the cia can defend itself. the nypd can defend itself but these lies cause such trouble and confusion and consternation in the muslim-american community, makes it harder for the in, ypd to carry out its job. i wish members of congress before they talk about press reports would look into the facts behind them and i just again want to go over with you general petraeus, the cia inspector general said there was no violation of the security act as far as the nypd and the cia. is that correct? >> that's correct, and if i could point out congressman, the ig of the cia is an independent individual. he is the only person in the agency beyond the director who is nominated by the president, and confirmed by the senate. >> did he find out there was no violation of the national security act. he also concluded -- did he also conclude that there was no executive order violated by the cia or the nypd? >> that's correct. >> is there any evidence at all the inspector general find any evidence at all that the cia carried out or e

>> my manuscript to the cia and they had to approve it. >> why did you leave the cia? >> it was part of the plea deal unfortunately. people ask me all the time would you ever go back to government service and i tell them the same thing. i am living proof that the justice system works because the truth was told in the end and i am happy to have served my country and i will serve my country again at the trough of a dime. this is not pessimistic. this is an optimistic story. in any other country had been accused of these horrendous charges i would have been executed. only in america do you get the chance to tell your story and to know that justice prevails in the end and that the truth always comes out. >> this is booktv and c-span2. we have been talking with nada prouty, former cia agent and author of this author of this book, "uncompromised: the rise, fall, and redemption of an arab american patriot in the cia". >> next jeffrey clements argues the supreme court decision was flawed and argues to reverse it. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you for your leadership. i ha

drone strikes of really caused let's not forget the cia's drone program is secret therefore they don't release any figures or statistics and it wasn't until last week of the president even acknowledged it existed public. and when he finally did what he was asked a question about it at the google plus hangout there we heard the president say that the u.s. drone campaign in pakistan is a targeted focused effort he also downplayed civilian casualties and told those listening to the drone program has not caused a huge number of them if we can check the figures how are we to know how can we counter his words and so let's get back to this damning report report by the bureau of investigative journalism they have some numbers to offer they found that since obama took office three years ago between two hundred eighty two and five hundred thirty five civilians have been credibly reported as killed including more than sixty children but it gets even worse than that to where you have to question if civilians were killed by accident or on purpose so what they found is that the cia's drone campaign

gives us which is nothing or obama's quote the other day which was you know plus or the cia claiming nobody has died or maybe just a few people have died i mean what they've got is really very specific information and and one of the things that i found really important about the report was when they went to see whether people were being killed if they went to rescue people they said we started with fifteen attacks ten we found credible five we found not to be credible so it's not like they're going in rubber stamping stories of u.s. retaliation against civilians trying to help people who've been hit by a drone i mean they're going in and checking in trying to find evidence for it and as compared to what we get from the government it's much richer in data now when you say credible reports that's one of the interesting things here too is that there have been little tidbits out there right in i guess you can say the new york times or any other newspapers and by other media organizations before they've never put them all together like this. yes actually one of the things that they quote

government allow the cia to keep their data secret we're going to speak to marcy wheeler about the reactions to this report and you know to some very politically tinge as during the super bowl this year we're going to talk about the insane amounts of money that are pouring in from all sides to fuel political debate in this country. we're going to all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided. well this monday there is no shortage of big news going on around the world americans to be tried in egypt the u.s. closing its embassy in damascus and continuing rhetoric heating up over iran now for once it's been one of those days where the mainstream media has actually chosen to give ample airtime to real news rather than just the typical partisan tit for tat and i don't mean that the campaign stories were completely absent but just for once they weren't the only thing that the mainstream media shone a light on. the u.s. closes its embassy in syria and is recommending that all u.s. citizens leave the country immediately they are urgi

