government contract over the weekend it announced this. 80,000 blackberry devices will work on the defense department's management system at the end of the month. if you recall, the stock rose 6% on friday after a research report from citron suggested they had a minimum price target of 15 bucks, again, some more positive news coming out for blackberry, carl, back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> the activist investor strikes again dan loeb revealing that third point's largest investment is? dow chemical. urging the company to spin off part of its business. faber will have some details on that when "squawk on the street" returns. in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance

of defense would degrade the department of defense intelligence capability. the two principal players in this camp were secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld is of course very quotable. he at the time was for centuries the again the 9/11 commission recommendations. he wrote in a letter to george bush from this time. something that i think it's very notable and you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice, which was found to basically that the united states congress, the media and john kerry can afford to be wrong and pay no penalty. the president of the united states has to be read on the matter of such importance. he ended the memorandum to george bush at the time, which is detailed in the book with a single word. caution. urging caution on the president before he adopted this particular recommendations. vice president cheney, himself a secretary of defense also opposed the dni recommendation. he focused on the fact that we were up or at the time in iraq and afghanistan and said now is no time to be rearranging the deck c

>> i like to tell people the department of defense wrote the book on leaking. i'm not trying to pretend the defense department is innocent in this category. the defense department is very good about holding secret military plans and tactics and techniques that might put troops at risk so in this case my belief is -- i will describe the scene. at the end of our time in the situation room we know osama bin laden has been killed, he is back in july abide, he is on his way to a watery grave and we are about to break up as the president is going upstairs to address the nation and tell them about this extraordinary success and i said look, before everybody goes, we used these tactics and techniques every night in afghanistan in going after taliban and al qaeda leaders so it is important that everybody agreed that all we are going to say is that we killed him. and not get into any details about the operation and how we did it. and as you say i right in the book that lasted about 5 hours. everybody agreed after i made this little pitch everybody agreed like little kids

so i'm not trying to pretend the defense department is innocent in this category, although the defense department is very good about holding secrets, military plans, and tactics and techniques. but it put its troops minute set risk. so in this case my belief is -- i will describe the scene. we are at the very end of our time in the situation room. we know that bin laden has been killed and he's back in jalalabad and he's on his way to a watery grave and we are about to break up as the president is going upstairs to address the nation and tell them about this extraordinary success with. and i said look what we used these tactics and techniques every night in afghanistan going after al qaeda and italian leaders so it's important that everybody agrees that all we are going to say is that we killed him and not go into any details about the operation and how we did and as you say i right in the book that lasted about five hours. and everybody agreed after i made this little package, everybody agreed like little kids we did our blood oath kind of thing we wouldn't do this and lasted about fi

defense department officials plan to conduct health surveys on sailors involved in relief efforts after the 2011 disaster in japan. >>> on nuclear watch, workers at the damaged fukushima daiichi nuclear plant prepare for a mammoth job, stopping the buildup and leakage of radioactive water. >>> a man who once belonged to the cult that released cesarean gas on trains in tokyo nearly two decades ago has gone on trial. former fugitive is accused of crimes that include the abduction of a man who was trying to free his sister from the ohm shin difficult cult. he was on the run for nearly 17 years. he turned himself in to police two years ago. he's charged with abducting and confining a notary in 1995. prosecutors say he later gave the notary a lethal injection. hirata denied the charges on day one of the trial and said he only acted as a lookout and didn't intend the kidnap the man. his defense team says he's only guilty of helping the culprits. hirata also apologized for cautioning trouble to the victim and society. the case has attracted plenty of public attention. prosecutors plan to quest

the defense departments down.hicks is saying he was not even mentioned in the senate intelligence -- >> there are many things he raises that are of concern. primary one is that he was interviewed. he laid out what he lays out in the op-ed, a lot of dysfunction and basically ambassador stevens left without adequate security. gregory hicks said when he got there, there were 30 security personnel. and i think there were only six on the day of the attack. so he was obviously left exposed. it doesn't seem that the committee is really interested if they aren't going to include what gregory hicks has told them. >> steve? >> yeah. i think that's right. by leaving that out, it allowed the committee to target and criticize bureaucracies and buildings as charles argued rather than assign blame to individual people. what hicks did was very specifically and in great detail lay out othe blame. he pointed to leon panetta and said panetta basically overruled stephens. that was a problem. nobody would call that part of the senate

