you have centcom. fricom doesn't have a home base in africa. their home base is in germany. the african capital is instant uttgaard.st they tried hard to get the algerians to host them. the algerians said no. andalk about libyan access the people they call kidnappers. they have people on the ground and how does that work? wereth of these operations a combined operation between intelligence agencies, the rougher end of the cia, black ops, and military working for the cia working together with the joint special operations command. u.s. navy seals and seal team six work closely together with white house approval at the top level that accelerate their plans. i think we will see a lot more of this kind of thing. four years ago -- >> you said that the legal side is murky. you don't think that will stop america from carrying on these operations. >> they have prepared themselves. that libyans said was lawfully done. >> an act of war. >> indeed. they are saying this is an infringement of sovereignty. deal with them, but the americans do it. >> would have to stop here. -- we have to s

, you may be finished with centcom, but centcom's not finished with you. that doesn't mean we or the rest of the joint force is going to draw down precipitously anywhere else in the world with. you can go a lot of places. couple that with maritime prepositioning forces, you've got mobility. you can answer a broad range of requirements. so i would say that we do not see this as, you know, well, we've got to draw back from a lot of other areas in order to do this. it's not going to happen. we will still maintain presence in those other areas as we go forward. >> okayment. >> sir, you already spoke of your desire to preserve the -- [inaudible] capabilities as much as possible. the co-comes around the world continues to increase. what is the marine corps' intention on enhancing its soft capabilities or distributing? >> we're going to protect marsoc, but we're going to freeze it at its current level of growth. we feel it's about right for the current agreements we have, and we're going to pursue aggressively the integration of our forward-deployed muse with spe

anthony zinni former commander- in-chief of centcom and michael hayden come a former cia director, nowth the turnoff group. >> live from washington, d.c., former defense secretary william cohen. ambassador john negroponte, first u.s. director of national intelligence as well as u.s. ambassador of iraq and the united nations and many more post i should add. nice to see you. tva sampling of recent coverage on syria. all the pundits interviewed currently have ties to defense and intelligence contractors, investment firms with a significant defense or intelligence focus or ties to consulting firms with a focus on defense, intelligence. general jack keane, for example, is on the board of general dynamics. general anthony zinni is on the board of be ae systems. joining us now from san francisco is kevin connor, director and cofounder of the public accountability initiative and co-author of the report called, "conflicts of interest in the syria debate." lay out what you found. outhe report really maps the extent to which the policy conversation on the airwaves around syria was really dominate

listen now to tom clancey with former centcom advisor anthony zinni talking about a book they wrote togetheray this. >> the reason i try to do the commander series was to give the american people an idea of what kind of people we have out there commanding our kids. for the most part they're brilliant guys. >> a lot of people don't know clancey had a lot of his books turned into video games. his estimated worth, harris, was in excess of $3 million. >> people in entertainment and politics. >> the response has been overwhelming. i mentioned alec baldwin played the first jack ryan in the hunt for red october. baldwin issued this post on twitter saying, quote: rest in peace, the great writer tom clancey. a real gentleman of the old school. former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld posted this quoting detailed and suspenseful tom clancey's espionage and military science thrillers will stand among america's captivating works. we know clancey once owned part of the baltimore orioles. today the orioles issued a statement in part tom a proud baltimoreian he was a regular presence at ohler park and e

before you became a centcom middle east expert, your first job as a general was to run the asia-pacific desk. in fact, that's how many of us came to know you. that is certainly the other open-ended power question, geopolitical question for our time is what china's rise means to american leadership. and our conversation is often paralyzed on the one hand, the only choices on the menu seemed to be sort of pass the form of engagement of the chinese to do as they will for the other sort of null set is sort of a rip rivas the cold war containment, when obviously, neither of those answers is going to meet the challenge, both of china's economic rise, but also its military and geopolitical influence. how come we can't solve this puzzle? if you got any answers, please advanced now. be back unhappily, i am out of government. there is no clear path on this. when i was the principal director for asia-pacific affairs several years ago, it is very interesting at the time as chinese officials came to washington. china was really embarking, really beginning to emerge -- force is not the term i need. a

before you became a centcom middle east expert, your first job as a general was to run the asia-pacific desk. in fact, that's how many of us came to know, came to owe now. came to know you. it is a certainly the other open-ended power question -- >> right. >> -- geopolitical question -- >> it is. >> -- for our time, is what china's rise means to american leadership. and our conversation here at home about that is often paralyzed on the one hand the sort of only choices on the menu seem to be that sort of passive form of engagement, allowing the chinese to do as they will or the other sort of null set is the, is sort of a reprieve of cold war containment when, obviously, neither of those answers is going to meet the challenge both of china's economic rise, but also its military and geopolitical influence. how come we can't solve this puzzle? and if you've got any answers, please, advance them now. >> well, happily, i'm out of government now. >> so you're free to -- >> to a point, exactly. because there is no clear path on this. when i was the principal director for asia-pacific affairs s

and at the same time, when here in the house, we have centcom proposal myself after compromise before the shutdown occurred, down to the senate, which normally in a functioning senate would have the senate, if they didn't like what we proposed, send back an alternative. and at that point, after an alternative is passed in the senate, then the speaker can appoint negotiators, called conferees. the head of the majority in the senate, harry reid, could appoint negotiators and then come together and work out an agreement and then that comes to the house and senate for an up-or-down vote. straight up-or-down vote. but the senate was playing games. it is now clear that there was no intention of having any agreement that the conventional wisdom in this town for the last three years saying, gee, if there is a shutdown, then republicans will likely lose the majority in the next election, so whatever it takes to shut down the government, go ahead. that was borne out by the fact at the first 21 mainstream stories completely faulted the republicans, failing to point out the compromises that were