say it was to get it into the hands. of chevron royal dutch shell exxon mobil another private companies because they're a lot harder to deal with the national c

just the way it is i mean any expert anybody who's an expert you shouldn't trust an expert as colin powell putting it yellow dots in the desert and we saw this in the back of companies we saw it with the best as companies you know the express is out but it was you know in the nineteen or the saw some companies today everybody else and every other medical group in the world says cell phones cause brain cancer in america they said no no we're not so sure about that you know it's we're we're overwhelmed by the power of well i'm and we need to separate ourselves out and come together one of the things that i'm saying in the book is that the way we vote we vote against things rather than for things if we could set up an online system where people say there are ten most important political goals. and let people work not for we don't trust each other before we come together then you know a living wage medical insurance aging with dignity safety for our children education for our children all of this would come before anything else and we wouldn't have to fight over those who know him sooner or la

>> colin powell gave me some of those hand warmers, to sit on, and -- it didn't help. >> jimmy: not at no. >> jimmy: i heard this hat has it's own facebook page. >> it does. >> jimmy: it does? >> and just took on a life of its own. >> jimmy: that's wild, right? did you know was going to get that reaction? >> no, i didn't. but right after the inauguration, i noticed everybody was working the hat. >> jimmy: everybody. >> working the hat. working the hat. >> jimmy: well, actually, it was just announced it's going to be inducted into the smithsonian. >> yes. >> jimmy: i mean, come on. >> it would have been, but -- it will already be in there, but lie to go to the hospital. so we had to reschedule that. >> jimmy: so happy everything is going great for you. i just want to remind everyone this is for the -- may 3rd it comes out. and exclusively first at walmart. >> uh-huh. >> jimmy: so you're doing that -- that's one of those new dial deals, everyone's doing that now. it's the new thing. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and then, after that, a month later, it will be available digitally on itunes and all t

colin powell has been kind enough to lend his name because he thinks this is such a great program.own weather anchor, will be an honorary chair. we have a really, really good group here, which is fantastic. what can they expect to see happen? >> chelsea greene, as well as the jolly brothers, matt wiggler, a child prodigy pianist. and i'll play rock and roll blues and the great local jazz singer mavis waters will be on hand. >> you have a live and silent auction, and the live auction items and silent auction items, they are fantastic. we've got vacation homes in costa rica. a lot of great things. >> the tickets are $100, but must be purchased in advance or reserved. >> that's important. i know it's after 5:00, cocktail attire. fox 5 is a proud sponsor. graphic issues, office depot, and once again, we want to thank you. >> this event, for more information, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the our house web link. hopefully people will come out. >> i know a lot of ears perked up when they heard oprah winfrey put some of her money behind it. grade a as we know, and they're doing a great j

he disliked very much marginal interventions be leaning, colin powell gets the credit for the doctrine of overwhelming force and think general powell to remind us dwight eisenhower talked about that all the time but anyway that day understood very well as they spin out of control. and it appears to be that way. i know the president would want to talk with me about that or not. i am concerned it is becoming a stalemate. not only in a lot of -- unilateral quagmire or multilateral quagmire as well. >> what was richard nixon's role if 108? >> there's a lot of mythology about nixon and eisenhower. not to get too involved of the eisenhower presidency has been distorted shamefully because people didn't do research. one of these relationships i am sure eisenhower would not have kept nixon if he did not want him. she did not abide people. that is not trooper is ecap that as an option. [laughter] but today dr. schneider did but nixon basically was the political circuit. when eisenhower quick to cut campaigning, nixon went out to substitute and took on adelaide stevenson and also provided support

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obviously there are a lot of smart people that work there, including colin powell, including yourselfnamic within pakistan. so when you said, wait a minute, why are we taking our eye off the ball in afghanistan and pakistan, what was the reaction? how did it work internally? >> i don't think there was as much debate as there should have been. my boss was adamant there were a couple reasons why we shouldn't do iraq at the time we did it one was we didn't have the international support and then the legitimacy. probably more to your point, it was bad timing. we simply didn't have the armed forces, the assets to prosecute two theaters with vigor simultaneously. he knew if we were going to iraq, we would leave the theater that was probably the more important one on its own for a long period of time, however long it took us to stabilize things in iraq. we knew it would take longer than five or six months to do iraq right. >> you know, i remember back then i was pulling my hair out like, he's in afghanistan, why are we sending more people to iraq than we are to the afghanistan/pakistan area?

