he left the cia in 2004. by 2007 when he gave that tv interview, he had been gone three years. >> i remember the time somebody acknowledged he ever worked for the cia. >> yes, it's funny. something has happened. i think it's changing the nature of the relationship between the government and journalism. it's still very much unresolved. kiriakou case is an example. post 9/11, a whole lot more people cared about national security issues than was the case before. all of a sudden, there was a market for former cia pokes, former defense intelligence agencies and even former national security agency, the big overs drop -- eavesdropping agency. all of those used to operating in the shadow saw a marks -- market for their services as commentators and book writers. there was this somewhat uncomfortable interaction between the agencies and these usually former employees who were coming out of the shadows and writing about what they done in their lives and there have been many lawsuits over that since. >> in the end, we g

, paid by the cia, organized by the cia, but with cooperation from other countries. >> narrator: top cia official john rizzo helped authorize the prisons. >> rizzo: creating a prison system was something, certainly in my 25 years, we had never done. it was essential that these people be held in absolute isolation, with... with access to the fewest number of people. that quickly led to the conclusion that... that facilities had to be built oversees, secret facilities. >> narrator: for the first time, the white house had approved the building of an international prison system entirely in secret. >> priest: the amount of secrecy is phenomenal. the desire and the willingness of government to operate in secret and to deny the public, the media, the basic facts about what they were doing was all- inclusive. we were falling deeper and deeper into a secretly-run government. >> narrator: and the secrecy was spreading. at the pentagon, by 2002, donald rumsfeld was waging his own covert campaign inside the defense department. >> priest: the cia was very much in front of the military, and that b

this was a cia outpost. four people from the state department were there for probably 30 or so people from the cia. they weren't talking about that. the state department was a little anxious that it would look like they had gotten all of these warnings that they hadn't paid any attention to. so what they're saying here is this was not about politics. this was about figuring out what we could say to the american people that was unclassified and that was accurate. as it turned out, of course, it was completely false. >> because i know in some of these documents, victoria nuland who was the spokesman, spokeswoman for the state department, she was very concerned about the reputation understandably so of the state department. >> well, that's one of the issues gloria just touched on was the fact that there was a huge cia presence in benghazi. and when they evacuated 30 individuals out the morning after, more than 20 of them were from the cia and the state department thought that this, especially the cia annex, tha

defense department what did the president why did president bush prefer to use the cia and would you say that that is also being mirrored in the obama administration i think initially the president saw the benefits of the cia that could go around the world and had the authority to basically do whatever whatever he wanted it to do the pentagon on nine eleven really wasn't equipped to carry out this kind of war rumsfeld wanted to change that rumsfeld in many ways tried to make the pentagon more like the cia just as the cia was becoming more like the pentagon he was trying to expand but it got authority to go to send soldiers in the places where soldiers to normally go to gather human intelligence i think that by the end of the bush administration the pentagon really did have those authorities but as you said president obama really has relied on the cia in part because the pentagon has been tied down in the big wars and i think that there is a. presidents have seen this sort of seductive power of using secret of carrying out wars and secrecy secret in the c.i. . they offer secrecy now m

i put the question to the former cia director michael hayden.hink there is significance to the fact that so many people who hunted down bill bin laden were woman. >> i will confirm, you are right. this is a band of sisters that led this analytical hunt. two were jennifer matthews was there and elizabeth hanson. both had briefed me about the hunt for bin laden. they were phenomenal. they were obsessed. they were focused. >> somebody said to me there are all of those macho guys out there but you wouldn't want these women after you because they are relentless. >> they were absolutely relentless. this is a decades-long hunt and for these women, longer than a decade. these people were hunting bin laden before hunting bin laden was cool and popular. they were back in the day, prior to 9/11 and in fact, opening line from homeland -- >> missed something once before. >> where she says i missed something that day. i think a lot of people at the agency, including these folks were animated by the fact that if that even had taken place and now they wanted to

