. >> charlie: to david petraeus? and i sent it to david petraeus because i wanted dave to know what was happening here, this is his agency after all. so i immediately, on sunday morning, when i got his longer analysis of why he did not think there was a protest, i immediately turned to the analyst and said, here, does this change your view in any way? so, now what do you think? and i was basically saying to them, you know, do you -- >> charlie: the guy on the ground -- >> the guy on the ground has a view. what do you think, right? i was pushing them a little bit. but realizing it was ultimately their call. they took the rest of that sunday so write a response to the director and to me saying, we hear what the chief of station is saying, but we still believe there's a protest. we still believe that the weight -- >> charlie: there was a protest and that, out of that protest, came an attack? or there was a protest and then there was an attack just happened to have occurred simultaneously or one after. >> they were stand

there were a number of changes made. >> and you and david petraeus? >> they send them to dave, but not to me. >> so you never saw them? >> not at that time. they're being coordinated in the inner agency. changes are being suggested. the only substantive changes are being suggested by the fbi and state department. the white house suggests two changes, both of them editorial. when the director saw them, he asked that they add two things. he asked that they add language reflecting the significant warnings that we have provided in the months leading up to the attack in benghazi. we had been writing for months that the security situation in eastern libya in general and in benghazi in particular was deteriorating. he also asked that we add the fact that we sent a cable to cairo just hours before the mob attack in cairo, warning cairo embassy that it was coming. he wanted that added to the talking points as well. at this point, i still don't even know they exist, i don't know they have been asked for. >> the director has added to the talking points. >> i don

if we take a look at the two most recent commanders general david petraeus an who has articulated the cost of this conflict, the understanding in the region that the united states favors israel, the concept that the united states support the occupation creates great difficulty for the united states as a matter of our national security and national interest we do need to bring this conflict to a resolution. >> given the state of the relationship between the united states and israel was the u.s. bound to at least pull back from the palestinian side once the hamas-fatah reach was healed? >> reporter: i don't know if we were bound to. i think it's understandable given the close relationship, given the understand that in order for israel to make the tough decisions they will have to make they need to understand that the united states backs them very strongly. i don't know if it was quite necessary for the united states immediately to come out as it did, but i think it is wor notis and israel are somewhat isolated, and in response to this announcement, you had the u.n. the e.u. and others w

general david petraeus, soon to become the top commander in afghanistan, was impressed by jim's paper, so impressed he ordered it become required reading for all his subordinate commanders in afghanistan. admiral eric olson, head of all special operations forces, was equally impressed impressed andd to jim as his lawrence of afghanistan. petraeus, olson and general stanley mcchrystal, then in charge in afghanistan, plucked jim out and sent him to afghanistan to help implement the strategy. i joined jim on this incredibly promising mission. the challenge of his lifetime, to capture and document what happened. "american spartan" is the story of jim's passion for that mission and the bonds of loyalty between afghans and americans. it is also the story of our love, born out of common pain and experience in wartime and out of a shared desire to do something good for the afghan people and ultimately help staunch the shedding of american and afghan blood. what happened? would jim's ideas work on the ground with the tribes? we moved into the mud-walled hut in february 2012. at the time jim wa

and they sidelined the cia director david petraeus that was under investigation. and michael morel took the helm and it appears that this guy was crucial to the white house twisting everything. elizabeth. the key point for me here. is that the cia station chief. that is the top intelligence dog in libya said it was not about a demonstration and the spin from the administration and mike morel and others. we had to weigh conflicting reports and claims. no. the cia station chief on the ground is the guy who knows. he knows better than the people back in washington eating popcorn and watching a miniseries. it is a real danger here. we made a big thing about the nsa political scandal. and this was clearly to me, a politicalization of skewing intelligence to promote the president's reelection campaign and that is a big, bad dangerous no, no. >> and we don't have a lot of time. you expanded and brought up poet petraeus. said to say. they have got to call petraeus and put him under oath and do the right thing with his country and tell the entire truth. the key is, you can