colin powell has also lent his name to it. and our hosts include many of our fox five anchors. will enjoy it. >> great job. >>> the redskins traded down and ended up picking 12 players during last week's draft and went for defense. dave ross is tackling skins football in today's sunday sit- down. >> what better to talk about football in the nation's capital than the man what helped mold the washington redskins for the better part of a decade. former executive vice president of football operations, vinny cerrato is live in studio. thank you very much. you owe your wife now big time for showing up this morning. >> there is no question about it. i will be hurrying home after this to make up for this lost time, since i didn't make breakfast this morning. >> exactly right. but we do appreciate you coming in. we've talked about the draft for years. you and i go back to the training camp days. it's not an exact science, the nfl draft. redskins just had theirs about a weak and a half ago with the rest of the league, trading down from 16 to 10. they could have had a quarterback at 10. d

every one of them has a moment, you know, which in baker, it was the fall of the berlin war, with colin powell, the fall of the iraq war, kosovo, warren krisz fer, bosnia. you never see it coming when you go into office. they never saw it coming. but ultimately they are defined by how well they manage it. as much as control they have over it. i think that would be true for secretary clinton. i think this whole arab spring not only her but for president obama as well, how they manage it is going to be very central to how they're perceived in foreign policy. and i don't want to hold the bar up too high. as i said earlier, events on the ground or in the cockpit, but we need to understand that with a little voice here and a little voice there, like maybe you guys should delay this election three months until the progressives and all the parties get organized can be hugely decisive because this bus, fareed, is not going to come around again. you're not going to get another egyptian election. oh, you missed this bus. this is really important. >> tom friedman, a pleasure, as always. >> thank you. >>

was a time a couple of years ago where we shared more and tried to trust more, before 9/11, with colin powell and musharraf. >> yes, you're right. and i think over the course of the last year we have run into some difficulties. the relationship has been tested. we had the raymond davis incident. we had some politicians in the country, in their country, in pakistan, grossly exploiting this for their own benefit at the expense of the united states. i think that made a lot of people recoil. and begin to ask some of the questions that you're asking. and the answer is there has been a level of uneasiness in the relationship between the isi and the cia. now that said, pakistan has also allowed us to do a lot. we have been allowed to have a lot of these people on the ground who were able to do some of this tracking and analysis. we have been allowed to do a lot of drone strikes, which, up until now, put enormous pressure on al qaeda. i think taking out every single leader of the top 16 leaders or even 17, leaving us with one, two and three, osama bin laden now being number one gone because of the wo

georgetown university, michael eric dyson and the former chief of staff for secretary of state colin powell lawrence wilkerson. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> michael, what about president obama's decision? how does this politically play out? how can this not be a home run as we turn to 2012? >> right, ed. you're talking to me. i'm not a hawk. i don't believe in this kind of evice ration of the enemy and so on but for those who claim this is the purpose and we're concerned about a presidency that was not hawkish, didn't seem to be politically sensitive to the military operations, obama proved himself to be a strategist and a tack titician the first order not bombing but doing a more targeted offense that spared lives and collateral damage and sought the target he was after, osama bin laden, and then did it with dispatch and aplomb so i can't imagine how the republicans can't stand up and cheer what they perceive to be an extraordinary victory and what the nation itself has seen as a real landmark in american foreign policy at least in regard to

we have the support of the defense secretary robert gates for the dream act, general colin powell -- a man i respect very, very much -- rupert murdoch, a very conservative republican businessman supports it. and the c.e.o.'s of companies like microsoft and pfizer. every day i hear from another one of these dreamers. they come up to me sometimes very quietly and sometimes very publicly and tell me their stories. just the other day a young man came up to me as i was leaving a speech and said, here in washington, and he said, senator, i just want to let you know i'm finishing law school. i can't be licensed in america because i'm not an american citizen. i'll just pursue my education until you pass the dream act. i thought about it, this poor young man deserves a chance to use his education, not just to continue it. so that gives me more of an incentive to really work on this issue. let me tell you the story tonight in just a few minutes here about two of these dreamers. this is juan gomez. this handsome young man was brought to the united states from colombia in 1990 at the age of two.