i put the question to the former cia director, michael hayden.ere's any significance to the fact that so many of the people who hunted bin laden down were women? >> i will confirm, you're right. this was a band of sisters that led this analytical hunt. two of the sisters were killed at cost. jennifer matthews was there and elizabeth hanson. both briefed me about the hunt for bin laden, both were phenomenal and focused and obsessed. >> there are all these macho guys out there, but you wouldn't want tease women after you, they're relentless. >> this is a decade's long hunt and for these women, longer than a decade, these people were hunting bin laden before hunting bin laden was cool and popular. they were back there in the day prior to 9/11. in fact, that opening line from "homeland." >> i missed something once before -- >> where carrie mutters, i missed something that day. a lot of people in the agency, including these folks, were animated by the fact that that event had taken place and now they wanted to set things right. they really were focuse

now i should point out that cia director, we're told, the cia deputy director agreed with that change. so bottom line, erin, there's plenty in these e-mails for both sides to make their case which means this issue isn't going to go away any time soon. >> no, absolutely. and, of course, john boehner has already requested more data. on that note, dana, speaker boehner's office, i'm just looking at the note here from a spokesman brendan buck that we received, right, saying we hope this limited release of documents is a sign of more cooperation to come. they want a lot more information. >> they do. we should also remind our viewers that as late as today, this morning, john boehner had a press conference demanding the white house do exactly what they did tonight. so, you know, we should make that point clear because this is exactly what he was asking for. but you're right, erin. they're saying this is not enough. he said this is not enough. they believe there are other, in their words, "relevant documents" that the white house still won't produce. they're saying this is a hopeful sign of t

why is high scoundrel too many in russia says the cia house calls the line with us on takes after the latest us agent was called in moscow says altie obtained a recording involving another american all pursue intercepted earlier this year. also this hour the cash strapped european union mounds a crusade against the continent's banking hubs declaring open season on account privacy and toxic bait is a lie. and russia's mediation effort in syria get the thumbs up from day one but faces old sickles from their own to all the rebel forces there to find evidence of atrocities committed by them and ongoing civil war. and you saw russia under around the world this is with me. hello and welcome to the program. these cia has gone too far with its spying operations that's the message from russia's federal security service commenting on the whistle scandal involving an american agent uncovered in moscow this week and. has now live to explain the implications of all that say hi there so what can you say today i visited the f.s.b. had quarters in moscow where i was given some more fresh information

the cia, in this case deputy director of the cia, took that process and issued a set of talking pointsaturday morning, and those talking points were disseminated. this is all in response to requests from congress. and the only edit made by the white house or the state department to those talking points generated by the cia was a change from referring to the facility that was attacked in benghazi from consulate -- because it was not a consulate -- to diplomatic post. i their i referred to it a diplomatic facility. but diplomatic post. the point being it was a matter of nonsubstantive factual correction. but there was a process leading up to that which involved input from a lot of agencies as is always the case in a situation like this and is always appropriate, and the effort is always to in that circumstance, and with an ongoing investigation and a lot of information, some accurate, some not, about what had happened and who was responsible, to provide information for members of congress and others in the administration, for example, who might speak publicly about it, that was based on

and that the cia made them because the cia wanted to protect the, as they put it, integrity of the on going investigation. so that's consistent with what the administration has said all along. now that helps the white house. on the flip side, there is still foder in all the e-mails for the critics. for example, there is an e-mail as i first reported on friday that the state department took issue with the fact that the attack was blamed on an al qaeda affiliate. state department did not want that out. and that came out of the final version of the talking points. no doubt critics will hold that up to say that was politically motivated. now i should point out that cia director, we're told, the cia deputy director agreed with that change. so bottom line, erin, there's plenty in these e-mails for both sides to make their case which means this issue isn't going to go away any time soon. >> no, absolutely. and, of course, john boehner has already requested more data. on that note, dana, speaker boehner's office, i'm just looking at the note here from a spokesman brendan buck that we received

law school says the recent busting of a cia spy goes against the us russia spirit of trust while the scandal leaves the american agent of the mercy of the world's media with a steady flow of drugs and guns over his clumsy skull. the u. pledges more than half a billion euros towards rebuilding mali as a major donors conference even of the euro zone economy shrinks for the six quarter in a row. also this hour security of the sanctity of the u.s. government owns up to a massive players operation targeting journalists with the white house trumping national security as the be all and end all. on the club of the nations eager to cash in on oxygen riches is getting bigger and china and india are now among those who got a stronger voice when it comes to cutting out the region. international news life from moscow this is an see with me a hello and a very warm welcome to the program the exposure of a cia spy in moscow has failed to stir the political arena but caused a major boom in the media instead journalist to rush to the unfortunate spy ridiculing his outdated equipment and clumsy methods

and more spies in disguise russian security exposes a cia chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence has left red faced after again getting caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent.

