day, even when there no international headlight is there really invests in that, and that's a privilege. as a journalist, ah, i'm on the inside and the headlines on al jazeera us president joe bought and has defended his withdrawal of troops from afghanistan, cooling the evacuation. extraordinary success was face criticism over the chaos for the past few weeks. as i got this done rapidly fell under the control of the taliban bonded blamed africa forces the collapsing. far more quickly than expected . we succeeded what we sent out to do, and i can't stand over a decade ago. then we stayed for another decade. it was timed and this war this is

a new world. the terror threat has metastasize across the world. well beyond afghans. we face threats for males, sure. bob in somalia, al qaeda affiliates in syria and ruby peninsula and isis attempting to create a kayla fight in syria and iraq and establishing affiliates across african asia. the fundamental obligation of a president, in my opinion, is been defend and protect america. not against threats of 2001, but against the threats of 2021 and tomorrow. will tell about leaders say they want to attract international investment form an inclusive government. while the group has been celebrating, it's also expressed disappointment at what's been left behind. the taliban alleges that the departing foreign troops, disabled planes and helicopters, destroy equipment, had cobbles at port in all the news reports,

the syrian government, local leaders from the rebel held city of draw have reach an agreement for 3 days. so far. as you begin on wednesday, government forces have recently ramped up the offensive to take euro arcane ida has left hundreds of thousands on the u. s. gulf coast without drinking water, electricity. a night time curfew is in place in new orleans to stop for the crime off to the city was left in darkness. the leader of tubs, and he is main opposition party is appeared in court to face terrorism charges for even boy was arrested last month ahead of a plan meeting to demand constitutional reforms as a headlights backpack to china wealth. the news

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the house select committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran and the select committee on secret military assistance to iran and the nicaraguan opposition will come to order. congress began to address what they perceived to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight. we have been supplying lethal weapons to cherish nations involving the u . s. government in military activities in direct contradiction of the law and lying through the congress. now i believe that democracy cannot revive that kind of abuse . and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld, who were relatively new to government at the time, did not like when congress had, we need to step in and confront the national security state. and what's become

a very out of control pill program cheney that went on during the reagan years in the eighty's to serve in congress. and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open. cheney did not like congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing and you had the 2 others handle that emanated from the highest echelons of power. and the reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it. i've told you all that i know and you know, the truth of the matter is for quite some long time. all that you knew is what i told you. it was our witness this morning is mister robert mcfarland, the former national security adviser to the president. mr. mcfarland, we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr. mccall, and did you have any discussion about the possibility

of an effect farming out the whole contra support operations in nicaragua to another country which will cor country one? yes, that's correct. and did you, in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country, which will cor country toe the that's correct. ah, i had the practice of meeting periodically with the official from country to about assistance. we could provide some cases arm sales and he intended to provide a contribution of a $1000000.00 per month to the contras through the end of the year. you have no problems working with us. we have no problem working with the united states government. and unless it does not work for the government, then i think we have

a big problem. there have been a case when some question that a, you know, well thank having those occasion was not in connection with the i think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs united states. these events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements. we've heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup and winehouse, not only does cheney sort of defend around contrast, but he argues that iran, contra is actually a model for how the u. s. should be conducting its national security policy. he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what you're doing is saying on certain parts of american policy, we don't have

a democracy. we have a dictatorship. as a matter of fact, i was very definitely involved in the decisions about support that the freedom fighters my idea to begin with. in my opinion, there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility, a future presence. ah, the national security li today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their life. nation of richard b chaney. to be secretary of defense is confirmed. they make a name for themselves in the private industry, and then they come into the go. this revolving door keeps the national security late, very small and very wealthy and increasing its wealth as it goes up the chain to the extent that then when you get to the top, as cheney did, then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country to this is an impressive crowd,

the haves. and the have more cheney commission to study by halliburton to find out how much more of the defense department can be privatized. halliburton, proud to serve our troops. halliburton was elated to get this $1000000.00 contract, and of course returned a verdict that, oh mister secretary, lots more of it can be privatized. um, dick cheney leaves the apartment and goes and has haliburton himself, and he spent the entire 1990 s building up the halliburton war empire. well, if we're going to talk about star wars, we might as well invite darth vader. happy to accept it and then he comes back into power as vice president. and then they start hiring halliburton too, you know,