to keep the cia the leads that would be easy interrogating people if they were this week in. the music was so loud. and it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced. all right chris take it from the top were ready. it's incredible anything goes and hearing badge and national. insurance club go. well i've always liked music i think most people do actually. music means good luck to me among many other things i love that i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and largely for fun that's also helping people. it's incredible. nation. christopher soft as a composer for sesame street because his music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television show during this time he's written more than two hundred songs. their surname. for his work christopher has won many awards. in the show the cookies sesame street residents like big bird sing his songs the ricks of today with magic numbers strange words or the names of the callers but these innocent children songs were abused for inhumane

the cia's belief that would be easy to target towards this week. the music was so loud. and it was probably some of the worst talk but they faced. all right chris thank you from the. it's incredible all ending in gold and hearing badge and emotion. go down well i've always liked music i think most people do actually. is it means good luck to me among many other things i love and i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and largely for fun that's also helping things. it's incredible. in your imagination. christopher soft as a composer for sesame street because his music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television show during the time he's written more than two hundred songs. their surname. christof awards. and the quirky sesame street residents like. sing his songs lyrics are to do with magic numbers strange words were the names of the colors of these innocent children songs were in q maine. two thousand and three. a. my first reaction was this can't be true and this is just too cr

if you i know that you've been focusing a lot on the military and their use of drones lately or at cia to the unfortunate thing is that we haven't really gotten to that point where we've had an honest discussion about the legality of it about the ethics of it a lot of it you can say is probably thanks to the fact of the cia doesn't like to publicly talk about their drone program and so you what are the biggest you know questions that need to be answered there before we even move on to not just something that's unmanned that someone else is controlling but to is the point where you know it controls itself. yeah well the nature of these systems is that they allow people to operate from a very great distance and that allows them to reduce the risks of sort of personal bodily danger but it also allows them to obscure their identities so the way that anonymous can cyber attack from a long distance now we can use these weapons to really attack from from a long distance and that then allows a lot of invisibility in obscurity as to who is really conducting those operations so the cia is using

and then money gets indirectly funds sent to the cia as a result of that so. there will be fairly little cuts for the d.o.d. in the near term future and there will be fairly little cuts then to other assets for the u.s. to be able to influence you know iraq and afghanistan everywhere else and lastly jake just want to ask you what do you say to those that that say this sudden pull out and total stop the you know ceasing to spend any money on iraq is not really feasible that it should be more of this gradual process to make it more of a smooth the most trance transition possible well i just have to ask them look at the last hundred years of american history and ask how smooth any transition has gone as and has never been smooth and easy no matter how delicate it was we haven't tried just pulling out yet fact the one place we did was vietnam and that. turned out pretty well for us because vietnam's bennet is not a place i want to live but it's relatively stable and it's as i'm been a threat to the united states so we ought to really think about that as as an opti

in the meantime, the cia has taken matters into its own hands. remotely piloted drones have fired more than 280 hellfire missiles and bombs at targets in the tribal areas. officially, the cia does not speak about the drone war, but an agent who once ran the campaign agreed to talk to frontline about the program. >> the calculus is really a very simple one: it's trying to kill people before they kill you. it's as simple as that. now, it may have the knock-on and potentially intended effect, you hope, of discouraging further militancy. when people see others, you know, going up in a... in a puff of smoke, you know, one hopes that that will induce people to... to go home and sit out the fight. this is very much a "kill or be killed" situation, and that's very much the dynamic that... that governs this. >> smith: the drone war was initially conceived to kill only the leadership of al qaeda and the taliban, but president obama has dramatically widened the campaign. under his administration, the cia has launched nearly six times more strikes than it di

about the increasing use in reliance on unmanned aerial vehicles or drones used by our military our cia our law enforcement agencies and soon to be coming with the approval of domestic drone use in the u.s. media organizations commercial companies who knows who else the issues of legality the ethics of chilling with the push of a button privacy concerns all these things need to be addressed as we head into a more automated world but it doesn't just stop with drones what technologies might we see next but about robots that care for the younger the elderly that may take over certain jobs are questions that we have to answer as a society before going full throttle and the next frontier joining me from our studio in new york is dr peter s.r.o. co-founder of the international committee for robot arms control and assistant professor at the new school peter thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess first it's a start with a broader question you know where do you think we are in terms of the developed if you want to call this a revolution of getting to the point where maybe we've become

