david sanger, doesn't that really make sort of the point that the more the u.s.ort of attempts to portray snowden's being had held in russia as a major, major issue for u.s. diplomatic relations, it does sort of elevate his importance in a way the white house has said it doesn't want to do. the "wall street journal" described russia's action as a hostile act against the united states. it is something the u.s. can't ignore, but they also don't want to elevate this now had-30-year-old. >> that's right. remember back during the bush administration where we went a year or two or three where president bush never mentioned saab's name because he didn't want to make it seem as if washington was fixated on finding him, even though they were. now this is not comparable to osama bin laden by a long shot. mr. snowden may have done some damage to american national security, but unlike in the cold war days, it's not as if a defector has shown up in russia and is providing them with information the u.s. doesn't know about. i think at this point the intelligence officials who i

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david sanger chief washington correspondent for the "new york times." and rounding out the group our old pal john dickerson, our cbs news political director. so we have this threat. does this-- mark, you're the one who first broke this story about edward snowden-- does this change this debate on what the national security agency is doing? because, obviously, the reason we know about this threat is the capabilities at the national security agency. >> well, it's a reminder of the other side of the story, which is that we depend on intelligence. we depend on surveillance, and particularly, we depend on signals to keep the country safe. it doesn't change much about whether they've gone too far or whether we understand enough about the basic outlines of what they're doing that affects american privacy. >> schieffer: do you think-- i mean, because people always say this when something like this happens. people will say, "you don't suppose they're making more of this threat than it really is because they want to make the point that this is what they do." >> i

david sanger of the "new york times," and cbs news political director john dickerson. a lot to cover, but it's what we do on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. well, we're getting more details this morning on why the government has closed those 22 american diplomatic posts across the middle east and north africa, and why they are taking so seriously the threat of a possible al qaeda attack. the travel warning that the state department issued last week for americans traveling overseas we're now told will remain in effect for the rest of this month. for the latest this morning, we're going toure cbs news homeland security security correspondent bob orr, who has been on this for all-- for a long, long time. bob, why are they taking this one so much more seriously than some of the things in the past? >> because this threat, bob, comes from the group from al qaeda, al qaeda of the arabian peninsula, it has been the most dedicated, the most active and charged

david sanger of the new york times wrote a piece yesterday in which he talked about there is too much classified information in the government. i think he is probably right. but something like this where you talk specifically about sources and methods and how people are communicating with one another, terrorists are communicating with one another, to me it does seem over broad. however, the threat to the -- to our libyan embassy was very specific. ambassador chris stevens sends a letter specifically saying we have a threat assessment on them bough see. that was a specific thing. i am fine if people learn lessons, that's okay. i am comfortable talking about sources and methods. i do think this is not a partisan issue. come play sen see is america's biggest enemy. al-qaeda knows that. and so if we have to be vigilant for -- vigilance doesn't stop after a month. an interesting thing from a foreign policy aspect is is president obama responsible for al-qaeda's morphine and evolution? >> i don't know about that. >> maybe it is not. >> i know one of the reasons for the increased chatter her

david sanger of "the new york times" wrote a piece about how there's too much classified information in the government. he is probably right. but something like this, where you talk about sources, methods, how people are communicating, terrorists are communicating with one another, to me it does seem overbroad, right? however, the threats to our libyan embassy was very specific. remember, ambassador chris stevens sends a letter specifically saying we have a threat assessment on this embassy. that was a specific thing. i am fine if people learn lessons, that's okay. i'm comfortable talking about sources and methods. i think this is not a partisan issue. complacency is america's biggest enemy and al qaeda knows that. so if we have to be vigilant, our vigilance doesn't stop after a month, interesting thing from a foreign policy aspect, is president obama responsible for al qaeda's morphing and evolution. >> i don't know about that. >> maybe not. >> one of the reasons for the increased chatter here is a lot of these prisoners have escaped from where we have been holding them and we have

gross they can certainly get on charlie rose he you know he has tom friedman on eighty times and david sanger has been on a fifty five times and he has kissinger so i'm saying you know it's about time and i've had these columns over forty years a pretty good record of predicting predictions and a pretty good record in terms of what we proposed like auto safety up against a lot of opposite. that turned out right the same with environmental issues and other issues so i decided what the heck i'm going to just say told you so because i do something d. cain about a political economy that rewards the people are wrong vicious cruel and self-serving and are against the basic principles of our democracy and if they penalize or marginalize the people who are right again and again. excellent point. the supreme court recently sent down section four the voting rights act and. this seemed to me i mean the fifteenth amendment not only says that people should have the right to vote regardless of race but its allies section two says congress shall have the right the power to make legislative force this voting

