john chafee. in rhode island and so the fear always failed then wouldn't that indicate that it's not the power that it was that was the one you know lateral that was the one instance when they generally succeeded and they think the rate of success on issuing candidates or politicians take their life . very intimidating. so we don't really have much of a debate about issues connected with israel. there was a former apec. so you can pick your car. and. that was ambassador charles freeman the former ambassador to saudi arabia now it is day sixteen in the u.s. intervention in libya the military intervention is the deadline to get out or get approval from congress by law yet no loud noise for anyone to of course the law very few calls from congress seem to falling on deaf ears so what does this mean for the rule of law and the rules of u.s. engagement in war take a look. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty eight i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks. days to turn two mont

john chafee chafee. in rhode island so the fear always failed that indicates that it's not the power that was for one. that was the one. and they. punish a. politician. it's very intimidating. so we don't really have much of a debate about issues connected with israel. there was a farmer a pack official who wants. to take a cocktail and ten minutes thirty five. what was your personal. oh i was asked to chair the national intelligence council when except for about five weeks. i guess just because. the. government for. thirty years and because i have. not concealed the. do there was immediately. basically by blocking the right wing israeli lobby apac did. assisted. up on capitol hill and basically it became clear that right go forward in the position. anything that the national intelligence council produced would immediately. contaminated attacks on a personal nature so i couldn't do what i was being hired to do which is to improve the rather poor credibility of u.s. intelligence so i was. the credibility

they tried to defeat senator chafee john chafee. in rhode island so the fear always failed then when that seemed to indicate that it's not this power that it was that was the one you know lateral that was the one instance where they didn't generally succeed. and they see the rate of success. is high so that it's very intimidating. so we don't really have much of. it is really. there was a former apac official who once. he can take a cocktail and ten minutes could get thirty five senators to sign it. what was your personal experience oh i was asked to chair the national intelligence council when they accepted it after about five weeks. i guess just because. of patriotic duty. for the paper for thirty years and because i have outspoken israel and concealed other people do there was immediately. basically. the right wing of israel there are an awful lot of people who are afraid to say what they think because they're intimidated i think frankly the country policy and israel for that matter. kind of. the discussion of matters related to

and john chafee ran. and there's a story in the book about that whole issue. and chafee in those days, he was not the john chafee we know and love today. he had lost the governorship, he had lost the senatorship. he had the misfortune of being secretary of the navy in rhode island when they closed all the bases. and at that time i was man of the year, and we had control of the republican party, so i could have had the nomination very easily. but after the 1980 election, there's a funny story in there. i had met, gone out to meet with ronald reagan out in california, and then i met, when i met with him, the fellow who took me to meet him was john sears. but they got rid of him after they lost the iowa caucuses. but reagan was sitting there with mike dever in wilshire boulevard office. and reagan looked old, he looked older then than he did when he became president. i'll never forget because he was a conservative kind of guy, and i wasn't. so he was talking, and he said, well, what you see is what you get. and then i went left and i said to john sears, what happ

in my state, my predecessors, men like john chafee, claiborne pell, lincoln chafee clearly adhere to those and we have a strong record of judges in our state and they have come from different background. they have come from the practice of corporate law. they've come from being a former federal attorney. they've come from being a significant and principled attorney for a major insurance company. they've come from a vast array of legal background and professions. one thing they have had in common which is shared by jack mcconnell is integrity and commitment to the law. and that we insist upon. now, we've long recognized that these district judges serve a critical role, and we all recognize too, i think, here as senators is that this is a special role of the home-state senator. we understand that the circuit level when judges have to consider issues of constutionality, where major policy issues could be resolved, in fact finally resolved, at least for that circuit, we understand there's another add dimension. but in district courts we have traditionally recognized the judgment of not o