the medical specialists carefully describe the torture procedures cia agents are allowed to use during interrogations they focus on methods that leave no visible traces on the prison those such as noise and loud music permitted noise levels are as follows music as loud as the noise of a highway for eighteen hours a day at the volume of a crying motorbike for eight hours. as loud as the truck engine at full throttle for four hours. and as loud as a jackhammer. for two hours. human rights groups force in courts for the publication of these torture guidelines still most of the pages look like this reasons of national security the government says but for human rights were such as such as thomas kean and they still form a clear picture of what musical torture methods were used. prisoners were forced to put on headphones they were attached chairs the headphones were attached to their head and they were left alone just within these sick for very long periods of time sometimes hours even days and listening to repeated loud music. music was being used to kuantan and low. in kabul in afghanistan

political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced a democratically elected leaders from home and most adept in iran to salvador allende in chile. in their place all too often brutal dictatorships and governments that committed heinous crimes against their people. by the one nine hundred eighty s. the reign of terror that blazed across latin america by washington tench mn was too much for most people to stomach to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion the concept of democracy promotion is simple finance training and politically back local opposition forces around the world that support washington's agenda dr william robinson is the foremost expert on regime change to democracy promotion he wrote the book promoting poly arche in latin america. eastern europe with the velvet revolutions in africa in the middle east oil all over all over the world and so the us set up these different mechanisms now for penetrating the civil societies and the political syst

rise to the development of an intelligence capacity, breaking down of the walls between ourselves and cia, nsa, and the intelligence community, but i think always in the back of our mind, everyone at the bureau knew we could not let this happen again. on that day, i felt like that high school student who got the wrong assignment when the president asked that question, but it has been in the back of my mind since then. each president, for most on their mind is protecting the american public from another attack. >> we have a number of questions that deal with mission areas you did not mention specifically, given the importance of cyber security and espionage and counterterrorism. i wonder if you could say a little bit about two things, one being your sense of where the country is in respect to drug policy. the fbi is involved with drug policy along with other law- enforcement agencies, but more generally, how you approach the challenge of managing this broad range of responsibilities that the fbi has to continue to attend to, while at the same time prioritizing the missions you mentioned. >

oh of course i mean you know we see that right now with the cia and the state department's operating grown programs with clients over iraq which new york times tells us in the feature story yesterday he is arousing all sorts of concerns there and then as and bike is fun too but i think the big question is who's operating the ground so you know i i frankly think you know the population on the ground to be delighted to see human rights organizations out there monitoring them but i think you know i think suspect the syrians wouldn't want that is they do everything they can to block it but the bottom line is i think mark is right with this initiative it's a good one and it's something that should be pursued. but i mean let's bring up another issue here too right we not only have the question of national sovereignty and human rights organizations also aren't state actors and personally i can't name a single government you just want to talk about syria i can't name a single government that would be ok with. human rights organization flying a drone over their airspace but there's also this

i think the best thing is for the jurisdiction to pass over from the cia to the departed. are transparent figures i'm not really sure if i buy it or the president is being misled either but you know i mean the questions are never ending unless we actually do see some kind of documentation thank you both for joining us tonight scott mark thanks so much thank you. colorado state lawmaker get in a situation after he gets pulled over. at a happy hour ladies are sweating bullets after a recall been issued on some birth control pills and. twitter's footsteps when it comes to country by country censorship explain away from the. touch like a well trained on the. villages in ruins. where time stands still. becomes a scene of nothing. the mysterious sons of russia. wealthy british soil it's time to. market. them the. wind on what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. today . these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. joint operations room. hi g

