when people looked back on what the cia had done, when, for example, one leading senator, daniel patrick moynihania abolished, saying that secrecy, he says, keeps mistakes secret, and secrecy is a disease, and it causes, this is his words, a hardening of the arteries of the mind. did you at any point think, "you know what? the work that we do... ..is questionable, and sometimes it is wrong"? looking back, isee mistakes that were made. by the way, i was a great fan of patrick moynihan and i remember he was carrying on back then about wanting to abolish the cia. i thought he was wrong on that... ..on that point, of course. i mean, you do the work you do so that our policymakers have the information they need to make informed decisions. of course mistakes are made. go back to iran and look at what the british and the americans... sure. we removed a democratically elected political figure and the shah was installed. in retrospect, that was a huge mistake. well, you don't even have to go back that far. no. look at 9/11, look at the total failure to see the scale of an attack that was coming on the uni

i print almost verbatim in the book a memo, if you remember daniel patrick moynihan, brilliant guy, moynihan writes john ehrlichman, nixon's thomistic advisor for nixon that he's done investigations, scientists saying we are big trouble due to co2 admissions, in the letter it says what does this mean? it means goodbye miami and new york city forever, verdict on seattle unknown. truly. there it is. in the white house and then you will find other presidents, jimmy carter trying to put solar panels on the white house, got global reports for 2000 but the truth is we failed. we are sitting here today. there is no climate hero president. for the reasons david marks in his book, the oil and gas, petroleum industry started organizing in 1973 with the arab oil embargo, gas prices went up and they had their own groups to start attacking environmentalists. it even says in the famous memo, it will take 30 years to undo all the wins of the environmentalists of the 60s and 70s. what they don't like, the companies, was federal regulation which if you 're a mining company you don't want to be regulated, and