benghazi attacks, it had changed its talking points no fewer than 12 times, omitting reverends to a cia warning at the time of an al qaeda threat. what made this difference from fox reporting on this is that now everybody is reporting on this, and giving the press secretary of the united states a lot heat and questioning on this now. back to this. >> raises the objections to the fact the cia had warned bat terror threats in benghazi prior to the attacks. those subjects were taken out of the cia talking points at the direction of the white house, based on -- >> no first of all, they weren't at the direction of the white house. the only -- the process, as everybody is an equal player -- said everybody's concerns have to be listened to and taken into account. ultimately these were intelligence community talking points that intelligence community, led by the cia -- john, can i finish? -- that the intelligence community has to sign off and believes represents the intelligence community's view about what they knew about what happened. again, this would be more significant if we didn't acknowl

and more spies in disguise russian security exposing the cia chief in moscow that u.s. intelligence has left red faced after again getting caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent. it is four pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me josh welcome to the program. more than one hundred days since the mass hunger strike it went on the bay began there's still no sign that any of the protesters are willing to back down over half of the people detained there without charge are protesting their indefinite plight with no hope of release some inmates say they're seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military is force feeding them to make sure that doesn't happen it's going to she cannot reports. after years of the neck shit injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back after they've heard these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now we're dead it

by the cia. >> this information that was information that the cia obviously knows about prior attacks warnings about those. does the president think it was appropriate to keep that information away simply because of how congress might use it? >> well, first of all the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits. to the talking points and then produced the talking points. first of all. second of all, i think the overriding concern of everyone involved in that circumstance is to make sure that we're not giving to those who speak in public about these issues, information that cannot be confirmed, speculation about who is responsible. other things like warnings that may or may not be relevant to what we ultimately learn about what happened and why. all of that information, by the way, was and remains part of the investigation. it is information that is provided to congress and to others looking into this matter last fall and throughout the winter and into this year. and that investigation continues. but on the substantive issues of what happened in benghazi and at that time, what th

i mean, they went out with the initial cia put it in and the cia backed off it, i think.orrect me if i amcorrect me i. >> the cia did sign off at the end talking points given to susan rice. >> bill: did petraeus sign off on that. >> that's an interesting point. i have also obtained an email from pretty who was of course the cia director at the time. he was concerned that the things had been edited down to the point of uselessness. >> bill: i don't think petraeus signed off on that with all due within mr. karl. >> i have a direct quote iom petraeus' email would just as soon not use them. he didn't like these talking points. >> bill: that's right. you said february. that was september 15th. >> i'm sorry. >> bill: let's be clear. david petraeus the evidence the cia didn't sign off on this at all. >>. it was the white house and the state department working together who made these edits and mislead the world into thinking it could have been anti-islamic video put out by some nut in the u.s.a. here is the bottom line why need to find out who in the white house drove this whethe

and also this week here in r.t. a spy scandal russia exposes the cia's chief in moscow after u.s. intelligence caused red handed trying to recruit a russian agents. it is to be out in the russian capital watching r.t. with me marina joshie welcome to the program. now more than one hundred days and counting hunger strike have been tories went on and the prison is showing no signs of ending prison officials admitted to r.t. that one hundred three prisoners are now refusing food but lawyers for the inmates say the number may be as high as one hundred thirty many are force fed through the nose an extremely painful procedure that detainees are seeking an end to their indefinite detention without charge meanwhile the u.s. president has repeatedly promised to close the facility but so far no action as no action has been taken that into account has more. after years of the that shit injustice than it is first and after more than three months of starvation one ton of detainees have finally got the president but i'm going to go back out this they've heard these words before as president i w

