for example, petraeus when he was in leavenworth, he wasn't just sitting in leavenworth. he had a vast network of old college throughout the pentagon bureaucracy. he's reaching out to them. he deliberately forms a back channel. he cultivates this woman and the white house named meghan o'sullivan who was president bush's chief adviser on iraq for the national security council. he sees that she's kind of wavering from the existing policy. they form a back channel. they're talking on the phone practically every day. picture this. this is really kind of outrageous. is petraeus, a three-star general in fort leavenworth. is talking on the phone everyday with the senior advisor to the president of the united states. she will be asking him, you know, general casey who is a 4-star general actually commanding troops in iraq, general casey says we only need one more brigade. what do you think? petraeus we must reduce arguments that she could funnel to our seniors on why this really isn't enough. so you know when he comes to washington and meets and out of the way restaurants, by the

we're still looking forward to build outs and signals on leavenworth and jones and cost-effective sidewalk widening options like [speaker not understood] acknowledging that sidewalk widening can be very expensive here in the city. and, so, just extremely pleased that we are able to use some of our regional dollars to support some local planning efforts and really some of our low-income and most impacted neighborhoods. and, so, yesterday we did -- supervisor yee, wiener and i did hold a hearing on pedestrian safety where we talked a lot about how we needed -- we had a need for our agencies to work together more and communicate more, deliver projects. but i think this is really an instance over the last several months where our office was able to work really closely with a variety of different agencies to hammer out a solution to these funding gaps. so, i just wanted to appreciate that that was able to occur and it really did happen. and i also want to recognize the southeast asian community center, asian neighborhood design and tenderloin housing clinics who helped do planning and outreach

so when the snow on the summit melts in the spring, it can run down swiftly, swelling leavenworth creek that runs through georgetown. short bridges for private residences span the quiet creek. but on june 21st, 1995, this picturesque scene turns into a potential death trap. on one short bridge, water pours over it, catching two firefighters who have fallen in. from on top of the bridge, colleagues attempt to pull them out. initially, georgetown fire chief kelly babion and his team are there to protect surrounding homes with sandbags. >> 1995, it was pretty high snowfall year, so the runoff was coming down fast and the creek was high and then we had a thunderstorm, who increased the runoff on this particular day. >> but while sandbagging, three firefighters slip in. one who manages to hold on to a short brick wall is pulled to safety. a second, wearing a baseball hat, is also rescued by his colleague colleagues. >> can you kick? >> but a third, todd neskiss is not so lucky. he's stuck on the bridge and no one is able to pull him up out of the powerful current. >> his legs catch under the

is the beginning of 2007, and the technical borders are california and broadway to vanesse and leavenworth. the issue of changing polk street came to our attention in the fall timeframe. there were some open houses that sf mta had, and the neighbors that went to these open houses were very concerned; they fit the open houses were not making sense. that there were providing options -- let's remove 75% of the parking or something close, and let's have a different version of bicycle lanes up and down polk street. the members encouraged us as an organization to get more involved in this process and we did. we invited the sf mta to come to our meeting in november; the meeting in november was again concerning, and what we were seeing seem to be . very one-sided it seemed that the only question that was really being answered was how do they best serve bicyclists? polk street is the heart and center of our neighborhood, that is why we are called the middle polk neighborhood association. .the merchant corridor that we have is precious to us it is the neighborhood. it defines the neighborhood. an ex

him how would you estimate the results that have been achieved so far after two weeks of work by leavenworth. this is the first conference of this kind held in yemen or any other arab country at all we've been preparing this conference for six months abiding by the initiative of gulf states and its implementation mechanism this national dialogue is now underway and it's going to last about six months more than all the issues will be split into nine main divisions the discussion will kick off with addressing the problems of the southern part of the country and then we will move on to problems inside our provinces economic issues and national building in yemen seventy five percent of the population is under forty five years old so this new young generation is looking forward to changes and these changes can be carried out by previous generation which has been in power for fifty years the new generation must take part in building their own future code that is the reason why the youth women civil society organizations small parties and new parties established after the events are involved in the

. >>> i live on greenwich street between hyde and leavenworth and i come to try and engage your interest about completing the undergrounding of utilities. and in that quest, i want to put on the overhead projector a word. >> sfgovtv, thank you. >>> i wouldn't dream of trying to pronounce it, but it is what is coated all of the wood on the telephone pollsand causes a toxic waste when it runs off into the water supply. ~ and i feel telephone polls should go the of the bug i whip. and i know for sure unless that quest to underground utilities in san francisco is completed with prioritizing, there will never be any funding for it. ~ so, i just commend this to you for the future of the city. and thank you for your time. >> thank you for your time. next speaker. ~ buggy whip >>> my name is eugene gordon, jr. rejoice social cultural revolution taking its mean exchange in diametric materialist i can matter, [speaker not understood] social culture condition applied, radiant in its universe, not a supernatural blessing. we dress to corroborate homosapien need to answer an inability of the state to

