. >> carter and his friend michael ry. according to the incident report and the bar's gm, the pair appeared intoxicated when they entered. >> they were refused service.ely agitated and abusive. and threatening. >> just pushing him out. he is grabbing me. i finally push hi did not go inside the property? >> the report says that both carter and his friend then threw punches. >> they attacked the security staff here at the bar.n leaving jail this morning. >> what happened? >> the truth will come out. >> in a courtroom video hile wearing a prison jump suit, carter was ordered to return in february to make a plea. this turn of events is all the more shocking when you listen tomeron just last no >> i don't want to be that person that you turn on thehey're sayin oh, we feel really bad because, you know, he died. >> carter had been battling substance abuse fohave turned his life around. >> there was a lot of issues that i had at that time. it now. >> i can't believe it. >> making this arrest all the more sad, the announcement last

i'll talk 15 minutes about my book and then michael will talk and we'll have a conversation and move to audience questions. ryrt with the story of my book. eye have been covering national security issues and legal policy issues 2003, rode the wave in on abu ghraib and the attempt by senator mccain to impose a ban on torture and the signing statements by bush that came out of that, as well as the revelations about warrantless wire tapping by the "new york times." i was then with "the boston globe." and this is essentially -- the fights of presidential power. you may remember in january of 2009 when president obama was inaugurated there was this moment in which it looked like the war on terror was suddenly, abruptly, over. he had run on a platform of change from george bush's global war on terrorism. he had been a big critic on the campaign trail. he the government constant ducted itself in the years after 9/11, and talked about getting away from the -- constitutional ideals and security and among the first things he did was issue a series of executive orders promising less secrecy, banning torture, ordering gu