then on the 18th of october the lord goldsmith telephone you to make exactly the same point.this wouldn't authorize the force. on foot after the first of october, the lawyers also reiterated the advice of the draft then the contemplation did not authorize the use of force to repel the sixth of november michael wrote to your office, that's just two days before the adoption of 1441, to state that it did not itself authorize the use of force or revive the authorization to use force in the resolution 678. now, given that as we had started the negotiations come in and we have heard this, too, from witnesses, it was a central objective of the british government of the resolution should provide the authorization to use force in resolution 678 without the need for a further security council resolution. what impact did this advice that we had not achieved that objective have one policy for concluding the negotiations and where did it leave us at the end of the negotiations? >> michael is a distinguished lawyer, but he wasn't going to be the person making the decision. in any event as

aaron goldsmith. matt -- ben brandon. >> my name is pat hagen. i live in one of the garden apartments and have for 25 years. i have been interested to watch as the information came out over the last two years about this project. i made copies of all the maps and walked through the entire area park merced looking at and envisioning what this would be like. i'm very excited. this is something i'm ined in living in. my biggest concern was the scope of the project was so large, i was concerned the developers might have to break it up at some point. so we found that the field that's been worked out between the city and the developer follows the land. basically satisfies my concerns. so i urge you to approve this project. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is dan weaver, and i'm a resident of the ocean view neighborhood which we can see park merced from our hills and from a lot of houses in the neighborhood. over the past five years, while we were struggling with muni and its proposals to eliminate the ocean view from our neighborhood, and as you

then on the 18th of october the lord goldsmith telephone you to make exactly the same point.this wouldn't authorize the force. on foot after the first of october, the lawyers also reiterated the advice of the draft then the contemplation did not authorize the use of force to repel the sixth of november michael wrote to your office, that's just two days before the adoption of 1441, to state that it did not itself authorize the use of force or revive the authorization to use force in the resolution 678. now, given that as we had started the negotiations come in and we have heard this, too, from witnesses, it was a central objective of the british government of the resolution should provide the authorization to use force in resolution 678 without the need for a further security council resolution. what impact did this advice that we had not achieved that objective have one policy for concluding the negotiations and where did it leave us at the end of the negotiations? >> michael is a distinguished lawyer, but he wasn't going to be the person making the decision. in any event as

then on the 18th of october the lord goldsmith telephone you to make exactly the same point. this wouldn't authorize the force. on foot after the fst of october, the lawyers also reiterated the advice of the drft then the contemplation did not authorize the use of force to repel the sixth of november michael wrote to your office, that's just two days before the adoption of 1441, to state that it did not itself authorize the use of force or revive the authorization to use force in the resolution 678. now, given that as we had started the negotiations come in and we have heard this, too, from witnesses, it was a central objective of thebritish government of the resolution should provide the authorization to use force in resolution 678 without the need for a further security council resolution. what impact did this advice that we had not achieved that objective ha one policy for concluding the negotiations and where did it leave us at the end of the negotiations? >> michael is a distinguished lawyer, but he wasn't going to be the person making the decision. in any event as i und

. >> zach goldsmith. >> mr. speaker, will the prime minister commit to making continued support of the common fisheries policy absolutely conditional upon the poish -- of current regime of discarding fish that is not healthy has got to change. we've got an opportunity to try to work to that end. >> dr. william mccray. >> the prime minister before the election you came to the province and you entered into a contract with the people of the northern ireland, promised to bring change to our economy and in that speech you told the people to keep -- to read the contract, keep it. it on your ephedrine and use it -- use it in your hand. can you get your eyes on any progress to radically reduce northern ireland's level of corporation tax bear in mind we're in competition with the other public that this company has built out recently. >> i remember one of the things we need we would sort out the presbyterian mutual society. and i'm proud to say we've actually done that and delivered that important pledge to people in nort

also part of the conversation, jack goldsmith. this is one hour 30 minutes. >> this is a big crowd. with moved it from the precincts of the journalism school to the grand room in the library. this event evolves -- involves plants lining up in a way. we were called and it just so happens that we were able to procure the panelists services not only of bill keller but also allen alan rusbridger. all of them will be further introduced in a minute. this is a subject that is completely obsessive interest to people interested in journalism and foreign policy and national security. this has been what is sure to be a memorable evening. i have one small logistical notes. courtesy of "the new york times," there is a room behind here. there is free food and drinks after this event. for anybody who cares to come. our moderator tonight is emily bell, who is still in a first year -- wanted to say hi to them if they are out there. thank you for what you have done to help make events like this possible. emily, come on up. ok. fair enough. sit down the takeover. i will go sit down. thanks again, ever

