. >> jon: we saw the media erupt over abu ghraib and electronic spying, but the responsibility of killingns with a drone-- >> well, one fof the people on the scooter libby-- and accusing him of something he didn't leak. and this is some imperial presidency that needed to handle this information. now when you ask something about blowing up americans without due process, it's f-you from the justice department? >> and noah rothman and rand paul shatters and captures hearts and beyond. that's something the mainstream media does not want to repeat. >> jon: next, what debate moderator out did the others.

. >> jon: we saw the media erupt over abu ghraib and electronic spying, but the responsibility of killing americans with a drone-- >> well, one fof the people on the scooter libby-- and accusing him of something he didn't leak. and this is some imperial presidency that needed to handle this information. now when you ask something about blowing up americans without due process, it's f-you from the justice department? >> and noah rothman and rand paul shatters and captures paul shatters and captures hearts and beyond [ female announcer ] it balances you... it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. this is nature valley. looking for a litter with natural ingredients that helps neutralize odors. discover tidy cats pure nature. uniquely formulated with cedar, pine, and corn.

soldiers in abu ghraib or he's probably boyko reports from london.victims and families of victims say that british troops took a number of iraqis from the battlefield and then murdered and tortured them but the ministry of defense strenuously denied that british troops are normally killed and iraqis in fact the evidence given by the ministry of defense is so different to the evidence provided by the victims and their families that it's resulted in this very long three year delay this inquiry was ordered back in two thousand and nine so three years later it's only just coming to fruition i'm joined in the studio by christopher stanley of rights watch u.k. this is a first inquiry of its kind of already have this very embarrassing case of the killing of a back in two thousand and three is this potentially another big embarrassment for the british military it would be a big embarrassment if they allowed it to become one which i think is what they obviously do not want to know about this middle nouns because it was a damning inquiry against the ministry o

the infamous abu ghraib pictures.n death toll reaches 1=thousand by the end of 2004. 2=thousand by the end of 2005. nearly 3=thousand by the end of 2006, when saddam hussein is executed. president bush orders more troops: five brigades with 20=thousand soldiers and marines. u=s casualties hit a record high, but the tactic works. violence subsides. 2008 and 2009 see a steep drop in the number ofand a new president is able to declare >> "the long war in iraq will come to an end >> reporter: about one million americans served in iraq. about 4-thousand-5=hundred u-s service-members died there. along with at least 2-thousand u-s government contractors, and 174 journalists. >> jacqueline: the rainfall continues over the bay area on. we can see the camera lens is pretty wet. over the golden gate still wet conditions. the stormtracker 4 pinpointing inland. if near the coast concord, dublin and livermore. spotty areas through the south bay. the satellite is & radar showing this is moving through but we have more on tap. the ta

it's not even 1% of abu ghraib. only time the world is angry by injustices is if it's committed by the united states. but everyone else can act like savages. they can till, and that's okay. if you are a nervous flier on jet, then you're a monster. every tolerance in the united states who marches for everything ignore this stuff because they don't want to seem as though they're intolerant of others. all cultures are supposed to be the same. everybody is the same. that is the biggest lie. some cultures are better than others. >> eric: i want to take you to task with this. general has idea who will rule the country but the bottom line if morsi can get the constitution changed to reflect syria law, he is in power now. not wise to send him millions of dollars in money and technology. >> eric: the people against -- >> bob: the people against shariah law are generals. here is the other thing. i want to know where there are -- i have defended moderate muslims on this show and every chance i have had. it's 110 billion of you

united states have maintained over the course of the last decade that have received more attention, abu ghraib tan mow. we know very little, because it has been shrouded with secrecy on the courts accepted the arguments that there's no judicial review allowed there even though there is at guantanamo, because it's in the middle of the war zone. there are a lot of human rights reports of system take torture abuse of prisoners. something that's taken place under president obama, so it's been a heinous place in all sorts of ways. john: none of this has helped the american's popularity with the afghan people. notorious prisons like the black jail and salt pit, do we know if they're closed as well? our abuses said to be going on in other places or is bagram ground zero for prisoner torture? >> the perception of the afghans is anywhere the americans obtain afghan prisoners there's been abuse. there are lots of people on the ground in afghanistan that have said that other than killing people innocent people, that our prison network the way it's abused prisoners putting people in prison with new due pr

