members directly for more i'm joined by retired colonel morris davis a professor now at the howard university school of law welcome colonel so if convicted of aiding the enemy the most serious charge that manning faces he could face life behind bars he is accused of giving classified information to wiki leaks is it a stretch to say that doing that action can be considered aiding the enemy helping terrorists. it would really depend on the nature of the documents and to be honest i haven't gone to wiki leaks to to look at all the documents but i think the government here is overplayed their hand if you recall when the wiki leaks documents were going to come out it reminded me of the y2k scare everybody kind of braced and expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think the government really overplayed this and bradley manning has offered to plead guilty to some of the lesser included offenses it was subject him to a believe about a fourteen year sentence which you know i don't condone what he did but it needs to be kept in perspective and i think what he's offered is a reasonable of

was joined earlier by retired colonel morris davis he's currently a professor at the howard university school of law we first talked about the role that denis mcdonough played in the initiation of the aggressions in iraq and afghanistan. he was at that time working with tom daschle who is the senate majority leader and as you said he was one of the leaders in the effort to get democratic support for the iraq war effort and twenty nine democrats want to long with a resolution back in october of two thousand and two and i think many of them live to regret that decision and certainly it was a time when senator daschle and senator obama had different positions on the issue and so certainly mr mcdonough played an important role in getting that resolution passed and what you said is this was a means of kind of acting before he actually had a chance and those other twenty nine congress people had a chance to really think through what it could possibly cause i mean obviously no one was expecting a ten year war right i think for mr mcdonough he's he's been a loyal deputy at the time he was working for senato

try to you know hold them accountable for terror colonel morris davis a professor at howard university school of law thank you so much for your opinions as obviously a lot of things that are still being covered in this volatile region and the situation in iraq is certainly not over yet i think we can say. all right well after months of delays secretary of state hillary clinton finally testified on the terror attack in benghazi that happened last september a few new details came out in the hours and hours worth of testimony about the benghazi attack itself but buried in the question to secretary clinton by congressman bill keating of massachusetts was an important issue that has prompted a swift pentagon response a massive ramp up of u.s. cyber security and cyber command let's listen to what secretary clinton said about the topic well you mention a word that is rarely mentioned in these hearings but i predict will be a major threat to us and that cyber because it's not only going to be nation states where we already are seeing cyber intrusions both against our government and against our private secto

talking about this enough we're tired of colonel morris davis professor currently at howard university school of law also known like a senior writer for human events thanks guys good to be with you. now on to a library in newark new jersey or people are looking at more than the walls were more at the walls lately than they are at the book's artist kara walker has often stirred the pot with her frank depictions of race violence and desire throughout history well walker calls it this work the moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but not as just as soon as not curves a back around toward barbarism sadism and unrestrained chaos now she says this two thousand painting conjures up the horrors of the reconstruction and jim crow historical periods you can see there in the back the ku klux klan in the background but it's what's in the foreground that's creating controversy if you look closely you can see a white man forcing a black woman to perform oral sex on him now it is this aspect of the artwork that generated controversy when the work was hung up at the newark public library back in novem

about this more i was joined earlier by colonel morris davis currently a professor at howard university school of law previously chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay also neil mccabe a senior writer with human events now i first asked colonel morris davis why get no is still open. it's been a lack of will really on the president's part to me i think he was sincere when he took office and four years ago said we're going to close it within one year and we sit here four years later and it's still open it was mentioned yesterday during his inaugural address but just an unfortunate chapter of the just keeps going on and on and the i want to get your take i mean do you think that promise should have even been made in the first place i thought it was reckless i think that he was sort of playing to the crowd there were people who wanted to believe that it was possible to get mo had become sort of a symbol of sort of bad america and president obama always wants to be on the side of sort of nice america but these are these are irregular combatants who have been taken off the field of and they really should be co

school, and i went to howard university. i graduated and went to the university of michigan. >> law school? >> first the history department write got a ph.d. then i went law school. i wanted to do legal history. those days you had to get both degrees. you couldn't get them at the same time. now you can. i had to do one then the other. then . >> did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> i came to howard, yes, i came on purpose. absolutely. >> why? >> i went to segregated schools in nashville growing up. pearl high was a segregated high from north high negroes as we were called in that day. i went howard and went when i went to michigan i was one of the first students who was black in the ph.d. program. when i got there. the head of graduate studies said to me, he was surprised to see me. i found out what they meant. he told me there was one time a negro came through here years ago. he didn't graduate. that's what he told me. [laughter] so i was there for the department. i was sent there by michael fess l howard who wanted know work with a particular professor there in the institut

to prison in spring of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight karen garrisons twin sons were top students about to graduate from howard university they had dreams of going to law school but that all changed. the informant claim that they were at the. drug transaction the man that worked on their car was indicted for cocaine and crack distribution he told authorities the garrisons were involved in the conspiracy his sentence was reduced i think he did like. eleven months something like that i mean when they were going in a few months later the investigator told me he was coming it was common. that eleven months paled in comparison to what the twins faced fifteen and a half years for lawrence and nineteen and a half years for lamont they were charged with conspiracy not possession neither man had prior crimes on their record and there was no other evidence against them to this day they say they were never involved with the drugs they were sentenced under mandatory minimum laws critics of such sentencing say a one size fits all approach means oftentimes the punishment doesn't fit the crime mandatory sentences are made by legislators whether it's members of congress or s

and the two pearl high school enemy to howard university, graduated and went to the university of michigan. >> host: law school? >> guest: first the history department and then i went to the law school to do legal history. in those days you had to get those degrees. you can get them at the same time. now you can. i had to do one and then the other. >> host: did you convert to graduate school impervious click >> guest: i came to howard -- yes, i came on purpose. i went to segregated schools in nashville arena. the high school, in those days and i went to howard and that made sense. then i went to michigan, i was one of the first students whose black who is in the phd program because when i got there, said he was surprised to see me and i found out what that man. and then he told me there was one time a came through here years ago, but he didn't graduate is what he told me. so i was sent there by my professors at howard who wanted me to work with a particular professor there in the institution. >> guest: mary frances berry, who are your parents? >> guest: poor folk who my mother, my father left his early.

school. i went to howard university. then i went to the university of michigan. first the history department where i got a ph.d. then i went to law school. in those days you had to get both degrees, but you could not get them at the same time. now you can't. now had to do one, then i had to do the other. >> did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> i came to howard. yes. i came on purpose. i went to segregated schools and national. negros as it were called in those days. that made sense. when i went to michigan i was one of the first to this who was black who was in the ph.d. program because when i got there the head of graduate studies said to me he was surprised to see me. i found out what that meant. he told me, there was one time they came. he did not graduate. so i was sent there by my professors at howard who wanted me to work with a particular professor there. >> who are your parents? >> my parents were poor folk. my father left a surly. one of those lost, stolen, or straight man. my mother raised this cause been sometime in an orphanage when i was an infant. that's one of my earliest memories. a very extended f