ghraib lastly, we are the construction managers, and working on the trans bay project, so we have done some really key projects for send francisco superior and -- san francisco. victor was the executive. seen as smith will be the project manager full time on site. she has worked on this as well as the terminal to project. also he worked on the opera house project, the city hall project, so a quick overview on who we are and the team that will deliver this for you. any questions bowman -- any questions? >> i have a few, and in interest of full disclosure, i was one of your attorneys. back in the day of construction management focus, as you went through some of your projects, how many did you serve on where turner was construction manager and general contractor, and can you give a little flavor as how you were able to differentiate those roles? in my former federation, it was easier to have separate companies. >> of all the projects i showed you, do -- terminal two had general contractors. all others were general contractors. for the last 15 or 20 years, we have seen that most public ent

ghraib >> it is us operational -- it is the operational. >> we can try to anticipate, but we do not have an answer. >> in the special education budget we just voted on, there were $300,000 in there, but that was different from this contract. is that correct? >> that is correct. the amount of money is for litigation costs, and for the special education, it is for special costs.

the obama administration's treatment of photographs of all abu ghraib kite abuse was interesting. everyone has seen the abu ghraib pictures, gruesome as they are but it turns out there are a lot more, 2,000 of them showing abuse of prisoners by military personnel in iraq and afghanistan. some were taken by soldiers as souvenirs like most of the abu great pictures. some were autopsy photographs and others taken in the process of criminal investigation of the abuse by our government and the aclu and others sued under the freedom of information act to get access to these and released photographs. the administration argued, opposed the request. the obama administration oppose the request saying the pictures could, quote, in flame anti-american sentiment around world and said the pictures would invade prisoners's privacy. the government lost in the trial court on appeal. the court of appeals said the fear of danger to troops or americans abroad was vague and speculative. there wasn't any showing of actual danger to any particular person or target or place or who would do what to whom a

. >> thank you of 3 ghraib always good to see you. >> our condolences. i understand your grandmother passed a wave theory give our condolences. >> the discussion of other -- i understand your grandmother passed away. my condolences. >> item o is the consent calendar. it was moved and seconded under item f. we vote on the consent calendar superior -- calendar. [calling votes] >> six ayes. >> item p are the items for discussion. commissioner wynns: is this the one you wanted germany and not good, because i made a mistake. i have always richard already given discussion inferior an -- i have already given discussion. >> it is a schizophrenic resolution and curio region resolution. >> it looks like a typo. the dates are august 15, so i think it should be a retroactive resolution and curio -- resolution. >> so it is retroactive if it starts august 15? >> it is not retro. it should be no. >> i will take it off my list. item k-19. >> thank you. i just want to take a moment to ask about time from my point of view. i would like to get some response us to where we

we're not talking about abu ghraib which is just a whole -- >> that is a national humiliation. >> likeabout a lot in the book. i i'd like in a way to see had you blow it on the air, but i still love her. >> you are, i think, somebody who speaks for a lot of people when you say that. and it's a pleasure to meet you and it's nice to see the book. "h "humiliation." check it out. >> thank you. >>> coming up on "hardball," another wave election in 2012. hoop gets drowned? we both know unless they actually reform the political system we're all getting drowned. first, madison, wisconsin, a home town bringing the cheesehead perspective officer the state of the state's politics. ♪ ♪ introducing purina one beyond a new food for your cat or dog. i was told to begin my aspirin regimen. i just didn't listen until i almost lost my life. my doctor's again ordered me to take aspirin. and i do. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ mike ] listen to the doctor. take it seriously. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of d

everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond back up by one time a bad thing about abu ghraib and about the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things so dreams are low and it doesn't give any comfort generally speaking the world seems to be content with condemning and making these wild crazy statements whether it's you know the regime is less than it or not or whether it should be it's using use of force the world can play at all but i think at the present moment it's not playing the cards. calls mounting at the u.n. for the security council to take action on syria russia still opposes any resolution against a mascot moscow one such steps could lead to a libya style scenario where the nato led coalition has been accused of stepping outside the limits of its un mandate when around twenty minutes time russia's deputy foreign minister tells r.t. why the syrians should be solving their problems themselves. with. programs we believe that the syrians should address are problems as part of their domestic agenda this is an internal civil conflict and it should not be inter