in advance even of us troops going into iraq, halliburton. so now when equipment was being deployed to the gulf, it's hard to, to look at this and not say, these guys had a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire power of small nation states that could, you know, over throw some small governments around the world. in athens, we, in the united states, have privatize the ultimate public function. ward you know, bombs, i've got a time limit food emissions to us. so by that through

the in iraq, the f sixteens, and as a teens were firing 6000000 dollars within seconds, coming back re army and going up again. there is no hope of ending war because there's always a small cobble of people for or is really, really good movies. it doesn't matter that we're losing the war and canister, albert careless. good for them. good for profit. me

the me the well we've undergoing a corporate qu data and slow motion to call john austin sol, 35000 lobbyist, washington. they write the legislation, they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to

someone in the pentagon saying, hey, turn on the dogs, the hills out to get our program. the guys in the center aren't on board. we need you to turn on the gucci. shoot guys to straighten this thing out the gucci. she guys being the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name. and again, it is called political engineering. and unlike political science, political engineering is real. me one of the most important things to understand it essentially creates what we call a self looking ice cream cone. ready and it's like a perpetual motion machine. forgetting ever increasing defense budgets, the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon, we over promise its performance under promises cost. we then systematically spread dollars, jobs and profits to many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. ah, the people who are invested in this state are people like the largest defense

contractor in the world, lockheed martin. they will die before they see go while the going to change the world. next, we're probably already working on it. a good margin basically gets to lecture last 2 years and listeners tentacles, you know, in all branches of the government. and then the ellen and that's how they make them. i feel like a bunch of schoolboys fiscal year, 909092.3 trillion missing fiscal year. 2001 point, one trillion missing the pentagon is claimed year after year. that the reason it can't account for the money is because it's computers don't communicate with each other. one trillion $1.00 bill dec tie would reach nearly 68000 miles into space. one 3rd of the way to the moon. i got

a phone call from the the i thing that i was a target of a death rick. and that's what happens when you go against the big boys who had the contract today to make those systems communicate with each other and how much have the tax payers paid for them. there are times that corporations do things they should not do, in which case they tend to be suspended for some period. there are times then the corporations can get out of the penalty box. it was never in the penalty box. if you could proceed to my 2nd question, please, the. the 2nd question i forgotten what the 2nd question was. individuals operating in the shadows and never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their

own personal pecuniary ends was now who's the enemy? how do we justify all the settings, oldest planes, all this bullshit. what better new enemy done, and i pathetic, go invisible enemy, cold the war on terror the event in madison then yellow mysteries so young but of the i don't know those who

need to know, but she did she me but you don't have to read too many gamma one or middle so then you know, this which i mean this is tony then assistance in missouri and credit union better the, you know, you for the money up front or month to month fee. we're seeing the service in, in the see those from the use. i see them in moderation to get the we and i

can see on the get see going to be on the i think of the most basic level when we realized how we entered into a permanent state of war like went off and proponents of counter terrorism on a global scale, think of as a long war, but without in something like that. and i think that what we've accepted is a political machine that is sustained by fear is a very old. it's a very old political tactic. i mean machiavelli us in the prince is better for the prince to be feared or loved. and his conclusion is because the locus of fear, the,

the source of fear resides in him, in the prince. it can be constant for his rule, whereas the locus of love resides in the people in their power. and some for them could be constant and long lasting mean. so machiavelli already opens a question that he probably doesn't provide us the answer with what would it mean to have our social arrangement like the basis of our social choices be founded on love. i don't think one has to justify the cost in nature or the national security state. one just has to keep the people fearful enough to support it. but what i want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between iraq and the kite a terrorist network. every word in that speech was gone over by the director of central intelligence and his deputy directory after we slept. so is nothing that i made up, it was nothing that i stuck in there, and in fact,

some people tried to stick extra things in there that the intelligence community wouldn't verify with multi sourcing. and i said no, active rec, powell grab me physically, which was unlike him and drug me into a space at the ca, langley, and said, throw all the material in my presentation about terrorism out, cut it out out this amount. this is just within an hour large tenants, the director of central intelligence made a spectacular bar michelle presentation. we have just to learn from a high level al qaeda operative under interrogation about significant context between baghdad, smooth overwrought, and al qaeda. this was devastating. here's the director of central intelligence telling the secretary of state that he has interrogated evidence. ready while the secretary turned to me and said, put it back in how kind it continues to have

