two or one, that it what david petraeus did. i was trying to look at unique individual chronologically that try to remind us even the here toic, era of high-tech, the human qualities remain across time and space. >> host: few historians would dispute that some of the people you select were indeed saviors of the country. i think you have used a great example, undoubtly the greek city-states. but they might argue with some of the other choices such as ridgeway. because the original strategic outcome in korea were not actually achieved. so how do you respond? >> guest: i think that criticism would be vailed for all five of them. they're not winners, they say the situation for lose or win. and for example, domestically save the greek cause he didn't win the war. he was almost immediately forgotten and up to the spartans the next year. and at the hype of the powers, he was relieved, put on trial. died a blind beggar, in a traditional sense. as you point out with ridgeway, hef there 100 days and made strategic choice not to go across

and i sort of thought about this profile with david petraeus. i saw the general mcchrystal was getting quite a bit of very interesting coverage. and i just sensed that there was a bigger story than just reading between the lines of some of the other profiles. that is what i wanted to do. this includes one of the models, including one from the rolling stones, that is one of my models to try to do this with the marines in the humvee and try to capture that with the highest command. c-span: who wrote that? >> guest: it was written by evan wright. c-span: who did you call first? >> guest: it was in an e-mail to duncan boothby. one of general mcchrystal's public relations advisers as well as a few other public relations people. c-span: who were they? >> guest: a kernel and some other admirals, admiral greg smith. c-span: what did you ask him? >> guest: i said i would love to do a profile of general mcchrystal. in any to assess you could give me would be great. to assess the situation in afghanistan. c-span: did they know your background at "newsweek"

protecting david petraeus and promoting dave betrayers and mythologizing david petraeus and we saw ithere tonight general kimmitt was a spokes person in baghdad who was a roommate of who was involved in one of the biggest the ball calls in reasoned foreign policy history is on t.v. you know defending david petraeus without actually addressing the real problems with david petraeus his record and those are the fact that he manipulated the white house into escalating the afghanistan he ran a campaign in iraq that was brutally savage included arming the worst of the worst shiite death squads sunni militia men and then you go back to the training of the iraqi army program that also had similar problems so for me all the while he's going around the country talking about honor and integrity well that's a nugget of truth you rarely see on the corporate press news to say piers morgan probably never invited him back on hastings was a refreshingly honest human being who hold no punches and i read it and may last year he offered some advice to aspiring journalists in which he said to dedicate you

david petraeus and promoting dave betrayers and mythologizing david petraeus and we saw it here tonightgeneral kimmitt was a spokes person in baghdad who was a roommate of who was involved in one of the biggest the bottles and reason foreign policy history is on t.v. you know defending david petraeus without actually addressing the real problems with david petraeus his record and those are the fact that he manipulated the white house and to escalate in afghanistan he ran a campaign in iraq that was brutally savage included arming the worst of the worst shiite death squads sunni militia men and then you go back to the training of the iraqi army program that also had similar problems so for me all the while he's going around the country talking about honor and integrity well that's a nugget of truth you rarely see on the corporate press news to say piers morgan probably never invited him back on hastings was a refreshingly honest human being who hold no punches and i read it and may last year he offered some advice to aspiring journalists and which is said to dedicate your life to the fie

injury to suspects, officers or innocent bystanders. >>> the tampa socialite at the center of the david petraeus sex scandal is suing the government. jill kelley filed a lawsuit against the fbi and department of defense for allegedly disregarding her privacy and publicizing false information. her name surfaced during the investigation of petraeus's affair with his biographer. >>> now for business we turn to cnbc's courtney reagan. good morning, courtney. >> good morning, richard. the markets may see a small pullback today after stocks closed at their highs on monday. investors shrugging off disappointing data on manufacturing and construction spending, but that was yesterday. today is a whole new day. >>> walmart puts its money where your mouth is. the retail giant is offering a money-back guarantee on fresh produce as it aims to gain more ground in the grocery market. to be sure you get the freshest fruits and vegetables, walmart will conduct weekly inspections in its stores. >>> neither sugar rush, dunkin' donuts is rolling out a new sandwich friday, bacon and egg on a glazed doughnut. it has

