a plane, carrying a family of american missionaries is shot down in a drug operation the cia participated in. mother and baby are killed. tonight, we reveal what really happened. it's a "nightline" investigation. >>> and, er haiti. we're imbedded with the american doctors working overtime inside the quake zone, confronted by a situation that is a very long way from home. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is "nightline," february 3rd, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we begin tonight with the arrest of motivational speaker and self-proclaimed spiritual guru james arthur ray. he was charged today with three counts of manslaughter. one for each person who died in a sweat lodge ceremony last fall at his spiritual retreat. dan harris first investigated the fatalities and this suspect for "nightline" in october and he's got tonight's report. >> reporter: it is a stunning fall from grace for a man who was once one of the fastest rising stars in the $11 billion a year self-help industry. one o

>> the problem was that the cia was apparently lying to its own director. >> reporter: today, the cia was accused of an almost nine-year long campaign to mislead and stonewall congress and others about how and why the rules were broken. >> if there is ever an example of justice delayed and denied, this is it. >> reporter: the cia insists the entire episode was handled thoroughly and professionally, and that there was no cover-up. to the outrage of the dead woman's parents. >> i want somebody to tell me why they killed my girl. >> reporter: today, the cia said its nine-year long investigation had determined that 16 cia employees should be disciplined, including, we learned, the woman then in charge of counternarcotics. many of the 16 are no longer with the cia, and one of them told us that his punishment was a letter of discipline to be removed in one year. that's the punishment in his role for the wrongful death of two innocent americans. >> after nine years. thanks, brian. >>> and now, from pakistan, military convoys struck a roadside bomb, and killed three american special operation

they were followed by the cia. one cia report accused him of setting up a happiness hotel in mexico. and ram dass listed we should've hired the cia as a press agent. [laughter] >> so there was all kinds of incredible research. but i don't really get into. the other question about the prison project. there's someone in the audience, rick, who actually did a fantastic follow-up study where he went -- well, good friday, right? and he looked at -- the problem with that research i think if i understand it right, was that, yeah, they trip with these prisoners, larry and a graduate student, and they spent a lot of time with them counseling them after they got out of prison. and sure, they reduce recidivism rates. if you just let people and didn't give them drugs, spent that much time helping them and counseling them, he would reduce the recidivism rate. . . scientific fraud and guerra in the recidivism rate was related to lsd but there is no difference at all and he claimed that there was. actually i did a follow-up study

in defenders draw on the history to say no the cia is part of a long history. george washington had a secret fund of $1 million appropriated by congress but that is total discretion to pay spa is or more of them ransom hostages from the barbary pirates, so that's the historical metaphor for a simple lawrence houston in 1947 when they are setting up the cia and he's the clever council says no, we are just doing what the george washington did but he didn't make a reference to leslie growth, the project, he was strolling on the father of the country. how do you respond to that? what is your meeting of washington? >> guest: you said it was secretly appropriated what is appropriated by congress. it's true that and more time shortcuts are taken, extraordinary measures are taken, in an emergency and versions of powers are granted, the constitution is suspended in part. that always happens in the wartime but after the other wartime, there was a return to the constitutional norms afterwards and the president washington was very good at observing the constitution as a pr

some of the cia offender stroll on that history to say no, the cia is part of a long history. george washington had a secret fund of $1 million appropriated by congress but that is total discretion to pay spy is or more often hostages from the pirates, so that's the historical metaphor that for example lawrence houston in 1947 when they are sitting at the cia and he's the clipper council says we are doing with george washington did. he didn't make a reference to leslie groves, the manhattan project, he was drawing on the father of the country. how do you respond to that? >> guest: first of all you say it was secretly appropriated but it was appropriated by congress. it's true that in the war time, short cuts are taken. extraordinary measures are taken. in an emergency emergency powers are granted. the constitution is suspended in part. that always happens in war time but after the other war time there is a return to the constitutional norms afterwards and president washington was very good at observing the constitution as the president. after the civil war when lincoln suspend