the standard reports today on an email from then cia director general david petraeus to cia's leann son to congress chip walters seen on the right of our screen september on saturday, september 15th. expressed frustration removal of all references to islamic terrorists or al qaeda from the weapon gaze talking points that cia had prepared just the day before. to date similar frustration has been voiced publicly chiefly by a paver whistle blowers from the state department who testified at the explosive house oversight committee hearing that was held this past wednesday. fox news has learned g.o.p. lawmakers and lawyers are now working to bring to the witness chair or perhaps to the news media several more benghazi whistle blowers including survivors of the attack who work for the central intelligence agency and who have begun exploring how best to get their stories out. >> >> there there are people coming -- reaching out from the cia. i have asked the state department yet again for the names of the survivors of benghazi. i'm going to go to the cia and ask them to make available the agents

with high profile attacks leading to cia deaths as with the attack on the cia boast in afghanistan in december, 2009, in which seven cia officials were killed, sometimes the cia publicly acknowledges and honors cia officials killed but that did not happen in this case. then cia director david patraeus did not attend the funerals of woods and doherty. obviously cia officers feel it imperative to keep their work in the shadows but that in this case may also keep some of the answers about benghazi in the dark as well. >>> coming up, not a great week for the president but while the scandals swirl there is a little teenie bit of good news getting ground out, the deficit problem may be slowing -- not disappearing -- slowing. breaking news out of the arab world. an al qaeda backed suicide attack is foiled in egypt. the reported target? western embassies. we'll have an update when "the we'll have an update when "the lead" continues. b positive?? have you eaten today? i had some lebanese food for lunch. i love the lebanese. i... i'm not sure. enough of the formalities... lets get started shall

also this week a spy scandal russia exposes the cia's chief in moscow of u.s. intelligence is caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent. to day's headlines and the week's top stories we're watching r.t. . more than one hundred days and counting on hunger strike at the taurus conteining a bay prison is showing no signs of ending prison officials admitted to a one hundred three prisoners and i'm refusing food for the lawyers for the inmates say the number may be as high as one hundred thirty and many are being force fed through the news extremely painful procedure detainees are seeking an end to their indefinite detention without charge while the u.s. president has repeatedly promised to close the facility but so far no action has been taken and each account has more. after years of the national injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation autonomy the detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back at this they've heard these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military com

breaking news this recorded and revealed security services in moscow released a tape of a cia agent pledging millions to get a russian officer to turn against his country. europe leads the charge to raise funds for war torn with pledges totally more than three billion euros almost hauffe that figure coming from struggling eurozone nations. security over sanctity the u.s. government to a mass surveillance operation targeting journalists with the white house trumpeting national security as the be all and end all. and the club of the nation's get a cash rich bigger china and india are now getting a stronger voice when it comes to carving up the region our top stories this hour. screen international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow we start with our breaking news story this hour and that is new evidence has been released suggesting a cia agent caught in moscow was trying to persuade a russian security officer to provide classified information. all the details for us. well as more details about this latest spy scandal between moscow and washington continue to emerge we'

was head of the cia and she says her name was broadwell or something like that she said publicly in denver that the cia was trying to interrogate people at a see the installation there in benghazi and that the locals knew these people were their brothers and sisters and that was the reason now no one has even looked into that so we have all manner of explanations as to why it happened what was going on and got to see why the ambassador was in benghazi is a question that hasn't even been addressed among all these talking points stuff but the thing that i would like to stress is this in mid october before the national election here in this country darrell ice the head of the government oversight committee held a hearing and they had star witnesses and they had this fellow big strapping diplomatic security officer eric nordstrom and he was their star witness and they said you asked for more security and get it yes sure well i we think that that more security would have prevented this what do you think now nobody knows but i will quote every dog strum quote having an extra foot of wall

the cia began. the cia in this case deputy director of the cia.>> alisyn: well, this morning we will separate fact from fiction for you. >> and if the dead boston bomber was buried in your backyard, how would you feel about that? >> i'm a christian jesus says love your enemy. >> i'm

just gets relied on because presidents like secrecy presidents like using the cia to do things so for instance in somalia in two thousand and six no one really knew what to do there is there is no strategy so the cia comes forward with this plan to arm a bunch of warlords and take on islam us and the reverse happens to these lot of us end up being strengthened why the other problem is that the cia is set up to do operations and analysis so in some ways the operator the now the analysts are grading the work of the operations people that's very difficult for the cia when if the analysts are really doing their job they're examining the drone strikes and they're saying are they radicalizing more people than they are killing. is there a real downside so they're basically giving a review to their of the world to their own. work and that i think that for a good period of time there was not enough really serious scrutiny among not only cia analysts but other american intelligence analysts about the impact that the drones were having we knew that they were killing certain people they were kill

