this is about an hour. >> host: we are very fortunate with us to have sandra grimes this afternoon. she has quite a remarkable story to tell, a story from inside the cia where she worked for years, hired by the cia right out of college in 1967. sandy spend two decades rising through the agency's ranks and assignments working against the soviet union and eastern european countries. she was about to resign in 1991 when she was asked to stay for one more assignment. that assignment involves joining a five person team charged with figuring out why so many of the cia's most valued soviet assets have been executed or imprisoned several years earlier. investigation ended up exposing one of the most destructive traders in u.s. history, aldrich ames, a cia counterintelligence officer. since his conviction in 1994, ames has been serving a life sentence. a circle -- "circle of treason: the cia account of traitor aldrich ames and the men he betrayed" is the first account from inside the cia not only of how aldrich ames was caught but of the men that he betrayed. sandy wrote it with another long

tomorrow booktv interviews professors from catholic university and sandra grimes talk about the hunting down and capture of cia mole aldrich ames. jeffrey frank on ike and dick. .. the national constitution center as you know is the only institution in the country chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. those of you that have been to the townhall should be able to recite that mission statement with me in unison, and i'm so proud of the superb programs we've been having over the past couple weeks to fulfill that mission. just last night an introduction with the university of pennsylvania we had a future panel about the nsa surveillance with peter from the intelligence commission and charlie savage and anita allen from the university of pennsylvania. march 5 we are going to have our first partnership with the intelligence squared, a great series where alan hirsch of its of harvard law school full of the date whether the president has the constitutional authority to target and kill american citizens abroad which is a topic we wil

tomorrow booktv interviews professors from catholic university and sandra grimes talk about the hunting down and capture of cia mole aldrich ames. jeffrey frank on ike and dick. ..

tomorrow booktv interviews a couple professors from catholic university and sandra grimes talks about a hunting down and capture of cia mole aldrich ames. on president's day jeffrey frank on i can and dick. richard reitman talks about fdr and the jews and cokie roberts describes the women who influenced our founding fathers. all this and more on booktv on c-span2. the full schedule available on booktv.org. >> there are a hundred things i want to write about. it is hard work but it is a joy. i am not mahatma gandhi. i am a capitalist. what drives me is to get my books, my arguments into as many hands as i possibly can because my books are intended to affect people's thinking, to give them ideas, make them think they haven't thought about, and as i say i can't imagine other authors aren't thinking the same way but that is where i am coming from. i had one of the greatest editors in publishing. he really is terrific and he has and i for is this so he might say you might not want to use that sentence or you might want to reorganize this chapter or that chapter, but he is also gracious abo

tomorrow booktv interviews a couple professors from catholic university and sandra grimes talks about a hunting down and capture of cia mole aldrich ames. on president's day jeffrey frank on i can and dick. richard reitman talks about fdr and the jews and cokie roberts describes the women who influenced our founding fathers. all this and more on booktv on c-span2. the full schedule available on booktv.org. >> there are a hundred things i want to write about. it is hard work but it is a joy. i am not mahatma gandhi. i am a capitalist. what drives me is to get my books, my arguments into as many hands as i possibly can because my books are intended to affect people's thinking, to give them ideas, make them think they haven't thought about, and as i say i can't imagine other authors aren't thinking the same way but that is where i am coming from. i had one of the greatest editors in publishing. he really is terrific and he has and i for is this so he might say you might not want to use that sentence or you might want to reorganize this chapter or that chapter, but he is also gracious abo