his senses and think, i'm not giving this reporter i've never met i got there early and found the kinko's. very. very naÏve, not naive, but very almost flattered by the intention. he he actually let me -- i can review the beginning of the piece. it was not the person you see in the reminder that the people who are inside, there are people inside you don't no. this is the lead. high school friends, both high achievers. a driven civic minded, not especially close. exchanging dozens of letters a rare unfiltered look. the ever disciplined persona. since christmas vacation vacation i have gone through three and a half metamorphoses so far i have used alienated academic involved pseudo- hippie and one half of withdrawn simplicity. the letters are self absorbed and revelatory, not yet reconciled myself to the fate of not being a store, sunday was to forget disdain for debutante dorm mates and an acid dropping friend. they know a lot about self and then encounters she had had it seems as though i have been thinking too much of you she planned to keep the letters. became famous in obscurity. and s

in fact, the police found a kinko's receipt showing he had fabricated the letter from the prime minister appointed him as a general. i thought this was a perfect little -- what did we really know about the war and what don't we know? >> where's the husband today? >> he is in prison and he was convicted of first-degree murder this year. >> james risen, our guest. the book is called "pay any price: greed, power and endless war." thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments, visit us at q-and-a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> british prime minister david cameron takes questions at the house of commons. former presidents bill clinton theyeorge w. bush launched the scholars program. at 11:00 p.m., another chance to .ee q&a with james risen night, the communicators. >> my class. every buddy should rethink competition.

in fact, the police found a kinko's receipt showing he had fabricated the letter from the prime minister appointed him as a general. i thought this was a perfect little -- what did we really know about the war and what don't we know? >> where's the husband today? >> he is in prison and he was convicted of first-degree murder earlier this year. >> james risen, our guest. the book is called "pay any price: greed, power and endless war." thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. ♪ >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments, visit us at q-and-a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, hich is responsible for its >> comments we received from our viewers. >> i must say "washington jourm" first thing in the morning, absolutely wonderful. appreciate you guys letting guys like myself call in and talk to people who are learning our country and our world. >> you do a good job. laying it on the table for not using see and information and america has a

she goes, why don't you just go to kinko's? and she was serious. i was like, are you serious? it's the 14th century. >> the first time you went you had this very primitive experience. the primitive experience. and next sunday when you're able to file cartoons. how bad things advanced been? >> the project in this book was to see what had gotten better, but had gotten worse. cards on the table, i was against this war all along, and i said so loudly. but you have to give nato credit where it's due. they built a lot of stuff, particularly from 2005-2010. seriously there were fewer dropped calls in afghanistan than there are in new york. the cell phone service is important to you. infrastructure is great but i found myself using wi-fi all over the place. if you're willing to pay the bill when you get home, you can use your cell phone anywhere. you can buy a local phone. there's electricity in most places, at least 12 hours a day which is huge, which there was not. there was zero electricity. so it became much easier. i was able, i would scan a cartoon. basically i would do my stuff

up at my house but there were so many of them i could put them all in order and that took them to kinko's to bind them. my kids were knocking them over messing them up. he was on board for nine patrols. he met his wife. they were engaged and committed, and he wrote her every single day. it was literally a direct of life on board but he talked about the mice they had. named romeo and juliet. they fired out of the torpedo tubes wanted to he talked about the pranks they played and the music, the impromptu jam sessions and he talked about what it was like. that's the kind of stuff you're looking for. that's the kind of stuff that humanizes these stories. >> taking a segue from james, i have to agree, it is half the fun or maybe more than half the fun is kind of doing the sluicing and putting the pieces of the puzzle together. in the case of this book, the chris dodd ago, chris left with the manuscript but i find myself working with the national archives, with the marine corps historical section at quantico, virginia, both of which were infallible and providing the absolute fantastic progresse