we were stuck in iraq, suffering through ied attacks, abu ghraib, post-traumatic stress disorder ande. according to a new report by brown university, 190,000 have been killed in iraq. 70% of them civilians. 4,488 of them u.s. service members. the war cost you, taxpayers, $2.2 trillion. the cost of rebuild iraq, $60 billion, although most of that money went to contractors and military police. the rest was lost to fraud. as far as making america safer, sadam was a cruel dictator and you could argue he was unstable. but saddam hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and no ties to al qaeda. the talkback question, what did we learn from the iraq war? facebook.com/carol cnn, or tweet me @carolcnn. >>> up next, the fiscal fight in washington is taking the toll. and the next casualty could be the easter bunny. political buzz is next. [ female announcer ] how do you define your moment? the blissful pause just before that rich sweetness touches your lips. the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making

the tragedies of iraq and the shame of abu ghraib and executive power and collapse of the united statesnomy through deregulation. the reckless spending combined with tax cuts for the waelt that didn't create the jobs they promised. the passive response to the suffering following hurricane katrina. george w. bush left the white house as one of the most least popular presidents this country has ever had. his numbers haven't improved much in recent years. history storians rank him as one of our worst leaders. as "the daily beast" points out, unfortunately, for jeb bush, history is written by historians. let's talk to our panel. great to have all of you with us tonight. jim, you first. you've written a book with w. is there baggage? i mean, is jeb bush close to reality here? >> no. there's an old saw in marketing, ed, that the worst kind of brand to get out from under is one that the public gives you. we know what the bush brand is now. it's bad thinking in terms of taxes. it's bad actions in terms of war and in terms of jeb himself, his first day in office, we know where he is on certain i

this is the best way to handle brings abu ghraib to justice. >> shepard: plus the inside story of howe got him and what he was reportedly doing in iran. days after the t.s.a. decided let airplane passengers carry knives on board, we are learning more bombs can also make it past screeners. tonight, the tests that revealed the dangerous hole in airport security. new england deals with another winter storm. tonight, waves crash over sea walls. a home is lost to the ocean. and how about that foot of snow? and [bleep] >> what did you say? >> shepard: what the world set off the pop star justin beach? but first from fox this usama binht, usama bin laden's own son-in-law, his former spokesman pleads not guilty to plotting to kill americans. these are charges that could get him life in prison. he faced a judge today federal court here in manhattan, not far from al qaeda toppled the twin towers on 9/11 and killed so many thousands. prosecutors say he was by bin laden's side the day after the attacks, calling for the killing of more christians, jews, and americans u.s. officials say he spent som

. >>> at next we hear from the former commander of the forces that operate at the abu ghraib prison in iraq in 2003 and in 2004.o >> it's very important for people to see your book and listen to what you have to say c to understand just how little training is conducted because later onlems in it that contributed to the difficulties you see in iraq. >> correct. >> how many drill weekends a month? and how long on saturday and sunday? >> the typical reserve soldier drills for a saturday and sunday eight hours each day. ..>> usually in the summer. they are practicing whatever their unit mission is. so for my battalion, it was a prisoner of war operations. we rarely had a full complement of soldiers and officers to participate in that training. then we did not have any prisoners to process. as it got closer and closer to the date of actual training for the two weeks, contracts would be canceled, money would not be available. >> how frequently were you able to fire weapons? >> you really had enough ammunition to do anything but familiarize. >> later on you have the opportunity -- you are not

in the way americans -- military and civilian-- behaved in iraq, which was not withed standing abu ghraib and the other grim episodes of the american occupation, was in the main-- i'll be marked for saying it by the critics -- a demonstration of just what a noble country thd united states is. but in the end, this was not about america or americans or american intentions. this was about iraq as fouad has said, a society we barely understood, which has its own reasons, its own rationale. iraq had in the american occupation of iraq the best opportunity that any middle eastern arab country has had, perhaps ever, to build a civil society, and it has not done sod and that is not the fault of the united states. it's a very american thing, of course, to hook for fault. what did we do that didn't accomplish our objectives here? i remember general petraeus on one of his early tours saying-- he said it again and again-- as did general casey, by the way-- look, we don't want you americans to follow your instinct to do everything here.v let the iraqis do it. if they fail, we'll help them.if that ran c

