[horns honking ] >> we'll have brian ross reporting in just a second here. of course, the white house is very tightlipped about the attacks on the president here. meantime, the president will take his health care pitch to montana today, hoping to quell voters' concerns that have been festering at forums and town hall meetings all across the country. emily schmidt with the latest on the incident causing headaches for citizens and lawmakers alike. >> president obama makes a pitch for health care reform and proving a tough sell across the country. my trust in the faith in the united states and its leadership has been destroyed. >> i think somebody in congress needs to go to jail. a whole bunch of them. >> reporter: members of congress trying to explain health care proposals are running into opposition. fears the government is spending too much money for systemic change. >> why on earth are you producing a health care bill that has so many pages in it and such complex wording that we can't understand it? >> in fact, thursday's senate negotiators announced they w

brian ross has the details. >> reporter: this operation in may was considered a turning point. as soldiers and d.e.a. agents landed in taliban-controlled poppy fields in the helmand province. what followed was a three-day pitched battle, to cut off the drug lord that provided money and fighters to the taliban. he and 60 of his men were killed. until recently, the u.s. military and the cia had ignored and sometimes worked with such wide-open, flourishing heroin business that help the taliban. >> you've got to try to shut off the fuel. it's all really based on drug money. we've shut off all of the other primary funds. >> reporter: now, any drug trafficker tied to the taliban is in the crosshairs of the u.s. military. the report by the senate foreign relations committee says the military does not authorize targeted assassinations away from the battlefield. but there are no other restrictions. and while most of the country considered part of the battlefield, especially in the poppy growing areas, the u.s. military has killed or captured several on the hit list. the senate report al

brian ross joins us now. brian? >> reporter: charlie, as the vice president was criticizing the release of the cia report, abc news learned that some of the most shocking allegations were kept secret by the obama administration. of the 109 pages in the report, 36 are fully blacked out and another 30 substantially black out. a senior official who had read the full report says amount the portions kept secret are the inspector general's findings on the deaths of three detainees in iraq and afghanistan. the fact that the cia could not adequately determine the whereabouts of several more missing detainees. and there were fears the waterboarding of 9/11 mastermind khaleed sheikh mohammed almost killed him. he was waterboarded 183 times. the top republican on the house intelligence committee says he thinks more should be made public. >> at this point in time, my bias would be towards releasing more information. >> reporter: it was clear today that the partisan battle lines have been drawn over the cia, led on one side by t

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that's brian ross of abc news. brian: he comes over a lot. he's friendly with us.: one of the few. brian: he also says that it would be a disaster, clearly a p.r. disaster at the very least, for leon panetta to walk away because of this. gretchen: if you're leon panetta, do you really want this job right now? do you want to be in charge of the c.i.a. which you have the speaker of the house calling you liars, number one, and really -- they didn't really ever settle that whole thing. they sort of let her skirt away with that. then you have now an investigation coming? dave: into our interrogators, the members trying to keep our country safe. gretchen: then he's going to be responsible for keeping this country safe? i don't think i'd want to be leon panetta now. brian: many people believe he shouldn't have been named to the job, has no experience. this could really cut his knees out. we'll see. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. here's what's straight ahead. doctors hesitant to give their prescription pad over to the government. can you blame them? why the preside

brian ross, abc news, new york. >> most economists are applauding president obama's decision to reappoint federal reserve. they credit bernanke to taking aggressive action to avert an economic catastrophe during the financial meltdown. >> the cash for clunker program has come and gone but has left a mountain of paperwork behind. the government's computer system just couldn't keep up, so dealers will have a little more time to submit their sales. >> reporter: cash federal reserve clunkers expired at 8:00 but dealers have until noon today to file paperwork to get reimbursed. >> i can tell it's actually it was this morning. >> reporter: with the red tape so time consuming, many dealers only accepted trade-ins until last night. >> it takes over a half hour to process every deal. it's very time consuming. we're just waiting for our money. >> reporter: well more than half a million cars have been sold. >> i think it's a great program, getting some of these old clunker cars off the road. it would be great to get better gas mileage to save the environment. >> reporter: but cash for some for the a