meanwhile the defense department released its annual report on the use of on an assist on this. the chorale down a road map through twenty thirty eight of how the lady program will continue to develop take a look at this church this is an inventory of the total number of unmanned aircrafts the department of defense currently has in its possession. and those are just the flying ones. and yet he also has thousands of ground and merit and sis down this agency estimates it will spend four point one billion dollars on onion systems and twenty fourteen and a thirty percent drop from twenty thirteen but still quite a bit of money. i spoke earlier with abraham wagner and los angeles he is an adjunct professor at columbia university's school of international and affairs and also with mary helen o'connell she is a professor of mining research professor of international dispute resolution at the croft institute for peace studies at the university of notre time i began asking mary ellen was so fun about these numbers. well i'm very critical of this news that isn't being released by the coun

of the total number of unmanned aircraft the department of defense ope sorry that we don't have the chart but i'm going to describe it for you anyway it shows thousands of you avi's that are currently in the deal these possession and that doesn't even include the ground and maritime systems now the agency estimates it will spend four point one billion dollars on unmanned systems a twenty fourteen a thirty percent drop from two thousand and thirteen but still quite a bit of money to talk things all things u.a.b. related i'm joined now by abraham wagner he's in los angeles who is an adjunct professor at columbia university school of international and public affairs and in new york mary ellen o'connell she is a professor of law and research professor of international dispute resolution at krock institute for peace studies at the university of notre gone welcome to both of you mary ellen let's start with you i want to start off by talking about the amount of people who are killed by drones since two thousand and two after all the secrecy surrounding these numbers what do you make of these res

he was defense department officials say it showed that could destroy some of serious chemical weapons to be of any flights mission in two weeks. the so called cape may is tiny and kent added that any of court officials say it's equipped with two system is designed to neutralize each and is used in chemical weapons the simple least one attorney in court later this month could still carry out a plan by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to destroy any chance at sea it is well i do is convert materials that are chemical weapons themselves were precursors for chemical weapons will change them chemically into into compounds that are no longer usable for that. steps i need to control to neutralizing about seven hundred tonnes of honey toxic agents such as signing a non stick pans in the next three months. south korean company representative said reacted to the peace offensive from the north with skepticism. they see the day came down and must show he's ready to d who cries if he wants to improve relations the testing station on the last day. he explained the execution

position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this detention center is in violation of human rights and international law the most important probably. element of a visit was to meet with with those citizens and to convey the message to the american representatives of americans. that we insist there of hubris and legitimate. quickly taken care of back in two thousand and eight barack obama the us president promised to shut down the detention center multiple times he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which. a number of occasions has vast laws to make it harder and harder for the u.s. administration to either transfer. detainees to other countries or to bring them back to the u.s. and try them on u.s. soil which has left the u.s. administration really in political limbo because this detention center has has seen the image and rep

or $4 billion if you take it out of the defense department. and that $3 billion or $4 billion could fund n.i.h. back at a level that it should be funded or could protect madeleine from further decline in her standard of living. so i've made my point. i understand my perspective is not in the majority. but i'll guarantee you my perspective's in the majority of americans, that we ought not to have 679 renewable energy initiatives. i don't think you'd find anybody in the country who would disagree with me on that. that they ought to be consolidated, they ought to be run efficiently, they ought to have metrics on them. and as well as the other hundreds of sets of duplicatio duplications. we're going to get another report next month from the g.a.o., actually in march. it will be their fourth. and they're so discouraged because they do all this hard work and they make recommendations and then we sit on them, we don't act. and so if i were to have a challenge to my colleagues, it's, first of all, read the reports over the last four years and look at

and defense department's ambassador freeman it's a great privilege to have you on the show i'm glad to be here you know every time when we try to examine the foreign policy we get a lot of responses from and graham merican is hard to use as few as bashing and maybe my being a russian invited some of those accusations but your an american e.u. gave thirty years of your lives to the service of your country and yet some of your views on the american foreign policy a pretty solid bring i wonder how do you distinguish between critical thinking and criticism and is it possible to avoid criticism while applying critical thinking to american role in foreign affairs the united states has a democracy and one of the responsibilities of citizens as i see it is to speak out and try to influence policy and that's particular the case when the policies that are being followed are either unrealistic or counterproductive. and in the middle east in particular u.s. policy has been pretty consistently counterproductive in recent years so i don't see a contradiction at all between my service for the u.s. go