right guys we're taking a quick break but don't go anywhere up next we talk about the extension of cia covert wars to post nine eleven world call. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most value trade. is flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't plods anything but the one who would it all there was great hunger. is a good help comes too late and without good intentions. charity diplomacy and business want to. build. on. the. program the latest distraction across the corporate media this week is the case of the three missing girls that were just found and the moment they were found was breaking news and i'm happy they're alive it's a crazy story indeed but did it merit this. round alive here's a story made for movies playing out in real life story one of my kids separately as teenagers ten years ago. this is a special edition of starting point we are live in cleveland and there are burning questions this morning about the living hell that t

the cia -- >> he pushed back. i want to play that quickly. >> the original version included references to al qaeda. the original cia version included extensive discussion of the previous threats of terrorist attacks in benghazi. those were taken out after the cia wrote its initial draft. >> and the cia wrote another draft. >> based on input from the state department. >> but here's what i've been saying. >> do you deny that? >> how can you blame the cia? someone did take it out. >> you can see why resentment builds in this situation. i think it's fair to say we absolutely, all the folks on the failures in diplomatic security that occurred before the benghazi incident. here's the thing. it was cia personnel who were under attack in benghazi and when it seems the cia is being left to hang in this situation can you see why there is a lot of resentment. it's not purely because political part zanz on the other side are trying to make hay out of it. a lot of people internally as well who are frustrated with the sense tha

also this week a spy scandal rusher exposes the cia's chief in moscow u.s. intelligence is called red handed trying to an agent. brokaw staying live from moscow you're watching artie's weekly news if you are characterized. more than one hundred days and counting on hunger strike up in a tourist gone town of a prison and showing no signs of ending prison officials admitted to one hundred three prisoners and now refusing food though is for the inmates say the number may be as high as one hundred thirty many are being force fed through the news an extremely painful procedure and detainees are seeking an end to their indefinite detention without charge meanwhile the u.s. president has repeatedly promised to close the facility so far no action has been taken can has more. after years of the national injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president that i'm going to go back after this they perk these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and

recorded and revealed that security services in moscow release of tape of a cia agent pledging millions to get a russian officer at his country. inmates are going to my by a reporting escalating harassment saying that being subjected to painful and degrading snatches for reasons as heavy as a telephone call to the lawyers also his spokesman of the detention center tells a very different story. examinations eager to cash in on which is growing bigger china and india are now getting a stronger voice when it comes to carving up the region. and security over sanctity the u.s. government a massive surveillance operation targeting journalists with the white house trumpeting national security as the be all and end all. here in moscow with twenty four hours a day online and on screen. new evidence has been really suggesting a cia agent caught in moscow was trying to persuade a russian security officer to provide classified information. has all the details. as more details offer the latest spying scandal between moscow and washington continue to emerge we've managed to obtain audio recordings of

believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda there arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since one thousand seventy six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that never see it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation the prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with confide

that is not the role of the cia.ften toeing a line the administration wanted him to toe. >> we think we stumbled onto one avenue of a nuclear weapons program. >> there is no question there were erroneous judgments in that national intelligence estimate. the purpose was to sell a policy initiative, which was to go to war against iraq. >> the 90-page classified nie asserts that saddam is actively pursuing his wmd program. it cites the debatable intelligence on aluminum tubes, the yellowcake uranium purchase, and mobile weapons labs. but deep inside that thick document are strongly worded dissents that argue the evidence is weak, even wrong. >> the nie is sent over to congress. it's kept in a classified vault. as far as we can tell only about half a dozen senators actually read it. had they done so, they would have seen that it was filled with dissents. >> if i had read the national intelligence estimate on iraq, i probably would have been -- have done myself a favor by being better informed on the intelligence, rather

and more spies in disguise a russian security exposes a cia chief in moscow as it was intelligence is left red faced after getting called to trying to recruit a russian agent. ai . you're watching r t live from moscow with me to say let's take a look at this week's the weekly more than one hundred days as since the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay began there's still no sign that any of the protesters are willing to back down well overhaul fault the people detained there without charge protesting their indefinite applied with no hope of release some inmates the save is seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military force is force feeding them to make sure that that doesn't happen as granted she can reports. after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back at this they've heard these words before president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now again it needs to be closed now c

