i think -- are defense-based shows.i think you are right. >> that is in large part the innocence movement, proving to injuries that they have gotten it wrong time and time again. this innocence project is based in new york. 300 individuals exonerated on dna evidence. people are starting to wake up to the important role of criminal defense attorneys, but jonathan is right. that court tv, we cover cases where public defenders and criminal defense attorneys are in court. we do not choose the cases based on either or. we see fine lawyer ring from both. often, the best lawyers a vcr from the public defender's office. they do not know the difference. >,7ythey do not know if it is cg albie, one of the best lawyers we have ever put on tv. they do not know how a public defender differs from a criminal attorney. i am shocked that the public has a lack of understanding among the public defender does, how we should be resources. this is a critical reason why i am here today. >> what i heard jonathan to just is that public defenders

by moscow needles approach to missile defense and i hope it is clear to our russian interlocutors is not based on any different platform than the same platform that is sustained the alliance since it was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine nato is job is to defend nato as territory and that's what we do and when it comes to missile defense and that's what we will do i have seen quotes from foreign minister lavrov just in the last few days saying that of course russia would defend russian territory that's what russia does like any nation like my own country canada so nato will defend nato russia will defend russia our challenge is to be interoperable. to cooperate and to become more than the sum of our parts when it comes to defending europe but here's another quote comes from hillary clinton she told participants of the munich security conference in germany where she said we seek a genuinely carpet of approach in a year or a.b.m. one that strengthens corporation with russia and increases our common security while maintaining strategic stability but can there be this kind

this is part of the center for defense -- defense information. and this is part of the wsi, world security institute. basically, i am pretty much the last person standing. times are tough right now. but it has been a pleasure working. >> what do you mean "times are tough"? >> things are drying up. >> i have got a list here, 2009, foundation grants for $3.30 million for the world security institute, and then $660,000 came from individual giving, so you say that the foundation part is drawing up? >> yes, tough economic times. dryingdrawing upd -- ryin up. the defense part is one of it. >> do you think it will survive? >> i hope so. it is needed. it was founded in the 1970's as part of the landscape. their officers you were not trying to pin before the budget -- who were not trying to pimp for the budget, but it was too one-sided, and they were trying to balance it out. >> can you give us any indication of who the foundations are that contributed to? to? >> the ford foundation, the education foundation of america, those are two that come to mind. >>

today defense spending comprise 20% of defense spending. mr. quigley: yet it is the only part of this budget that's exempt from the tough cuts facing all of the departments. the osprey is one of the most egregious examples of waste in the defense budget, yet d.o.d. continues to request this costly, ineffective machine and with due respect, the only threat that amendment pose it is it doesn't pass, it could kill our own troops. even worse, congress continues to fund it. the osprey was originally created to allow marines to carry troops and cargo faster, higher and farther than the traditional helicopter. now the osprey is 1 6% over budget and costs $1 million per unit to produce and is not to fly in extreme heat, excessive sand or under fire. sadly this aircraft has killed 30 marines in accidents. the government accountability office recommended d.o.d. reconsider procurement of the osprey and experts argue a helicopter could achieve many of the objectives of the osprey at a much lower cost. . the fact that it comes under the department of defens

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i've long said we must not be exempt in the defense defense department from belt-tightening but in truth there is little discretionary about the deceit your day we provide our fellow citizens. cuts can reasonably only go so far without hollowing the force. in my view than those proposed budget built on the balance we started to achieve last year and represents the best of both fiscal responsibility and sound national security. now i don't know what sorts of questions representative giffords would ask me if she were sitting here today but i do know she wouldn't let me leave until i blogged became incredible job of our troops overseas as they begin to turn corners and afghanistan. i know you share my pride in them and their families and i know you will keep them foremost in mind as you consider the elements of this proposal. i thank you for your continued support of our men and women in uniform and their families and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you very much. mr. secretary, mr. chairman, as i stated earlier i think everyone on this committee strongly supports your request fo

and criminal defense attorney there for. i do not think there are aware of this bias for the most part, but i'm speaking from my own anecdotal experience. my reason to get into the business is to counter that bias. i came from a car rear as a criminal defense attorney. the bis filters into the programming, reporting, coverage of cases. most of the cases do not have a camera present. even when the camera is present, it cannot entirely help to filter of bias. how many of you can sit at home and watch the robert blake trial from gavel-to-gavel, even if it is televised? when the camera is not present, you must rely on the boarding -- the reporting. i have had many instances where i was reporting on a trial and i will listen to my colleague on my right and left and wondered if they had been in the same courtroom that i was in. their sense of what happened in that room was very different from my own. i often feel that they're pro- prosecution bias is present. there is an assumption that they must have done something wrong or they