colin powell, tina brown, barry diller and white house vreau.writer john farro the new yorker invitedamm , and joel and ethan coen, film directors. now we are going back to the ballroom, waiting for the pre- dinner program to begin. [crowd murmurs] [crowd murmurs] >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. the program begins momentarily. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome david jackson, president of the white house correspondents association. ♪ ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states of america, barack obama, and first lady, michelle obama. ♪ [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors and the singing of our national anthem. ♪ ♪ >> present arms. [playing national anthem] [applause] ♪ ♪ hist ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> also said it, jelly mason -- julie mason, and henry, ed jay carney, press secretary to the , david jackson, usa today, seth myers, michael shearer and steep gully. >> good evening, and welcome to the annual white house correspondents association dinner. tonight's event marks our 97 year with the correspondents a

all of you are joining a distinguished list of alumns including jack lynn bufe yea kennedy and colin powell. so just take a look at the people sitting on either side. the guy sitting to your left could be a future secretary of state and the girl sitting to your right could be a future president of the united states. [applause] also, take a moment to look around this national mall. we gather not only at the foot of the washington monument which is only appropriate but also in president abraham lincoln's long shadow. last month our nation marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the civil war. it was fought to preserve the union, to preserve america's bold experiment with democratic self-government. but lincoln's war for union grew into something even larger. a struggle for freedom. and while more than a century of struggle for equal rights and equal opportunity would follow his death, lincoln's leadership redeemed america's original sin. and allowed us to fulfill our destiny as a land of freedom and opportunity. ten years ago, while many of you were in the sixth or seventh grade, the fre

dozens of stars and political figures like former secretary of state, colin powell, rehearsed yesterday big show. >>> a memorial remembrance tomorrow will take place in san bruno. there will be plenty of stars and stripes all thanks to some hard working boy scouts. more than 2500 scouts spent part of their saturday placing flags at each of the gravesites. it is a tradition dating back 50 years. we talked to one scout by why he decided to participate. >> lots of people take this for granted, for me, it means to come out here and do something that they would do for themselves. >> tomorrow's memorial day celebration will begin at 10:30 a.m. >>> a woman is killed, and a managerred in another shooting in san jose. the city has now seen more homicides this year than they did all of last year. the latest on the investigation coming up in a live report. >>> plus the numbers are in for the first part of the chp holiday drunk driving crackdown. the difference already being seen in just one day. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's w

wells barnett and colin powell. the likely miss of the extraordinary are matched by the equally poignant letters of the ordinary with pen in hand share their joy and pain, ecstasy and heart ached. >> this letter is from hannah grover to her son kato written 1855. my son, kato, i longed to see you in my old age. i live in cold well with mr. grover, the minister of that place. now, my son, i would pray you come to see your -year-old mother or send me $20 i will come and see you in philadelphia. and if you can't come to see your mother, please, send me a letter and tell me where you live, with family you have and what you do for a living tree all i am a poor old servant. i long for freedom and my master will free me if anybody will engage to maintain me so that i don't come upon him. i love you, kato. you love your mother, you are my only son. this from your affectionate mother, mel hannah grover. p.s., i haven't seen you since i saw u.s. debt and on land about 20 years ago. if you send any money, send it to the doctor

at the top of the hour in "the situation room," retired army general colin powell who was secretary of joining me in "the situation room" as well. we have good questions for both of them. >>> one lawmaker says pakistan has explaining to do. what did they know about this raid, if anything, and how many terror attacks may be hiding and nav navy s.e.a.l.s were hiding in the compound. i want you to hear how one victim of 9/11 is reacting to the news. >> i said, i have to come out here and celebrate, tell them that they got him. losing weight clicked for me when i realized that weight watchers online is for guys. all the guys, they think, "do some crunches. that'll just make you thin right away." that just doesn't work. so with weight watchers online, it teaches you about doing the right things when you're eating. there's something called a digital cooler. grab some beer, maybe some chips, and you can stay on plan. i lost 57 pounds. i pick up a 55-pound weight and i cannot believe that used to be right here. [ male announcer ] hurry, join for free today. weight watchers online for men. fina