torture lawyers that actually created the justification for torture carried out in guantanamo abu ghraib and across the whole rubric of the war on syria how do you explain please why obama would take this position when this is all about the previous administration. well i can only quote his words and he said that he that of course torture was wrong but that he preferred to go forward rather than look backward and in fact there spend numerous attempts to seek justice in u.s. courts by people who were detained in guantanamo completely without charges by people who were kidnapped and taken to u.s. black torture sites like mahara are in a canadian citizen and like the relatives of three prisoners at guantanamo who died in two thousand and six none of these people have been able to convince a court in the united states to allow their legitimate lawsuits to go forward and this is in each case because the obama administration department of justice has oppose these inquiries and their justification is always national security so that is in effect in a boss the generals to a lot of dollars agains

that is why abu ghraib bid is not susceptible in our culture and "the warrior ethos" that a guy that we electrocuted, that's it is not acceptable he may have gone awry with the but does not make it right the wrong. queen of 1 million people, in 2 million that serve in over 200 years of history sillier made up of people that have bares all throughout our history but at the end of the day we all aspire to something. there is a value to be able to define the moral high ground. even our society looks to us to help define what that is. of our challenges individuals is how we promote that with your neighbor, your church and in your community? how you talk to civilians about their service to the nation? it may be how huge challenge them to go do something else. the expectation that you pay taxes but of what our western culture is how do apply that to get them to do something extra? >> hall looking back at history to the macedonia part, in your opinion and looking to the future, the society back then has the warrior eighth dose and promote the war fighting ever been our society, 1% of the pe

everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond back about one time and then about abu ghraib and about the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things so dreams hallow and it doesn't give any comfort generally speaking the world seems to be content with condemning and making these wild crazy statements whether it's you know the regime is less than it or not or whether it should be it's using use of force the world can play on all but i think the present moment it's not playing the cards. there's any u.n. resolution against damascus warning that some just that could lead to a libya style so norrie where the nato operation sounds accused of exceeding its mandate well buses calling for done along to provide the solution to syria's internal political problems. w. my we realize that syria is going through a very difficult stage of development which is similar to few other countries in the region and internal civil conflict between the government and part of society political social and economic problems are not agreed to both in terms of numbers and complexity we think o

will say all of our friends in not america were tortured were able to look at the techniques in the ghraib photographs and verify that those in a committee had been used and that american advisors had been in their torture cells teaching. they also course were very involved in my part of torture and disappearance and brought them all over the south through the provide us documents i know you've talked a lot about this and we know your care is moving a little in an hour right there with us ok just so many important things to talk about regarding human rights another thing listed out in these priorities the obama administration says preventing that mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and of course moral responsibly the responsibility of the united states of america let's talk about this aspect of being a core moral responsibility how does this play out i know you talked about this a little bit in terms of some of the military actions and i guess i want to know when you know who made the united states the moral authority well we've always wanted to think of that

however this was also around the same time torture abu ghraib occurred and was starting to get a lot of negative media attention for the agency so it makes sense that they would prefer to just destroy the incriminating evidence of their practices rather than have to suffer the consequences of their actions and we discussed the destruction of the evidence with senior a.c.l.u. member christopher anders he mentioned that nobody of any real significance has been held accountable for what is likely to unfortunately since i will agree this is the only criminally liable are people at the very bottom soldiers soldiers and sailors who were privates and corporals sergeants. and so the a.c.l.u. took the cia to civil court produced drawing the evidence of illegal torture and it's been a long hard battle since that and sounding words learned today and not much is going to come out of all of this the judge in this case ordered the cia to reimburse the a.c.l.u. for their legal fees the response when attempting to obtain the evidence of that torture under the bush administration and some are calling

cuba responded by erecting billboards showing the abuse at abu ghraib prison.ou can't help but stare at the swastika on the end. >>> america responded by putting up a billboard with big scrolling lit up anti-castro messages. to which cuba responded by putting up a bunch of flag poles to block anyone's view of that billboard. the thing that is new, the best new thing in the world about this today is something my friend steve clemens is characterizing as daiquiri diplomacy. i think it's an improvement on the swastica billboard. steve reported and we confirmed today that the cuban intersection in d.c. is opening a bar in their building. they're naming the hemingway bar. ernest hemingway claimed with pride both of our countries. he lived in cuba for years. his fondness of daqairi is the reason for the life sized bronze statue of him. it will feature exhibits about hemingway's life and work in cuba. will it serve daiquaris? he's sure the bar will not serve them by the bucket which is the way hemingway ordered them to go. the gentleman at the not embassy also told us

the abu ghraib guard described as the ring leader in the physical abuse and sexual humiliation of iraqirisoners is a free man. charles graner jr. served six and a half years of his ten-year sentence at the army disciplinary barracks in kansas. he was released early for good behavior. >>> turning to london, where more than 50 people have been arrested after a night of rioting. rioters burned buses and police cars, looted shops, set other vehicles and buildings on fire. let's listen as itn's richard pallet describes how it started. >> reporter: shot in north london on thursday. and about 20 to 30 members of his family and friends marched to the police station in a very peaceful protest. but from there it escalated now. obviously many of the people involved in these incidents are nothing to do with the family and friends and there will be many questions to just who they are. it basically escalated from that. we have police cars torched, an iconic red double-decker bus burning. a residential house on fire. at one stage i believe there were some people trapped in there. so it's absolute chao