defenses they they don't think it's really it's really at the. at the state which is required by europeans or americans when we speak for nato we don't have a missile defense system ourselves we haven't yet determined the aims we haven't yet determined the scope we haven't yet determined the technical parameters so we're at the first stage. i personally don't know the level of technology of the russian system but i must say from a nato point of view we're only just starting as well but we want to start with russia we want to cooperate with russia and define in the next few months precisely the aim and the scope of what we're going to do together you know i'm really surprised that when we started talking about american approach what they want to do with military nato but you didn't start by saying no to nato is in washington and we're not responsible for what washington says this is usually what people need to say as well when i quote washington say well this is washington ask mr obama we're nato we're different is it really is it really so is is

the criminal defense bar, public or private, needs to be unified. when you are unified, it increases your numbers and increases your financial base with which to try to do the kinds of media efforts, contribute to the media like you are talking about. >> i wanted to pick up on something. i agree entirely with jerry. i agree with your focus in the blank case -- blake case. although we try to get the interview and tried to distract you in the cause, you are right to focus on the case. in the end, we had a conversation after verdict. in the end, it is important to be concerned about the image, not during the case, but in general, of public defender offices and criminal defense attorneys. i think it is also important to make a distinction. while i agree an effort should be made to show the difference between criminal attorneys and public defenders for this reason. when we would ask people about this distinction -- first of all, people can recite law-and- order language in the criminal justice system -- and they can recite that but not the sixth amendmen

the total defense budget which includes base funding for the department of defense and additional fundingfor overseas contingency operations or oco, that total defense budget declines from $708 billion in f y 2011 to $671 billion in f y 2012. that decline is largely from our continued withdrawal from iraq which results in the budget for the overseas contingency operations falling from $159 billion in 2011 to $118 billion in f y 2012. even as the defense budget request reflects difficult choices, it rightly requested increased funding for military personnel and health care. it includes funding sufficient to continue initiative supporting wounded and six service members, continued research into traumatic brain injury, tbi, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological health, and fully funds a variety of family support programs. notably, the budget request would reduce active-duty army and navy in strength by 7400 soldiers and 3000 sailors respectively. the army has announced plans to reduce its so-called temporary end strength by 20 to hop thousand soldiers over the next three years fol

when i was secretary of defense in the 1970's, the defense authorization bill was 74 pages long. when i came back in the year 2001, if i am not mistaken, the defense authorization bill was over 500 pages. the staff and congress ballooned by multiple of two or three. the continuing layering of requirements from the congress generally stimulated either by the defense community or stimulated by the bureaucracy because they want to perpetuate something, it ends up with rules and requirements, reports, all of these things, hundreds of reports required by the part of defense. hundreds of letters have to be answered for all kinds of detailed things. the movement away from legislative oversight of a broad, substantial of nature, which would be very constructive if hearings were held on important things, going down to micromanagement. the closest thing i can think of is gulliver's travels and lilliputian would put the red over bolivar. not one of those threads may indeed difference, but when you put hundreds of these threads over the dollar, he could not get up. that is basically what is

there is the inherent bias against us as a criminal defense lawyers.dded on top of that is the fact that we have this position of incompetence, somebody who is new that does not know what they're doing.db& and that our clients are probably guilty or there would have hired a real lawyer. it is amazing, considering those biases, that we speak to anybody in the press. why would we go to that source when our image has been so abused in? >> but how do we change if we do not go to the source? >> we have to, but you have to overcome that initial resistance. >> years ago i was involved in the case and one of the question was, what you think about prosecutors? wonderful. what about criminal defense lawyers? one person wrote just one word, sleazy. when i met him i said, we have never met, i did not take it personally. he said, oh, i meant it in a good way. [laughter] people don't appreciate how important jury selection is. judges often totally lose track of that because they want to move these cases. particularly in the immediate case, but in every case. >> one