that false information was ultimately included in secretary of state colin powell's statement to the u.n. security council and i assume helped influence the bush administration's decision to invade iraq. furthermore i think it's supremely unfair to the men and women in our intelligence community who labored for a decade to locate bin laden bin laden to claim followsly that they only succeeded because we succeeded because we used torture to extract intelligence from a few detainees several years ago. i have not found evidence to suggest that torture, interrogation methods that i believe are torture, which i believe are prohibited by u.s. law and international treaty obligations, we're not just a party to, but leading advocates of, played an important part in finding and killing bin laden. rather, i think his death at the hands of the united states argues quite the contrary, that we can succeed without resort to these methods. it's also the case of the mistreatment of enemy prisoners endangers our own troops who might some day be held captive. while some enemies in a al qaeda will neve

the third i wanted to make is both former attorney general john ashcroft and general colin powell hadcord as saying they have no problem with providing the kind of flexibility that in their opinion makes military commissions stronger, not weaker but stronger. it provides in their mind and appropriate and legitimate alternative which to me, that is really the bottom line. it is not about providing a more restrict the environment in which they go after these terrorists, te worst ofhe worst or least of the worst or whatever kinds of terrorist. a terrorist attack against this country is an attack against all of us and we need to have those kinds of options and that kind of flexibility. that is why i hope that we support mr. smith's amendment and who was asking to yield? >> yes, please. we keep hearing the number of foreign to people who have been prosecuted, 300 our jails. this is apples andoranges we are talking about here. we did not have 700 people in jail, 400 convicted and 300 waiting in the united states who were captured outside of the united states and ought into the united states

he even colin powell said that when he was the secretary of .tate -- you are never going to eliminate terrorism. it is like racism. you cannot change people's hearts and minds. we need to attack this as a piece problem -- police problem. with fbi, law enforcement, interpol, scotland yard, things like that. i think it is over now that bin laden is dead, but i think it should have been approached as a police problem. host: you're looking at the silent video released by the pentagon yesterday. no sound. steve from shreveport, louisiana, a democrat. caller: thank you. i know my comment [unintelligible] ok. i am a muslim. the war on terror is never over. i know some of muslims come to the country [unintelligible] the imams at the airport [unintelligible] these are the same people who destroyed the country. big push their opinions upon our people -- they pushed their opinions upon our people. these people are not true [unintelligible] the imam in new york knew what he was doing in regard to building the mosque. i am a muslim. host: thank you for your call. from the new york daily news, al q

and in reference to our colleague from georgia, general colin powell, when asked about the analogy because blacks and military and "don't ask, don't tell" he gave an important answer on why he thought it was wrong. >> would the gentleman yield? >> no, sir, i won't. i'll yield back my time. >> would the gentleman yield one last time? >> i asked first. >> gentleman yield back his time. gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, is recommended or -- is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'll wait until i'm officially recognized. just a few points just so we understand the process and the time frame of the vote last year. certainly didn't happen over night. took about 17 years, i think, from the time "don't ask, don't tell" was implemented to the time it was repealed. it was a debate that went on some time in the country. and so obviously take a while. the second point was there was some implication. this was political. and i would just hope that folks might also consider some people that thought it was the right thing to do. not the political thing to do. i think sometimes,

the third i wanted to make is both former attorney general john ashcroft and general colin powell hadcord as saying they have no problem with providing the kind of flexibility that in their opinion makes military commissions stronger, not weaker but stronger. it provides in their mind and appropriate and legitimate alternative which to me, that is really the bottom line. it is not about providing a more restrict the environment in which they go after these terrorists, the worst of the worst or least of the worst or whatever kinds of terrorist. a terrorist attack against this country is an attack against all of us and we need to have those kinds of options and that kind of flexibility. that is why i hope that we support mr. smith's amendment and who was asking to yield? >> yes, please. we keep hearing the number of foreign to people who have been prosecuted, 300 our jails. this is apples and oranges we are talking about here. we did not have 700 people in jail, 400 convicted and 300 waiting in the united states who were captured outside of the united states and brought into the united

