and i didn't talk about the department of defense, but the cia and apex and the cia a subject of dread or fear on the part of many other institutions of the government, people don't want to cross them. people are afraid of what they might do if they take a negative view to particular political actor or political institution. their power is certainly perceived at the being at the system's apex. and when we go back and test the specific points reported against what happened we see individuals who make the most stupid decisions, wrong decisions, arresting people who are completely innocent and a couple of cases torturing them to death or filling prisons in fact with people who are if anything chaff and not senior officials who should be involved or doing false analysis and sending law enforcement on a wild-goose chase. or making a misjudgment about allowing a double agent to enter a place in afghanistan and set off a bomb killing seven cia agents. or and this is well documented having specific detailed information about 911 conspiracy people who arrived in the united states and not tellin

members of the cia say they asked cia cbs had stolen it.ere is no other way they could have possibly gotten this document. it's quite obvious how they got it, it was a mistake but the golden rule at the cia is the cia never makes mistakes or errors so that is excluded immediately from consideration. and they demand that it's returned. they evidently break into the senate computers to try to receive it at this point. they are trying to cause vital documents to disappear so we are going to print a copy of this document and transmit it to the secure document room at the senate to hold it there so that it will not disappear. the report is being finalized at this point it is quite clear what the conclusions are going to be. and at this point the acting general counsel at the cia decides he's going to go to war against a senate committee and he does so by accusing them of theft and mishandling of classified documents. theft because they saw the report and mishandling because they transmitted it to the secure document room in the senate. and he de

but the cia agents are angry.rm says they think he has gone rogue. >> again, i improvised for myself. i took control. >> aren't they supposed to be running you rather than you running them? >> in the ideal world, probably, yes. >> bottom line, the cia can't be picky. to locate and eliminate awlaki, they need storm, and they are willing to pay. if his plan works. you get a quarter of a million dollars from the cia when aminah crosses into yemen? >> that's correct. >> after seven weeks, storm sent back to vienna for another meeting with aminah. the next step in the match making. he shows her this video from awlaki. >> this recording is done specifically for sister aminah. the brother who's carrying this recording is a trustworthy brother. >> what's her reaction when she's watching that video? >> she's full of joy and tears. you do really know him, she says. you do really know him. >> i hope you are well. >> then storm has her record a video for awlaki in return. >> my brother, it's me, aminah, and i just want to tel

but the golden rule of the cia is that the cia never makes mistakes or errors.so that is excluded from the consideration and they demand the return. evidently breaking into the senate's computers, they are trying to cause vital documents to disappear, printing out a copy of this and transmitting it at the senate and holding it there in the report is being finalized at this point, it's quite clear what the conclusions are going to be and at this point the acting general counsel of the cia goes dash to decide who's going to war against the senate committee and he does so by accusing them of theft and mishandling of classified documents. because they saw this mishandling and they printed it out and transmitted it to the secure document room and the senate. and he decides that he is not only going to publicly air these complaints but file a notification with the u.s. department of justice for busting that they commenced a criminal investigation into the senate staffers for doing this. so we must note that this man who does all the things his name is robert. .. edeng

the embassy never hang out with cia, never acknowledge cia. she went with secretaries to the marine house on friday night. she had a completely different profile in a professional cia officer would have. she never met trigon in the time she spent there. she put down dead drops through him, and picked up dead drops from him. that is all she did. but one night, she did a two and a half hour surveillance detective run out of the embassy. she wasn't followed much, because she was like a secretary. they didn't care. besides, they didn't use women, and they thought we didn't use women, so we used a lot of women. she did her 2.5 hour sdr she was on the subway, she walked it was dark at night, she was making sure she didn't have surveillance. because she would go out on this bridge, over the moscow river and she had in her purse a thing that looked like a lump of coal but it wasn't. it was from our office. you could open it up and inside, there were some rubles, some medicine, some notes, some of those preloaded cameras for him to take around and take