the intelligence committee because the cia was lying to him. i hope it can be done in various efforts have had partial success. >> host: even the problem you have written so eloquently about the founders were facing how to restrain power and set up a government for what the citizens needed but that was not too powerful or bring back the king. that collor problem we still face it today but if we had succeeded over the long term to democratize policy making whether the expansion of the vote, but policy debate, look at the difference of the policy debate at had ronald reagan doing more in and central america for example,, did not prevent the mass slaughter by the security forces, there is a different discussion of the bay of pigs or the united states about iran. i look at it as a democratization of the process working in the other direction from "bomb power" and total control. >> guest: it is true. iran-contra was punished when it took place. and people are still by and large excluded from the discussion. we are still not allowed into the intersta

the suspect and victims new each other. >>> a terror warning from the cia. the intelligence agency says al qaeda may attempt an attack in the next three to six months. cia director leon panetta says they're deploying operative to carry out attacks from inside the country. al qaeda has clean recruits with no trail of terrorist contacts. >>> the man accused of trying to blow up a flight on christmas day is cooperating with authorities. they say abdul my tall lab has been talking about his contacts in yemen. the fbi reportedly per swuded his family to convince the young nigerian man that he'd be treated fairly in the u.s. courts if he worked with federal agents. >>> today aig will be dishing out another round of bonuses. the payouts will total about $100 million. aig came under fire last year forgiving out bonuses when a taxpayer bailout was keeping the company afloat. this year workers agreed to smaller bonuses to get them a month earlier. aig will use the savings to help pay back the government. >>> 33 degrees. have you looked out theindow yet this morning? i

the cia used in the waterboarding of some individuals up to 175 times or more. at that point, i reputation took such a hit that our diplomacy was suffering greatly and the congress recognized this bipartisan committees recognize this, during the campaign of the last presidency, the candidates recognize this. what we see is the legal advisers also recognize this. they said we have to recognize that there is a reputation for lawfulness that the u.s. benefits from. we are at our strongest diplomatic league when we lead by moral example and when we don't, we weaken and further away all of that economic and military might and it cost the united states too much unilaterally to do all the things it wants to do what we can get the cooperation of other countries if we're seen as a lawbreaker. so this is reputational concern as well. there is also a general concern for the long-term stability of the legal system.

the cia director leon panetta warned in a hearing he has new concerns about the extremist network. >> al-qaeda is adapting their methods in ways that often times make it difficult to detect. >> reporter: the cia director went on to tell lawmakers that he doesn't believe there's another nine eleven style attack in the works. he thinks now the terrorist group is trying to carry out smaller attacks that require little training and simple devices. he pointed to the failed attempt to blow up a plane over detroit on christmas day as an example of that strategy. senior obama administration officials tell cbs news the suspect in that attack is now cooperating with investigators after the u.s. brought his family members to meet with him. intelligence director blair said the government had made changes to prevent another attack like the one on christmas day because he himself warned the question is not if there will be an attack but when. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> michael jackson's personal physician is expected to surrender and face charges. los angeles prosecutors plan to file man

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in a moment, the dumbest things of the week starring a congresswoman who wants to put some cia peoplen jail. don't miss this coming next. toyota has done a lot of search and a lot of work, and we've been open 24 hours a day -- 7 days a week. and we've made a tremendous amount of progress. you know, safety and reliability is top priority. i mean i got a family, too. i got a mother, a grandmother, kids, and we all drive in these cars. i am 100% confident in the product. [ male announcer ] we're grateful to technicians like ronny who are helping us provide you with safe and reliable vehicles. for more information, please visit toyota.com. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, the dumbest things of the week. with us on the dumb patrol red eye goot guy greg gutfeld and juliet hudy. i have to set this up. 60 minutes investigation this coming sunday good piece. some dope and we use that phrase literally dope. tries to sell defense department secrets to the chinese and it's caught on tape. roll it. ♪ >> are you sure that's okay? >> yeah. >> are you sure? >> i'm very, very, very reticent

the most deadly attack against cia personnel in decades. these three event are reminders of the ongoing threat the nation faces from within and without. and the challenges and danger with which the intelligence community must deal on a daily basis. we've been briefed on the continuing terrorist threat, and i want to thank director muller for our discussion yesterday. i received a lengthy followup briefing on the status of ongoing terrorism investigations and intelligence we've received as part of those investigations. i know this is a very sensitive matter. and will ask if members who have questions relating to counterterrorism operations will hold them until we can go to a classified session at the end. the written testimony submitted to us today provide an important reminder stating that, and i quote, "the recent successful and attempted attacks represent an evolving threat in which it is even more difficult to identify and track small numbers of terrorists recently recruited and trained in short-term plots than to find and follow terrori