there were reports that were later released and confirmed by the administration through david sanger and the "new york times" that an operation called olympic games was in fact used to do that. those types of revelations are damaging and hurt our ability to operate. my friends in the cia are very upset with that kind of method and source revealed. it would have been much better to keep that quiet because we have now burnt that channel. we will now have to find alternate ways. that was a gold mine to have direct communication between the leaders. on the first point, why let the world know through the state department? that's a good thing. it does not get into exact sources or methods but let the public know why they're taking the actions they're taking and what to look out for. the one thing i will say as a constructive criticism, we were in the administration, so i did not want to be too much of an armchair quarterback. we have an away game and a home game. the away game will let the public know what is going on the away game will let the public know what is going on overseas. we als

or not, but there were reports that were later released and confirmed by the administration for david sangerhat an operation called olympic games was used to do that. those types of revelations are damaging and hurt our ability to operate. my friends in the cia are very upset with that kind of message repealed. it would have been much better to keep that quiet because we have now burst that channel. we will now have to find alternate ways. that was a gold mine to have direct communication between the leaders. point, why let the world know through the state department? it does not get into exact sources or methods but let the public know why they're taking the actions there taking and what to look out for. the one thing i will say as a constructive criticism, we were in the administration, so i did not want to be a quarterback but we have an away game and home game. the away game will let the public know what is going on overseas. we also have a home game. vhs has set up 100 centers to keep them posted on what we're seeing abroad. there was no unclassified communication with state and local p

existed or not but there were reports that were later released and confirmed by the adminiration and david sangerof "the new york times" that it was used to do that. those types of revelations are damaging. they hurt our ability to operate they are very upset with that source being revealed. it would have been much better to avert that channel. we will no longer be able to find alternate ways and that was a goldmine to have direct communications between the two leaders. on the first why let the world know through the state department and that's a good thing because it doesn't get into exact sources or methods or let the public know why they are taking actions they are taking and what to look out for. the one thing i will say is a construct of criticism in the administration, we were in his administration too so i don't want to be too much of an armchair quarterback we have an awakening where we let the public know what's going on oversees and dhs has set up over a 100 fusion centers to keep them posted on what we are seeing abroad and unfortunately in this instance there was no unclassified commu

the correspondent david sanger speaks to the deputy defense secretary ashton carter about the future of the pentagon and this is an hour. >> thank you very much, walter, thank you, ash for joining us and letting us go through the hardship of leaving 97-degree weather in washington to come out here. if you don't mind since you have that nice little house if we stay the month or next month, do you? it's wonderful to be here with ash carter, deputy secretary of defense, an old friend. many, many years. i won't say how many. and somebody told me that he first came out to the aspen institute to study charmed particles, and what else were you studying at the time? >> those were the early days of the charm courts. >> so he asked whether for the first 40 minutes of this he could do a small slide presentation. [laughter] we ask the security team to put a bullet through the projector. so, let's dive right in because we are going to have a fairly broad conversation about where you are in the future of the pentagon and where you are in asia and where you are on the cyber and drones and so forth.

then sandy sanger said, david, you've been around for a while, do you have anything to say? that caught me by surprise, but seldom at a loss for words, found something to say, which was, union city is -- union city high is a great urban high school. that's wonderful. i want to come back here in five years and hear people talk about union city as a great high school. no excuses; right? for the fact it's poor tough, a great high school, and everything about the high school says that it's well on its way. it takes a long time, and it takes one more thing, and that is the engagement of the community of the mayor who never sleeps, mayor whose phone number you find in the book. there's hands on the business cards, you might as well have it at hand. [applause] driving around the city, what an interesting area, what's the plaza there? it's all because of the mayor effective here, very effective in trenton, talks about schools as bragging rights in trenton, brings home the bacon like we're in the middle of. not bad. you got a community. that is engaged in the schools. you go back 25

then sandy sanger said, david, you've been around for a while, do you have anything to say? that caught me by surprise, but seldom at a loss for words, found something to say, which was, union city is -- union city high is a great urban high school. that's wonderful. i want to come back here in five years and hear people talk about union city as a great high school. no excuses; right? for the fact it's poor tough, a great high school, and everything about the high school says that it's well on its way. it takes a long time, and it takes one more thing, and that is the engagement of the community of the mayor who never sleeps, mayor whose phone number you find in the book. there's hands on the business cards, you might as well have it at hand. [applause] driving around the city, what an interesting area, what's the plaza there? it's all because of the mayor effective here, very effective in trenton, talks about schools as bragging rights in trenton, brings home the bacon like we're in the middle of. not bad. you got a community. that is engaged in the schools. you go back 25