they accuse him of being a cia plant. a cia infiltration of the kgb. they said all the time that he was working for the kgb. he was actually working for the cia. of course, he denies that. he talks about karl koecher and what a villain he was, what a hardhearted man he was. it is a breathtaking bit of film. we will see if we can get it to play. it is said, when they were walking across the bridge in berlin, hana was wearing a white mink coat and a white mink hat for this exchange. and, that she looked like a movie star. which, i am sure, was the goal. ok. here we go. [video clip] >> almost from the moment he first entered the cia, questions were raised about his loyalty. at the kgb, people doubted the truth of the reports. they began to wonder whether mr. koecher, after 10 years of easy living in the west, had changed sides. he was asked to return to prague, smuggled across the border and taken to a safe house, when he met the man sent from moscow to investigate him. >> as a senior official of the kgb in counterintelligence maybe i shouldn't have said

we have seen vice president cheney, former cia directors several of them, former senior cia officers network news programs and defend defend, defend their actions during the torture regime. the reason they are doing that is because torture is their legacy will stop when your obituary's a written, they will say that they were instrumental in the torture program. and the only thing they can do at this point to save the reputations is to keep repeating this lie that torture worked and help the american people eventually -- hope the american people eventually believe it. >> what are your thoughts today on nsa whistleblower edward snowden? what would you advise him? >> i think ed snowden is a national hero. i think ed snowden gave us information on government illegality that we otherwise would never have had. i regret that the federal government has revoked his passport and has caused him to be stuck in russia, but i think he did a very courageous thing full step i'm not sure i would have released all of the information he released because in some cases, i want nsa to be spying on foreign

the cia fully understands that and uses it so the cia sought amongst the court reporters acting in thisarea who is a reliable partner for them? who will take their stories and report them the way that they want them to be reported? so i would just say it becomes clear in this report documents that they consciously go about picking certain reporters and delivering materials to them and there are some names that appear in the report. and by the way go look on the net. he has put out a statement of defense saying that they report misunderstands but what he was doing when he tells the cia that he will lean over backwards to report things in their interest if they give them certain information. but in any event i would say it's very clear that there are a significant number of people who inform these confidential relations and take information and if we look at what the intelligence community is doing now in the last happy or roughly, there is a special order that was issued by general james clapper and national intelligence which is sometimes referred to as the clapper that law. this order

the obvious outstanding question about the role of the cia. i first approached the agency in 2009 after i returned to dc from moscow. i pulled pulled together what it together what had been written about the agencies involvement and the names of those that were suspected of working on the printing and prepared a memo about the potential book that i wanted to write. none of you probably will be surprised that the first response i got back from the office of public affairs was that the agency was not interested. i understood under the freedom of information act i would like to get nothing if i went that route and instead i spoke to a number of retired officers such as yourself and i would like to pause to remember one of the former members, the former cia officer and former journalist for "newsweek" and time who was helpful to me and who died before he could see this book through the good offices of bruce and some other retired officers the subject was path to the attention of the historical records division and are one of the meetings it was su

sew cia came up with a plan. they would protect him and not tell the israelis or the justice department or not tell anyone else. wouldn't tell the nazi hunters that eichman's former aide was living a quiet life in new york city. but there was one condition for their protection. they told him that he had to drop that bid for the state department job because they couldn't risk his name being tied to eichman and the cia. and in closing, let me read you from a series of remarkable meetings and horrifying meeting that the cia held with him in 1961. and so on the spring evening in new york city, two cia officials who worked with him during the spy days in eastern europe sat him down to deliver the ultimatum. either relinquish the state department job or risk the messy consequences. despite the ominous message he struck a cop sill yaer to tone. he cia val i'd his, quote continued friendship. agency officials felt duped by everything they were learning about his close ties to eichman his handler claimed, but no one was i

she retired in 1993 and earning the cia's intelligence commendation medal. since then

know what the cia is up to.hile in 2009 south africa spy chief gets a direct phone call from assad boss mayor and he is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders staff to verify the number later a meeting, and he wants south africa to vote down the gold stone report a u.n. fact-finding mission after the 2009 gaza war and prominent south africa led it and crucially it said israel committed numerous war crimes and major says the palestinian leader abbas privately supports israeli position and also wants south africa to vote it down according to the p top man he felt voting in favor of the gold stone report would play in the hands of hamas and weaken his position. in this way the cables reveal how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are privately forming alliances they would never admit to in public. >>> the palestinian authority has been reacting to the leaks and al jazeera joins us live from the occupied west bank mts what are the palestinians saying about the revolution that president hamas didn't want