of the people killed four hundred fifty seven or eleven percent were civilians meanwhile the defense department released its annual report on the use of unmanned systems the report laid out a road map through twenty thirty eight of how the u.a.e. program will continue to develop take a look at this chart this is an inventory of the total number of unmanned aircraft the department of defense currently has and its possession and those are just the flying ones. the d.o.d. also has thousands of ground and maritime systems the agency estimates it will spend four point one billion dollars on unmanned systems and twenty fourteen a thirty percent drop from two thousand and thirteen but still quite a bit of money i spoke earlier with abraham wagner in los angeles he is an adjunct professor at columbia university's school of international and public affairs and also with mary ellen o'connell she is a professor of law and a research professor of international dispute resolution at the kroc institute for peace studies at the university of notre dom i began by asking their yellen what she thought about thes

model number of unmanned aircraft the department of defense currently has in its possession and those are just the ones that fly the d.o.d. also has thousands of ground and maritime systems the agency estimates it will spend four point one billion dollars on unmanned systems and twenty fourteen a thirty percent drop from twenty thirteen but still quite a bit of money i spoke earlier with abraham wagner in los angeles he's an adjunct professor at columbia university's school of international and public affairs i also spoke with mary ellen o'connell she is a professor of law and a research professor of international dispute resolution at the kroc institute for peace studies at the university of notre dom i began by asking mary ellen what she thought about these numbers. well i'm very critical of this new statistic being released by the council on foreign relations it is simply misleading that there have only been eleven percent of all persons killed designated as civilians this is simply incorrect the only place where i go for statistics and i am one of the experts one of the people who

any rebalancing of authority away from the department of defense would degrade the department of defense's intelligence capabilities. the two principle players in this camp were secretary rumsfeld and vice president cheney. secretary rumsfeld, of course, was very quotable. he, at the time, was vociferously against the 9/11 commission recommendations, and he wrote in a letter to george bush from the time period something i think is very notable. you can almost hear some of the intensity in his voice which was something basically that the united states congress, the media, and john kerry can afford to be wrong and pay no penalty. the president of the united states has to be right on a matter of such importance. he ended this memo to george bush at the time, which is detailed in the book with a single word: cautious. urging caution on the president before he adopted the particular recommendations. vice president cheney himself a former secretary of defense also 0 pods the dni recommendations. he focused on the fact we were at war at the time in iraq and afghanistan. and said no is no time to

the defense department has >> pam: experts say the best way to avoid being bitten is to cover up no matter> pam: that includes sections of messages new york and the nation's capital. some expected to get more than a foot of snow. at least 1300 flight cancellations to date along. take a look at this! >> i and in york for tonight. >> pam: the middle of all that snow is east rutherford new jersey. currently the stadium is covered in snow and 80,000 people are expected to show for the big game. it will receive a package that includes mid 10's handwarmers and a neck warmer and other items. that east coast storm is affecting us and the bay area all. as for the oakland and san jose airports no problems have been reported there. >> pam: the defense department has confirmed that a salinas than a tough has been killed in action in afghanistan. >> pam: edward balli was 43 years old. he was killed monday in afghanistan kandahar province spirit his family says balli had dreamed of being able to retire in hawaii in four years. he was on his third tour of duty in afghanistan and had done to tors on duty

defense is spending. and then in other cases on generic drugs you have the opposite situation where department of defense spending 200 percent what their department of veterans affairs is giving. if they were all paying the lowest price there would be billions and billions of dollars in savings year to year. and what i am hoping for is, we also have 8 billion -- excuse me, 8 million to federal employees and right now they don't have the ability to negotiate lower drug prices. imagine if we were to add -- first of all, the dod in the viejo down to the lowest reasonable price and then add in the 8 million employees that are working for the federal government and have them being the same price, it would be tens of billions of dollars per year in terms of what our pharmaceutical cost would be across the government. would be incredible. and these days when we are facing -- well, maybe not tens of billions, but several billion dollars a year for prescription drugs that are being purchased by the federal government's. i am just -- i am just beside myself with the inability of the federal government to really get