think of course what he says and what the reality may be could be starkly different as just of the cia doesn't release any data on its drone program but the a.c.l.u. is in fact now suing the u.s. government under a freedom of information act to get information about the government's targeted killing program specifically focusing on drone strikes last year that killed three american citizens including. but should organizations like the a.c.l.u. take it one step further writing the new york times this monday mark canis is one of the authors of an op ed the push for a human rights organizations to start using drones for surveillance specifically using the example of syria they argue that if human rights organizations can spy on evil they should to now we have to ask should they join me to discuss that is mark canis founder of the genocide intervention network and scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine chairman i want to thank you both for joining us tonight and marc i'm to start with you just start by telling us why it is that you thi

. >>> plus, the cia's website hacked. a group called anonymous has taken credit for the cyber attack, and they say they're not done targeting government websites. >>> you're looking at a live picture from cpac. it's the conservative political action conference meeting in washington. it's the third and final day of the convention which brings together the nation's leading conservative activists. here's a look at today's highlights. at 4:15 the conference will release the much anticipated results of the much anticipated presidential straw poll. right after the straw poll results, sarah palin takes the stage to deliver the convention's keynote address. three of the four gop candidates addressed the conference yesterday, furnishing their credentials and attacking president obama. our director is covering kre pack for us this morning. lots to talk about. let's start with today's convenients. what's the real significance of the straw poll? >> well, you know, ted, if rick santorum, who has come on with three major wins last week

he was joined by the heads of the cia and fbi and the defense intelligence agency. this panel also testified before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. this is two hours, 20 minutes. >> we call the committee to order and the committee will come to order. i want to thank our guest and witnesses today. first let me thank you for your service to your country and i hope you will pass on the committees thanks to the men and women who serve and do the real work as we say in the intelligence business. please pass along our admiration and respect and support and great thanks for really what has been a very very good year and the intelligence business for the united states of america. i also want to thank all of you, since we started this very hearing last year the very fact that we have established i think a very professional working relationship with the community and i think that has netted very valuable results for our national security posture. we had to authorization bills, lots of great oversight. we have been professional even when we have disagreed and i t

is involved but as a member of the terrorist list here the cia cannot be involved cannot be working with the any case though if you do have you know connecting the dots to israel working with the m.e. kay and the cia doing whatever over here but certainly wanting to maintain that strong relationship with israel it seems there could be some problems i had. absolutely the in the united states. at least on the intelligence community in the united states and the diplomatic corps seems to want nothing to do with this group because this group worked with saddam hussein carried out attacks on americans carried out attacks on iranians while that was the control of saddam hussein and therefore has no credibility inside iran an illegitimate president so it's something the u.s. would want to get behind but at the same time this group is paying major figures in the united states a bipartisan coalition former homeland security director tom ridge former f.b.i. director louis freeh former new york mayor rudy giuliani former democratic presidential candidate howard dean alan dershowitz the you know

well i think they do actually want to be a privatized version of the cia in fact the c.e.o. george friedman wrote an e-mail where he was back boasting that now that i had been fired at the cia this was their opportunity to come in and fill a void to actually show the cia how it was done it and how to run an intelligence organization and they were wanting to take the lead and so i think for me not so much the details in the e-mails but how this organization operated is much more interesting to me at and you know this is a firm with neo con ideologies it's very much a proponent of the war on terror and so you've got them engaged in and very free market sort of defenses like monitoring bhopal activists and the yes men who were involved in doing activism to bring justice to people who are victims carbide gas disaster and so you've also got news that they were helping coca-cola and to spy on people at the vancouver olympics who were part of peta activism around you know any issues and so i think to me what's fascinating at the end of the day is that you've got this wide organizat

still just as heinous as it always was you bet so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development usa id and its partners spearheading this effort alan. weinstein one of the founders of the national endowment for democracy explained to the washington post in one thousand you one a lot of what we do know was done covertly by the cia twenty five years ago and like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and a slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of us taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote us agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call u.s. manipulation of foreign e

