it's called "the dictator's learning curve" by william dobson.tors have gotten smart, dobson writes, to keep pace with changes in technology. ♪ old-school oppressors like mao, polpot or amin could thing secrets, that's not true today. if a dictator tried to orchestrate a mass killing and keep it secret, it would fail. it would end up on youtube. the crimes of joseph kony are an internet phenomenon, and he remains on the run. war criminals can't count on impunity. sudan's president bashir has been indicted by the criminal court. today's cleverest dictator have evolved. they allow a certain amount of dissent as an escape valve. consider china. there's a new study out by three political scientists at harvard. they've devised a way to analyze millions of social media posts in china. what's special is they claim to do this before the chinese government gets to censor them, so it provides a unique insight into not just what the chinese people think but also what the government teams necessary to sensor. ♪ what did they find? contrary to what you'd thin

of slate magazine will dobson.g back so soon. >> if you cover politics and foreign affairs, is there anybody else working? >> you could call that news you know. you could just be much more succinct and call it news edit editor. >> a one-manned band. >> all right. so on the foreign policy front last week, you were analyzing the david shuster, what was likely to happen in egypt. generals decided they would let the muslim brotherhood guy take over after all. surprise? >> no, i am not surprised given that it was on the election. >> he won the election. it was so -- in our country, we don't do it that way. >> true. >> exactly. it was such a strong showing of support for him that i think at the end of the day, the mood in tahrir was incredibly tension. so i think to some degree the nightmare was sort of what if they don't? i think to some degree, i don't want to say they blinked but i think they also realized they can probably accomplish a lot with this guy in. what let this course play off and other ways to control the.

now smoke smoking gun number two was this john dobson. he spoke to the evening news and said this. >> you're intentionally letting guns go to mexico. >> i have boots on the ground in phoenix. we've been doing it every day since i've been here. here i am. tell me i didn't do the things that i did. tell me you didn't order me to do things that i did. tell me it didn't happen. now you have a name on it. a face to put it with. here i am. someone now. tell me it didn't happen. >> cenk: well, it didn't happen. there's a twist. dobson actually turns out to be the only guy who did take atf guns and eventually gave them to the mexican cartel through a broker and lost track of them. that interview may have been done to cover his ass. it was approved by casa because his superior boss would not approve it because dodson was what is called the renegade and off the reservation. he would not take orders and show up when he had to. dodson directed that these three guns be given to fernandez. he taped conversations without the proper's approval. when his

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we are talking with will dobson the slate politics and foreign affairs editor.sad out of power. where do things stand? >> we are on the bloody path. when they look at syria, they don't see good options. you don't have a libya model here where it's going to be easy and you don't have an international opinion even really all in one place. the chinese and the russians they have no interest in seeing assad go. we are putting as much pressure as we can on them. but it's not going to buy us much. what we have now is the talk of a possible clemency deal some sort of following the yemen model saying if you will leave, we won't prosecutore you. at the same time and what's more interesting because it's a meaningful thing that's happening, is you see defenses in the military. one sort of example we are all looking at right now is the syrian fighter pilot that flew his mig to jordan yesterday and requested asylum. what's happening is, you know, we think about this as this 250,000 strong syrian army but that number is misleading because that's the rough total figure for the

mcgee is accused of shooting to death aletha mcgee at her home at 90th and dobson. police found her body after relatives reported they hadn't heard from her in a while. they said a key was found broken off in a door lock outside the house. earnest mcgee is expected to face a judge today. fire department divers are back at a lake in the far north suburbs today ... searching for the body of a man who may have drowned. police say the 62 year-old man jumped into west loon lake yesterday afternoon and couldn't get back into his pontoon boat. his 69 year-old passenger jumped in to help and had to be rescued by a boater nearby. more than 40 divers from several fire departments in lake county have helped in the search. authorities say they don't believe alcohol is involved. a group of church leaders is offering a $3,000. reward for information that helps chicago police catch the person who shot and killed a girl in the austin neighborhood. 7 year-old heaven sutton was killed... when gang gunfire erupted at luna and wabansia wednesday night. the "leaders network" says someon