we have a defense logistics agency that has parts the are going to be there and can be used for the next 100 years and led to the various departments and operations in the defense do? the go after the defense contractors. so, you have identified something coming and i hope to god that we do something about this. its $4 billion. >> free $.9 billion is the what we cited in the report and was one of the more difficult numbers we had to track down, because there were so many conflicting stories about how much was wasted at the pentagon. as a, we ended up siding the gao report but there are many other studies that would put that number much higher. >> i'm not going to ask you to speak to it today but it is a series of reports on the referral where an ancillary medical service, whether it is in our i -- mri laboratory owned by them and they end up referring more of their patients to it and the result is savings, probably $10 billion or more over a ten year period of time. i'm interested whether or not you have looked at that issue and respond separately on that. >> that may be addressed by the medicare bundling which is something that we

-- this the book, the department of defense is organized to plan for war, not to wage war. and so the services dedicate all of their efforts, pretty much all of their efforts to developing their long-range procurement plans and then defending those plans in the budget process regardless of what comes along. and so people were reluctant to, for example, fund, develop and fund the mine-resistance ambush protect about the vehicles that save so many lives and limbs because that particular kind of vehicle was not in any plan for the army or the marine corps -- >> i'd like to ask you about that in just a moment. one of the key themes in that portion of the book, it seems to me, that the military planners inside the beltway, civilian leaders inside the beltway simply didn't adjust or respond to it. and, in fact, you do write they did not adjust to changing situations on the ground in iraq. >> well, that and the fact i also write that after the initial invasion there was just a series of stunningly bad decisions and mistakes. >> well, i'd like to r

paul lewis, my counterpart at t defense department started in november. so we are moving full speed ahead. and i'm also pleased that we are able to work with congress in the last few months to change the law in a way that remove some of the obstacles and restrictions that had lead to that slump that you referred to. and i think that's also going to be very helpful to us. >> is that what made the difference. and how did you prioritize who was going to be released first among these. >> in terms of changing the law and the law will be different in 2014, i think that is going to help us very much in moving forward with the transfers. in terms of prioritizing the transfers, let's step back for a second and have an overview of the facility. 155 detainees are there right now. 76 now are approved for transfer. 79 are not approved for transfer. and when i say a trov-- approved for transfer, there's a very important point that i think people don't realize, which is that the executive branch in 2009 and 2010 undertook a very rigorous review by the national security

, plan to reduce 1% of military retirees cost of living was not conceived and with and the department of defense. is that right clicked to your knowledge were you consulted on this decision? >> not to my knowledge. >> did you acknowledge that this decision was made by the budget committee without ever consulting the department of defense as to the impact of it on readiness, morale, keeping our promise etc.? >> to the best of my knowledge we were not consulted. >> mr. chairman i want to thank you especially for anticipating this issue because it is an issue of rising personnel costs and in fact under your leadership, we now have the commission established that i think we can come up with a recommendation that would take into consideration the views of the military and civilian leadership and the pentagon and hopefully we can arrive at a consensus. our next panel of witnesses today would be very adamant and understandably so about their concern about the effect of this action taken by the budget committee on the morale and readiness and the ability of us to keep our promise to the men and women wh

. >> the defense department is changing its policy on what people can where when they sear.he change will effect jews, muslims among others. until now they have not been able to serve if they displayed tattoos or wear beards or other symbols now the defense department says if they request it, neck wear beards and turbines, tattoos piercings and other body art of religious nature, muslims can also request to carry prior beads. basically anything that doesn't pose a safety has saturday or interfere with with their ability to do their job. the a few received special permission to wear beards in the past, but they had to get letters of sup bort from lawmakers. we spoke to the coalition and united six, they say they welcome this change, and say it doesn't go far enough. they don't want to have to ask for per mix. tony some sikh liters are collecting signatures from congress, they want to ask the military to ease the rules even further. >> really. i am wondering if there's any reaction from individual, group groups tt are opposed to these? >> we haven't seen any official reaction,

position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this detention center is in violation of human rights and international law the most important probably. element of a visit was to meet with me go with those who do and to convey the message to the american representatives to the miracles. that we insist they heard his words and legitimate interests. would be taken care of back in two thousand and eight barack obama the u.s. president promised to shut down the detention center multiple times he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which. a number of occasions has vast laws to make it harder and harder for the u.s. administration to either transfer. detainees to other countries or to bring them back to the u.s. and try them on u.s. soil which has left the u.s. administration really in political limbo because this detention center has h

