pushing to expand it you know he also promised to close guantanamo bay yet that's still open and bob graham is even opened an entirely new detention facility and best of all in order to not be like bush who tortured people the obama administration has simply decided to kill them to increase airstrikes and to put american citizens on an assassination list sorry i went off on a little bit of a tangent there you get passionate but what i meant to say is that it really is utterly disappointing and i know politicians are known for lying but i wonder if we'll ever reach a day when their words and their promises will actually mean something and when we the people will hold them accountable. all right it's friday and c. is in the studio to give us his two cents on the week's most ridiculous stories we have everything from robots to dentures to wal-mart underwear that's a little too risque so joining me now is seton smith same thanks for coming back oh it is a pleasure to have you on the show thank you alone ok let's get into wal-mart and underwear i mean everyone loves underwear shopping you know i

bob graham was the chairman, and we studied this through the spring of 2008. bob was in intel, and i was a clean stellate on this -- i was a clean slate on this. i know how afraid many people were like colin powell, president obama, everyone's saying this is the nightmare that they are worried about. we interviewed hundreds of people and look to all the classified data and reach the conclusion that the possibility of a wmd attack was growing and would reach a probability within five years. 2013. we do not have intel say 2013 but this is a short-term thing. this is not 15 years from now that it might happen. there's a substantial chance now and it is growing, and moreover, we said what is likely to happen, you have a plan on the assumption that it will eventually happen and change the probabilities of the trend. the things that he is talking about are helpful. they are not sitting there and conditions in the world favor them. i'll go through this very briefly. a lot of this stuff has become public, the by a lapse that they were doing in afghanistan, trying to di

in hindsight, senator bob graham, who opposed the action in iraq, was right. he said this will distract attention from afghanistan, which is our real target. and to the caller who said, why don't we ever get over 9/11? i don't think we're ever going to get over 9/11. i'd like us to learn the correct lesson, which is not that we should have a military footprint around the world forever, but which are that we live in a world where there are a lot of people who can be taught not to like us, and we have to project our values and win the argument with these people to prove that we are a good global citizen and that we care about human rights development of the world. host: representative harman is the subcommittee chair of homeland security intelligence and terrorism, as we talk about afghanistan and the situation in iraq. we'll get to your calls. ed joining us from texas, democrats line. good morning ching caller: good morning. it pains me to sayhis, but i believe the bush administration got it just right in afghanistan with the level of effort they had there, the

in hindsight, senator bob graham, who opposed the action in iraq, was right.e said this will distract attention from afghanistan, which is our real target. and to the caller who said, why don't we ever get over 9/11? i don't think we're ever going to get over 9/11. i'd like us to learn the correct lesson, which is not that we should have a military footprint around the world forever, but which are that we live in a world where there are a lot of people who can be taught not to like us, and we have to project our values and win the argument with these people to prove that we are a good global citizen and that we care about human rights development of the world. host: representative harman is the subcommittee chair of homeland security intelligence and terrorism, as we talk about afghanistan and the situation in iraq. we'll get to your calls. ed joining us from texas, democrats line. good morning ching caller: good morning. it pains me to say this, but i believe the bush administration got it just right in afghanistan with the level of effort they had there, the

meanwhile, appearing on separate sunday morning talk shows, republican senators john mccain and bob lindsey graham voiced opposition to president obama's plan, with prosody based on conditions on the ground. you can watch the entire confirmation hearing on line c- span.org. now, a conversation about a recent discovery concerning thomas jefferson and the declaration of independence. >> we want to introduce you to an interesting story about the declaration of independence on this july for. of the headlines. tod today's philadelph"philadelphi." they title it "appearing acts." jefferson erased a word preservation scientists at the library of congress discovered that jefferson, even in the act of declaring independence from england had trouble breaking free from rule. in an early draft he wrote the word "subjects" when referring to the american people. he then replaced it with citizens, a term he used frequently in the final draft. the library released the new of the word for the first time this past friday. on the phone we have the librarian of congress james billington to join us to tell us more abou

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