did you finish at the first draft in 1984, and we get inman in 2013. what is happening in that time? >> it is the historical drama. bedrock is kind of a reality. new things come along. of to mention the election barack obama. we have some black president, and this is about racism. behavior, so the idea that now we have a different president is really upsetting. but just the fact women have the vote. but there is a woman president in princeton university, all , soe things are outrageous to see those rapid changes. like an old nonsexist world, looking back at slavery. -- like an old sexist world, looking back at slavery. many people are unsympathetic -- are not unsympathetic which the confederacy. there are darwin's new ideas, all these new ideas are in the the workunionizing force. and was really a conflict, the energy released by the conflict between them. good >> npr did a wonderful piece, and they use a wonderful line that the book is about conscientious people who cannot find their conscience. give me a sense of what the story is. >> the story emerg

had previously named a bill sac the biotech industries governor of the year known for ferrying about inman santo's jet support of an effort to genetically engineer dairy cows and successfully eliminating g.m.o. free zones in iowa bill sack is just the latest in a long line of industry cheerleaders lawyers and p.r. professionals who move back and forth between the boardrooms of biotech giants and the public regulatory agencies that are supposed to oversee them despite dr hansen's assertions the safety of genetically modified crops cannot be known because there has never been a long term independent food safety study of even one single g.m.o. even the data collected by the corporations is kept secret from the public this is the same arrangement that gave rise to claims that as best d.d.t. and cigarettes were safe. the panda owner can determine what those crops can be used for and they have expressively the biotech corporations that expressly forbidden. use or testing these for scientific purposes this from the scientific american under threat of litigation scientists cannot test to see to ex

i was pretty young at the time but there was a development of what's called the inman standards. the minimum standards by which these physical facilities should be built. those were bypassed. by law the only person that can sign off on those standards is the secretary of state! again, begs the question of how that happened. once the attacks started to happen, why is it that the military could not get there until almost 24 hours after the attack? you can get on a delta flight here at the dulles airport outside washington, d.c. and fly there faster than our military was able to get there. we heard testimony that the military had been told to stand down yet w were told that very senior people in the military said, oh, no, we did everything we could to get there, just physically it wasn't possible. well, we have troops and assets in planes that are very close proximity planes that fly at supersonic speed so that still isn't a question. and secretary rice went before the american people and the public for weeks this administration said it was due to a video! that was never true at any