. >> the defense department is relaxing rules so soldiers can wear items that pertain to religion, meaning head coverings and until now have been banned they can have beards, tattoos and body piercings religious in nature the pent gob gone says it will be addressed >> a donor made a donation to a beloved spot for generations of children. largest in the park's 53-year history. the spark says this will go towards upgrading lower zoo area and will go towards a few tour animal exhibit. >> a woman who saved a man's life by pulling him from a burning truck has done it again. she help aid driver at hill top this morning. according to in 2011 she pulled the driver from his tanker truck. i want to be out on the highway any time she is there. >> amazing. >> still ahead that is not the only good samaritan getting reco uncle go one,two,one,two,one [uncle]thistwo,one.cotch,okay? [niece]okay! [uncle]okay? [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight! [uncle laughing] okay,we go the other way,okay? [niece]one,two,three,four,five, six,seven! [uncle laughs]there's ten spaces,you want to try again? [uncle

after world war ii, the then war department suddenly became the defense department, a complete reversal of roles and a lie. would you endorse a movement to restore the link which of war department versus defense department? [laughter] >> yes. [laughter] >> i would like to second that. >> right on. thank you. >> i heard a story of an army or gate in the early occupation of iraq that instead of fighting the insurgents directly, like raiding houses in the middle of the night, they work to improve the community, opening markets, making the streets clean, that sort of thing. just making life a little ball and letting be happy. i believe this may have been the unit that they are a disgrace to the trias. eventually, that unit were shifted out of the area of the neighborhood they were patrolling and they were replaced by a more conventional approach of taking indoors in the middle of the night. i think the base of water is that really we don't consider that there are people on both sides of the gun. so would you agree with that? what do you think about society and warner? >> well, let me focus

s viewers can't talk to the defense department to get the information. >> jon: seems insane. >> stunningut do something about it. okay, okay. >> jon: i was going to say that to you. [laughter] i was actually going to say that to you. [ laughter ] is there something -- this is a good point though: is it possible that the people within the system don't have enough distance from it to see the way that people in congressional offices end up going and become lobbyists at the corporations. the corporations lobby to get arcane things put into the regulation that makes it harder for small business. can the congress maybe not see the corruption inherent in that. >> the revolving door is not so much congress as the executive branch. on nsa, nsa the -- one of people was hired there was from a company that -- >> jon: sure. >> they got all the contracts and hired consultants. >> jon: some folks from your office have gone to work for boeing. >> i don't know that. >> jon: i do. [ laughter ] well, who? well who? i don't know anybody -- >> jon: stick around. we're going to go to commercial. we're talking

new defense department research is looking to see if it could treat soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress. >> one is severe mood depression. some groups are interested in using it to treat memory disorders. and it effects the part of the brain that you want it to effe effect. >> the hope is that the technology will continue to improve even as symptoms gets worse. >> what i am hoping for is ten good years. but i know that when i get to the end of ten years i'm going to want another ten years. >> reporter: jacob ward, al jazeera. >> well, temperatures are plummeting across parts of the mid plains. we have a system pushing across the area. while it's bringing snow into illinois, also across indiana you can see the spin in the atmosphere and we'll continue to see snow across portions of pennsylvania into up state new york. on the backside of the system cooler air rushing in out of canada. look at fargo only 11 degrees right now right at the freezing mark in bismarck. it will continue to be cold across the area with that wind pushing out of canada. winds gusting at 32 mph in omaha right

time -- i don't know when -- after world war ii, the been war department suddenly became the defense department, a complete reversal of roles, and a lie. would you endorse, colonel, a movement to restore the language of war department versus defense department? [laughter] >> yes. [laughter] >> i'm not a colonel but i would like to second that. >> right on. >> thank you. >> i heard a story of an army brigade in the early occupation of iraq that, instead of fighting the insurgents, directly like raiding houses in the middle of the night, they worked to improve the community, opening markets, making the streets clean, that sort of thing, just making life livable and letting the people be happy. and i believe this may have been a unit led by the disgraced david petraeus. eventually that unit was shipped out of the area, the neighborhood if they were patrolling and they were replaced by a more conventional approach, agent with the more conventional approach of kicking in doors in the middle of the night. and i think the base of war is that really, we don't consider that there are people both sides.