army general david petraeus last week argued that the hard won counter insurgency and irregular lessons of iraq and afghanistan must be remembered given americans will face similar -- issued by britain's royal uniformed services institute in london that recognizes major contributors to military thought. past winners including alford thayer mahahn -- petraeus' comments come as america draws down in afghanistan and a weary pentagon turns away from counter insurgency operations as it faces up to $500 billion in additional defense cuts. here to talk about petraeus' remarks is john noggle who is the policy board that advises defense secretary chuck hagel. he is a retired lieutenant colonel who is part of the team that worked for petraeus to shape the counter insurgency strategy that turned the tide of the iraq war. welcome to the program. >> good to be back. >> it was also good to see general petraeus mention your work in his acceptance speech. a critic would say it's no surprise david petraeus -- and i understand that you're not the most unbiased observer because you too were involved in th

there was david petraeus. there was general allen that i knew at the naval academy, and general mcchrystal, and each retired early for some reason other than the military capability, and i think they had a lot of contributions they would have made. we lost those people, and if we're going to lose those people for moral outrage, we, the people outragedded, have to have morality, and we don't. thank you very much. [applause] >> former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld is next on booktv sharing observations on leadership, politics, war, business, and life. ♪ >> thank you very much. [applause] ♪ thank you so much. nice to see you all. [applause] what sandy did not say is i lived one-third of the history of our country. [applause] which tells you what a young country it is. [laughter] or what an old map i am. [laughter] well, i am so pleased to be here, and, sandy, thank you for the moderately good introduction. [laughter] george and gavin and all the members of the president's council, thank you so much for su

are in the hiring of just bought itself major protection and that's how we profiled david petraeus. it's time for the dailies obama yes and it's time for the viewers to speak their mind and get a response right hopefully then up to me you know all right we have some viewer feedback that we took from facebook the first question is from hob right off he said john corazon it bankrupted and global and takes one point seven billion dollars the c f d c general counsel overseer gary gensler worked under corazon at goldman sachs so he recused himself of protecting and protecting itself of the caves he wants to know if he was a nice bit of scratching each other's backs instead of actually doing the job if you get it right in that shell excites me well yes i would say he kind of got it right in a nutshell because although gary gensler recused himself and this is something we were talking about yesterday with john breaux co-founder of the commodity customer coalition when gensler recused himself early on in the case the investors and the customers didn't know what they were supposed to do and

added a prestigious but controversial figure to their payroll as former cia chief and general david petraeus he began his military education at west point graduating in one nine hundred seventy four and had a distinguished academic career he would eventually earn a ph d. in one nine hundred eighty seven from princeton university woodrow wilson a school of public and international affairs but was rapidly promoted for service in the middle east from brigadier general and two thousand to the rank of general in two thousand and seven some have criticized for lack of a direct comeback record in relation to the many awards he received and his bronze star medal with the valor award was questioned by several former army officers according to business and cider but betrays did suffer a major injury in the early ninety's when he was shot in the chest during a y. fire exercise but he was reportedly released early after doing fifty push ups just a few days after this incident. in the middle of two thousand we came known for using discretionary funds for public works as part of nation building during a v

you storing data and named its targets among them former cia head general david petraeus and even barack obama back when he ran for the u.s. senate or for more on this i'm joined by james corbett of japan based independent journalist thanks very much for joining us here on r t so a new twist in this n.s.a. scandal can you tell us more about that. absolutely well while the snowden drama unfolds something that's being swept under the rug are these new revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower russell tice who is in fact one of the people who is one of the sources for the original two thousand and five new york times story on the n.s.a. wiretapping scandal at that time later on in two thousand and nine he revealed more about that including the fact that the n.s.a. had been targeting journalists pacifically and again those revelations were reported on even in mainstream outlets but where it's been forgotten about until recently but now russell tice to step forward with more information into explosive interviews from the last few days one of the boiling frogs of those dot com one of my own web si

