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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom and helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore h…
414 viewsPulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom and helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore h…
414 viewsAlexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, research director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, talked about the life and radical theology of American imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who …
775 viewsNew York Times investigative reporters and editors and a former CIA officer participated in a discussion on the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
926 viewsMark Moyar, author of Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America; Scott Shane, author of Objective Troy: A Terrorist…
849 viewsScott Shane talked about his book, Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone, about President Obama’s authorization of targeted killings by drones and the death of …
748 viewsScott Shane talked about his New York Times Sunday feature story, “From Spy to Source to Convict,” an examination of a former CIA officer in prison for leaking information to a reporter. He …
803 viewsFordham Law School in New York City held a day-long conference focusing on the balance between government secrecy, transparency and public access to information. Panelists analyzed the impli…
262 viewsScott Shane talked about the future of Guantanamo Bay and news events surrounding the detainees there. Topics included the detainee who helped the U.S. find Osama bin Laden, the Wikileaks do…
284 viewsJournalists discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on public policy and the media. WikiLeaks is a media organization responsible for the publication of classified documents from the Iraq and Afgh…
428 viewsTerrorism experts talked about Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who
715 viewsHouse Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Peter Hoekstra talked about tactics used in interrogations of terrorists suspects and the debate over whether the tactics were justified, and th…
298 viewsAmy Zegart talked about her book Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11, published by Princeton University Press. In her book she argues that the failure to stop the Septemb…
625 viewsMr. Shane spoke about a New York Times article detailing past authorization of harsh techniques in government interrogations of suspected terrorists and possible torture.
76 viewsPanelists talked about the media’s role in reporting the Anthrax investigation during a segment of Columbia University’s First Amendment breakfast series.
247 viewsMr. Shane discussed daily life in the Soviet Union. He first visited the Soviet Union in 1976 and talked about what life was like on his most recent trip. Scenes from Moscow were shown.
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