BARBARA LEE: You had to have certain criteria, like, at least whether it was stated or not, blonde and blue-eyed. JAD: Which is why a lot of congressmen and women voted for it. When you consider how long Word has been around, it’s no surprise the application has evolved past creating only simple documents. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. Suleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more." Now is there an existing list of groups that are affiliated with Al-Qaeda? And we're gonna mysteriously find that there are a whole lot of imminent threats ... [ARCHIVE CLIP, Barack Obama: ... for freedom. We produced that episode in April of 2014, and as I mentioned at the top of the episode this -- the reason this came to mind for us now, the reason we decided to re-release this podcast is -- is what happened four days ago. JAD: It's like a subset of force, basically. The Establishment. And I think he wants to have done that. We don't know if ...]. So they kicked it back to the White House. But then every so often thinking, "Wait a second! But in the 60s, threads was a jazz-and-jive term adopted by hippies to refer to their clothing. Flanagan grabs the text. And if you define the enemy as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and associated forces, it's a whole different ball game. This tool calculates rank of a given word when all the letters of that word are written in all possible orders and arranged in alphabetical or dictionary order. JAD: It is the worst attack ever on American soil. So how do you read detention from these 60 words?". Computers designed with 60-bit words are quite rare with Control Data Corporation (CDC) being perhaps one of the few or perhaps only manufacturer to use this size. And the Pentagon emailed me back and they said, "That list is classified and not for public release.". That's not how it happens these days. And I came to grips with opposing this resolution during the very painful yet very beautiful memorial service. We've got to be unified with the President. And it's not clear how and in what fashion they take orders from either Osama Bin Laden while he was still alive or now Ayman al-Zawahiri. Does it ever come up? [ARCHIVE CLIP, Tim Kaine: Is that the administration's position that the AUMF would -- would cover them and those organizations? But the modern incarnation of the declaration of war is the authorization to use force. Now that you've mastered the language of the 60s, why not jump back even further in time to learn how those dapper flappers spoke about dating and drinking in the 1920s. JAD: Which made us wonder, like, all right, if we don't have any idea who we're at war with, and the Senate Armed Services Committee doesn't seem to have any idea, then who does? Clearly, we've got to deal with whoever did this. And she's just wrestling with her vote. JAD: And he sets in motion this bewildering series of events. Now many of them are backbenchers. Makes perfect sense if you think of it in traditional war terms because, like, we're at war with Germany. Hacked off is used occasionally today (It's the opposite of mellow.). But, you know, since this was the early '60s. JAD: But you just have to look at the news. He makes some cuts, he makes some changes, he deletes some words. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP: Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the authorization. When do we want to attack the enemy? That's shortened to AUMF, and it was passed by Congress three days after September 11th. It's a jumble of A-B-C's that sure to make you smile. Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP: Gentleman from California is recognized for a minute and a half. JAD: And Barbara Lee says it was right then that she knew what she'd do. ROBERT: But common sense tells you that these are different kind of enemy, not a state or a government. You can find all these letters archived at Mills College. ], I don't know why you decided to place yourself into the camp of terrorists.]. We offer you the direct, on-page, download link to free-to-use Microsoft Word Templates. And maybe she saw something about how this would play out. Go, go, go. You now have lawyers on the ground ... Lawyers in Kevlar, lawyers in helicopters. I think that's the right way to say his name. There is a concept in the laws of war called co-belligerency. And then you don't have to go to Congress at all. One of them for example is Iranian-backed militias in -- in Iraq. And are we seeing what Benjamin Wittes was worrying about more than five years ago that it's some kind of imminent threat-type justification? Museum examples of 60-bit CDC machines exist. And, that spewed a lot of colorful and derogatory names for police officers. Because it means that we're not just shooting away at people willy-nilly or because we're angry at them or anything. Think of the bigger picture.". JAD: And it's well understood by people who understand this kind of stuff that in the Constitution and also in international law, the President is allowed to act unilaterally in self-defense when there is an imminent threat. Finds it. JAD: He basically announces that he would like to get rid of those 60 words and end this war. In the jazz parlance of the 1940s, the word transformed to mean someone uptight and traditional, and not “with it.” The beatniks of the ‘50s and the hippies of the ‘60s embraced the word with gusto, and it lived on into the counterculture of the early ‘70s. Help me on this guys. Check out Gregory's piece. ], And without hesitation, the administration witnesses said, "Yes. It's not limited in time, not limited in geography. But then the statement throws you a curveball, because the last paragraph reads, "This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. Not only does it provide the tools to create personalized envelopes it also comes equipped to make custom labels to go with them. Now available as a podcast, daily e … Now deterrence is not a imminent threat issue, right? And so ... We got Benjamin Wittes back on the line to give us his take. JAD: That's Harold Koh. In fact, he belonged to a faction of Al-Shabaab ... DANIEL KLAIDMAN: That was arguing against attacking the United States and other Western interests. ROBERT: And with reporter Gregory Johnsen. [LETTER: You are a blight on American society, a terrorist yourself. ROBERT: Let me just see if I can understand what you just said. according to Averil Coxhead's Academic Word List (2000) Because this actually wasn't the first draft. . ], [ARCHIVE CLIP, Barack Obama: A just war.]