. >> the big news for me was the way he talked about david petraeus and he had a close relationship with. clearly he was not on the defense with the charges he made mistakes but doing it not out of political motivation because he wanted the cia to look good to not appear self-serving and trying to make him look better was petraeus. >> i am a little confused shoulddwe give them the benefit of the dow? [laughter] they cannot even keep their own stories straight. he said it was he and others that changed the talking points but we have senators saying at the time he said it was the fbi. if you're going to live be better and keep your story straight. lou: when you say it was the public affairs office change the talking points. [laughter] i am not sure how much expertise residing now but a comfortable about. great to have you here. be sure to watch redeye 3:00 a.m.. the crew will be there and i have been invited to join them. we will not explore why. [laughter] a reminder to vote in our poll tonight should military members be permitted to carry firearms while on base? don't ask lou dobbs.com c

>> city university of new york david petraeus, remember he was chased by the students. he said, fine, i'll teach there. i want to teach this honors course and i'll do it for $1. that's integrity and character. >> it is. eric, he doesn't even have to deal with students. >> can i ask you a question? love patch. soul patch. >> they did soul patch. some people call it love patch. i call it offensive. >> you know where they do get paid just to wake up in the morning? saudi arabia. because the mineral rights underneath the country. so krugman is the typical liberal hypocrite. like bloomberg with guns, you know, i'm against guns except for my guns right here that are protecting me. i'm against income inequality except for my income. my income is cool. if yours is too much it's not cool anymore. liberal hip okay ypocrisyhypocr. i guess maybe he should donate it if he really means it. >> he should donate it to bob. bob, two months he makes more than a professor there for a year or whatever. they must be choking. >> you're also forgetting about the $30,000 three-year travel and r

morell was second to cia director david petraeus and apparently an agency memo issued shortly after the a terror attack implicates him as a liar. mike morell will testify tomorrow in front of the house intelligence committee under oath. according to the "washington times" the memo was issued on september 15th, 2012, four days after the attack and said the assassination was not, was not due to any escalation of pro-says tests. the memo was allegedly written by the cia station chief in libya. so mike morell may be in serious trouble because, as everybody knows, the obama administration put out ambassador susan rice to tell the world that intense protests may have incited the attack, after, after that cia memo. now, the big picture. president obama was running for re-election terrorist benghazi and his there could have been a political motivation to keep terrorists out of the benghazi debacle. if the the obama administration lied, that's cooperated in the lie. as we all know from watergate, abuses of power can lead to very bad things. so, benghazi is is a big story whether the left wants t

a david petraeus, attorney general jern eric holder said the case is still open amid allegations the case is being used to silence the retired general. >> this is an ongoing investigation. i'm really not in a position to say much more about it. >> he resigned as cia director in 2012. telling fox news at the time that he worried the white house was holding the investigation over petraeus's head to keep him quiet about a wide variety of issues including benghazi. today when asked about the letter and the investigation status, holder said he could not remember key dates and facts nor comment extensively. >> is it really fair to have somebody who has been touted as one of america's grates, having this over his head for two years when do you anticipate this being done? >> that's a very good question. >> when going to be complete. >> it is a matter that is ongoing. that we are working diligently to resolve. >> do you have any idea when the president was told? >> not -- i don't remember right now. >> petraeus has spurned media requests since resigning and was most recently was in the news a

. >> david petraeus, of course, is the former head of the cia. he has not at least answered questions about the oig as far as we've been told. what's interesting also we have a chance to ask about the fact the inspector general didn't do any investigation. they responded a couple weeks ago about the fact disturb to a lot of people nearby saying this doesn't happen. in part from a spokesman, that decision was based on a determination that concerns raised fell under accountability review board, a separate oig, could disrupt investigation into the benghazi attacks. gretchen, what's interesting, they came out after internal complaints were filed. again, people in the cia filed complaints about the way benghazi was handled, about the way the setup was during and afterwards. after the arb came out which didn't address any of that, the cia still didn't get an investigation. a lot of questions, some touched on with morell. talked with senator lindsey graham. they were concerned about what was said. they believe they were lied to. a lot could come from th

