they brought the motion on behalf of the bureau of prisons. ey report to the department of justice the attorney general the deputy attorney general in charge of it james coal in 2002 criticized in the legal times and other periodicals the bush administration on the war on terror. >> she said her new mission is going to be to work on behalf of political prisoners and radicals and she can't fight the law but she is going to try. while she is they say dying of cancer. now that she has been free. i got to run. i got to run. >> it is unbelievable. >> at the end of the day eric holder is responsible. department of justice is responsible. they signed the order. >> we asked about the bureau of prisons statement but they said none would be forthcoming. >>> if a woman can't pass the military fitness test is she really tough enough to be a marine. fair and balanced debate. why has the full weight of justice department fallen on the poor? >> in every count you are assisting in any way let's go to them. all of those are opportunities. really living in them.

>> you know, megyn, two things, one had to come from the director of bureau prison. e director of the bureau prisons reports to the deputy attorney general of the united states. the national lawyers guild, which she was a member of, championing her cause, cheering for her. prison is a lousy place, she said? eric holder modified the policies on the releases about eight months ago. she then falled under the criteria for release, and you know, she's -- no contriction on her end. with her statements, has she said what she did was wrong? communicating and conveying messages from a terrorist to violate a cease-fire? no, but the director of the bureau of prisons. >> charles samuels jr. >> reports to the deputy attorney general, reports directly to eric holder. that's the way it works. >> no way she got out without eric holder knowing. >> the bureau of prisons working with eric holder's doj to try to get this woman, who is a convicted supporter of a convicted terrorist, one of the worst convicted terrorists we have in the country, to get her out early, based on compassion, be

the director of the bureau of prisons who reports to the deputy general of the united states signed off on the release. she walks out of prison, order signed and executed. she's out december 31. four counts of felonies including conspiring with terrorists. she gave information from the blind sheikh to islamic jihadist groups. she did it intentionally. even tried to garble the messaging being taped and she knew it was being taped. she made a mockery of the court when she was first sentenced to 20 months and said, i could do that standing on my head. as you mentioned thousands of people are dead around the world because of this terrorist. his lawyer stopped being the lawyer and became the activist for his position. that's a dangerous thing. she's an officer of the court. >> no longer. i want to clarify this. the blind sheikh, among other evil deeds is unleashing hell in egypt. people are slaughtering each other. he goes to prison and can't call the shots but there was a cease-fire in the battle. she came out with withis messag from him to the people in egypt saying -- it showed he wanted

and now to the latest regarding whistle blower john kiriakou we're now learning that the bureau of prisons is making a concerted effort to stop. from sending letters from the prison you may remember that was the first member of the cia to publicly acknowledge that torture was an official u.s. policy under the bush administration in two thousand and twelve he was can. for providing the name of an officer involved in the cia's rendition program to a reporter and he began serving a thirty month prison sentence in february of last year soon after began writing what's been going letters from loreto in which he communicates with his supporters and talks about his prison experiences the letters published on firedoglake were very descriptive and often revealed the corruption and illegalities taking place behind prison walls but in august of two thousand and thirteen kiriakou abruptly stopped writing after the prison a ministration informed him that they would be able to serve he would be able to serve the final part of his sentence in a halfway house but this was only if he agreed to stop sending

our latest regarding whistleblower john terry on sale now learning that the bureau of prisons is making a concerted effort to stop carry on to from sending letters from prison. you may remember i carry on to was the first member of the caa to publicly acknowledge that torture was an official us policy under the bush administration in two thousand trial he was convicted for providing the name of an officer involved in the c i a's rendition program to a reporter. he began serving a thirty month prison sentence in february of last year soon after theory argue began writing what's the point of letters from the red owl and that she communicates with his supporters and talks about his prison experience as the letters published on fire dog lake. when the script didn't often revealed the correction in the legalities taking place behind prison walls. but in august of twenty thirteen carry on to abruptly stop writing. after the prison administration informed him that he would be able to serve the final part of his sentence in a halfway house but this was only if he agreed to stop sending the lett

the federal bureau of prisons will even be telling inmates good the new opportunity. a deputy attorney general james cole says it's the best way of dealing with an exploding prison population. >>> this morning the air force cheating scandal keeps growing. officials say the number of nuclear missile launch officers now under investigation has ballooned to 92. that's nearly a fifth of the entire nuclear force. 40 are suspected of actually cheating on a proficiency exam by getting answers in advance. the remaining 52 were allegedly aware of the cheating but failed to report it to their superiors. >>> all right, wall street gearing up for another loss, i'm sad to say. dow futures down 70 points. no major news behind it. it's this generally negative sentiment we've been seeing all year. investors looking at more than just one trading day, they're looking at the entire month. and according to the january barometer, how stocks do in january predicts how they're going to do for the year. right now it's right about 90% of the time. if it holds true again, 2014 could be tough. t