. Going all the way back to when she was 15 in high school in San Fernando Valley. There are multiple methods, but I'm not gonna go into that. BARBARA LEE: My dad called me. So he does get that question a lot. He doesn't have to go to Congress and say, "Hey, do I have authorization to use force?". Speaking of the president, eventually President Bush takes the podium. GREGORY JOHNSEN: Was something that almost no one agreed to. JAD: 1964, LBJ announces that two American ships ... [ARCHIVE CLIP, Lyndon B. Johnson: Two US destroyers ...]. ], Yes, sir. Not in an emergency. Everything. Wait. But if you really want to understand the world we live in now, you've got to jump ahead one day to September 12th, to a corner office in the White House where there's a lawyer sitting at a computer trying to figure out how are we going to declare war? Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten. And so ... ... all the Senators pour out of the Capitol and get onto the buses trying to get through the drizzle. That's shortened to AUMF, and it was passed by Congress three days after September 11th. [ARCHIVE CLIP: Mr. Speaker. GREGORY JOHNSEN: This is the legal foundation for everything that the US has done. Fast forward many years, she becomes a congresswoman. He told us about these meetings. Everything from Guantanamo Bay to drone strikes to secret renditions to SEAL raids, it's all been hung off these 60 words. not sexually, of course. ], [JOHN BELLINGER: Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Tom Daschle: No Senator voted in the negative.]. How do you end a war when the vast amount of people that you're calling the enemy haven't stopped fighting? We can do that. He wanted Congressional approval. And for context ... [NEWS CLIP: In other news, World Cup celebrations have turned to tragedy in the Central African nation of Uganda.]. It's the idea that if you're at war with person A, and person B is on person A's side in the war, you're also legally at war with person B. JAD: Makes perfect sense if you think of it in traditional war terms because, like, we're at war with Germany. The terms seem to come from the phrase bum rap, meaning "treated or punished unfairly," and bum deal, or "an agreement or situation that isn’t good." JAD: Maybe you should introduce us to Barbara Lee. BARBARA LEE: I said, "I think I'm gonna go." Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify about the legal framework for the U.S. military operations to defend our nation.]. September 30th, 2011, seemed to be yes, when the U.S. assassinated two members of the group. He told us about these meetings. And I've covered national security and counterterrorism for many years. JAD: Later in the day, the resolution would go to the House where Barbara Lee was a representative. So we asked him like, if lawyers are now the ones deciding who we are at war with and who we aren't, how do you do it? People were nodding. All necessary and appropriate force. If the answer had been 99 times yes, and one time no? When he spoke, that's when to me it was a memorial. This tool is useful when writing essays at university to determine how many pages you are required to write. Bring the troops home now!]. For Koh, if they were just participants in a civil war you couldn't target them, but if they were targeting Westerners or Western interests then yes. ROBERT: On the other hand, do I want to know as the -- if the United States has determined that I am dangerous to it, if it announces then that would give me a certain amount of notice, which I may -- perhaps would be disadvantageous to the United States. Maybe you should introduce us to Barbara Lee. Which made us wonder, like, all right, if we don't have any idea who we're at war with, and the Senate Armed Services Committee doesn't seem to have any idea, then who does? JAD: Boom. [ARCHIVE CLIP, DoD Official: Against Al-Qaeda and associated forces.]. BARBARA LEE: You know, clearly the country's under attack. We're going to try to decode those words. GREGORY JOHNSEN: And as she was speaking -- this is taking place in the basement of the Capitol Building -- she sees some of her Democratic colleagues start to nod. HAROLD KOH: Because it means that we're not just shooting away at people willy-nilly or because we're angry at them or anything. That's a wrap. It was the basis for the anti-ISIS campaign, or one of the bases for the anti-ISIS campaign. Maybe that's a valuable ... JAD: Don't you want to know as a citizen of America who were fighting? The power to declare war in the Constitution is given to Congress, not to the Executive. The first paragraph reads, "At the direction of the President, the U.S. Military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qassim Suleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force, a U.S-designated foreign terrorist organization." JAD: It was actually raining that day. About how these -- these words, these 60 words would start to grow and expand. If you don't think about that too hard, it is crystal