is storing data and named its targets among them former cia general david petraeus and even barack obama when he was running for the u.s. senate james corbet of japan based independent journalist thinks twice as revelations didn't get the attention they deserve. while the snowden drama unfolds something that's being swept under the rug are these new revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower russell tice who is in fact one of the people who is one of the sources for the original two thousand and five new york times story on the n.s.a. wiretapping scandal at that time but now russell tice to step forward with more information into explosive interviews from the last few days he talked about how the the n.s.a. is in fact storing not just the metadata which has been the talking point in the news so far but the content of all electronic communications that are going across the u.s. servers from e-mails to faxes to phone calls all of it being stored now at the new data center and in utah he also went on record to name names of some of the specific targets of n.s.a. spying and with the implication t

it starts with the former cia director david petraeus. ng an affair with paula broadwell, his biograph biographer. that was after broadwell anonymously e-mailed petraeus' friend jill kelley and said, stay away from petraeus, he is my mind. kelley did not like those e-mails and she called the fbi. she was worried. kelley then landed in the spotlight herself because the fbi said it potentially found some inappropriate e-mails with another famous general, general john allen. and now kelley is suing but not specific people, but generally people. he here's the big question, does kelley have a case? defense attorney danny cevallos is with me, former prosecutor monica lindstrom. this is a tough one. clearly this woman feels she was very wronged by a lot of the information leaked out to the press. she herself hadn't done anything wrong. danny, can you just blanket sue the government, people in the government, or do you have to name someone and show exactly what that person did? >> well, the way the government works is that it operates under sovere

david petraeus the commander in kabul had ordered us. air forces to scramble to mobilize in case there was any need to extricate the seals. that could easily lead to a war in fact a nuclear war so they were playing a game with possible nuclear war in order to murder somebody who they could have apprehended and that's only the beginning of how they find out where he was well it turns out that the trick that was used was a cia run fake acceleration you know. in an area of about the budget the. probably thought he was to try to get information about. that's a violation of principles that go back to the hippocratic oath and it has consequences first of all they cut the vaccination program off in the middle when they found he was somewhere else another crime but in much in pakistan and in fact much of the third world there's a lot of concern about. foreign white people who come in and stick needles into your arms and what are they up to they've got enough history you know wary well now they have reason to be wary of these white people with th

david petraeus the commander in kabul had ordered u.s. . air forces to scramble to mobilize in case there was any need to extricate the seals. that could easily lead to a war in fact a nuclear war so they were playing a game with possible nuclear war in order to murder somebody who they could have apprehended and that's only the beginning how did they find out where he was well it turns out that trick that was used was a cia run fake like some a. period of about the you. know that's what he was. trying to get information about. that's a violation of principles that go back to when the credit goes and i sponsor it's first of all they cut the vaccination program off in the middle when they found it was somewhere else another one but in much in pakistan and in fact much of the third world there's a lot of concern about. foreign white people who come in and stick needles into your arms and what are they up to they've got enough history to be wary well now they have reason to be wary of these white people with the needles are trying to find some

and he gets into office, and he's briefed by admiral mc mcgraveen and the david petraeus who was cheney'seral and ultra powerful guy. they say there are hundreds ready to take down america's aircraft and poison our water supplies, if you don't allow us to strike in yemen where there had only been one bombing since 9/11 in 1992, then we'll get hit. i think what obama did is he made jay sock is the policies. we're not going to do mass troop deployment and he wanted to make himself tougher. he said we'll take the fight to the terrorist and start doing preemptive strikes against them and you see him radically expand the drone strikes empower jay sock and give authorization to hit countries outside of the battlefield, and that's part of how i think we got to where we are right now. >> john: they say, jeremy, afghanistan is the graveyard. on the subject of targeted killings you describe an administration obama's with an endless kill list. terror meetings every tuesday in the white house and military prisons in places like somalia which begs the question we were told that torture was no more, bu

