Ruth Marcus (columnist, The Washington Post), Joe Williams (White House reporter, Politico), Simon Johnson (senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management), Marc Ginsberg (former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco and senior vice president, APCO Worldwide) and Peter Van Buren (State Department whistleblower and author of “We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People”).
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Exclusive: American-born jihadist tells Current, ‘How could I really refrain from attacking America?’
Don’t miss Hammami’s story, airing in full on Viewpoint on May 30, 2012 at 8/7c. watch video
State Dept. whistleblower Peter Van Buren: ‘We couldn’t find enough ways to throw the money away’
“Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer and Department of State whistleblower Peter Van Buren, author of “We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People,” sit down to discuss the true cost of [...] watch video
Eliot Spitzer calls out Romney, GOP for attempting to ‘cover up the real cause of the deficits’
“By masking the real reason for the deficits, Republicans want to hide some real solutions. If we think we’re spending more, then spending is what we’ll try to fix. But if we focus on the true source of these huge [...] watch video
Would an independent agency fix the Federal Reserve’s ‘governance problem’?
“Where else in American society do we allow the regulated companies to sit on the governing structure on the board of the organization overlooking them?” — Simon Johnson watch video
‘We Meant Well’: Read an excerpt from State Department whistleblower Peter Van Buren’s book
“I was sent by the Department of State to Iraq for one year in 2009 as part of the civilian Surge deployed to backstop the manlier military one. Along with a half dozen contractors as teammates, I was assigned to [...] read post