position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this detention center is in violation of human rights and international law the most important probably. element of a visit was to meet with with those who visit and to convey the message to the american representatives of america. that we insist they heard his words legitimate. would be taken care of back in two thousand and eight barack obama the u.s. president promised to shut down the detention center multiple times he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which. a number of occasions has vast laws to make it harder and harder for the u.s. administration to either transfer. detainees to other countries or to bring them back to the u.s. and try them on u.s. soil which has left the u.s. administration really in political limbo because this detention center has has the image and reput

world defense corps which allows the leaders will have to submit a list of the members of the defense department and the army will have to oversee the group's. authorities at my aunt's the army civilian groups have helped to share one of the most wanted drug lords from the violence might stand for cartel. this is the uncle who was wanted on money laundering charges evil. when you are only on the detainee was also in the previous investigation of organized crime and drugs crimes to include the moment he is also linked to fourteen investigations for his likely participation in crimes in two of you the knights templar to mind that extortion payments from businesses and farmers. but the vigilante groups have gained ground against the cartel in recent months a one hundred and thirty year nolan. so in order to speed the tree to the improved is to be resolved by the international court of justice in haiti the dispute dates from the eighteen eighties war of the pacific and sent to the thirty eight thousand square feet on it as it comes to fishing grounds. cheney claimed up to the redline to a review up

as the principal director, she is responsible for the oversight of the defense department. the management of department policy for terrorist threats and finance. previously worked for joe biden on the foreign relations committee. last and not least, i want to welcome john. he is the special ig for afghan reconstruction. he conducted oversight on the effectiveness of u.s. assistance 20afghanistan and has over years of experience serving on staff in the senate and the house. he has worked as a state and federal prosecutor for investigations and prosecutions against organized crime groups. , wehis distinguished lady are happy to have you here. will you proceed with your questions. give testimony. i skipped a whole part of this. you think that is freudian? no, no. you are on. >> thank you. >> i will be honored to launch. thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss counters efforts in afghanistan. >> permission granted. >> afghanistan is the source of 80% of the illegal opiates. strategy fordrug the future, there are cure -- clear facts that we do not know. we do not

he said the defense department is like a dinosaur. little tiny brain and very poor motor skills. if we start fiddling with these retirement benefits we have a chance of messing it up. this is why is it is so important the commission do this work looking at all the analysis because it is important that we understand changes in investing, what that does to the shaping of our force. the needs of our force are changing as we look into the future, technology changes, expertise changes, we see people with important expertise to stay long grandmothers to move through faster and be young and bring in new ideas. how do we get that exactly right? it is a difficult challenge and we are working with the commission and look forward to continuing to do so. >> as we look at the commission, as you indicated, the challenge you have of saying we want that mix to change at the end, decide on other career choices and stuff. is it pretty much -- you have to dig deep to try to figure out how do we set this up so in 7 years we don't lose people we want for 20 or whatever and the skills we want and on t

privacy groups met separately with administration officials the meetings come just as the department of defense for least a classified report regarding the harm that's been caused by the snowden leaks the d.o.d. report made a number of conclusions but mainly that snowden's disclosures significantly impacted the capabilities of the u.s. to carry out its intelligence operations. and the u.s. government will be investigating a twenty thirteen drone strike which a yemeni one wedding party killing twelve civilians while injuring fourteen the defense department's joint special operations command or jay sock is responsible for carrying out the strike which took place on december twelfth of last year in the aftermath of the attack the government said they had credible intelligence leading them to believe there were quote dangerous al qaeda militants in the wedding convoy however a follow up investigation conducted by u.k. human rights organisation reprieve found that all those killed and injured in the strike were guests attending a wedding with no known militant connections this will all be explored i