here's brian ross. >> reporter: this operation in may was considered a turning point as soldiers ands landed in taliban-controlled poppy fields in the helmond province. what followed was a three-day battle. against the powerful drug lord who provided money and power to the taliban. he and 60 of his men were killed. until recently the u.s. military and cia had ignored and sometimes worked with such wide open, flourishing heroin businesses that helped the taliban. >> you've got to try to shut off the fuel. it's all really based on drug money. we shut off all the other primary funds. >> reporter: now any drug trafficker tied to taliban is in the cross hairs of the u.s. military. the report by the senate foreign relations committee says the military does not authorize targeted assassinations away from the battlefield but there are no other restrictions. and with most of the country considered part of the battlefield, especially in the poppy growing areas, the u.s. military has already killed or captured several on the hit list. >> what we realized clearly was was that we weren't going to

abc's chief investigative correspondent, brian ross, reports. >> reporter: the report says cia officers told 9/11 mastermind, khalid shaikh mohammed, we're going to kill your children, if anything else happens to the united states. in an attempt to break one of the men who attacked the "uss cole," the cia put a handgun and a running power drill next to the head of ra shiri. >> it shows an agency that was entirely out of control. and unfortunately, it was out of control by design. >> reporter: in another case, the report says cia interrogators staged a mock execution, firing off a gun, and using a hooded cia officer to pose as a detainee who had been shot to death. >> we now have a document, that the world can read, that shows in excruciating and disgusting detail, that the united states violated its own beliefs. and turned to the dark side when it didn't have to. >> reporter: the report also says the extensive use of the waterboarding technique, demonstrated here, was well-known and fully approved by then-attorney general, john ashcroft. quote, the attorney general was informed the wate

don't miss the brian ross report later on "gma." >>> it was a tough night for thousands of firefighters battling flames on several fronts in california. by far the most dangerous this fire in the santa cruz mountains south of san francisco. which has scorched nearly 3,000 acres and is still burning out of control. about 2,500 people were forced out of their homes when the flames became too intense. firefighters are doing all they can. >> we could see it spreading so quickly because the wind was howling. >> hand crew, bulldozers, aircraft, we're throwing everything we have at it but we've got to get out ahead of it and get an anchor point and work the perimeter line around it to get containment. >> adding to the challenge the fire is burning in a remote rugged area where the vegetation is tinder dry because of the extended drought. >>> there is better news this morning about a fire burning 100 miles to the east of the santa cruz fire. it has burned about 3,000 acres near livermore but expected to be fully contained later day. some of the planes there were diverted to get this blaze under

brian ross reports. >> reporter: for an investment firm that claimed $65 billion in assets, frank dipascali always an unlikely choice of chief financial officer. he had no college, had no previous financial experience. but what he admitted in court that he did have was a criminal mind. in pleading guilty to the ten felony counts, dipascali described his role in carrying out the madoff ponzi scheme for at least two decades. he said all the transactions he recorded were fake. quote, it was all fictitious. it was wrong and i knew it was wrong at the time, unquote. >> i believe that frank knew as much as bernie did. and then as time went on, i noticed that they spent more and more time to the in the office and frank was always intertwined with bernie. he would call me to check his calendars to see who was coming in. >> reporter: dipascali was paid $3 million a year to help madoff carry out the crime. he had a sprawling estate in suburban new jersey and a corporate american express platinum card in which he charged thousands of dollars in personal items including trips to the bahamas for his son

house correspondent jake tapper in a moment but we begin with chief investigative correspondent brian rossbrian, good morning. >> reporter: it's been a very ugly week as the rhetoric about the president and threats against him have deeply worried the people who track this country's hate groups. outside the towering federal building in los angeles thursday, police surrounded the man driving this red volkswagen who was suspected of making threats against the president. hours later, they used tear gas and a taser to remove the man who they say has mental problems buit was another case in what some see as a very disturbing pattern. >> i don't think that these are simply people who are mentally ill or, you know, kind of off their rockers. i think that you know in a very real sense they represent a geine reaction, a genuine backlash against obama. >> reporter: the contentious debate over health care has helped to bring the vitriol into the open. rush limbaugh compared a logo for the plan to a nazi symbol. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: and the i