in the book makes a very strong argument that the cia interrogation program was the reason that there was not another attack against us after 9/11. but it was pretty remarkable. most people agree was pretty remarkable. there was never another attack, has not been one since then. he argues that it's because of the cia interrogation program and that when president obama came into office and dismantle that program, it was really a very dangerous and risky thing to do. he also has a very, very interesting argument about the whole question of torture and whether or not the type x. really did qualify as torture. he makes a very strong arguments both on a practical sense in a moral sense that it wasn't torture. and that not only did we find out really valuable information, but that we are actually very, very careful about staying on the right line of this type takes. it's gotten a lot of talk. even my son and the talk shows when he heard dick cheney and joe biden debating, they were debating this very subject. and i think this book sparked a lot of that current debate. >> and what's coming u

the cia chief said trying to stay ahead of the terrorists before they act keeps him up at night. >> the biggest threat i see is not so much that we face another attack similar to 9/11. i think the greater threat is that al qaeda is adapting their methods, in ways that often times make it difficult to detect. >> reporter: abc news has learned some of the intelligence has come from the accused christmas day bomber. the past week, umar farouk abdulmutallab has provided questioners with useful and actionable intelligence. this comes after the fbi sxretly flew family members from nigeria to the u.s. to convince him to cooperate. and this new revelation is welcomed for the obama situation, which was criticized for reading the christmas bomber his miranda rights after his arrest. >> back to the terror threat. are the leaders talking about a large-scale attack, on scope with 9/11, perhaps? >> reporter: jeremy, the director of national intelligence and blair said the u.s. has been successful in thwarting, really blocking al qaeda's ability to launch that kind of massive, spectacular attack. but

the first week in october, a cia briefing led by cia director george tenet, and this is at camp david the president collects his thoughts before addressing the nation about the start of the war in afghanistan. the president holds the badge of a fallen officer george howard, given to him by his mother. the president carried this batch everywhere in the days and weeks that followed 9/11 -- the president carried this badge, and i thought it extremely important to show this badge and to show it in his hand, so i want it asked the president if i could photograph it, and he said simply yes, and he pulled it out of his pocket, and i made my picture. thank you. [applause] >> well, i am the director of the brisco center, don carletonl , and i want to give these guys and other hand. i also want to set and what my friends said -- i want to give these guys and other hand -- another hand. mark and i have been friends -- i also want to second what my friend said. there was what marx said about the walter cronkite program -- what mark said. we hope all of your able to come back and join us. -- i hop

the problem is, the cia had a program to interrogate these leaders. the bush administration, we interrogated over 100 terrorist leaders. questioning produced unbelievable amounts of information. according to the cia, half of what we knew itabout al qaeda came from interrogations. when khalid sheikh mohammed was captured, unbeknownst to us, they were planning an attack in karachi. they were planning to blow up our marine camp in the movie using a water tanker filled with explosives. they were on their way to recruit terrorists to fly airplanes into heathrow airport and downtown london. khalid sheikh mohammed have actually developed a cell in southeast asia that would fly an airplane into the library tower airplane into the library tower 14 men were waiting out in pakistan awaiting orders. we saved a lot of lives. barack obama was very address. host: our next call comes from cambridge, illinois. caller: good morning. you have criticized the current administration's separate deterred drones. i think that is valid. we all know that the bush administration

does the cia have any role in interrogation? if so, what is it? yes, senator, we are engaged with these teams and will he bring his obviously the intelligence value associated with the weather is being interrogated. but we do participate in those kinds of interrogations. >> so you've been participating in the hig? >> that's correct. >> how long has that hig been going? >> obviously, we have gone ahead and dispatch some of these teams with the fbi, with the cia -- >> i didn't know that the cia or anybody else was interrogating people. how long has that been going on? >> were participating with the fbi. >> since when? >> since last fall. >> so you have been doing this? >> we have been doing it in anticipation of the formal signing of the document but the concept has been in place since last fall in abuses on a number of occasions. >> senator, the cia members are the backup. >> they are back up if they are doing some of the interviewing. >> if i may, the hig disapprobation will and has been deployed, correct? >> yes. >> thank you. >> undreamt senator