and in a couple of cases, people died in cia custody. i always maintained that there were torture techniques worse than waterboarding. sleep deprivation can make you so crazy you can't participate in your own defense. that's inexcusable. it's illegal. the cold cell, where a prisoner is stripped naked, placed in a 50-degree cell, and then has ice water thrown on him every hour. people die from those kinds of things. why aren't those officers prosecuted? >> that's interesting. so the line that you see for prosecution should be that things that were done within what agents were told was in the bounds of the law shouldn't be prosecuted, even if that actually retroactively was an

and in a couple of cases, people died in cia custody.maintained that there were torture techniques worse than waterboarding. sleep deprivation can make you so crazy you can't participate in your own defense. that's inexcusable. it's illegal. the cold cell where a prisoner is stripped naked, placed in a 50-degree cell and then has ice water thrown some him every hour. people die from those kinds of things. why aren't those officers prosecuted? >> that's interesting. so the line that you see for prosecution should be that things that were done within what agents were told was in the bounds of the law shouldn't be prosecuted, even if that actual retroactively was an erroneous legal judgment? >> exactly. i believe it was an erroneous legal judgment. i think that the justice department's office of legal counsel was wrong in issuing those opinions. but if you're a cia officer at the working level and the justice department says, go ahead and do it it's legal, well, if you don't have a moral problem with it what else are you going to do? >> but

they infiltrated the cia and gathered top-secret information to the use of sex. one popular washington, d.c., swingers club counted at least 10 cia staffers any u.s. senator as members. that is tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> monday night on "the communicators," we spoke with two industry executives at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. the senior vice president at ericsson and the cisco senior vice president. they talk about their companies and the technology on which the internet, mobile phones, and the cloud operate. >> in ericsson, we talk about a network society. and the network society is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection will actually have one. and we put a a vision forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show over 50 billion connected devices in 2020, which has caught on very well in the world. and that opened many people's minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smartphone and the devices we carry around personally. it also is a great technology that connects so many other

so in other words they would know what the cia is up to.hile in 2009 south africa spy chief gets a direct phone call from assad boss mayor and is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders staff to ver vie the number and later a meeting and wants south africa to vote down the gold stone report a u.n. factfinding mission after the gaza war and richard gold stone led it and crucially the report said israel committed numerous war crimes. mayor says the palestinian leader abbas privately supports israeli position and also wants south africa to vote it down according to the top man he felt in favor voting in the gold stone report would weaken his position and in this way it reveals how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are having alliances they would never admit to in public. >> joining us is the director of al jazeera's investigative unit interesting stuff, clayton, what do you think this says about the palestinian authorities standing with the americans, the relationship with them? >> well, with respect to the cable saying that the a

and so we inside the cia felt that it was -- it was our fault. you know, we should have been able to find these guys overseas, we should have been able to disrupt the attack. we should have worked with the fbi which we famously different. >> how palpable is that? if i'm walking around languagely a week after 9/11, is it -- >> most people there in the building on 9/11 didn't leave for the first couple weeks. i slept under my desk for three days before somebody told me you really need to go home and take a shower. we even -- on the moving into the night of 9/11, you know, toward september 12th, we actually got bolt cutters and cut the lock off of the cafeteria door and stole all the food. it was a marriott contract. stole all the food and cooked it ourselves and placed on big tables in the hall so people could eat and not stop working and that went on for days. we ended up having to write a check for something like $15,000 for stealing all their food. most people didn't leave. if they left, it was only to take a shower and change clothes and come b