this was always my point of contention with david petraeus when he would talk about it.unter insurgency, even counterterrorism when the neighboring country, pakistan, is actively providing safe-havens, assistance, training? you had this fantastic piece in "the new york times" magazine which basically outlined the ways in which it seemed very likely that the pakistani government knew about bin laden. what do you think pakistan's role will be once we start pulling out? they're going to try to fill that vacuum probably. >> i think it's already clear they're determined to see a resurgence of the taliban. they're supporting them. they're encouraging them. there's been a spade of attacks. i was in kabul two days ago. we had suicide bombing almost every day that i was there in the last week. and that's all coming from pakistan. they're all going in. that's clearly what needs to be looked at very strongly because the pakistanis have not finished their war and what they want is through a proxy force to dominate affairs in afghanistan and they're going to continue. >> that of cour

. >>> meanwhile, holder publicly confirming the fbi's investigation into general david petraeus, still open. that's more than 16 months after the former cia director was forced from office very having an affair with his biographer. republican lawmakers say the administration is purposely keeping the case open to prevent petraeus from testifying on things like the benghazi attack. >>> as search crews try to track down the signals they say they heard over the weekend, still haven't found any wreckage. but we'll talk to a pilot who says there's an explanation for why they wouldn't. that's ahead at the top of the hour. see you then. >>> coming up right after the break, we are going to have an exclusive interview with former attorney general michael mukasey on benghazi. >>> and another emotional day in court for oscar pistorius, the olympian accused of murdering his model girlfriend. what he did that drew a gasp from the courtroom today. >>> and tensions boiling over in ukraine with russia threatening civil war and now a new warning from the west. >> the united states and our allies will no

. >> in this e-mail then cia director david petraeus told morrell the talking points were so devoid ofact they were useless but despite the boss' reservation he went ahead with the text that didn't benefit the cia and did limited damage to the state department. the committee pushed him to explain why the al qaeda reference was dropped. >> how does mentioning al qaeda disclose classified sources? >> what i was told, chairman, is that the only way we knew that was from classified sources. >> i'm just not following that logic. again, i came out next day and said -- had the hallmarks of an al qaeda attack. i don't think i was disclosing classified sources in doing it. >> reporter: in the process of defending himself, morrell contradicted administration statements right after the attack that no one knew who was responsible, and he further discredited this january "new york times" piece that found no evidence the terror group played a rule. >> the analysts said from the get go that al qaeda was involved in this attack, from the get go. >> reporter: when morrell retired from the cia he hoped

michael morrell said that he went around his then-boss, cia director david petraeus, on the talking points and took out the fact that the cia had repeatedly warned the state department about the threat level in benghazi. let's take a look at what he said. >> i simply saw this as a way for cia to pound its chest and say, look, we warned, therefore laying all the blame on the state department. i did not think that appropriate. >> now, i know because you and i have talked many times that you see the cia as a fact agency, not a political agency. >> right. >> how unusual is that to edit talking points because of political concerns about it might embarrass somebody les? >> yeah. i don't think it's political concerns, chris. look, i've been following this closely, as you might know -- >> the interagency -- >> yes, all right. i think michael's motivation there was far more bureaucratic than it was political. i don't think he was trying to protect the administration. although it did have the indirect effect of protecting the administration. i think he saw it just the way he described it in the hear

and general david petraeus, all of the sudanese are willing to come over to our side and tipped the scale of the entire battle. the rest of them followed, the sudanese followed, and the prime minister was so downright sectarian as a shi'ite. he ruined the relationship with the sudanese and the terrorists come into volusia, he came down too hot on the cities, but afghanistan, you have about four or five major tribes. and these tribes lived in different parts of the mountains and do not have that uniformity, a way of getting to one and having him swing everybody else. it is much more fragmented in afghanistan that it was in iraq. >> host: where will volusia go down in history? is in a battle that will be studied and looked at? >> guest: i went through two battles in volusia, i am writing a book, this marine general is in charge in volusia, when he was ordered out, president bush said stop that and come back. he felt the political dynamics were working against them. his troops were half lacrosse this city. madness burst out and he said if you are going to take vienna take vienna. that was th