very quickly, one is self-defense. self-defense in anglo-american culture it's not a matter of convenience it's a sacred right and a collective duty. if we've been attacked we believe we have the right to defend ourselves and if we've been attacked we believe the government has the duty to protect us. the problem with self-defense is what is the self that's being defended? what does self-defense actually mean? in the earliest days it meant what it seems me, the contest definition. americans were being attacked on american soil. but even then if one goes back to say the seminal war, the first sem natural war which was fought by andrew johnson he became president one finds jackson and his friends asserting indians and escaped slaves located in florida were attacking american settlements across the florida-alabama border and, therefore, we needed to retaliate in order to defend america. looking more closely into that which i do in the book, one finds something very interesting. first of all, those attacks by the indians w

what we have asked, every defense agency and every part of the office of the secretary of defense to do is to read their activities. what are you doing, how should you be doing it, and how many people does it take to do that? we have been able to shed contractors and reduce the number of people working in these areas. we are consolidating some activities. we are eliminating other activities. it really has to do on the civilian side of the department with how do we make the defense agencies more efficient and find savings? that is the basic umbrella. >> this goes to your premise of the earlier arguments which i understand is making ways to find more efficiency in our logistical operations so we can be more effective in our actual defense activities. is that a fair summary? >> yes, sir. the defense agencies have a lot of people and a lot of money. they have grown a lot of the last decade. frankly, we thought it was time to take a fresh look at all of this. i think it has been a long time since anybody has gone into this in the way we have. >> i would be eager to work with you to find m

defense. >> the reason that i showed you that letter that was written in 1998 is because all of the people who signed it, almost all of them, went into the administration, and i probably should not use the word "conspiracy," but the point of showing you that letter, it said in 1988 -- in 1998, that saddam hussein should be taken out. they succeeded. is that not a tremendous success from his point of view? that he was successful? they set out to do it, and they accomplished it. >> he did not understand the problem they had. he thought that the problem was to march to baghdad and kick saddam hussein out, and then what? he did not know. he did a poor job of mustering the the attack on baghdad. remember, halfway up towards -- it got stalled halfway up towards baghdad, and it took us longer to go through what one analyst called the most incompetent armed forces of the world, the iraqi armed forces, and then when we got there, there is a complete failure to understand what we had just done. done. a

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department establishment, and the defense industry.ou is what he said when i asked him about that question. >> and the three of them get together and develop a comfort level as to what ought to be. now, somebody comes in and wants to change that, namely, a president of united states gets elected, like president george w. bush, he gave a speech. he outlined what he thought should happen, how it could be brought into the 21st century, and any changes that could be made art tended to be made over the objection of congress, the defense contractors, and the bureaucracy. they are comfortable with the way it is. they have concluded that that is the way it ought to be, and if a president gets elected that comes into office with different views, there tends to be natural opposition to it. there was the crusader program. i cannot think of a worse name. it was an enormous artillery piece, which took aircraft anywhere in the world. certainly not something that was appropriate for the 21st century and the asymmetric situation we are facing, and the

well the big guns of america's military establishment are taking defensive action on capitol hill to protect their budget defense secretary robert gates warned that cuts any deeper than the seventy eight billion dollars proposed by president obama would have quote tragic consequences christine for solid looks at who's really starting to benefit the times are tough for many on main street but most in government agree before assisting people like this it's more important to assist people like this. perhaps this is one reason the u.s. military budget is more than fifty percent of the entire world and once again the top brass came to washington to defend defense it is my judgment that the department of defense needs an appropriation of at least five hundred forty billion dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the u.s. military to properly carry out its mission maintain readiness and prepare for the future defense secretary robert gates also discussed cuts he's made to the military budget on programs no longer needed what you may not know is that most of the seventy eight bil

the defense secretary robert gates the defense i was just going to say he's asking for nearly. six hundred five hundred fifty three billion dollars for the military that's hoff of the entire world's combined defense budget surely in a time of recession this called me the will of the people. it's a very very large amount and it's still an increased defense secretary gates is talking about major cuts the seventy eight billion dollars in cuts seems like a very large number but in fact much of it actually comes from changes in economic assumptions such as just changing around what your projected inflation rate is so many of these cuts that are even being talked about are not even cuts and as a result the defense budget is still growing by a real increase after inflation of about three percent so now our american system is enthusiastic about the so-called war on terror as they would george bush is because the defense and industry certainly seems to be the longer the war goes on the more tired americans get of the wars and the more tired congress gets more and more you hear talk abou