> charlie: what does he want to do with the cia. >> he lovers it. i think wants to stay there for a long time. he looked at the military as a system as like a clock with you know. i think he looks at the intelligence community that way and how can we improve our efficiencies. having an everrin been a commanw what drives operations. >> is it improving efficiencies here and there or is it a wholesale change. >> no. he hasn't come in with an intent. my understanding is he didn't con in with an intent to chilly the whole krullure. >> charlie: what is the important thing you learned from him about leadership whether it's a military leader a corporate leader a political leader. >> it's very simple and i'd say that attitude is the most important quality you can have. you're 90% of how things go is your attitude, right. 10% is chance and he really believes that. he's had many hurdles in his life. nobody really thinks that because you look at this guy whose had this mete meteoric ca. people thought he was put out to pasture. at leave leavenworth. people thou

an article yesterday by former cia director noted that you "launched the reckonning of cia renditions detentions and interrogations of terrorists by directsing the justice department to reopen investigations closed years before by career prosecutors". this decision was oed panetta a predecessors. the article notes that you reportedly made the decision without reading detailed memos prepared by those career prosecutors declining to pursue further proceedings. and further, mr. attorney general, you're well known in this town for not reading memos. you admitted you failed to read memos addressed to you in fast and furious. you failed to read memos before mark rich hardin. you failed to read memos or even the law related to the arizona immigration law. what does that say about your leadership and management that you consistently fail to read extremely important papers placed on your desk? >> if the gentlemen will suspend? as i previously said, although you certainly can talk about your management style, this hearing is limited to fast and furious. i ask that you limit your answers to mana

and i was very fortunate to be able to come here to the cia and teach. i've been here for 11 years. i've had my time inhe sun, as it were, and now it's time for me to help other people get there. >> it's a meal that's cooked, grown, and harvested by students practicing sustainable culinary methods. in napa valley, charlotte fadipe for "california country tv." >> thanks, charlotte. the cia is a great place to visit, and one more reason to visit it-- th just opened a flavor bar, where you can taste different flavors and ingredients just like a chef does. kind of cool, huh? well, coming up next, we're visiting a farm that has withstood the test of time and is stronger than ever. that's next. >> welcome back to "california country." you know, there are a lot of longtime farming families in the state, but very few of them have quite the story as our next family. here in california, the landscape is dotted with farmers that have stories of courage, dedication, and perseverance in the face of adversity. however, none have quite the history of the ikeda family, but to see how far they have

about the cia.s has claimed in the past to have disrupted this web site. the department of justice's web site. the u.s. senate's web site. what it does is, it kind of loads servers around the world to make requests of this site and essentially floods it with requests and it gets so many requests for access that it gets overwhelmed. when you try to get on it you're basically told it can't come up. so people now have tweeted, people affiliated with this group anonymous have tweeted claiming credit for this disruption. tango down. they're bragging on the twittersphere or whatever they call it that this has happened. the cia says it's looking into it. >> brian, thanks very much. a whole new world out there. >>> coming up, music to president obama's ears. we've got his campaign's play list and we'll play it for you. for a limited time, passages malibu will be giving away free copies of the alcoholism & addiction cure. to get yours, go to ssagesmalibubook.com. >>> what a campaign play list can tell you ab

the cia a number of other government agencies all for failing to follow the rules when it comes to foil requests and do we get the feeling the ads are following you wherever you go and we're going to spectate speak to trevor tim about the trail that companies and websites are collecting on you have all that and more feature night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so it's friday the week isn't quite over yet there's still a lot of news happening in the world today but the mainstream media is basically checked out and they are going full force on what tomorrow will bring. police in new jersey are preparing to shut down streets of new work ahead of tomorrow's private funeral for whitney houston the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that these celebrities and all the invitees some fifteen hundred people it's one of the parking lots they'll be using among those preparing to pay respects to whitney houston denzel washington mel gibson jamie foxx and janet jackson to name a few also we just found out