in terms of immediate damage with goldsmith argues, a story like that is far more potentially damagingediately to u.s. national security than older documents that are dumped on the internet by wikileaks. what do we do about that? many people would argue we don't need to know that information but it does raise all sorts of questions, legal, political, moral, ethical that we're beginning to try to grapple with. >> well, i really agree with that so i will pass and move on to another question. >> i think we have time for one last question. where is our microphone? thank you. >> i was wondering if you believe that julian assange has dramatically underestimated the cynicism of the american public? as you mentioned because we live in a 24 hour news cycle, and because there's so much information available to everyone on the internet it's very difficult to discern fact from fiction. and with this large dump of information, i'm wondering if we have sort of lost the ability to be outraged about anything anymore. [laughter] >> who wants to go first. >> i think it's a good point. [laughter] >> i do

then on the 18th of october, lord goldsmith telephoned you to make exactly the same point.this wouldn't authorize the missing force. on the 31st of october, also reiterated the advise of the period of time then in contemplation did not authority the use of force. on the 6th of november, michael wood wrote to your office, just two days before the option of 1441, to state that it did not itself authorize the use of force or revive the authorization to use force in resolution 678. given that as we had started the negotiation, and we've heard this too from witnesses, it was a central objective of the british government that the resolution should revive the authorization to use force in resolution 678 without the need for a further security council resolution. >> what impact did this advise that we not achieve that objective have on the policy for concluding the negotiations and where did it leave us at the end of the negotiations? >> the -- mike woods' distinguished lawyer, he wasn't going to be the person making the decision. and he in any event as i understand it, was not tha

you'd have to ask lord goldsmith that question, but my understanding from his decisions and the lessonsthat followed was that took the view that because not only of the number of troops on the ground in the south and the area that we were literally occupying, but also our involvement in baghdad and elsewhere that we had to have joint forces, and then i think it was more making a virtue of necessity. we judged that there might be some advantage from that from whoever was sitting alongside the bremmer in terms of having the joint power as well, so that was the way we were. it would have been desirable if we had a clear area for which we were responsible without the americans and got on with it, but it wasn't to be. you can pin responsibility for failure to sign the mou on the americans. you can pin responsibility for the legal advice that we were responsible for in iraq on americans, and the two were not directly related. >> just to come back to the fact it was the attorney general who recommended that, that the security counsel resolution 1483 must been drafted on the basis of instructio

. >> zach goldsmith. >> mr. speaker, will the prime minister commit to making continued support of the common fisheries policy absolutely conditional upon the poish -- of current regime of discarding fish that is not healthy has got to change. we've got an opportunity to try to work to that end. >> dr. william mccray. >> the prime minister before the election you came to the province and you entered into a contract with the people of the northern ireland, promised to bring change to our economy and in that speech you told the people to keep -- to read the contract, keep it. it on your ephedrine and use it -- use it in your hand. can you get your eyes on any progress to radically reduce northern ireland's level of corporation tax bear in mind we're in competition with the other public that this company has built out recently. >> i remember one of the things we need we would sort out the presbyterian mutual society. and i'm proud to say we've actually done that and delivered that important pledge to people in nort

>> you have to ask -- i don't think the to absolutely link linked that you have to ask lord goldsmith that question. but my understanding from his decision that followed was that took the view that because not only of the number of troops that we had on the ground in the south and the area that we were literally occupying, but also our involvement in baghdad and elsewhere, that we had a joint responsibility. and then i think it was more making a kind of virtue of necessity, we judged that there might be some advantage from that, from whoever was sitting alongside the corner and then the grammar in terms of having sort of joint power as well. that was the way we were. it would've been desirable if we had a clear area for which we were responsible without the americans, and got on with it. but it wasn't to be. you can pin responsibility on pages on the m.o.u. on the americans. i don't think you can in responsibility for the legal advice that we were responsible, and they were not directly related. >> but just come back to the fact that it was the attorney general who recommended that, b

others -- are the goldsmith foundation. dr. barbara schultz and literally hundreds of members of the community who have made very, very generous gifts and support of this branch and as you know, the richmond community decided that rather than just focus on this one branch, they were going to commit to raising the funds needed for both this and the other branch. so as we celebrate the reopening of this spectacular neighborhood anchor, we'll again celebrate the beginning of the amfa campaign. we're glad you're here to celebrate and part of the great family that support our libraries and know what they mean to our communities. you notice that the name of this branch is the richmond milton marks branch. that again is because of an incredible family. and because of the constant giving and jen yossity of this family in so many ways to san francisco and to the richmond district. so i would like to ask caroline marks to come up and say a few words. thank you all. >> what a glorious day this is. for sfan and for our district, the richmo