for the long term and that was lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced studies. now about some of the specific ways in which things have changed here in the united states since september eleventh two thousand and one and i'm just talking out of two actual policies that have been implemented to deal with the threat and the new face of reality how those policies contributed to a safer world with fewer terrorists or the more people than ever worried that the u.s. has more enemies than i had before our g. correspondent marina port and i examined that part of the story in this report. ten years ago america was brock's light on terror. nearly three thousand innocent lives were lost and if nine eleven the world was born. our war on terror. begins with. but it does not in their. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found stopped and defeated washington's military reach began with a high pro-sumer bin ladin america strikes back afghanistan as only with bombs and missiles from the air and then a preemptive pounding into iraq. in the decade

talk about it and that was lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies. all right so it's really important angles to look at this from human rights violations are taking place in abundance freedoms for americans have been cut back and yet there are a whole lot of people unsure about how and what we have achieved earlier i spoke to the investigative journalist and author of the guantanamo files and he worthington he was in london and to start things off i asked him a pretty simple question where exactly is this country ten years later post nine eleven her system. well it's just a masterly we have a whole load of problematic legacy issues really left by the bush administration which the obama administration has found a very difficult to deal with one side of the most kind of iconoclast presume the soldiers will not help the soldiers terrorists were not held as criminals people were held as enemy combatants without rights president obama has said. it remains a unique and offensive way of holding people nobody else who claims to be a civilized country does s

from our new york studio is lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer a senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies hey there i want to start off really simple question i know this is an area that you've studied what have we learned and where are we still lacking. well we've learned that the threat no learns very quickly how to adapt i don't believe that we've invested well in this big trillion dollars we spent over the past ten years because there's the old american adage you could lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink so while i think that we've paid a lot of money relating to conducting operations overseas afghanistan i do believe we should have declared victory in zero three and left iraq the intel was not there to justify the action and now at this point we're looking at these new threats were were not is well prepared as we should and let me let me answer that in two parts first. we've made a lot of intelligence reforms they change the community bad resources but they've not change the culture that's why you saw the near miss of the thighs all shazad. as you kind of alluded to the

center of strategic and international studies. i thank you for braving the first day of school and bad weather and this very hectic week we have in advance of front of us. we are honored to have t.s.a. administrator john pistole to speak. since 9/11 and its creation has been the center and focal point and discussions about what the appropriate role is for homeland security and in particular transportation security. we know t.s.a. many years, we relate t.s.a. that the american public has to the individual who does the screening at the airport and unfortunately that's not all that it does and the portfolio is much more broader and deeper than that in itself. and in advance of the t.s.a. has made over the years, despite the criticisms and the media focusing on where they went wrong, the advances that t.s.a. has made is quite remarkable. one of the things going forward in this threat we are facing and see increase in transnational threats and going to cross our borders is this continued struggle between what the right balance is between privacy and security and t.s.a. is at the forefront of that debate. every day, individual officers are in

advanced international studies at johns hopkins university. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, ladies and shot him in. my name is fred starr chairman of the caucus institute. the program today is cosponsored by the center for strategic and international studies and i am pleased to introduce our co-convener and friend from the sis, anger questions. let me also note that there are various books and studies on today's topics, some of them free. and these are available out right after the program. on the 20th of july in chennai, india, secretary of state clinton had this day. she said, i want to be very clear, the united states is committed to afghanistan and to the region. we will be there. yes, we are beginning to withdraw combat troops and transfer responsibility for security to the afghan people, a process that will be completed in 2014. but, drawing down our troops is not the same as believing or disengaging. and she continued, historically the nations of south and central asia were connect it to each other and the rest of the continent by a sprawling trading network. let's work together to create a new silk road, not a single, but an international web of network of economic and transfer connection. she t