getting back to your original point of being kooky, a cia psychiatrist once told me when the cia is lookingre people they're looking for people with what he called sociopathic tendencies that is people who are comfortable working in gray areas and comfortable with lying and doing it with a smile. that said, often times so sociopaths have no conscience after all. so sometimes you get people who probably shouldn't work there. >> kiriakou has things to say about the agency including president obama. we should note he was no longer at the cia when obama took office. >> historically democrats have entered the presidency viewed as unfriendly toward the cia or as just not really caring one way or the other. and the cia, as an organization as a culture, has sought to bring those presidents into the fold. and we saw it with bill clinton when i was there, and we saw it in spades with barack obama. obama was seen as a potential enemy, and virtually as soon as he took the oath of office the agency brought him in. taught him the secrets. showed them what they could do. and he became their biggest cheerl

and i don't think that's at the cia, and i don't think that the cia has the civiller liberties officer the way that the nsa does, with snowden. and in this case, the nsa has tried to move it along and made good steps and maybe the cia can learn from them. >> i wonder if the director's drown is necessary in the facer is. >> i think that people tend to exaggerate the fact of having good video on the internet. and be aware that people are playing a propaganda game is not overstated. in the old days, if you had spies going after national government, they could put it in place and find out what was going on, because you knew where the tarts are. but i think for a lot of the terrorist groups they don't have anybody speaking their dialect. and you can't put agents on the ground in the middle of that. and you have to have forensics. so you have to have a component. and that's what the director is saying. >> the nsa has come under fire for privacy concerns, and by design should we be worried that this expansion of capabilities could lead to privacy issues? >> of course we should. congress came

kiriakou has come to feel very differently about the cia's detention and interrogation program than he did back in 2007. when we spoke yesterday, he gave me his perspective on what happened to abu zubaydah, starting with the mission to capture him in pakistan back in 2002. >> we were told by headquarters at the time that abu zubaydah was the number three in al qaeda. that turned out to just not be true. he actually had never joined al qaeda. and he had never pledged fealty to osama bin laden. but he was an al qaeda associate. and he was the director of al qaeda's two training camps in afghanistan. so, as such, even if he wasn't the number three in al qaeda, he was a pretty important target for us. >> but you're operating at the time thinking, we've got the number three. >> oh, yeah. >> you must have been stoked? >> oh, absolutely. in fact, a lot of us felt it was just too good to be true, that, you know, we've hit this one guy, we've hit this one guy, we're not going to catch the number three in al qaeda just by going out and looking for him. >> but you do catch him. >> well, we did ca

says it will not release the full report on cia detainee operations. the german justice ministry is weighing options. >> in due time, it will be considered what consequences should be drawn from the u.s. government's clear position on the matter. >> germany's opposition parties accuse berlin of being too timid towards washington. they say they want to keep the cia torture cases on parliaments agenda. >> to soccer now, and europe's champions league action continues this evening in a short while. much of the night, german side, schalke. >> tuesday, bayern munich failed to score in their match. >> people around the world have begun celebrating the lunar new year. >> according to chinese tradition, the year of the horse has drawn to a close in the year of the sheep has begun. for people in vietnam, the holiday has ushered in the year of the goat. >> the streets of hanoi's old town were filled with shoppers stocking up on new year's decorations bearing images of goats in the lucky colors of red and gold. the chinese call it the year of the sheep but in viet

. >> today in a broadcast exclusive interview, we spend the hour with the retired cia agent who blew the whistle on torture. he has just been released from prison. he will join us from his home, where he remains on house arrest while finishing his two-and-a-half-year sentence. in 2007, kiriakou became the first cia official to publicly confirm and detail the bush administration's use of waterboarding. >> i've come to believe firmly that torture is wrong under any circumstances. it is not something that a civilized society should sanction. it is something that we as americans should oppose. >> john kiriakou is the only official to be jailed for any

the cia and mossad worked together for months.cial recognition technology to confirm it was his. then as cia agents monitor on the ground, a bomb was detonated that was hidden in the spare tire of a suv. in order to make sure the bomb was big enough to kill him but small enough to avoid hurting anybody else, the cia had tried it out at a facility in north carolina, blowing up about 25 test bombs in the process. once again, these incredibly dramatic, larger than life details about this plot fascinating but also, real interesting questions about why we're learning this now. who has told the washington post that this happened? is this somebody bragging? essentially telling a war story because they want the news agencies to get credit for doing something we wouldn't otherwise know about? is this leaked for a strategic reason? as we're in the middle of discussions with iran? is this designed to help those talks with iran or hurt those talks with iran? the washington post deserves credit for the scoop, but the fact that it's their scoop

the cia and gathered top-secret information through the use of sex in the 1970's. mendez reports that one popular d.c. swingers club, frequented by the couple, counted at least 10 study i -- 10 cia staffers and members -- as members.

