Tahiti is the youngest island still close to the hot spot. Bora Bora up there in the Northwest is a much older island.So we have this great time machine ready to move back and forth in time, say, what will Tahiti look like in a few million years.
some of it is significant. In particular, the summaries of the Guantanamo interrogations of the detainees there. Karen's written literally several books on this subject. I have visited Tora Bora , where the battle happened, on two occasions. I've interviewed everybody who was involved, more or less, at a high level. But I still find out things on Wikileaks which were interesting. There was one particular discovery, which is what did bin Laden do after the Battle of Tora Bora ? He disappeared. The conventional view was that he got into
But, to head off any questions, let me go into the crystal for a couple minutes because it is actually cool physics. Barium borate comes in different crystalline forms.
They are surgeons, lawyers, engineers, doctors. I'm moving to Bora Bora , you will never see me again number.
presenter: Let's talk a little bit about Tora Bora . This is something you've been talking about for 10 years, or however long. It's always bothered you that we didn't get bin Laden at Tora Bora . When you wrote this book, did you learn anything new about--? Bergen: I did. Wikileaks is an incredibly useful resource for this kind of reporting because we have the-- There's a lot of material on Wikileaks which is not significant, but
is the only person who actually spans the whole story. On January 4, 2002, he went to President Bush and he said, "The CIA's official conclusion is that bin Laden was at the Battle of Tora Bora , and that he's escaped and he's alive." Why is that an interesting anecdote? Go back to the campaign of 2004 when John Kerry was making quite an issue of this with George W. Bush and the election campaign. Very closely run, very close election campaign. Vice President Cheney publicly said that Kerry was essentially
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and think about the poor, not as passive recipients of charity, waiting around quarter million dollars into Jami Bora , which is this great nonprofit that's building a housing development for truly
encounter in the past who you just think they beamed back to the past from modern times because their sensibility is so modern and one funny thing about boras is that the very first of his stories to be I mean now he's you know very he's taken seriously as a literary figure and
But, to head off any questions, let me go into the crystal for a couple minutes because it is actually cool physics. It's actually a crystal with barium borate.
This is when he had a T.V. show and he created that character called Borat. It's an amazing thing, if you think about it, an amazing thing.
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they kept to this model. That wasn't enough to keep him enclosed at Tora Bora . presenter: Let's talk a little bit about Tora Bora . This is something you've been talking about for 10 years, or however long. It's always bothered you that we didn't get bin Laden at Tora Bora . When you wrote this book, did you learn anything new about--?
less generous if you were so inclined. But I think this is an important point: that the CIA officially briefed President Bush shortly after the battle to tell him it was their conclusion that bin Laden was at the Battle of Tora Bora , that he had escaped. Now you know-- go ahead.
and think about the poor, not as passive recipients of charity, waiting around lending, Jamie Bora , but I had to save $50 before I could get a $50 loan. It
to protect operators from it. And you have to shield them, and so we build concrete shields. And if you came and visited Helion, you would see plastic, Plastic, borated polyethylene and concrete shielding, To protect operators and equipment from the fusion reactions while they're happening. But again, you turn them off, and those fusion reactions stop. And that's really the key. There's a funny story related to that. We, We've been building fusion systems that do fusion a
What should we be aware of? Yeah. I see another question here from Bora .
Yeah. I think that needs to be solved. There's a huge, huge racing ring in Bora Bora we're going to have to break up. Yeah. I don't know, but yes, somewhere exotic.
In three weeks. It was just amazing. They were victims of their own success because this model was so successful that they didn't get bin Laden at the Battle of Tora Bora because they kept to this model. That wasn't enough to keep him enclosed at Tora Bora . presenter: Let's talk a little bit about Tora Bora . This is something you've been talking about for 10 years, or however long. It's always bothered you that we didn't get bin
properly interesting anecdote: On January 4, 2002, the deputy director of the CIA, the now deputy directory of the CIA, Michael Morell, who is the only person in this book who was with Bush on 9/11. He briefed Bush about the Battle of Tora Bora , and he was the absolutely principle person involved in a lot of the intelligence cases in finding bin Laden. He is the only person who actually spans the whole story. On January 4, 2002, he went to President Bush and he said, "The CIA's official conclusion is that bin Laden was at the Battle
making quite an issue of this with George W. Bush and the election campaign. Very closely run, very close election campaign. Vice President Cheney publicly said that Kerry was essentially making this fact up, that bin Laden was at the Battle of Tora Bora . George W. Bush made similar comments. General Tommy Franks, who was the Bush supporter and also in charge of the military operations overall, made similar comments. They all essentially-- Let's say, generously, they forgot what actually happened, or something. You could say something
So let's call up Nick Kristof and Dr. Cornel West and Madeline Albright. And I quickly learned how, you know, films like Borat get made because no one checks. They let you in to interview people.
You have, of course, tremendous commercial success with the Austin Powers movies, with "Meet the Parents," "Meet the Fockers." You also-- which many folks might know-- produced two of those outrageous Sacha Baron Cohen films, "Borat" and "Bruno." Very interesting shift there.
No, no, no. On the other hand, what's the first thing we do when we wake up in the morning? We roll over. We open up our phone, start scrolling Instagram, and find our annoying friend who's posting from Bora Bora on a Wednesday. How does he do it?
So that's Moorea today. Moorea in 3 million years is going to look something like, which is, in fact, Bora Bora . And in 5 million years, it will look something like this, an atoll.
President Bush presided over the most successful, unconventional campaign in modern history, which is in three weeks, 300 US special forces and 110 CIA offices overthrew the Taliban. In three weeks. It was just amazing. They were victims of their own success because this model was so successful that they didn't get bin Laden at the Battle of Tora Bora because they kept to this model. That wasn't enough to keep him enclosed at Tora Bora .
Tora Bora , where the battle happened, on two occasions. I've interviewed everybody who was involved, more or less, at a high level. But I still find out things on Wikileaks which were interesting. There was one particular discovery, which is what did bin Laden do after the Battle of Tora Bora ? He disappeared. The conventional view was that he got into Pakistan. Well, in fact, he did something quite clever, which is he doubled back into Afghanistan and he went to a place called Kunar, which is heavily forested, very mountainous,
show people another Yeah. Okay. Next slide. So here's a a question. It was originally posed by I kid you not, Borat's cousin. Uh so Borat Sasha Baron Cohen, you all know him. Yeah. Uh he has a
But at that time at Paramount Comedy Channel, which is just up the road in Place, Sasha Baron Cohen was doing some early Borat,
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