>> will actually i was an analyst with the cia. i worked on every country -- i worked on the caribbean, i worked on central america, i worked on mexico, south america. the one country i never worked on was cuba. [laughter] >> that was a monopoly. >> that's right. but i was the caribbean analyst for haiti and the dominican republic and jamaica and so on and then i was chief of the indian branch and then i worked on argentina and lived in argentina and also lived in brazil. >> you were involved with venezuela? >> yes, to some extent. >> i didn't know that to cover all of south america. >> i was a regional analyst. let me say a few words since you mentioned venezuela about hugo chavez. william going to say may sound a little radical for what most people think of a cia analyst would think. a few years ago i read a book by a diplomatic historian about latin america, a fellow named martin and he made the assertion that i actually agree with and he said that ever since the end of the 19th century up to the present when the united states w

cia director leon panetta says he believes the terrorist group will carry out smaller attacks that require little training. >>> charges could come as soon as today against michael jackson's physician. prosecutors say dr. conrad murray administered the powerful anesthetic propofol and two other sedatives the day jackson died. a law enforcement official says prosecutors will charge the physician with involuntary manslaughter rather than seeking an indictment by grand jury. his lawyer says the doctor is ready to turn himself in. >>> the hubble telescope observed what appears to be the collision between two asteroids. the impact was estimated at more than 12 -- 11,000 miles per hour. that's five times faster than a speeding bullet. at the time, the pictures were taken with the objects about 90 million miles from earth. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" at noon, stay tuned, meteorologist tim williams will be back in 2 1/2 minutes with the first warning forecast. >>> fist, let's look at the day's midday stocks followed by the megamillions numbers. >>> let the sun shine. >> let it shine. it st

first thing out he decided to reopen cases against our own cia agents. right now we've got open cases against cia agents being investigated, navy seals, because of interrogation tactics. another decision with regard to the christmas day bomber and trying khalid sheikh mohammed in new york. all of those decisions and all of the statements made indicate that we are more interested in what international opinion thinks than protecting this country. these guys know what they are supposed to do. treat it like an ordinary criminal case or we're gonna have somebody to answer to in the justice department. >> sean: i want eric holder fired. >> he's in witness protection, where is he? napolitano checking out security at the super bowl, i guess holder must be up in vancouver. where are these people. >> sean: let me look ahead to 2010. i think national security in the end is going -- those decisions are far more dangerous than the quadrupling of the debt and deficit. do you realize that blanche lincoln is down 23 points said to the president today no one in your admi

the problem is, the cia had a program to interrogate these leaders.n, we interrogated over 100 terrorist leaders. questioning produced unbelievable amounts of information. according to the cia, half of what we knew itabout al qaeda came from interrogations. when khalid sheikh mohammed was captured, unbeknownst to us, they were planning an attack in karachi. they were planning to blow up our marine camp in the movie using a water tanker filled with explosives. they were on their way to recruit terrorists to fly airplanes into heathrow airport and downtown london. khalid sheikh mohammed have actually developed a cell in southeast asia that would fly an airplane into the library tower building in los angeles. we located these 14 men who were waiting in pakistan, awaiting orders. we saved a lot of lines from this program and barack obama has put us at risk by getting rid of it. host: cambridge, illinois. eric, on the line for democrats. caller: you have criticized the administration's use of predator drone, but we all know the bush administration used the

same time last august, attorney general holder said he will start investigating and prosecuting the ciathen, guess how many al qaeda terrorists have been investigated? none. during that same time, this administration has been working day in and day out investigating, questioning, and possibly prosecuting many cia officials. one cannot help but think that they do not understand who the enemy is. that's help them out. attorney general holder and president obama, the cia officials who kept us say that after 9/11 are patriots. -- who kept us safe. ÑiÑithey deserve our thanks andr praise, and did not deserve to be the target of a politically motivated investigation by your justice department. the next time you hear president obama say he is using every tool at his disposal to fight terrorist, remember this. he revealed our enhance interrogation program to the terrorists, and then he stopped paying attention. he failed to follow up for nearly a year. he could not be bothered to make sureb. that his national secury council had actually established a new interrogation program. it turns out, th