and general colin powell, a man i respect very much, who believes as i do that we should give these young people a chance. this "dream" act would stimulate our economy with a lot of new people in professions that we need to have filled -- nurses, teachers, engineers, doctors. that's why the act has the support of such a diverse group as rupert murdoch and the c.e.o.'s of companies like microsoft and pfizer. every day i get facted by these students across america. they keep looking to us and won gearing if the day will -- and condering if the day will come when we give them a chance. i want to tell you two stories. this is elliott -- i'll show you his photo, a handsome young man. his parents brought him to the united states in 1994 when he was four years old. he is a computer wizard. in high school he won awards for outstanding achievement in science and information technology. he graduated in the top 5% of his high school class. he was named tech prep student of the year in cincinnati ow, o. noise a 19-year-old honor student at the university of cincinnati, majoring in nfltion technology,

all of you are joining a distinguished list of alums, including jacqueline bouvier kennedy and colin powelltting to your left could be a future secretary of state, and the girl sitting to your right could be a future president of the united states. [applause] also, take a moment to look around this national mall. we gather not only at the foot of the washington monument, but also in president lincoln's long shadow. last month, our nation marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the civil war. it was fought to preserve the union, to preserve america's bold experiment with democratic self-government. but lincoln's war for union grew into something even larger, a struggle for freedom. and while more than a century of struggle for equal rights and equal opportunity would follow his death, lincoln's leadership redeemed america's original sin and allowed us to fulfill our destiny as a land of freedom and opportunity. ten years ago, while many of you were in the sixth or seventh grade, the freedom that lincoln secured for all americans and that generations of americans have fought to protect c

that false information was ultimately included in secretary of state colin powell's statement to theu.n. security council and i assume helped influence the bush administration's decision to invade iraq. furthermore i think it's supremely unfair to the men and women in our intelligence community who labored for a decade to locate bin laden bin laden to claim followsly that they only succeeded because we succeeded because we used torture to extract intelligence from a few detainees several years ago. i have not found evidence to suggest that torture, interrogation methods that i believe are torture, which i believe are prohibited by u.s. law and international treaty obligations, we're not just a party to, but leading advocates of, played an important part in finding and killing bin laden. rather, i think his death at the hands of the united states argues quite the contrary, that we can succeed without resort to these methods. it's also the case of the mistreatment of enemy prisoners endangers our own troops who might some day be held captive. while some enemies in a al qaeda will never

i have seen colin powell get patted down the you have to say wait a minute. something is wrong here. first time traveler, i agree you have to profile. tough profile by experience. you have to profile by frequency, by background and all that and those kinds of things. once you have that data that first-time traveler probably has to go through a different security process because they're not the same as all of us who travel 50 times a year and we know an awful lot about us. >> anybody else want to discuss that point? >> first of all i would like to say the report, probably 85% of that report i am absolutely in agreement. i believe that the only way that we are going to succeed in the public attitude, first of all i would say, it is my, my thinking that it is the government's responsibility to insure the safety and security of the citizens of this country. we've got to find a way to reduce the size of the haystack. >> right. >> and we've got to figure out a way to get information that is sufficient to give tsa and dhs the sense that the people that we are doing

stories and a unitary executive that the new conservatives are pushing for three dick cheney and colin powell. the crowd, the jewish institute for national security affairs want to control the pentagon. you can read that on the biographical book. the washington post editor. i wanted to find out what the lasting consequences were with regard to that unitary executive position that was pushed for for the obama administration? we heard that obama said things about not signing statements. we saw one come out recently from an. lastly it was with regard to with what muhammed said about pursuing the bush administration for war crimes. my friend has written the best book on how he got into iraq with the same neocons and has allowed release dated have these pushed this -- >> do you have a question? >> what are we going to do to prevent the coming war with iran? thank you. america hijacked doubt. >> thank you. that, by the way, was a speech. the unitary executive theory is kind of a curious animal. it was really invasion out of whole cloth during the reagan years by a group sitting around in the office

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