knew the cia was doing covert actions but to have it so out in the open and so transparent to have so much acceptance behind i guess is a little bit eerie for me but you know i just talked to jeremy scale on the show about dirty wars which is kind of the same concept of these wars going on he said the war on terror has become essentially a self-fulfilling prophecy and when you look at the counterterrorism strategies the broad that are essentially counterproductive we know that they cause an enormous amount of blowback and the f.b.i. entrapment going on here the terror factory we're creating all of these entrapment cases in the knocking him down do you agree with the notion of it being a self-fulfilling prophecy well i think that there's a sort of a quality that is sort of perpetuating and there's no end in sight certainly to these shadow wars whether it's in pakistan or parts of africa there's a new drone base being built in new share the president obama's second inaugural address said you know the a decade of war is coming to an end but what he was talking about was a decade of the p

told me that they will inform us if anything coming from the cia will happen any time soon. the next a actually thank you very much indeed for that update. i did not see the breaking the set is coming out shortly. a fairly dickinson university study has revealed a twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is an all low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution is some fun video game battle where freedom fighters topple

to torture really didn't provide us much useful intelligence generally and three the last one that ciawas misrepresenting what was going on to congress choose the department of justice and even to the white house so you know a lot of the claims a lot of the claims that say d.o.j. approval were based on were in fact false and i think that's a really important point not just for the torture program but for cia oversight generally now marci in my beginning i have talked about the fact that it is taking forever to release this report what is taking it so long well if it was approved in december and originally as the cia was supposed to kind of come back to the senate intelligence committee on february fifteenth to. complain or give any complete concerns i had about declassifying it at precisely that time where john brennan was being confirmed to be director of cia and he didn't read it before the confirmation hearings he just read the introductory volume. he afterwards has been saying well i need to read it and i need to read it there are indications that cia is going back to wants to go b

so there's been there's there was the period where the cia was doing a lot of renditions and they were doing a lot of. detention interrogation in cia prisons one of the things i point out of the book is that after this period the first few years after nine eleven when there was this intense focus on interrogation and because of the controversies and because of all the all the problems are created within the agency there was a gradual shift from capturing to killing and what we see certainly in the obama administration is a much greater emphasis on remote control killing as opposed to detention and interrogation where you just brought up a really good point which is drone killing and also john bellinger obama's drone architect just came out in a speech to a foreign policy think tank and he said you know obama has resorted to escalating this drone warfare to just opt in to kill people allege militant suspected terrorists instead of dealing with the bad press of detaining him it get no i mean how sad of a commentary is that that we've simply resorted to killing people without charges or t

right guys we're taking a quick break but don't go anywhere up next to talk about the extension of cia covert wars in a post nine eleven world just israel's massive attack near damascus days ago why be serious raging civil war then there's the issue of chemical weapons western support of assad's enemies people drawn to but it's proving the rebels are using them against their own people. please please please please please. please. please. see. the little. program the latest instruction across the corporate media this week is the case of the three missing girls that were just found and the moment they were found was breaking news and i'm happy they're alive it's a crazy story indeed but did it merit this. very. frowned on live is a story made for the movies playing out in real life story one of many kidnapped separately as teenagers to end years ago. this is a special edition of starting point we are live in cleveland and there are burning questions this morning about the living hell that three women were forced to endure during a decade in captivity we are continuing to follow the break

and the text pointedly referred to cia warnings. at least five other attacks against foreign interests in benghazi by unidentified assailants. that set off alarms at the state department. at 7:30 that night victoria nuland, a 30-year career diplomat objected e-mailing, why are we encouraging members of congress to start making assertions to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation? officials say she was trying to stop the cia from shifting the blame for not protecting benghazi where most of the personnel were attached to the cia. at white house meetings saturday, other officials further watered down the talking points. in all there were 12 separate drafts in the end eliminating all references to terrorism, but keeping the point about the cairo demonstration being the spark that set off the attack. on sunday, u.n. ambassador susan rice followed the guidelines on five talk shows. >> on benghazi was a spontaneous reaction -- >> reporter: in january hillary clinton denied a role. >>