chief investigative reporter, brian ross, is here this morning. you have the hort. what's in it? >> reporter: good morning, chris. many of the pages are blacked out, top secret. it reveals a laundry list of abusive tactics used against high-value al qaeda targets. they told khalid shaikh mohammed, we will kill your children in u.s. custody, if anything else happens to the u.s. there is the suspect responsible for the bombing of the "uss cole." they told him to bring his mother in. they wanted to suggest to him there would be sexual abuse to his mother. they used a power drill and a gun, put it next to his head. essentially, a threat of death. as well, there were mock executions and extensive waterboarding of many of the 300 cia captured suspects. >> a lot of detail about what was done. now, the question becomes accountability. how high do you think this goes? >> reporter: absolutely. cording to this report, many at the high levels of government, congress, and the attorney general, john ashcroft, were aware of the repeated use of waterboarding. ashcroft knew 119 times it was used

abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here. >> reporter: frank dipascali was madoff's rand money and he plea was part of a negotiation to make him name ne and details that madoff refused to divulge. frank dipascali was always an unlikely choice. he had no college and no previous financial experience. but what he admitted in court that he did have was a criminal mind. in pleading guilty to ten felony counts, dipascali described his role in creating millions of phony stock trades that deceived madeoffs's investors for decades. "it was all fictitious. it was wrong and i knew it was wrong at the time," the 52-year-old dipascali said, near tears. >> i believe that frank knew as much as bernie did and as time went on, i noticed that snent more and more time together in the office and frank was always intertwined with bernie. >> reporter: dipascali was paid up to $4 million a year to help madoff carry out the crime and he flaunted his wealth. he had a sprawling estate in suburban new jersey. a huge yacht with a captain all paid for by the company. and a corporate american exp

ross the nation. expect any tonight? >> well, brian, we expect to see the same thing tonight. let me show you why we have people lined up all the way to the front of the building on campus here at towson university. they are down the sidewalk and along the street. we have people from both sides of this issue, for and against. they have their seibs and are pasng out literature, they have bull horns, chanting, yelling trying to get their point across. this is the first in the state of maryland on this particular issue to attract a statewide audience. it is also the first meeting like this held by a maryland senator. now at 7 p.m., senator cardin is hosting this meeting to talk about the issue. among the groups out here protesting today, the maryland health care for america. baltimore republican party, americans for pros peck perty and the maryland taxpayers association are a few of the groups out here. in a few minutes senator card listen address the media and the meeting will start. things are heated out here right now and will continue to be heated throughout the rest of the k

ross and tjx will also continue gaining share. can they drive profit growth as those sales materialize? brian tunic thinks they will. >> t.j. and ross are at or near all-time highs here. they're a good place for investors to hide. they've been hiding there for the last couple of quarters now. i think the good news is we will see more upward earnings revisions. >> still, tunick says the easy money has been made with the retail stocks up more than 50% from the march lows, as you see there on your screen. they've outperformed the overall markets by about 10%. he says to drive profit growth going forward there's still some cost cutting that can be done. inventories are the major theme there. they're running down about 10% to 20% versus last year. melissa. >> great report, rebecca jarvis. thanks so much. for more on back to school season i am joined by senior vice president at bree & murray carrot & company. and also james rousseau vice president of global consumer insight at the nielsen company. thank you to both of you for joining us. james, let me start with you. everyone's act like this is going to be a horrendous back to sch

join dave ross tomorrow morning for our final installment of dave versus dave. brian ap up the enright after this. -- edge right after this.  >>> the friday forecast is so sweet. we just got to look at it again. tomorrow 86 degrees. it's going to be a refreshing cool start to your friday. we do heat things up gradually and it does appear we'll have quite a hot stretch lasting from sunday through at least tuesday or wednesday of next week. most people won't be complaining about this great

brian mccann and jeff francoeur and many others. pitch out. ross holding.much but the fredi gonzalez might have a hit on here already loading by two. slapped up the middle for a base hit. it will be first and second. one out with the pitcher coming out. three hits and a walk given up by stammen to the first eight batters in the game. and the pitcher chris volstad will be next. he is four for 38. and he is a good bunter with six evacuate sophieses. >> >> bob: lays off the fastball. up and away. dunn really in close at first. ball two, same pitch. >> rob: well, he 10s to nibble. you can't nibble in the league or the other league. you have to throw strikes early in the count to get to your out pitches. >> bob: this is a man trying to make an out. >> rob: i mean, he is giving you an out and you are not going to take it. and he is throwing seven pitch strikes for the first nine hitters. he is down to 2-0. and struggling in this inning. >> rob: last four innings, four and a 1/3rd, he has given up 11 hits. not good. you got to start challenging these guys. knockin