clear. . "Be there or be square" is now most likely something you only hear your grandparents say. JOHN BELLINGER: ... been the legal basis for the detention of thousands of individuals. The Rolling Stones immortalized the phrase it’s a gas, meaning "a fun time," in their 1968 song “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” Contrary to popular belief, the expression doesn’t have anything to do with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Special Features File repair, picture to text (OCR), backup center, and more. Gentlemen, thank you for being here today. So it is a three-paragraph statement. Statement ... Suleimani ... okay. If you weren't punching a time clock and living by the Establishment's rules, you were free to be mellow and at ease—or maybe you just bogarted the joint again. But pre-internet, in the '60s, to be hacked meant you were righteously angry or aggravated. JOHN BELLINGER: The argument with which I am comfortable as a legal matter ... JAD: Is this. So the key words there are "decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad," right? Was something that almost no one agreed to. Detention is simply lesser included in the use of force that comes naturally in a military operation. Which is not what you'd think they'd mean. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Reverend Nathan Baxter: For the healing of our grief-stricken hearts. This is one of the enduring mysteries of this. Like -- and so the implication there is we're trying to send them a message. [NEWS CLIP: Well, the controversy surrounding Guantanamo Bay continues.]. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP, DoD Official: Yes, sir. Today we've got a story about the crazy power of words. This is the version. Yes. What are they? Yeah. BARBARA LEE: Down Pennsylvania Avenue. People were nodding. And it turns out we all did, because it was in that document. Does need to be changed? GREGORY JOHNSEN: The final vote for the House was 420 to one. What does that mean?". We're talking about groups. And according to Dan Klaidman, at this moment in intelligence circles, there was a debate raging as to whether Al-Shabaab should or should not be considered an associated force. JAD: And Gregory says the senators called a couple of Defense Department officials to answer questions. But President Bush needed Congress on his side, he felt. These word search puzzles are the perfect solo activity for a rainy day or if you’re just stuck inside. Again, this was originally broadcast in 2014, but it -- it seems to really speak to what's happening right now. It likely comes from the jazz term gasser, meaning "sensational. Statement ... Suleimani ... okay. GREGORY JOHNSEN: But then the question that has arisen over time, is how broad do you make that -- that circle? 60 Second Word Finder. ROBERT: All necessary and appropriate force. JAD: So at that moment with the memorial service about to start, and a few hours until the House vote, Barbara Lee was at the Capitol. But you know, I'm also troubled by another thing. Meaning it's urgent and you can't feasibly capture that person. And I think he wants to have done that. One of them for example is Iranian-backed militias in -- in Iraq. We act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people.]. Then we grabbed the most popular words and built this word randomizer. We don't yet know who. All translations are copyrighted to the rightful owners. BARBARA LEE: I believe, you know, in unity too. So you've got the top lawyer at the State Department and the top lawyer at the Pentagon facing off as to whether this fellow Robow from Al-Shabaab should live or die. And how did they come to mean what they mean? I probably was the last one on the bus. Only the most foolish and the most callous would not understand the grief that has really gripped our people and millions across the world. Now, it’s fairly fashionable, except in professional settings or at formal occasions, right? Well, the terrorist equivalent of all of that. I had the can of ginger ale in my hand and ran down the steps and got on the bus. Emails. This is not confirmed yet, but it could very well have been a U.S. predator drone strike. He said, "I'm really proud of you.". Another plane just hit! They're not participating in the call, but they're taking notes. JAD: This is a collaboration with BuzzFeed and reporter Gregory Johnsen. JAD: And based on hundreds of confidential interviews that became his book Kill Or Capture, he was able to paint a picture for us of who makes these decisions and how. And all the while, according to Ben Wittes and pretty much everyone we spoke with, we haven't really answered the big questions. Now Harold Koh, according to Dan Klaidman's reporting was in those SVTS meetings, and he would often be the one to answer the generals' questions. And the words 'detention' are never mentioned. JAD: If you don't think about that too hard, it is crystal clear. BARBARA LEE: Well, I said I gotta pray over this. He has to be able to give orders. Because the problem, obviously, is that we're not talking about nation-states anymore. JAD: It was a time for unity and for action. And ... JAD: And the place to start is a difficult one. The second paragraph, "General Suleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. The word bummer comes from the German bummler, meaning “loafer,” as in a lazy person. HAROLD KOH: Yeah, and that's a very good thing. "Can we legally do it?" JAD: Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Armed Islamic Group, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah, Brotherhood of this, Brotherhood of that. TIM KAINE: Tim Kaine, Senator from Virginia. Many people now argue that one of these attacks never even happened. And we asked him like, "Okay, so detention isn't anywhere in this document. There are lawyers really almost behind every bomb. ROBERT: Today we've got a story about the crazy power of words. Microsoft Word templates are ready to use if you’re short on time and just need a fillable outline for a flyer, calendar, or brochure. JAD: The reason Flanagan is sitting at a computer in an office is because then President George Bush had to do something. ], [LETTER: Hey, Hanoi Barbara Lee, what are you? Random Word Games. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. You know, only Congress can declare a war. This is not academic. DANIEL KLAIDMAN: Well, the terrorist equivalent of all of that. Essays. But it still raises democratic concerns if the American people don't really know who the executive branch believes is covered by the AUMF. . ROBERT: And that's why this whole subject is so unsettling. JAD: And if we're gonna be fighting them even when we're not technically at war with them, then what's the difference between war and peace? We need it. That's pretty far-reaching. That's next. And, we know we've seen that look come back recently. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Carl Levin: ... including the status of the 2001 authorization for the use of military force, the AUMF.]. And that that force is both necessary and it's appropriate. So Al-Qaeda, yes. The 1960s roiled with cultural and political change, and the language was as colorful as the tie-dye. GREGORY JOHNSEN: She wanted to stay, she wanted to think. So then why could people cite something that isn't in the text? That's a wrap.]. ROBERT: You can't do any speed dating with -- with a credential like that, because the date will be over. People were nodding. These trademark owners are not affiliated with, and do not endorse and/or sponsor, LoveToKnow®, its products or its websites, including yourdictionary.com.Use of this trademark on yourdictionary.com is for informational purposes only. TIM KAINE: It's not limited in time, not limited in geography. It does not relate to all terrorism every place.]. JAD: Both Barbara and Ron were trained as psychiatric social workers, so they both knew that when a person is feeling all of those things, it's generally better to do nothing. No registration, no watermarks, free to use for anyone. What are they? Today, a collaboration with BuzzFeed. (Same idea, different part of the body.). It's September 30th, 2011. A vocabulary list featuring The Top 60 Most Common Academic Words. Let me pull the statement because I think the statement is interesting and worth parsing. DANIEL KLAIDMAN: Well, look, I'd say -- I did not come across many, many examples ... JAD: But he did tell us about this one instance. And whatever you think of her vote, whether you think it was the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do, what is interesting to me is that as we're sitting here looking back on 12 years of war, she was sitting there 12 years ago looking forward. Our staff includes Ellen Horne, Soren Wheeler ...], Andy Mills and Kelsey Padgett. GREGORY JOHNSEN: Got up and he gave a reading from Jeremiah 31. Just after the vote, Barbara Lee says she was in the cloak room again, and she starts getting accosted by colleagues. He is a Senior Editor at the Brookings Institution, Editor-In-Chief at the blog Lawfare. For some reason he says, they always refer to the targets by the name of American cities. ROBERT: Okay, so what happened? Another word that embodied the hippie and youth culture . [NEWS CLIP: 15 members of a wedding procession were killed by a US ...], [NEWS CLIP: Bizarre, even sadistic treatment ...], JAD: If you're like me and you find yourself flipping through the channels, see the news, basically ignoring it. Harold Koh vehemently disagreed. And by the way, it's really well-lawyered, is he announces a set of rules going forward for drone strikes. BARBARA LEE: And so I had to have security day and night. BARBARA LEE: And we kind of talked through the emotional state of the country. JAD: But how -- how do you -- how do you do that? The assassination, if you want to call it that, people debate whether you should call it that, it seems pretty clear to me that's what it was, that has set off a chain of events that we have no idea where it's gonna lead. JAD: He was a member of the Somali group Al-Shabaab. And she became the first Black cheerleader at her high school. ], [GREGORY JOHNSEN: Enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. JAD: For Koh, if you're gonna target a guy, he has to be a senior member of a group like Al-Qaeda. How to use sixty in a sentence. Well, the controversy surrounding Guantanamo Bay continues.]. Cool has made a comeback in current language, but we think groovy just has a certain swanky sound, and we don't want it to go away! That's Ben Wittes, by the way. Just raised a lot of questions for us. Joe Biden, on the day of the vote, September 14th, 2001, he says, "Look people, don't freak out about this language. Other hippie threads included peasant blouses, granny dresses, and other colorful items made from natural fibers. Well, maybe they shouldn't. So by default, we're at war with Italy too. Examples include the CDC 6000 series, the CDC 7600, and the CDC Cyber 70 and 170 series.. Emulator. JAD: "Can we legally do it?" Our staff includes Ellen Horne, Soren Wheeler ...], [DANIEL KLAIDMAN: Tim Howard, Brenna Farrell ...], [DANIEL KLAIDMAN: Malissa O'Donnell, Dylan Keefe ...], [JOHN BELLINGER: Andy Mills and Kelsey Padgett. Now, I have agonized over this vote, but I came to grips with it today. And all the while, according to Ben Wittes and pretty much everyone we spoke with, we haven't really answered the big questions. And they also want to leave these different groups guessing. 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