the infamous abu ghraib pictures.he american death toll reaches 1=thousand by the end of 2004. 2=thousand by the end of 2005. nearly 3=thousand by the end of 2006, when saddam hussein is executed. president bush orders more troops: five brigades with 20=thousand soldiers and marines. u=s casualties hit a record high, but the tactic works. violence subsides. 2008 and 2009 see a steep drop in the number of americans killed. and a new president is able to declare >> "the long war in iraq will come to an end >> but not soon enough for 4-thousand-5=hundred u-s service-members at least 2-thousand u-s government contractors and 174 journalists. >> catherine: almost ten years to the day since being deployed to iraq, a south bay war veteran shared some of his experiences with kron today. army sergeant 1st class graham gomez of san jose, served two tours of duty in iraq. he retired after 22 years of active duty. gomez arrived in iraq shortly after baghdad fell -- and spent the next 8 months working in intelligence, scouting tro

after abu ghraib, you could not travel.is shoe and threw it at george w. bush, it was the way the arab world saw america and its president. >> as a soldier, patrick, did you feel at the time when you were in iraq, there was absolutely no greeting us? how quickly did you realize we are not here to liberate these people. we're occupying these people. >> it was the first memorial service. we had the combat boots and rifle with the helmet on top. it happened too many times. what infuriates me, so much, joy, the same folks responsible for this are the same ones cheerleading for us to go into syria. for us to say let's bomb iran. it is many because the history of our country is we have a strong military, which we always should have. we are the reluctant warriors. we should think about this because the counterbalance to iran is iraq. now iraq is in bed with iran. iran is come policomplicit in t support with syria. we are not learning the lessons. >> i think the iraqi people need more than an apology. they need a lot of reparations

in the afternoon hours it will abu ghraib sky and temperatures about the same as yesterday and we will there in times square but look at them. thank you for joining us here today. and coming up here, a diet that has been burning up the book charts. it's "the fast diet." you cut your calories two days a week and you eat whatever you want for the other five. we have the british mastermind behind it all, live in his first american tv interview. very interestingly, he actually stumbled upon this accidentally. he didn't even mean to sort of discover this diet as it were. >> a lot of questions about it. >> looking forward to it. >> he's here to answer them all. >> also ahead we told you about the new celebrity diving show getting ready to make major waves "splash" premieres tonight. >> ding, major waves? >> we have a sneak peek just ahead. >> ah, fun. >>> also on the show, so happy to see fashion icon diane von furstenberg with us this morning with her favorite looks for spring and also tell us all about her prestigious dvf awards given to women who help transform the lives of other women. s

single day the seven hour period that was benghazi is on the same level is on the same level as abu ghraibrdered in abu graib. caller: four americans were murdered, ok. hal: right. caller: it doesn't matter whether it was a rag tag new 4,000 american soldiers were killed in iraq. caller: sir sir it doesn't matter if there's a rag tag militia or me and my friends going over and murdering these people. it wouldn't matter. they got murdered. hal: so? did obama give the order to have these people killed? is that what you're saying? caller: ronald reagan was not hesitating that's for sure. hal: ronald reagan would have killed the american ambassador in benghazi? caller: i heard speeches of ronald reagan and they sound completely different as they do to obama. hal: you mean the speeches around iron-contra, for example. caller: and nobody's perfect. hal: nobody's perfect. >> how can you speculate how president reagan would react in today's environment? i think milltail things have changed. hal: if policies any indication, he'd be a democratic, because he'd have to change parties after he was prim

was picked upthat ghraib,backing, abu laden's son-in- law, was arraigned in federal court for conspiracy to kill u.s. nationals. why is this an appropriate approach as opposed to a military commission that congress created for trying enemy combatants? s would be thi difficult to get into an open session. there was some intelligence that we're note traveling certain at the outset to a country. the best vehicle for having a country detain a person is violence charges and having an interval red notice. that puts a country on notice that this particular person for which unnoticed has been issued may be traveling and then is the basis for the detention of that particular person. in this particular case, the individual who was detained under that protocol. i do not believe that we would have had the ability and to attain this person without utilizing that process and then falling through. through.wing but the administration has used the bureau on benghazi and every time there's been a question asked, they usually say this is an open investigation and we cannot comment and the fbi is working on