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did he have an impact on john walker that may have been responsible for killing more involved in themichael spawned the first cia people from my district? the answer is probably yes and you can go on and on and on. so i think it is what did we learn without being defensive for protective what did we learn to truly make sure the next time and unfortunately there may very well be in next time to make sure we do everything we possibly can. now i've talked to your people and they tell us and i think that you sort of acknowledged that the hague will be used domestically. it will only be international but that is accurate, it may well be used for this. so i think that's where i go and i read the interview and i read the stories of the phil roe hero. he's a great guy but how long did he have with saddam hussein? >> months. months. >> but he understood the culture. he understood i can still remember the time former congressman and secretary richardson met with saddam hussein when he put his sold and saddam hussein got up and walked out, culturally that wasn't appropriate so to have someone w

so john walker lindh is far ahead of this curve here.and he ends up in the cross hairs of the afghan war. he is going to study arabic in yemen and beyond that because he doesn't -- he actually ends up in bin laden's brigade and end up in this fortress in mazda sharif that forms one of the last part of horse shoulders, discovered in the bible the shocking world about how the young americans were in california and that the this fortress. and so, he's in there because he represented at the time i was writing the book in their story is less unusual i guess it's what i'm trying to say today because we're finding out that more people are soon to be attracted to this or he, driven by these ideals. it's so interesting that he left a very permissive environment in california and ran straight into the arms of probably one of the least permissive environments. and i don't know. we can speculate on all this, but furans tragically, tragically, you know, one of the first people to be killed after 9/11 was an officer named mike spann and he comes face-

did he have an impact on john walker that may have been responsible for killing more involved in theof michael spawned the first cia people from my district? the answer is probably yes and you can go on and on and on. so i think it is what did we learn without being defensive for protective what did we learn to truly make sure the next time and unfortunately there may very well be in next time to make sure we do everything we possibly can. now i've talked to your people and they tell us and i think that you sort of acknowledged that the hague will be used domestically. it will only be international but that is accurate, it may well be used for this. so i think that's where i go and i read the interview and i read the stories of the phil roe hero. he's a great guy but how long did he have with saddam hussein? >> months. months. >> but he understood the culture. he understood i can still remember the time former congressman and secretary richardson met with saddam hussein when he put his sold and saddam hussein got up and walked out, culturally that wasn't appropriate so to have someon

walker bush. the title of john's lecture is "protecting national sovereignty in the age of obama."ase join me in welcoming ambassador john bolton. >> thank you very much from kim and everybody at the heritage foundation. it's great to be back and especially to work again with the jesse helms center and to see members of senators family and from the center and his former staff in the senate. and i'm really honored to have the chance to give the first of the washington series of lectures. i go back a long way with the helms enterprise. i worked with the senator in connection with campaign finance law. back in the '70s at the time of his first reelection to the senate and in a variety of context since then and he was particularly pleased to work with him in a series of national security issues during his time in the senate. so it's a real pleasure, especially to address the question of u.s. sovereignty which was something that he cared very deeply about. and i know would be concerned about in the present circumstances we face. sovereignty is a critically important issue for americans.