john dobson said we were. >> host: he is who. >> guest: a whistle blower.atm whistle blower, mandated to allow these guns into the wrong hands. this wasn't a mistake. nothing drives mull pel whistle blowers more crazy when they here is it a mistake or botched operation. they say this absolutely intentional. when this investigation first started 31 democrats sent a letter to the justice department saying -- and the obama administration saying we need transparency here. there's nothing wrong with asking questions and, yes, it's turned into what they say a political witch hundred on the democratic side because they turnedded into issues about gun control and this being political for the attorney general when really chairman issa says i want to wrap up my investigation and i don't want to get into the political season. the terry family deserves better. this i is about thousands of guns trafficked into mexico, hundreds of people being killed in that country, and it's about the justice department not complying, and the truth is that this shouldn't be a bipartisan

distinction that is not always made between political leadership and the actual culture of the william dobsonraveling, writes about it in his new book the dictator's learning curve inside the global battle for democracy. your premise is interesting and i want to make sure i understand it. dictators are getting more sophisticated in using messaging and placation maneuvers and communications to create the am biance of freedom in your brain. i'll switch the leader, do these things. those who want freedom because they need no resources and can connect in shame and it's like a different sort of a cold war between the communications arts of the centralizes powers of the world and the communications art of the distributed network trying to free itself. is that fair? >> sounds as though you almost wrote the book yourself. >> well, i fortunately didn't, but have been studying, this is the thing, right? this is not just a dictator thing. this is the world. a battle between those who are pretending and using centralized power and sec rerecy. it's what we've been doing the past three years. do you want s

none closer than richard and donna dobson. >> full of electricity. full of life.ter place for people to gather and have food and fellowship. >> the jaramillos soon began considering the stranger a part of the family. their church friends took to him as well. >> i just thought he was a quiet, nice guy. >> he was always helping people with projects, wouldn't charge a nickel. >> and he did a good job, right? >> yeah, real good job. >> especially on this sunroom he helped build on to the jaramillo's home in the summer of 2000. >> jaime had a friend come from ecuador that was a pastor, and he was going to do the construction of the sunroom to earn some money to support his church back in ecuador. the two of them built it together. when jaime went to pay david his half, david said, give my half to mario for his church. well, that was very impressive to all of us. >> he made a terrific impression. >> he did. really touched our hearts. >> david also made an impact by helping out with two grandsons who were living with the jaramillos. he paid the boys a lot of attention, a

all of the national conservatives whether it is sarah palin or rick santorum or james dobson or seancause our nation is in crisis and we need strong conservatives. >> shannon: we have to leave it there. thank you, is, sir. >> and by the way, we have been asking you how you feel about the doj telling florida to stop punching its voter rolls because they found folks that didn't belong there. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> chris: i'm chris wallace. with just five months to election day, the campaign's focus on job one, how to get america back to work. we'll hear from both sides on the rising unemployment rate and whether the recovery is stalling. ed gillespie, senior advisor to mitt romney and steven rattner, president obama's former car czar. then is, tuesday's wisconsin recall election a preview of the presidential race? we will ask our sunday panel about the possibility of traditionally blue states may flip to red in november. and our power player of the week. working to attract new generations to the father of our country. all r n

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. >> thank you very much, chairman, doctor dobson, and members of the subcommittee for the opportunity. before you going to discuss the tax provisions, known as tax extenders. i believe today's hearing is on an important topic as the number of and budgetary magnitude of these regularly expiring tax provisions have ballooned in recent years. some of these policies can serve an appropriate goal that many has crept into the tax code over the years with little evaluation. for example, in 2001, 13 tax provisions were set to expire that you were the next year. a decade later, 129 tax provisions were set to expire in 2011 or 2012. the budgetary consequences extenders have increased as well. for example, in september 2004 congress enacted a one year extension of 23 tax extenders for a cost of $13 billion. in 2010 come a two-year extension of these policies cost over $55 billion. and if congress were to extend those policies again this year, the cost would be even higher. let me summarize three key conclusions from my written testimony. first, no tax policy should be intentionally temporary. an

i know john dobson said the d.o.j.own maybe what was happening inside phoenix never were contacted when they prepared that february 4th letter that said we didn't walk guns. timetable for today, should start at 12:30 eastern and wrap up at 6:00 eastern in terms of the contempt vote. >> you'll see it here on fox live. excellent job setting it up so people will understand what's going on after the noon hour. >> thank you, sir. >> and now, to your headlines. the state of florida tried to remove illegal immigrants from the voter registration rolls. remember? the department of justice sued them. the federal judge citing with the state of florida. they claim the purge violated the voting rights act and too close to a federal election in august but the judge ruled the law is designed to protect eligible voters. governor rick scott in florida calls the ruling a common sense decision. >> all right. that will be a ticket in the city voting to the city now voting to no longer arrest people caught carrying 15 grams of marijuana or