the south african writes that the cia seems desperate to make inroads into hamas in gaza.recommends they help. by doing so south africa will stand the chance of benefiting from the interaction in that we would establish requirements of the cia. so in in other words they would know what they were up to. the south african spy chief gets a direct phone call. he is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders his staff to verify the number. later a meeting. he wants south africa to vote down the goldstone report, a u.n. fact finding mission after the 2009 gaza war. prominent jurist lead it and crucially the report said israeli has committed numerous war crimes. he says the palestinian leader privately supports the israeli position and also wants south africa to vote it down. he felt voting in favor of the report would play into the hands of rivals hamas, and weaken his position. in this way, the cables reveal how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are privately forming clandestine alliances they would never admit to in public. >> we'll bring you more top secret spy cabl

or what was the oss which became the cia. it is important i think remember why this happened in the first case. many people say why did we have our allies spying on us, why did the british need to spy on us. most americans forget that in 1940 when churchill first ascent -- sent stephenson's over here to start building up a secret network the war was extremely unpopular in america. it was still called the european conflict and american newspapers well over 90 percent of the country adamantly opposed to becoming involved in the war. something called a land lease bill was been heatedly debated in congress and to look like a pass. roosevelt who is firmly with churchill who wanted to help churchill and wanted to send a -- aid to england could not be seen as lifting any hint to help england without losing his chances of reelection. the british desperately needed america's health, heather by now have marched across europe, he was only two or three months away by most people's estimations of invading england -- literally their only h

that is equivalent to our cia. but mi 6 is way more secret. the politicians are never supposed to say the name mi6 or admit that it exists. >> i appreciated the insights and perspectives of the leaders of the government and the head of mi-6. as we discussed syria. >> that meeting, had not been on his public schedule while he was in london. it was supposed to be a secret. he was definitely not supposed to talk about it with reporter and he found it too ir response thabl he had to tell them he had the meeting you are still not supposed to say it is with the head of mi-6. the daily mail was told his trip was a total car crash and worse than sarah palin. and that they said in meeting with him they found him to be devoid of charm, warmth, humor or sincerity. mitt romney in the summer of 2012 when he was running for president had a terrible trip to london. the sun tabloid newspaper summed up their take mitt the twit. wannabe u.s. president. mitt romney's olympics gaffe overshadowed his visit to london. mitt romney visits london while stumbling on al

he also works for the cia. really? the epa and the cia. they did something really extraordinary, the government has never done this and never will again. they asked somebody at the cia. have you heard of jonathan veale? they said who? here is what they discovered. he does not work for the cia. he had been going on for 11 years. do you know what his specialty is? global warming. he has been doing this for 11 years. they finally fired him. going to prison, if he is not already. on the way out they could not do it in the proper way. anybody would have fired him. he would not be eligible for pensions. even on the way out they could not do the right thing. i'm imagining what this guy's life must've been like. is boss calls him, jonathan, we have not seen you. are you coming in? i imagine him at his house. i imagine he has a swimming pulled. he makes $150,000 a year. 100,000 people make under that a year. i imagine he is drinking a beer, he is in his lounge. the boss calls him. here is his response. no, i'm in istanbul on a secret assignment. [l

the south african writes: so in other words they would know what the cia is up to.hile in 2009, south africa's spy chief gets a direct call from a boss. he is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders his staff to verify the number. later a meeting. he wants south africa to vote down the gold stone report a u.n. fact finding mission after the 2009 gaza war. prominent jurist richard goldstone lead it hah it said israel had committed numerous war crimes. the palestinian authority leader privately supports the israeli position, and also wants south africa to vote it down. according to the top man: in this way, the cables reveal how the u.s. israel and palestinian authority are privately forming clandestine alliances they would never aed mitt to in -- admit to in public. >> we'll bring you more top secret cables at 1800 hours gmt. and you can read the original articles at our website, aljazeera.com/spycables. and tell us what you think on twitter using the hashtag spycables. >>> palestinian officials say israeli forces have shot dead a teenager in this the occupied w