morell said he believes and what he did and who he underscored in an email from the director david petraeus at the time the talking points were written. the language about the warnings was factual and relevant and petraeus felt it should have been included because without it, he said, the talking points were useless. so despite the admonition of his boss, the cia director at the time, morell went ahead and removed that factual language about the warnings and that is significant because when morell retired from the cia he said in his exit interview that he wanted to advice a presidential campaign in the future and anonymous sources said that he was very close to mrs. clinton. so what you see here is he removed factual warnings that only helped the state department and in effect damaged the cia. >> wow, what a development. >> thank you. >> we'll talk more about that coming up. in the mean tile new concerns about an obama administration plan to give up control of the internet and what could happen if the foreign government like russia or china could get the chance to empower over the web. we'r

. >> have you ever talk to david petraeus about the oig investigation? >> not that i remember.urderedare four americans that you would think when cia own personnel file complaints, the oig should follow up and an investigation. >> i believe so, too. why didn't a question mark >> i don't know. you will have to ask david. >> i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you, mr. morell. i want to clarify to make sure i understood what you said. whether it was the information from the people on the ground, the station chief, friends and, when of information that a cable sent september 12 i the cia --tion chief in libya eyewitness confirmed participation of islamic militants and made clear that u.s. intelligence facilities in benghazi have come under attack. that was clearly sent by the station chief. we know the rso on the ground, the chief of days, the political officers, thegrs tripoli chief, all of them on the grounds that the same thing, but i thought i just heard you say, mr. morell, that the information taken from eyewitnesses on the ground wasn't given to your analysts. that

. >> did you talk to david petraeus about this inspection? >> not that i remember. >> there are four murdered americans. i would think when cia's own personnel file complaints the zero ig should follow up and do an investigation. >> i believe so too. >> why didn't they? >> i don't know. you'll have to ask david. >> i yield back mr. chairman. >> ms. buckman. >> thank you mr. chairman thank you mr. morell. i just wanted to clarify to make sure that i understood what you said concord that whether it was the information for the people on the ground the station chief for instance we have information that a cable since september 12 by the cia station chief reported eyewitness confirmed the participation of islamic militants and made clear they facilities had come under terrorist attack. that was clearly sent by the station chief. we know the rso on the ground the chief of days the political officers the grs officers, again the ddd chief all of them on the ground say the same thing but i thought i heard you say mr. morell that the information taken

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we should not have made this staff and actually admired the man, but as general david petraeus who signeday in our and marines had to be nation builders as well as warriors. i believe that sentence should be burned, stamped out, you raced. get rid of it. so far, the military has an unwilling to look at iraq and afghanistan and say did we undertake too much? they are still using the stop to the messed up dreams are wrong. the military should not be nation builders. >> host: gary shattuck and marie retired u.s. attorney e-mail said, i object to your statement that states absolutely nothing in iraq. he says, i was a member of the department of justice team that went into bag that in 2003 to assess the judicial system to provide support in take recommendations to get them back into service. we did much good work and identified problem judges and prosecutors concede that they were removed from service and assisting in getting the court that to working. i respectfully said that you qualify your state and to reflect there was indeed much good work down on the iraqi's behalf by american civilians

. >> did you ever talk to david petraeus about this investigation? there that i remember?> are four murdered americans. ownuld think when the cia's personnel filed complaints, the oig should follow up and do an investigation. >> i believe so too. >> why didn't they? >> i don't know. you will have to ask david. >> i yield back, the chairman. >> thank you. just wanted to clarify to make sure i understood what you said. whether it was the information from the people on the ground, the station chief -- we have information a cable sent by the station chief in libya reported eyewitnesses confirm the precipitation of islamic militants and made clear u.s. for till -- u.s. facilities in benghazi's had come under attack. that was sent by the station chief. baseow the chief of the for the political officers, the chief,icers, the tripoli i thought i just heard you say the information taken from eyewitnesses on the ground was not given to your analyst. that they looked at the press reports, the intelligence product -- >> what you have to understand is that the information did not come