so think about david petraeus and congress was deeply skeptical that the surge was working. what did the military do? they identified what they thought the right to metrics were to hold themselves accountable, no. of intelligence tips they were getting, and collected data over a course of a whole year and made a public so scholars could second-guess the they had better ideas and on that basis they change congressional attitude. the power of ideas to prove your case is how to win policy debates and the state department does not have that bureaucratic machinery to build a budget that is defense ball like the defense department and i am a very strong and deep in my heart i am the insurance actuary and i think we need budgeteers will make the state department budget as bulletproof as the defense department. >> host: ms. schake working at the national security council and the state of bremen and now our research fellow and teaching at west point, a johns hopkins, how did you get interested in this line of work? >> guest. [laughter] i was the custom of condoleezza rice here at sta

used for blackmailing purposes on including senator then senator barack obama including general david petraeus and others who he mentioned by name including supreme court justices and top ranking military and republican congressional officials so this is being specifically avoided right now and the implication is that the news outlets are as we've seen with the snowden story and other stories collaborating with the intelligence agencies behind the scenes to repress this information but this is this is absolutely explosive and again coming from a key n.s.a. whistleblower who is right now being ignored with these allegations peter tatchell he's a u.k. human rights activist he says that u.s. surveillance tactics are outrageous and beyond all legal bombs. but she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extradition from whatever country they can i think the context of this is that the united states spies on its own citizens it also spies almost to dozens of millions of other countries i mean millions of people in other countries and this is done with

. >>> and a tampa socialite at the center of the david petraeus sex scandal is suing the government.l kelley whose name surfaced during the investigation of petraeus' affair with the biographer filed a lout against the fbi and department of defense for disregarding her privacy and publicizing false information. >>> and now for your first look at business, we turn to cnbc's courtney reagan. good morning. >>> good morning. futures are lower right now. that's after we saw stocks close at their highs on monday. investors shrugging off disappointing economic data on manufacturing and construction spending. that was yesterday. today, a whole new day. walmart puts the money where your mouth is. the retail giant is offering a money-back guarantee on fresh produce as it aims to gain more ground in the grocery market. make sure you get the freshest fruits and vegetables, they'll conduct weekly inspections in the stores. >>> need a little sugar rush. dunkin' dough us in is rolling out a new sandwich friday, bacon and egg on a glazed donut. it has 360 calories, less than the turkey sausage sandw

used for blackmail and purposes on including senator then senator barack obama including general david petraeus and others who he mentioned by name including supreme court justices and top ranking military and republican congressional officials so this is being specifically avoided right now and the implication is that the news outlets are as we've seen with the snowden story and other stories collaborating with the intelligence agencies behind the scenes to repress this information but this is this is absolutely explosive and again coming from a key n.s.a. whistleblower who is right now being ignored with these allegations. and as whistleblowers such as snowden reveal government's appetite for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies on our website we've asked for your opinions and this is how it has been tracking so far let's take a look at big majority here seventy four percent saying that spying on people and collecting their private data without warning is absolutely unacceptable and pink sixteen percent really have

players in the world of finance intelligence and beyond people like timothy geithner people like david petraeus people like robert zoellick so they may not be there next year but obviously they're integral into some type of a geo political plan this year some type of positioning so the big difference to me is the size of the organization and the lack of transparency thank you so much jayson burma as always if you like what you see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set mission or do it thousands of done already and give us a like we have taken our saturday there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you for ideas and what you want to see covered on breaking this that and also check out behind the scenes photos were taken our studios like when rebel came to break the stage with us last friday to our facebook page and check out all of that and more and that's it for tonight's show make sure you join us again tomorrow when we talk to a student activist and been at the protest underway in turkey to take a closer look at the latest clashes between