he was deputy director of the cia from 2010 to 2013.e also served twice as acting director during that time. egypt launched airstrikes in libya yesterday. the attack was in retaliation for the beheading of 21 christian egyptian hostages. the killings raised concern that isis is expanding its global footprint. in geneva, international powers have entered a decisive phase in nuclear negotiation. they are slated to reach a framework agreement in march and a final agreement in june. iran's supreme leader remarked last week that no deal is better than a bad deal. american politicians have said the same thing. i'm pleased to have mike morell back at this table. welcome. mike: good to be here. charlie: someone said to me, there is a sense that somebody's got to come together. the isis and the extent of their footprint is much more troubling than anybody ever imagined. tell me how you see isis today based on what we just saw in egypt, i mean in libya, paris, copenhagen, iraq, and syria. what is the challenge here and what kind of response is de

and the cia blocked access to the dia for these documents.it is because the administration has a see no evil, and hear no evil approach to it al-qaeda. the president was in campaign mode and making the case that he was successful and run a successful nonwar, war on terror. and with the death of osama bin laden, would come the death of al-qaeda. it was not true. we heard from former head of diowa a that he was making the case that what the president said was not true in the campaign speech. >> what is the impact of this on public safety? >> we should certainly know more about this. the administration tried to make the case that osama bin laden was a lion in the winter in his latter years and before he died. as i understand it with people who have knowledge of the documents, the evidence shoes that bin laden was anything but and he was actively involved in the plotting and you have had people that worked for the administration saying that there is a lot to learn from these documents and osama bin laden for instance may have had a stronger hand

. >> host: what was the cia annex? >> guest: basically a facility used to do operations, clandestine operations. >> host: how far was was that from where the ambassador kris stevens was? >> guest: three-quarters of a mile. it wasn't real far way. it's a couple of short turns anywhere there. >> host: and was it a non-facility? >> guest: and the state department facility in the country are known. our facilities are not supposed to be known but over time it especially for certain period of time you are going to be of the sea bass is coming out of the compound so whether ours was or not don't know but it's safe to assume the locals knew it wasn't a global facility. >> host: why was ambassador stevens in benghazi? >> guest: he was there to help open up was a school opening. a local libyan had helped a u.s. airman or pilot who was shot down during the ousting of gadhafi and to support him he had been opening up an american school or an american speaking school for libyans and the ambassador came down to do a ceremony for tha

. >> the cia admitted it. >> "freeway - crack in the system". premieres sunday march 1st, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> fast-forward to a story about a man's hoop dream, and a friend that took to the court - highs dying wish. it's no small deed. the friend is an n.b.a. super star. anthony penny hard away. he went home to memphis and explained why to "america tonight"s sara hoy. . former point >> reporter: former point guard returned to a middle school to help a friend battling colon cancer. desmond was given 24 hours to live. an infection ravaged his body. he awoke from a medically induced coma. lions. >> i said you have it wrong, we are not worried about the team, we are worried about you. >> he didn't want to hear it. he said we'll be okay, go to the state championship. it was that year's team. i thought you are not worried about your health, you are worried about the kids. - >> reporter: in the end he honoured his friend's request. did you think you would be a middle school coach? >> never. god. >> i saw him jump back into th

it is a bleak window into what the cia's interests are.n 2009, president obama wanted to have a new relationship with the muslim world. he spoke in cairo. autocrats were adopted by the bush administration. obama thought, maybe there is room for political islam. this is when they were still open to the idea, let's say. it makes sense to me at least, reporting this interest was expressed. of course, we don't know if the cia to give forward to stop the mass has said on al jazeera today, they deny official contact, but they won't save it was unofficial. i think it is intriguing. >> you also know that a south african state security agency report from november 2012 records the palestinian intelligence officer handing over mmo detailing a phone call made by president obama to mahmoud abbas, were president threatened abbas if he goes ahead with the u.n. bid. abbas ultimately does, but expect the significance of this and then also, the cables revealing the same former mossad chief personally lobbying south african intelligence officials in 2009 aga