khalid shaikh mohammed in manhattan, the fact that he wants to dairy out criminal investigations of cia interrogators, listen, i think it's important we know if anyone who is involved in guantanamo representing a guantanamo detainee was also involved in the investigation of the cia interrogators. i mean, to me, eric holder owes it to the american people, an absolute moral obligation to the american people, and also just in his own interests, if i were in eric holder's position, i would want everyone to know i'm doing everything -- honestly, there are no conflicts of interest and let the american people decide whether or not they believe are the -- if the attorneys are in any way compromised by the representation. so this to me is arrogance on eric holder's part, just like it was arrogant for him to put the ksm trial in lower manhattan without speaking to anyone in the new york city police department, new york city administration, anybody at all involving security. megyn: what do you say to those who say this looks like a political stunt because lawyers, as you point out, you and i are b

for a string of deadly militant attacks last month and described the responsibility for a blast at a ciabase last year that killed. after this attack, drone strikes, taking place since the beginning of the year. as the attacks ramp up so does opposition to them. the american civil liberties filed, questioning the legal basis of the predator drone program. we're back with dan ettinger and matt comiskey and editorial page writer colin levy. the president has wrapped up this predator campaign above what the bush administration was doing. how well is it working? >> well, it's quite dramatic actually. last year we had 50 attacks which is more than the last three years in the bush administration, as you mentioned this month, last month there were more than a dozen attacks. i think it's been the one unherded success of president obama's war on terror. in pakistan we've got kills, only this massoud. the. >> from before. >> the guy six months ago also killed by dron attacks and also used in yemen and killed 16 of the leaders of al-qaeda there. so it's been, it's amazing that we're debating this t

. >> also this week the cia director said that there will be another al qaeda attack here in the united states in the next three to five months. and obviously this is frightening news. >> obviously director panetta having said three to six months not three to five and far more obviously the cia chief having predicted an attempted attack by al qaeda in no way guaranteeing the certainty of an actual attack. but you'll learn. time now to call in our own howard fineman senior washington correspondent for "newsweek" magazine who attended tonight's swearing in and senator brown's news conference. howard, good evening. >> hi, keith. >> so at that news conference the senator also said the stimulus has not created a single job. would that be mistake number two or revelation number one? >> well, it's both. it is a mistake. i think any fair minded observer would say. by the way, one job that the stimulus package may well have created was scott brown's. >> yes. >> so that's false on its face. but in addition to that, look, has it created 2 million jobs? no. has it created or saved 2 million? maybe.

their methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect. >> reporter: the cia director went on to tell lawmakers that he doesn't believe there's another 9/11 style attack in the works. he thinks now that the terrorist group is trying to carry out smaller attacks that require little training and simple devices. he's pointing to the failed attempt to blow up a plane over detroit christmas days a a an example of that strategy -- as an example of that strategy. senior obama officials tell cbs news the suspect with n that attack is now cooperating with investigators after the u.s. brought his family members to meet with him. intelligence director blair said the government had made changes to prevent another attack like the one on christmas day because he himself warned the question is not if there will be an attack, but when. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> attorney general eric holder says it was his decision to charge the christmas day terror suspect in civilian court after he heard no objections from any other government agency. >>> president obama attempted to rally sen

has forced the disclosure of intelligence reports about a way that a british man was treated by the cia while in american custody in pakistan. the document sho that british officials knew that he was subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. >> at the heart of the case was the intelligence sharing relationship between the u.k. and the united states. while the judge's considered their ruling, it appears that the court in washington, d.c., had already half tip the balance. >> they said it would be absurd, just because a court decided to publish material that had already been made public by an american court. >> the foreign secretary answered allegations that the british had colluded in the torture. >> there is a fundamental commitment on the part of myself and my secretary in charge for the security service, as well as the head and staff of these agencies, to hold the highest standards of conduct, not simply for ourselves. >> the seven pair rest released today summarized american intelligence, including continuous sleep deprivation, threats, inducements, and a also being shac