and defense since we're not proud. and the euro's another legal . ferrous another and well i would say right now it creates some problems for me in defense minister because whenever the e.u. countries would like to discuss security policy issues defense also issues i'm not allowed to raise my voice. which means that it would have no influence on the euro and the say on these issues and. i would like to get rid of the of the opt outs but the political climate in denmark is not ready for that so and so therefore i have to leave to look at another angle in your opinion what can a woman bring to the table as far as global security goes that a man can't. maybe a broader focus on how do we deal with security risks and what do we actually do. i think it's very important whenever we are deploying soldiers we do not look at it just with military advice i think it's important that we see it as a whole and i'm very much peaking with the comprehensive approach so when we deploy troops we also have to look in a civil reconstruction and development in countries w

so i have to look into what are we doing with the danish defense how can we reshape the games defense so we can act towards the new threats towards terrorism towards cyber attacks and and so i actually use things we decided to meet also to make some changes inside the image defense now that mark is a relatively small can three of. you have curves position from now to twenty countries plus your former prime minister is now the head of nato so it's sometimes it's in. this country above its weight when you think well i. actually it's what i've seen and what i experienced was because we are so much focusing on doing having soldiers deployed to places where we can make a difference for example in afghanistan in the helmand province area for example when we've been in kosovo eleven on. a cow we do encounter piracy. at the coast of somalia and we are we whenever we decide to deploy soldiers we say can we make a difference and if we can make a difference we say yes and that's also why i think we are all great because we we sometimes we say no we say well if we can't make a difference then let

we're talking about missile defense because we also have a common threat coming from the south. and i think that's a very positive move in in the way that we are working nato in russia together and that it's also my experience that russia post i've seen nature as being the big threat going on in the war not anymore. what exactly is labor's new strategic concept mean for costing security. i think it's. i think the new strategic concept is this is so much focusing on the new threats and not old threats and i think that it shows that we have to work very closely together in in reshaping what we are doing and use a strategic concept to say that or in denmark we also have to look into what are we doing with the danish defense how can we reshape the names defense so we can act towards the new threats towards terrorism towards cyber attacks and so i actually use the things we decided in nato also to make some changes inside the image difference now that america is a relatively small can three of. you have position in the twenty countries plus your former prime minister is now the head

and so i actually use the things we decided need to also choose to make some changes in defense now that america is a relatively small can three of. you have of position in the twenty countries plus you're a former prime minister is now the head of nato so sometimes it's. disappointing about its weight or do you think well. actually it's what i've seen and what i experienced was because we are so much focusing on doing having soldiers deployed to places where we can make a difference for example in afghanistan in the helmand province area for example we've been in kosovo in lebanon is covered we do encounter piracy. at the coast of somalia and we are we whenever we decide to deploy soldiers can we make a difference and if we can make a difference we say yes and that's also why i think we are all great because we we sometimes we say no we say well if we can't make a difference then let somebody else do it. but we think it's important to be an international player and no one is saying. you don't need to be all that mark is a small state but instead of just being a small state we have

spends too much on defense twenty two percent say it spends too little and thirty five percent say defense spending is just fine here's another chart if you look at the partisan divide a full forty percent of republicans say too little is spent on military and nine percent of democrats say the same thing and you look back at that chart you see from the three point six trillion in government expenditure almost half of it is from just military spent and you know this is not welfare this is not corporate welfare well that's exactly point the. it should be made if the question was do you support welfare for psychopaths and the industrial military contracting business most people would say no but you call it defense and it gets confusing of course the fact is to see that if the if the interest of the dollars being spent on military hardware is to defend the homeland and to proffer some security i suggest america stop invading countries and killing people and inviting retribution like we saw in my beloved but the important thing to look at here is you we talked about the economic war and a lot o

defense prior to u.s. forces de'departures on 31 december, 2011. mr. frelinghuysen: this is your nation's commitment, our president's commitment, our commander in chief's commitment. it is a bipartisan commitment. more than just this majority's commitment. to see the departure of our u.s. forces in that time frame. this iraqi security forces fund funds the following five categories. equipment purchases and transportation of equipment, weapons, ammunitions, vehicles, communications gear and spare parts. infrastructures -- infrastructure projects such as construction improvements, police stations, military base training centers, maintenance facilities and border enforcement facilities among other infrastructure. training and operations projects and programs such as training school and maintenance facilities, vehicles for training centers an training of security forces. sustainment of security forces through maintenance programs, human resources information management system, support service and medical servi