so in other words, they would know what the cia is up to.hile in 2009, south africa's spy chief gets a direct phone call from assad boss. he is shocked at the breach of protocol and orders his staff to verify the number. later a meeting. he wants south africa to vote down the goldstone report. a u.n. fact-minding mission after the south african war. crucially the report said israel has committed numerous war crimes. he says the palestinian leader supports the position. according to the top man, he thought voting in favor of the goldstone report would weaken his position. this shows how they are privately forming clandestine relationships you would never know about in public. >> you can read more on our exclusive website, aljazeera.com/spy cables. and tell us what you think on twitter, use the hashtag spycables. >>> yemen's president has retracted his resignation. he stepped down last month after houthi rebels seized the presidential palace in sana'a. the rebel group says he is wanted for justice after fleeing to the southern city. we are joi

claims i wothe cia performance award. this book had to go through security clearance at the cia and they removed references like that. >> one of your reasons for doing this book is to foster debate. what strategy es the u.s. need to execute to sort -- thwart china surpassing us? >> this should be balance of competition and cooperation, but i think the balance is all ron now. it's about 95% cooperation and telling our -- is all wrong now. it's about % cooperatioion and telling ourselves that china is a third world country living in poverty that we need to help. i am talking aboutut investment, trade, treaties, st t the way we think about china, we should not he them as not -- not see t them as not a contender. they are a i stood outside, assessing the situation. i knew it could rough in there but how rough? there was no way to know for sure. hey guys.... daddy, it's pink! but hey. a new house it's a blank canvas. and we got a great one thanks to a really low mortgage rate from navy federal credit union. pink so she's a pri

. >> the cia admitted it. >> "freeway - crack in the system". premieres sunday march 1st, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> president obama's request that congress authorise ground troops in the war against i.s.i.l. is winning praise from some critics. jane harman called on the president and congress to unite those. harman represented southern california in congress for nine terms, sitting on the house committee in armed services, intelligence, and left congress in 2011. she is the c.e.o. of the wilson center, a nonpartisan research group on global issues. i spoke with jane at the world economic forum in davos, and she explained why she supports the president's response to defeating i.s.i.l. >> i think president obama wisely avoided a full-blown largely resourced war on the ground. he tried to find a way to rule a coalition under the direction of retired general john alan. it will do a lot of things. it will do an air campaign that no one expects it to win. but it will degrade i.s.i.l. you made a point about who are we training. we

. >> the cia admitted it. >> "freeway - crack in the system". premieres sunday march 1st, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> hello, i'm ray suarez. on the subject of law enforcement, the director of the fbi speaks with one of the biggest megaphones in america. and james comey says the country's police officers sometimes do their jobs in a way bias. >> at many points in american history law enforcement enforced the status quo, one that is often brutally unfair to groups. >> law enforcement in the u.s. has to recognise the unjust treatment of minorities. comey called for a national dialogue. how do we do that? whom would talk to whom, and how do we avoid the pitfalls of conversation about race that ends in recrimination and acrimony. we are glad you found us at our new time and home. it's "inside story". >>> in his talk at george town university director comey touched on a difficult thing to talk about. trying to root it in the world of dispassionate observation rather than accusation, we don't know each other well enough. >> a tragedy

he became the oss which would later morph into the cia. all of this amounts to a shadow force that waged war within this country breaking in some sense every law of the land to fight for england by means of sabotage propaganda, and political subversion. had congress or the american public known at the time that roosevelt invited the spies in. instructed hoover to look the other way, he would have opened himself up to impeachment proceedings. history proved him right. we looked back on this as a just war, a war we should have entered. we looked back on roosevelt and the british "irregulars" despite the underhanded means as on the side of the angels. so it's a case of doing wrong for the right reasons. but it is a very fraught piece of history as a result. one of my favorite lines about this period of history was uttered by earnest cunio. he was a pivotal figure. he goes through when chel's wartime columns and he was an operative who basically was the go-between between the british intelligence and roosevelt's brain trust. and he said, well,

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