the timing of all this is a little bit fuzzy in part because the bureau of prisons refuses to comment. i had heard from madoff in early december around the fifth anniversary of arrest. then nothing until a few days ago when he e-mailed to say he was sorry he'd been out of touch, that he'd been in the duke university medical center after suffering from a heart attack and kidney disease problems. took us a couple more days to clarify that. the bureau of prisons website says he's back at the medium security facility in north carolina where he's a little less than five years into his 150 year sentence. in his latest e-mail he says in addition to his heart problems, he has stage 4 kidney disease. that is a step away from kidney failure but we understand madoff is not undergoing dialysis. bernie madoff is 75 years old. guys? >> is he on our list of 25 most influential? >> i don't know. we have a list of 200 people on our website right now. go to cnbc.com because for our 25th anniversary, we are putting this list together to try and determine who the 25 most influential people have been in t

in fact the inspector general said the bureau of public, bureau of prisons budget is at the top of its list of management challenges, the top of the list. what is this increasing prison population doing to your other priorities? >> the bureau prisons budget takes up roughly a third of the justice department's entire budget and it precludes us from doing a variety of other things on this committee are interested in. those are the interest that i share. our ability to help our state and local partners with regard to grants is impacted. our ability to hire more prosecutors, more agents and more support personnel is impacted. we have to fund the prison system to make sure that the people within those systems are safe, that we provide constitutional care to people who are incarcerated but unless we take a think a fundamental look that has been suggested by use senator durbin senator lee and senator paul unless we take that fundamental look we will have the prison system that impedes their ability to do the kinds of things the american people expect the justice department to do. i'm very con

. >> it had to come from the director of bureau of prisons. rector of the bureau of prisons reports directly to the deputy attorney general of the united states. we know that the national lawyers guild upon which she was an active member of. >> they were pushing her all along. >> chopper i don't knowing her cause and cheering for her. prison is is a lousy place. she said eric holder modified the policies on these releases about 8 months ago. no way she got out without eric holder knowing. this it's impossible. >> funny how people whose main cause is hating the united states draw a lot of sympathy from a certain group of people internationally. desmond tutu felt bit to weigh in on this on her behalf. what is it about hating the united states makes so sympathetic to you. >> she gets out and she didn't apologize for anything. she says we have been fighting this for months. i'm surprise it's taken this long to get out. we have been fighting this for months. she gets go home and relax in the comfort of her home. 18 months to live. could be years. wh

the legislation before us also funds the complete activation of the berlin prison, just as it funds the bureau of prisons. in new hampshire, that funding is going to allow us to get to a full complement of about 340 local jobs in northern new hampshire, very critical to the northern part of our state. it's going to provide a $40 million annual boost to the economy in northern new hampshire. and i'm especially appreciative to the chairwoman of the committee and all of the members for the effort to help the fishing men and women in new hampshire who have just been devastated by declining fish populations. the bill

the legislation before us also funds the complete activation of the berlin prison, just as it funds the bureau of prisons. in new hampshire, that funding is going to allow us to get to a full complement of about 340 local jobs in northern new hampshire, very critical to the northern part of our state. it's going to provide a $40 million annual boost to the economy in northern new hampshire. and i'm especially appreciative to the chairwoman of the committee and all of the members for the effort to help the fishing men and women in new hampshire who have just been devastated by declining fish populations. the bill authorizes $75 million in disaster relief for those members of our fishing community, so many of whom have had their whole livelihoods taken away from them. and this disaster relief money is going to help them during these difficult times, help them to recover, to rebuild what i believe is one of the most critical economic sack ters still in new england. it's one of the oldest, certainly. i'm also pleased that this bill reverses some of the reckless cuts from sequestration and instead

the bureau of prisons is declining to comment on madoff's condition or his treatment. n after being hospitalized briefly for a time last month after suffering a heart attack. carl? >> scott, thank you for that. our scott cohn back at hq. >>> dow's down 28. let's get to bob pisani on the floor. hey, bob. >> good morning, everybody. earnings holding up things, norfolk, united technology doing okay. ibm is the real link. ibm down about eight bucks, put up the chart on ibm and there you see down seven. that's 50 points in the dow. the dow would be positive if it wasn't for ibm. it's been a rough quarter and very rough guidance for ibm. i'll put up the full screen and show you very simply what the problem is with ibm. they've been trying to become a services and software business. how's that going? here's how it's going. global tech services, this is the biggest segment, they run the data centers and the cloud business. down 4% on the revenues. year over year. global business services that's the consulting business, that's they are trying to grow that, only up 1%. software w

has billions of people in prison literally and about half the people in federal prison are there for drug crimes according to recent numbers from the bureau of justice statistics the story also has selfies the quintessential gangster expression of our fame and self obsessed culture it's got facebook and it to a social media site that is constantly being abused by gangsters. posting pictures of themselves doing illegal things like raping girls or posing with stuff they've stolen facebook is also now being constantly used to catch and imprison gangsters to as a result it's a super gangster story and the jail administrators and it explain the mentality well they say it's a constant game to see how they can one up authorities or one up the system yep that's american gangster in a nutshell this story is so gangster what one that you could swap out the thug for another kind of gangster in our country the politician you could almost see one of those selfish living large gangsters posting a selfie with cash to facebook to write except the only difference would be they'd be in a different kind of suit they'd be in the oval office and better than a