cia director leon panetta laid out the threat that al qaeda poses to the united states. >> i would share with you my greatest concern and what keeps me awake at night is that al qaeda and its terrorist allies and affiliates could very well attack the united states. and our homeland. >> and then there was this. the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein, heard a unanimous opinion about how urgent this threat is. >> the question is, what is the likelihood of another terrorist attempted attack on the u.s. homeland in the next three to six months? high or low? director blair? >> an attempted attack, the priority is certain, i would say. >> mr. panetta? >> i would agree with that. >> mr. mueller? >> agree. >> general burjer? >> yes, ma'am, agree. >> mr. dinger? >> yes. >> all right. nbc's pete williams will have much more on this coming up, chuck. >> hey, savannah, the word "attempted" there is the key word. in fact, pete williams and i were talking before the show, and he made this comment. you know, ever since 9/11, there's probably never been a six-month window whe

in a moment, the dumbest things of the week starring a congresswoman who wants to put some cia peopleegment tonight, the dumbest things of the week. with us on the dumb patrol red eye goot guy greg gutfeld and juliet hudy. i have to set this up. 60 minutes investigation this coming sunday good piece. some dope and we use that phrase literally dope. tries to sell defense department secrets to the chinese and it's caught on tape. roll it. ♪ >> are you sure that's okay? >> yeah. >> are you sure? >> i'm very, very, very reticent to let you have it because it's all classified. but i will let you see it. you can take all the notes you want. it's just i cannot ever let anyone know because that will -- that's my job, man. get fired for sure on that. >> not even get fired i will go to [bleep] jail. >> bill: we won't tell anyone. you elizabetherring -- fool. >> he used the word reticent so he is not that dumb. >> bill: he is not that dumb because he used the word reticent. a big word. >> this guy goats into a local furniture story in new orleans which is a hot bed of terrorism activity, i guess

dennis blair testified before a house committee wednesday, a day after he along with the heads of the cia and f.b.i. declared than an attempted terror attack on the u.s. homeland in the next six months was concern. the f.b.i. has been looking at travel records from africa to determine if other operatives have made their way into the u.s.. >>> well, protect this house has a whole new meaning tonight in terms of maryland business. could underarmor be heading west? >>> and a tragedy against all odds. instead of hitting a jackpot, two casino patrons are killed. . >>> and you know we're getting set for a wild storm when the national weather service puts out winter storm watch out two days ahead of time. powerful storm, we'll talk about it and see where it is right now, after this. now, the key to a really good family calendar is sticky notes. they come in all colors. pink is for piano lessons, except for when it means pot roast. green is for groceries, girls night out or going to the arc.... yesterday is so yesterday. merge your facebook, outlook and family calendars into one calendar. the pal

head of cia told congress the attempted attack on u.s. in the next three to six months are, quote, certain, but they do not know when and wear. also we learned. the nie year yan charged with he heading to blow up the plane on christmas day is being interrogated and sharing useful information about al qaeda leaders in yemen. still ahead on "world news," just don't do it. new findings about what may keep young teens from having sex. and lights, cameras, oscars what is everyone talking about today's nominations? the exes going head to head? (announcer) chug that coffee, bolt that burrito. no matter what life throws at you, you can take the heat. until it turns into... heartburn. good thing you've got what it takes to beat that heat, too. zantac. it's strong, just one pill can knock out the burn. it's fast, the speed you need for heartburn relief. and it lasts, up to 12 hours. so let them turn up the heat. you can stop that heartburn cold: (sssssssss!!!) zantac. fancy feast created a way to celebrate any moment. fancy feast appetizers. [dinne

you know, cia directors always say this, once a year, in an annual threat briefing. and they always predict there's going to be another attempt. another attempt does not mean another successful attack. so, we shouldn't all head for our bunkers. >> how critical is it that abdulmutallab is talking again? >> i think it's very helpful that he's talking again. but the fbi is good at getting people to talk. and all about the partisan sniping about what the fbi has done, they are the professionals. and they have been much more successful than the previous attempts of torturing people and trying to convince them to give information that way. the fbi does it right. >> you know, you say we shouldn't panic about this idea that another attempted attack is certain in the next several months. but it did seem like dennis blair, the head of u.s. intelligence, was really trying to ring the alarm bells yesterday, about the possibility of an attack on computer and information systems. a cyber attack. a so-called cyber pearl harbor. here's what he said yesterday. malicious cyber activit