a deep interest in inquiring weapons of mass destruction. as with the story as the car we in his network, i can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how rac provided training in these weapons to al qaeda. later i learned that that was shake al libby that had happened just instantly happened. it happened months before that he'd been water boarded in egypt . 20 did this, no us personnel were present and he had recanted within a couple of weeks. and we never were told about that. every statement i make today is backed up by sources solid sources. these are not assertions. what we're giving you, our facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. we were indisputably, we were lied to me at this hour. american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free people, and to defend the world from great danger. as call ro, famous,

they said to this reporter, you guys a reality based communities. we make reality by the time you figured out what's wrong with our reality, we moved the creation of another reality. did you sell or cause to come into the possession of saddam hussein, weapons of mass destruction? did the united states yell to him? absolutely not. iraq such a scale, i was only run inside and i went down to the back when i was actually given a gas kit. and so let me take the train back. right all the way up to tear on. i'm the carriages were crammed with iran, and soldiers had been ghast somewhere, just coughing and wretched. and a one man was reading a koran himself and put a handkerchief white glove to his lips gradually to car. those became permeated with a sort of $36.00 smell, and i realize it's the smell of a gas. they were coughing up from the lungs. i'm going wrong, the carlos windows on the night trying clean the train out of the smell of

obviously, of chemical water. after 2003 i was being attacked on radio shows, especially for america complaining about the american event you pro saddam. and i said, excuse me. i was on the train of iranians guessed by the iraqis. and the chemical components came from the united states. at the very time that your rumsfeld was meeting saddam, you were meeting with saddam hussein. i think we have some video that of that meeting. tell me what was going on during this. where did you get this video from the iraqi? tell them this is from iraqi television. when did they give it to you recently or back then we've dug this out of the scene in library. i see. isn't that interesting? there i am with the

our war on terror begins with al qaeda. but it does not in this war on terror is irrational. it's like saying a war. and when the series for office launched his investigation into the crimes that we were uncovering, it turned out that many of these arms deals have been forced through by tony blair personally. he's a dedicated arm salesman and once you start a war you open and kind of pandora's box, you don't control and it controls you. i

did. good dennis and mad did is the bad better is that those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat, the good terrorist and those who are inferior. the joke here is we've been there before. i mean, if you consider the of non stop story, there was nothing to do. if i say that the saudis are giving money to groups that are in the city and that not only but also the i s i s. people who say you want to comes into

the medical side really put 1000000 dollars each to give them arms training equipment. we are the ones who cleared all those people to go. we a new piece, that's what we want. freedom and the doctrine that is endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield. and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations, legal operations, regardless of what international law says. if you're a small state like we were for a 150 years, in essence, reasonably, spain, france, angling, and even russia, you've got to be exquisitely good diplomacy. you've got to be able to talk yourself out of lots of things and make deals and compromises. and so forth. but if you're the world's henchmen, you don't deal with anybody you smack and use your military smack of

the ah, they wanted 43000000 pounds worth of weaponry. that was 60000000 pounds in commission. there was no hope of ending more because there's always a small car. most people for really, really good live in athens. we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function war shadow on al jazeera news, news, news, news, news,

news. hello there. i'm pleased to say we got some quiet weather now coming in across the u. s. as what was, how can either continues to steadily waken. it's now a tropical depression that will waken further in the coming out company located around northern parts of mississippi. and it'll slide its way up across tennessee into that east and south kentucky. pushing across west virginia and just rolling across into pennsylvania before bringing some very wet weather into new york could affect the tennessee and then it'll grassy slide out across new england and into the waters the western side of the atlantic law. she try as we go on through thursday, then heavy showers around the northern plains, down into central areas of the us, dry weather. over towards the western side of the country. though we have of course, got the wildfire just amount of odd and california no sign of any rain here. plenty

of writing a central and southern parts of mexico. meanwhile, still some very lively showers lingering on. we'll see some showers to just around the eastern side of the caribbean, on the way of the sunshine coming through for many though as we go on through the next couple of days. mostly certainly not looking too bad a tool. as far as central america go, some very heavy rain that just around the kirk, your costa rica, could see some very wet weather to for good part of honduras. ah, how many nukes has too many new america has in many ways driven the arms parties are much more like the british parties. now, there are, you are regulation to own a tiger, then there are tone a dog. how can this be happening? we take on us politic and, and that's the bottom line. me play an important role. protecting human 9, the doctor's face. ah,

ah . you as president joe biden has defended the withdrawal from our guns, don, calling the evacuation on extraordinary success. let me be clear. leaving august, the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. ah, hello money inside. this is out there. a lie from doha also coming up with us force is gone. the.