. >>> and the abu ghraib guard described as the ringleader in the physical abuse and sexual humiliation of iraqi prisoners is a free man. charles graner jr. served six and a half years of his sentence at the army disciplinary barracks in kansas. he was released early for good behavior. >>> new details are a coming into cnn about yesterday's helicopter crash that killed 30 u.s. troops in afghanistan. a little while ago, i talked to cnn's pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. >> the navy s.e.a.l.s were brought in to try and help another unit pinned down on the ground. they were already in the middle of a firefight. they needed help. they called for it. and the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s came. we now know that the unit that was pinned down were u.s. army rangers, members of the army's 76th ranger regiment out of ft. benning, georgia. may have been deployed in afghanistan for some time, part of this country's special operations forces that are conducting these anti-terrorism raids across eastern afghanistan. they needed help. the s.e.a.l.s came, and all indications continue to be we are told that

. >> we have our own ucmj and that is why abu ghraib is not the warrior ethos and why the guy we execute it, the german, that's not acceptable. we wouldn't -- he might have done it and got away with it but that doesn't make it right. it might seem wrong. it's been a large army, we got a million people that served in this army so we are all made up of people who served all along the four armies history but at the end of the day i think that there are some -- we all aspire to something greater than that. and i think there is a value in being able to define the moral high ground, and i think that even at 1% our society looks at us to help define what that is. our challenge as individuals has become how we promote that with your neighbor, how do you promote it in your church or your community, how do you talk to civilians about their service to the nation? it might not be taxes but it might be held you challenge them to go do something else. there's an expectation you're going to pay taxes but may be -- again, the guilt based society is what we have in the western culture certainly is, how d

it is my pleasure at this point to introduce the mayor of washington, d.c., mayor vincent ghraib.applause] -- mayor vincent gray. [applause] >> thank you very much. good afternoon, everybody. i want to the mark, one of our great mares in america, for -- and thank mark, one of our great in america, for being here today. it is an honor for me to welcome you here today and to this city, especially the civil-rights pioneers who have joined us today as part of this luncheon. frankly, i cannot describe adequately in words what it means to be the mayor of this great city at a time when we celebrate the dedication of this memorial to one of the greatest human beings who ever lived, who gave perhaps the greatest speech ever delivered, and delivered it in a fashion that no one else could have delivered it, like the rev. dr. martin luther king jr.. for those of you who have yet to see the memorial, you should get down there as quickly as you can. it is awesome. it is odd-inspiring, and you -- awe-inspiring, and you will leave having been fully moved by it. we hope you'll enjoy the next coupl

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome bill ghraib. -- bill gray. >> everything that has been saidme. i want you to remember that the person who wrote my recommendation to become a rockefeller fellow at a theological seminary was dr. martin luther king jr., and the person who came to new jersey to install me in my first pastor had was martin luther king jr. i want us to really reflect on one historical point. there were three revolutions in america, the war of independence, or the american revolution of the 18th century, the civil war of the 19th century, and the civil rights movement of the 20th century. all three were watersheds in american history that changed fundamentally the direction of this nation. america has honored the leaders of the war of independence with the washington monument and the jefferson memorial. we of honor the leaders of the civil war and with the lincoln memorial, and now this week, located between all three, we gathered to honor the leader of the third revolution, the civil rights movement that changed america. and when we go on sunday to that great mome

if you sake psych 101 and read about abu ghraib, you say this is not horrible people and it's about average and very hard to do and no matter how much we try i just brought you one picture these are folks on a day break from working the gas chambers in auschwitz. it just doesn't compute. we can't get the idea the context that we can get regular people, nice people that are unfathomable. and less in social psych it doesn't have to be so powerful. the context doesn't have to be so strong. this is a very benign one. this cable shows the percentage of drivers in different european countries who are willing organ drivers. what percentage are willing to donate their organs. the blue countries average 94%. the yellow countries average 14%. what's the difference in these countries? we have austria on one side, germany on the other, france, netherlands, belgium. the blue countries are the opt out unless you choose out. and the yellow is if you choose in you're not a donor. the transaction costs of opting in and out is signing the back of your driver's license and what we're seeing here, 94% of the b