that warning this morning from the cia.leon pinetta says the terrorist organization is deploying operative in the country to carry out attacks. moon while intelligence officials say the madison square garden accused of trying to blow up a neflt airlines flight on christmas day is cooperating with him. they say umar far rum abdulmutallab has been providing them with intelligence information specifically about yemen. >>> more questions for a group of american missionaries arrested while trying to leave haiti with a busload of children. investigators meet with the men in the group one day after they questioned the women at police headquarters. they were caught trying to take 33 children across the border. they say they were trying to help orphans to survive the earthquake. authorities are deciding whether to file charges. >>> 6:26 is your time, 32 degrees. had enough snow? we have bad news. we could get two more storms over the next week. >>> before we look ahead we'll help you get through this morning. we have crews spread ou

today, he attended a memorial service for the seven cia officers killed in that suicide attack late last year. at the remote outpost, they were bound by a common spirit, he told the family members. they served in the shald domes, and took pride in it. they knew that the price of freedom is high, and in an awful instant, they paid that price. >>> and still ahead on "world news," fiery words. we take you to the tea party convention where the accusations were flying. >>> the governor's wife, going public with private pain. an exclusive interview. >>> and, someone crashing through a barrier. our "person of the week." for joint pain. for joint pain. and now i know without enough, fancy feast appetizers. [dinner bell chimes] high quality ingredients like wild alaskan salmon in a delicate broth, without by-products or fillers. fancy feast appetizers. celebrate the moment. fancy feast appetizers. new anti-aging eye roller. reduces puffiness immediately -- and also helps with lines and wrinkles. not surgery. this is our way to do your eyes. new regenerist anti-aging eye roller. transform drinks y

he did not say anything about cia being there.ni intelligence service. i am a veteran. i am upset about the politics, -- the protection of our nation -- in respect to both parties. what we need to worry about is security of the nation. your guest yesterday totally denied everything that president obama is trying to do. host: he is referring to marc thiessen. guest: a former president bush speech writer. he has been up there suggesting some pretty strident suggestions that obama had been compromising national security because he is not following the bush administration policies. of course, if anybody watched the interview with vice president cheney over the weekend, he was clear that by the time bush's second term came in, which marc contributed to, those things were no longer being accepted. basically, a second term bush had been attrition policies are fairly close, if not identical, to the policies of the first obama administration. there is an enormous amount of continuity, and the people who suggest there has been some radical

. >>> this morning, president obama attends a memorial service for the cia agents killed in afghanistanember. later today, he visits the little league world champions. >>> michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray, is going to turn himself into a los angeles prosecutor today, even if no formal charges have been brought against him. his lawyers have been haggling with authorities over the terms of his surrender. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. for everyone else, "america this morning" continues after this. announcer: kids who don't at breakfast .aren' getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies all the nutrients of a complete breakfast to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. fearless performance. that's what you get with secret clinical sport. proud sponsor of tanith belbin... and all of the fearless athletes of the u.s. olympic team. make that first step easier, th the nicoderm cq patch. nicodermteps you down from nicotine gradually.

. >> and was the cia -- i mean, there was a report this 4ablpçóçi times -- was the cia e dniçóçó askemóÑiçód i want to be clear on this. whey but i can look it up -- when the president held a situation room meeting to go over the failures of the christmas day bombing -- i believe this was on a tuesday, because we then were -- >> this was the 4th or 5th, right? when he came back -- a big meeting when he came back. >> this was -- right -- i think it must have been the 5th, it was on a tuesday. in that meeting were the president, the vice president, the attorney general, the secretary of defense, the director of the national counterterrorism center, the director of national intelligence, the director of the cia. i don't know who else i've forgotten. whoever that roster was -- the director of the federal bureau of investigation. all those people were present in a meeting where the attorney general said that in the next day mr. abdulmutallab would be indicted for his crimes. >> are you saying there was no debate around that table on this topic -- >> i will say that anybody that wanted or needed

the cia says the report does not point to any startling new trends, but it amplifies growing concerns that terrorist are becoming more difficult to detect and they're moving more quickly if their plots. >>> the nation's top defense officials have told law make eringz it's time for the -- lawmakers it's time for the don't ask, don't tell policy. this allows them to serve only if they keep their sexual orientation a secret. the head of the joint chief of staff says it's wrong to force people to lie about who they are. an admiral is the first sitting chair of the joint chief to propose rolling back that policy. >>> taking a quick look now at news across the nation. prosecutors now plan to charge michael jackson's doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury. they'll file that criminal case in court. jackson, as you know, died last june from an overdose of anesthetic. >>> the head of a federal safety panel says complacency and confusion ended in a plane crash last year in new york. that plane experienced and aerodynamic stall. investigators have placed most of the bl

