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for about three years, and our friend, a friend of the bureau, everyone in the bureau knew abc's bob woodruffogue, were hit by a roadside bomb four months to the day before we went out. and this was the first network television shoot since then. all sorts of generals had to give permission for this. and we were nervous. i talked to my crew, paula james, paul douglas, before the shoot, and they said, i explained we're meeting the troops at 8:00. we'll be back by 1:00 to be on the "early show" 2:30 baghdad time, 7:30 in the states. their assessment was and my assessment was in that span of time, we couldn't even reach any of the dangerous neighborhoods in baghdad. we must be staying close to the green zone, because the troops couldn't tell us where we were going. we all worked under the assumption that our telephone communications were monitored by the insurgents. so all i knew was i was supposed to go to the green zone from the red zone with my team and meet these troops that we would be out with that day. we would be filming for a couple of hours, it was a training story, the u.s. troops were

. >> ifill: bob lazewski, a health industry consultant and jonathan gruber of m.i.t., thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> thank you, gwen. >> woodruff: the criticism over u.s. surveillance programs at home and abroad continued this afternoon at a house intelligence committee hearing. but the directors of national intelligence and the national security agency pushed back. >> one of the first things i learned in intel school in 1963 is that this is the fundamental giveen in the intelligence. >> woodruff: that fundamental according to director of national intelligence james clapper, is learning the intentions of foreign leaders, even if it means spying on allies. what's more, he told today's house hearing it's a two-way street. >> do you believe that the allies have conducted or at any time any type of espionage activity against the united states of america, our intelligence services, our leaders or otherwise? >> absolutely. >> there have been disclosures in recent days that the national security agency eavesdroped on german chancellor angela merkel. the n.s.a.'s director, army general keith al sander the, defended the general practice

bob costa leads it, andrew stiles. jonathan strong, betsy woodruff. also working here is kathryn jean lopez. we have a really solid that weon voice, not didn't, but we put some more attention into this. that is not only reflected in the magazine, but much more so in our website. mr. fowler, has the magazine changed since william f buckley's death in 2008? guest: no. complaints,of the and deservedly, i'm the publisher. i like it when people are happy until the good things and i welcome them when they have complaints, also. a number of people will say, you know, "national review" has changed since bill buckley died. the fact of the matter is that no relinquished largely relinquished editorial control of the magazine in 1989. and he thens editor appointed john o'sullivan as editor. john served in that capacity for about seven years. rich lowery has been editor for 15 years. bill gave them a free hand to .dit it. he owned it he sometimes made his presence known, but the national review that bill buckley was editing is, issues1987 aside, the same magazine