used for blackmailing purposes on including senator then senator barack obama including general david petraeus and others who he mentioned by name including supreme court justices and top ranking military and republican congressional officials so this is being specifically avoided right now and the implication is that the news outlets are as we've seen with the snowden story and other stories collaborating with the intelligence agencies behind the scenes to repress this information but this is this is absolutely explosive and again coming from a key n.s.a. whistleblower who is right now being ignored with these allegations and would snowden is the seventh person the a-bomb administration has sought to punish for leaking classified data and you can best of jenna's tony goals lee he believes that snowden's revelations a bigger than many think. the real impact of what he's done here is only now starting to be realized it's not only is he exposing criminality q the signals intelligence part of the british intelligence services also the national security agency but he's also showing that much of th

players in the world of finance intelligence and beyond people like timothy geithner people like david petraeus people like robert zoellick so they may not be there next year but obviously they're integral into some type of a geo political plan this year some type of positioning so the big difference to me is the size of the organization and the lack of transparency thank you so much jason berman as always if you like what you see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set the mission to do it thousands of done already and give us a like we have taken our saturday there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you for ideas and what you want to see covered on breaking this is that you know also check out behind the scenes photos were taken our studios like when revel in came to break the stage with us last friday to our facebook page and check out all of that and more as it for tonight's show make sure to join us again tomorrow when we talk to a student activists have been at the protest underway in turkey to take a closer look at the latest clashes

secretary of state henry kissinger got the former head of the cia david petraeus not of course to forget the heads of all the noun isn't and b.p. and goldman sachs and you get the idea now delegates famously don't disclose details of what happens behind closed doors and what's discussed fueling the conspiracy theories behind those doors plots for world domination this year has bills burke gone mainstream because for the first time ever we had some contact and speak to me more about that i'm joined by charlie skelton to parents the campaign of covering this closely for a number of years now break it down for us and you know kind of separate the conspiracy theory from what we actually do you know because there are talks of course the world domination but what actually does happen at these. workers and what goes on out here is a growing frustration that the media relation between discreet and the press and public is so poor we are assaulting the builder back group with shearing why we're shooting right. back you know her. there's a lot of unhappiness that there's such a huge operation you k

secretary of state henry kissinger got the former head of the cia david petraeus not of course to forget the heads of google and amazon and b.p. and goldman sachs and you get the idea now delegates famously don't disclose details of what happens behind closed doors and what's discussed fueling the conspiracy theories behind those doors plots for world domination now was artie's sarah first reporting and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and for the latest information coming out from your world go to our team dot com slash usa follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez and stay tune prime interest next. finally i think. i'm. safe. wealthy british style. time to write. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of

network the official passing through it retired four star army general and former cia director david petraeus join the ranks of a high profile investment firm kohlberg kravis roberts and company here's what the general had to say about his new job i served our country for thirty eight and a half years or so in government service if you will i die too. capitalize on opportunities or that are out there and capitalize he will betray us will chair k k r's new global institute which will focus on public policy communications economic forecast and investment advice betray us lost his spot as cia director in november after that extramarital affair with his biographer which was exposed will take a r.'s best known for huge corporate takeovers the alliance between the seventy three billion dollars new york city based private equity firm and betray us has benefits for both parties trace gets back into the public eye after residing in scandal while k k r gains access to patrol uses rolodex filled with all those government economic and military contacts to trace isn't the first to move from a position of