that the government has built a secret electronic intelligence network that gives the white house, the cia, and the defense department instant access to computer files on millions of americans. setting up a computer network involving virtually any computer, government or private, is almost as easy as making a telephone call. while it is not illegal, it's the technology of george orwell's "1984." this is exactly what congress tried to prevent. >> oh, my goodness. george orwell's "1984." it's almost quaint now, isn't it, but that's where it started. >> look. we as a nation want to understand both the benefits and protect against the concerns. i appreciate the sentiment behind that news story. we must work hard on making sure that our privacy and our security is protected in the digital environment. that's why the president's made this a top priority, but as we all know today, that vision that the gentleman outlined is not the way we see it today. we've benefited tremendously from these investments. >> so the question to you both, we know all the caveats, the worries about privacy and abuse o

produced more valuable intelligence than the cia, the nsa, and the fbi combine -- said that those ine fbi combined. we are doing so at considerable risk, and that risk is best illustrated by the third point, and it was alluded to earlier. we are now bringing terrorists into new york and into detroit for a civilian trial. it will be a media circus. it will possibly endangered -- they will become magnets for terrorist attack. are you say for now? i submit to you, no. we will follow standard rules. you can ask anyone a question, and then anyone else will jump in with his opinion, so, please, yes, sir. >> this has been and honor and a privilege to listen to this panel. would you consider culture as a national priority? there is a realignment of our priorities. i will not explain that at this point, because i think it is a vast, deep subject, particularly as it might apply to military confidence and strategic planning. >> sir? general? >> let's see if i get this right, because i may need some more definition. when you say "culture," say another word or two. >> well, it was referred to the

eisenhower was the first president to use the cia for covert action. a german woman used them for intelligence. my reaction is my goodness what a way for the executive to control foreign policy with unfettered by oversight and this is all eisenhower fought communism. the i taliban elections fighting the party. bringing all kinds of covert action. nobody had oversight in those days and nobody in congress knew what they were doing and they just did it. >> guest: i think it's because they thought that this was the president's commander in chief. a little thing i would like to sing about eisenhower is also his command of the executive-branch he sometimes prevented the united states from the more or like that one of the amazing things i found during research is the cabinet and the joint chiefs and the vice president richard nixon unanimously agreed at one point that we ought to launch an attack on china and eisenhower is the only one who voted no. it's like linda's famous quote takes a vote in the cabinet and from bases know. she says i and the vote is all

eisenhower was the first president to use the cia for covert action. wind use them for intelligence. and my reaction is, my goodness, what a way for the executive to control foreign policy, with unfettered by oversight. and this is how eisenhower fought communism, containment. the italian elections. fighting the time his party. >> guest: i ran. >> host: bringing all kinds of covert actions. nobody had oversight in those days until the and congress do what you doing. and they just did it. >> guest: and i think it's because they thought this was the presence commander-in-chief power of working again. a little thing i would like to say about eisenhower is also his command of the executive branch, whether he sometimes prevented the united states being more warlike. were the amazing things i've been doing research is the cabinet and joint chiefs and the vice president, richard nixon, unanimously agreed at one point that we ought to launch an attack on china. eisele is the only one who voted no. it's like lincoln's famous quote, takes a vote of the cabinet,

attorney general holder and president barack obama, the cia officials who kept us safe after 9/11 aretment. [applause] the next time you hear president barack obama say he is using every tool and at his disposal to fight terrorists, remember this -- he rebuild our enhanced interrogation program to the terrorists and then he stopped paying attention he failed. to follow up for nearly one year. he could not be bothered to make sure that the national security council had actually established a new interrogation program. it turns out they hadn't. ;yñpresident barack obama wantso keep this nation safe, he has to make it a priority. our counter-terrorism system will erode without constant daily presidential oversight and vigilance. fighting terrorism cannot be president barack obama's part- time job. [applause] there is an equally troubling story of incompetents, ms. judgment, and presidential neglect leading up to the christmas day tech itself. the christmas day bomber was trained and armed in yemen. it is worth reviewing a bit of history here. for vice president joe biden's benefit. [laug