Live after the Man Booker 2014 awards ceremony Kirsty Wark (BBC NewsNight) talks to the winner, Australian Richard Flanagan who has scooped the £50,000 prize for his wartime novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Archive for October 15, 2014
General Michael Hayden: “I am, like America, conflicted. OK?”
Stahl: “Really?”
General Michael Hayden: “I am. I am. You’re talking about ruining lives over things about which people are acting on principle, so I’d be very careful about it.”
Lesley Stahl: “So you would not be pursuing Jim, if you had the decision to make?”
General Michael Hayden: “Frankly, Lesley, I don’t understand the necessity to pursue Jim.”
* James Risen, the journalist at the center of one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. In 2006, Risen won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting about warrantless wiretapping of Americans by the National Security Agency. He has since been pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations in a six-year leak investigation into that book, “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.”
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