privacy groups met separately with administration officials the meetings come down said the department of defense released a classified report regarding the hundreds been caused by this dominates the doj report made a number of conclusions. anyway matt stone and disclosures is significantly impacted the capabilities of the us to carry out its intelligence operations. and the us government will be investigating a twenty thirteen balance right which the yemeni wedding party killing twelve civilians only injuring fourteen the defense department's joint special operations command orange a sock is responsible for carrying out the strike which took place on december twelve of last year. in the aftermath of the attack the government said they had the intelligence leading men to believe their workload danger as al qaeda militants in the wedding convoy however the follow up investigation conducted by uk human rights organization reprieve found that almost killed and injured in the straight when guests attending a wedding with no known militant connections this will all be explored in a forthcoming interna

defense logistics agency. it is our hardware store. it has parts that will be there and can be used for the next 100 years. what do the various departments do, the various operations within defense do? they go to a defense contractor to get them. so, you have identified something and i hope to god we do something about this. this is real money. it is $4 billion, is it not? >> $3.9 billion is the number we cited in the report. that was one of the more difficult numbers we had to track down because there are so many conflicting stories about how much is wasted at the pentagon on spare parts. so, we did cite a g.a.o. report but there are are many studies that would put the number much higher. >> the g.a.o. is in a series of reports of self referral where it sis m.r.i. or imrt, a laboratory is owned by them, they end up referring more of their parents to it and the -- patients to it and the result is a savings of probably $10 billion or more over a 10-year period of time, probably closer to $20 billion over a 10-year periods -- period of time. can you respond to me separately if you have looked at that. >> that may be addressed by medicare b

going forward i first asked her what happened to the effort to move the drone program to the defense department. bottom line is that congress is not invested enough in getting this program out of the hands of the cia and out of the hands of a secretive agency the department of defense runs a drone program we think in yemen the cia has a drone program we think in pakistan but neither of these organizations is running the program with any kind of accountability to the public about potentially unlawful civilian casualties while the pentagon does have some strong checks and balances that would certainly be more visible in the cia or so you would think do you think it's possible that congress is really trying to keep this program in the dark i think there are certain members of congress who don't see the need to end the secrecy of the program but we're talking about using lethal force around the globe with drone technology and not telling you or your national community or the american public what's going on who's being killed absolutely and this is not only a funding issue i mean the provision alleg

. >>> the latest defense department report on the sexual assault at the nation's military academies is due out today. the report notes alcohol is often a factor and comes following a series of scandals that hit the academies last year. david martin reports. >> reporter: although the number of reported assaults at the military academies went down, they say there's a culture which tolerates offensive behavior. there were several assaults at the academy down from 80 last year. that does not confirm whether there were fewer sexual assaults or that victims were afraid to come forward. focus groups found crude and offensive language and sexist comments occurred frequently and are an ingrained part in the experience of the academies and contribute to a disrespectful environment which might encourage worse behavior. cadets in mid shipment are afraid to report for fear of being ostracized. the rugby club was disbanded for trash talk e-mails derogatory to women. at the academies where two thirds of the offenses occurred, offensive power point slides. and the most notorious, two naval acamby foot

and from the department of state he said that my sentences and is that this defense and son to be closed out as soon as possible this defense and mini existence he said of this detention center in denial a sign of human rights and international of the most important probably the element of the visit was to meet with the gaza with no citizen. and to continue the message limited to the representatives miracle sia. yet we insist that his rights. and legitimate interests it would be taken care of. back in two thousand and eight. how barack obama on the last president promised to shut down the detention center there multiple times. he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which i'm a number of occasions have as close an eight hundred harder for the us administration say that transparent. i became used to other countries or to bring them back to the last and tried them on us soil which has left the us administration really in a political limbo because the us detention center has two has deemed the image and reputation of the us. despite official were full of t

strike which hit a yemeni wedding party killing twelve civilians all injuring fourteen the defense department's joint special operations command or jay sachs is responsible for carrying out the strike which took place on december twelfth of last year in the aftermath of the attack the government said they had credible intelligence leading them to believe there were quote dangerous al qaeda militants in the wedding convoy however a follow up investigation conducted by u.k. human rights organization reprieve found that all those killed and injured in the strike were guests attending a wedding with no known militant connections this wall be explored in a forthcoming internal investigation and it will mark the first time the us government will inspect a drone attack since president obama pledged to tighten the rules on drone strikes in his may two thousand and thirteen speech in response to an announcement of the investigation reprieve investigator barrage of bond said in a press release these continuing drone strikes don't bolster anyone security they only serve to alienate the yemeni people and u