chance to come to a decision on these matters. >> so chris has listening to secretary gates, and geoff morrell what do you see happening. >> i think will have a chill on reporting on u.s. military. the trickledown effect on bureaucrats is well-known as geoff alluded to. more and more ferrs will be holding back information. there will be bottleneck in the pentagon where requests for interviews will be sitting. and the public will end up getting less information that it needs. also, i think that the-- there was a policy there of-- the rolling stone article pointed out that there was a split on policy over how to run the war in afghanistan with disputes between different factions. under this new regime, under this new set of guidelines, i don't think that you would be able to ascertain that as well. so it's not simply the, you know, a united front. it conceals when there's not a united front. >> john burns what do you think we're seeing here, what do you think this will signify? >> oh, i think regardless of what secretary gates said today, the news conference and what was written in the pentagon

geoff morrell, good to have you with us this morning. do you know at this point who is responsible for the leak? >> we do not in we have a very robust investigation that's under way to try to determine who is responsible for breaking the law here and leaking the classified information that could endanger the lives of our forces and imperil our nation's security. at this point we are in the early stages of that. our focus really, frankly, right now is to try to determine if there is anything in these 90,000 pages of documents that could endanger our forces. we have a team doing that around the clock. this was dumped on us like it was dumped on you sunday night. it would have been nice if the organization had the decency to come to us and work with us to see if there was anything that could endanger our forces. >> there is more to come as we have been told. 15,000 additional documents. how many people have access to this type of information? >> we are no going to get into the scope of what was involved here in terms of the databases that m

in washington today, pentagon, spokesman geoff morrell said the need was urgent. >> this is temporary solution to very real near term problem. this would be a stop gap measure, at least envisioned at this point, because we don't have enough police forces to provide security in populated areas. >> lehrer: morrell also placed the effort in the larger context of the u.s.-led counterinsurgency. >> the onus is on us, even to protect them from the taliban. so we have to work double not just to win their trust and confidence but to protect them. and so there is a real risk to those who step up in afghanistan. >> lehrer: a top american commander in southern afghanistan said today security will improve as more u.s. and afghan forces move into violent areas. he said: "it's a rising tide." two perspectives now: major benjamin tupper was an embedded trainer with the afghan national army. he wrote a book about his experiences "greetings from afghanistan, send more ammo." he's still in the army national guard. the views he expresses are his own. and major general charles dunlap was the air force's

. >> pentagon spokesperson geoff morrell says haber abbas investigation has been launched. the leak poses a substantial hazard to american fighting forces in afghanistan. meanwhile, kit bond, the ranking republican on the senate intelligence committee says he worries the leaks will not stop until we see someone "in an orange jumpsuit." members of the senate vote on a disclosure measure prompted by a supreme court ruling allowing corporations and unions to spend their own money on campaign ads. the measure needs the backing of one republican to clear the procedural hurdle. so far there is not one. south dakota republican senator john to will announce a proposal to remake the congressional budget process by creating a joint house-senate panel to cut government spending, something the governor is using to run for in 2012. those are some of the latest headline to read -- headlines. >> this morning, a house energy subcommittee will hold a hearing on the impacts of the gulf of mexico oil spill on tourism. live coverage starts at 10:00 eastern on c-span 3. the house ethics committ