called on al qaeda members to target planes carrying president obama and the now retired general david petraeuser, government officials said the seals collected a treasure trove of information, including commuters and hard drives, after storming the compound in pakistan in 2011. our chief intelligenceç correspondent catherine hairridge is live. >> this week the house intelligence committee is doing a deep dive in the bin laden documents. two dozen now are public. thousands of documents described by one senior administration official of what amounted to a small college library on thumb dries and c ds pulled from to the compound, and the chairman of the intelligence commit saying 17 documents to do not tell the whole story. >> i think it's always a dangerousç thing to put a very narrow political awareness on the direction of a group that is this lethal to americans and our allies, muslims around the world. >> after bin laden's death administration officials portrayed him asv(áryq#+vhngíl adrift, diskented from the network and not in control. but the emergence of al qaeda affiliates in yemen an

cia deputy director michael morel retired today, managing resignation of former agency director david petraeusollowing revelation of his extramarital affair and then had to defend the agency's performance over the terrorist attacks in libya. morel agreed to remove a reverence to mill nants a controversial memo of talking points on that libyan yin attack. >> the men accused of holding three women captainist for nearly a decade pleaded not guilty today. aerial castro entered with his thaed down. the 52-year-old charged with hundreds of felony counts including rape, and kidnapping. the women nound his home last month, with a 6-year-old girl he'd fathers. the 6-year-old and women are now safe. authorities say it was berry who called for help. fema refusing to provide money to help rebuild a small town where a deadly plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school and killed 15 people in april. fema says it made an explosion not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration. including 40 million to rebuild and destroy the school. >> a sad swailgs in new york city coul

. >> the florida socialite who came in service during the investigation of david petraeus' apair fairsuing the fbi and defense department. they leaked damaging information about her and her husband. kelly contacted authorities after she allegedly received threats from paula broadwell with whom petraeus had an affair. it led to speculation about the two. but allen was cleared of any wrong doing. >> what do you put on your resume as a job title if you were an accused terrorist. hundreds of detainees are now able to take resume writing classes. there are even classes being offered to help them with the interview process as well as computer skills. gitmo cost taxpayers 900,000 dollars per detainee annually. >> a middle schooler keeps his cool when a performance of the national anthem goes wrong. ♪ >> many republican law americas even more outraged this morning as embattled eric holder the justice department legislative council and not holder himself just released a statement defending his testimony about fox -- spying on james rosen. >> the justice department's response is insulting law a

. >>> one of the women involved in a scandal of david petraeus.l kelley says personal e-m l e-mails wrongly searched. kelley is asking for an apology and unspecified damages. >>> united airlines offering yearly subscriptions for checked baggage, starting at $399. a traveler and eight companions can check up to two bags per flight for free. a new subscription for passengers wanting extra leg room. >>> justin verlander, arguably the best pitcher in baseball. but he wants to take a hit at a home run derby. i teased him about the fact that he never had a home run, during spring training. >> you want to develop a new pitch or get a hit. >> ha, ha, ha. thanks for that. you know, i've been saying for the last seven years, this is my year, so i'm going to go the other direction and say i'm not going to gelt a hit. who cares, i doan care if i get a hit. i'm doing to do everything i possibly can to jinx it the other way. >> a good idea. you just admit that -- >> i suck. >> you suck. >> you might be the first person to ever hear me say that. >> he tweeted a

the cia director was leon panetta and david petraeus had the authority, which outgaining each one approved by the white house. outside of pakistan or had to be a discussion that john brennan would have to approve. for instance in 2009 and 2010, when strikes -- missiles are asked in increased, those were discussed at the white house. the national security council were elements of the national security council met and had to approve each individual strategy. so it depends on the country. >> host: mark mazzetti, president obama does approve every trend straight? >> guest: outside of at least a first-term outside of pakistan, his top counterterrorism adviser would notify him when he would sign off on it. we are not talking about the numbers. and pakistan 1600s. not nearly as much, hundred. in yemen, it's been a far smaller number, but a number where the rate is increasing. >> host: do you have any idea how many germs are in our bases in afghanistan? >> guest: i don't have the numbers. the numbers those planes is probably in that area less than a dozen. but they fly 24 hour surveillance in many