they went to leavenworth. they are now looked at and studied and interviewed in a much different light, even though in the community itself there is still strong feelings and deviciveness about how they should be viewed. a lot of my research was pulled from the no no boys and resistors was pulled from the japanese american national museum. my wife and i went down there and they have on file a bunch of interviews with people, frank ami, a variety of folks who were part of the heart mountain resistors and also the no no boys. these interviews were done by frank chen, frank abe and other folks and they are all on file. i used those to make sure i created real live characters. hope that answers the question. >> who else wants to ask a question? . >> when you do research, are you able to compare the (inaudible). >> i have to admit i haven't done as much research into that area because there were germans also who went through the same thing and no i didn't. that certainly is a story that should be looked into. i kno

we're still looking forward to build outs and signals on leavenworth and jones and cost-effective sidewalk widening options like [speaker not understood] acknowledging that sidewalk widening can be very expensive here in the city. and, so, just extremely pleased that we are able to use some of our regional dollars to support some local planning efforts and really some of our low-income and most impacted neighborhoods. and, so, yesterday we did -- supervisor yee, wiener and i did hold a hearing on pedestrian safety where we talked a lot about how we needed -- we had a need for our agencies to work together more and communicate more, deliver projects. but i think this is really an instance over the last several months where ou

he said, at leavenworth are quantico? leavenworth. with imet andlems various government, but the point comes down to is a better to try a or is it better to withdraw, let you do with your kids, sit in the corner till i feel better? >> we are certainly not saying every time a military is implicated in of use to just withdraw and don't do any business with them whatsoever, but this issue of finding the redeemable folks, people are redeemable, and even institutions are, is very difficult. i am not confident the u.s. government can figure it out. vetting problem is just one component. making wise decisions about who deserves to be brought for course training and what kind of gooding and when, some decisions get made but some very bad ones do as well. the age thing does not always work out the way you would expect it to intuitively. a young officers are promising and the old guard is not. prisoners driving reform -- the person driving reform in burma is not the young person. what isry interesting going on. maybe the pentagon is right. mayb

then three more years in federal prison at leavenworth for stealing post office money orders.wn a transfer to an honor farm. prison records say he did so because he didn't want to live in an integrated honor dorm. in 1959, caught after a grocery holdup in st. louis, ray was declared a habitual criminal and sent to the missouri state prison for 20 years. you have a guy who wasn't very bright, wasn't a good criminal, wasn't the sharpest tack. >> he's smart, he's plenty smart, intelligent. >> smart enough, jerry said, not to get caught most of the time. >> they don't catch him on the other crimes, you know. so he had done a lot of things he got away with. >> almost eight years later in 1967, james earl ray escaped from prison by smuggling himself out in a bread truck. he headed for chicago taking a job as a dishwasher at the indian trail restaurant. then on a summer afternoon, downstate in alton, illinois, a bank robbery. john light was the chief of detectives. >> the witnesses said two people came in, masks like ladies' stockings pulled over their head. one was at the front door

he said, at leavenworth are quantico? leavenworth. there are problems with imet and various government, but the point comes down to is a better to try a or is it better to withdraw, let you do with your kids, sit in the corner till i feel better? >> we are certainly not saying every time a military is implicated in of use to just withdraw and don't do any business with them whatsoever, but this issue of finding the redeemable folks, people are redeemable, and even institutions are, is very difficult. i am not confident the u.s. government can figure it out. the leahy vetting problem is just one component. making wise decisions about who deserves to be brought for course training and what kind of training and when, some good decisions get made but some very bad ones do as well. the age thing does not always work out the way you would expect it to intuitively. young officers are promising and the old guard is not. the person driving reform in burma is not the young person. it is very interesting what is going on. maybe the pentagon is r

- he was able to keep all of the antiques and to this day after he was sentenced to 30 years in leavenworthning around and making money selling guns and gunsmithing and what not. he actually had purchased from them an m4 and an ar-15. had it shipped to a west virginia dealership to give to his brother who was going to then hand it to him and let him carry it to massachusetts. he was even able to give my brother a 45 but my brother handed it back when he asked for paperwork and my father, of course had none. just this past year, the reason -- the only thing we could do to stop it is my brother was able to get a restraining order in massachusetts. >> stephanie: wow. >> caller: now, that's the only thing that shows up on a background check. >> what was he planning to do with all of the c4? >> stephanie: what was he planning to do with all of the c4 out of curiosity? >> he told me over the phone -- see, i was investigated by ncis by 18 months because i was in the navy with top clearance at the time. he told me he was going to be working with the c.i.a. and training people and it turned out he w

, and also a fellow named jamel joseph, who was part of the panther 21, who spent five years in leavenworthwho spent more than 20 years in prison for that. >> steve: it's crazy. they're teachers. here is a quotation from an undersheriff. he says i'm happy that she's doing something positive with her life, but he said, i believe there is probably somebody other than -- there are probably other people who are available to provide education beyond someone who is on parole for murder. >> these are not our models. the models of columbia university in the history of columbia university, john jay, alexander hamilton, the authors of the federalist papers, dwight d. eisenhower was the president of columbia university. professors like richard hafsta t.d. er and others. now we go to the bottom of the barrel. we go to the bottom of our society. we go to the people who engaged in the worst crimes imaginable and we say to our children, 20 and 22 and 23, these are the people that you emulate. these are the people that you follow. these are the people that you can be like. they've been rabbited, but they t