right now, the f.b.i.is investigating more than 2,800 such cases, up almost 400% from five years ago. the recently enacted federal budget for 2010 will enhance these efforts, as will the enhanced legislative authorities that congress provided the department last year in the fraud enforcement and recovery act of 2009. now, i'm confident that with the new authorities, with the new resources, and a bold new plan of action, we can and we will make measurable, meaningful progress, and working together, with our law enforcement and regulatory partners, we will succeed in restoring the integrity our markets, preserving taxpayers resources, and protecting the vast majority of hard-working americans, investors, and businesses who play by the rules and who adhere to the law. i thank you again for the opportunity to participate in today's hearing. and to outline the department's ongoing efforts, and to address financial fraud in the wake of our economic crisis. i look forward to working with you, and along with assis

and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money and property and they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i beg your pardon. chris: go ahead. chris: john: he has been the most honest person i have ever heard on any program anywhere about this problem. i agree that the way we can really help mexico is concentrate on our country, the consumption in this country. if we stop the consumption here, no matter what it takes but stop it, it will automatically help mexico and everywhere else. thank you for taking my call. >> final thoughts. >> well, i think that our last question was very clear about this. if as she said quite rightly, we, meaning the united states, s

. >> sreenivasan: f.b.i. dector bert mueller said the decisi to aest the nigerian suspect was thright move. said the f.b.i. needed to know iediately if other thres were out there. president obama's nomie to lead the transpoation security administtion has withdrawn. erroll southers a top official with the loangeles policeepartment. but he said today opnents had politicid his career. republican sator jim demint d blocked action on southers over concerns he wouldrant collective bargaining rights to t.a. employees. the suspect in aass killing in virginiaurned himself in early today, after an all-night manht. chstopher speight allegedly gunned down eight people o tuesday,hen fired at a police helicopter as he ran int the woods hide. the scene unfolded just outse appomaox, virginia. police fnd three bodies inside spits home, and four outside. an eighth victim was found barely ave near the house, but di later at a hospital. state poli said today they're still looking for a motive a a weapon. >> we are in process of

f.b.i.has g4bsome of the best briefers in the world. >> one thing, his miranda rights, we doesn't have to speak at all. >> he doesn't have to, and if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways. >> why not treat him, you have the right as an enemy combatant, why not do that. and if he's got more intelligence about future attacks and you say there is a possibility of that, doesn't the president has the responsibility to do that? >> and the president has the responsibility and the intelligence talked about what is the best tools to use. and we looked at his case and will look at each case individually and proceed accordingly. >> tim, as this perkulates and in the papers, how will john be perceived by republicans? >> they are upset that they are not putting abdulmutallab in the enemy combatant system. he explained why to put him in the civilian courts and not so much why not the enemy combatant case, and what chris wallace was asking him. and there are arguments for labeli

he had an f.b.i. file at the time. i don't think it was a mistake. he's shaking his fist at the physician viewer in what you could think as a kind of inserted black power kind of thing, but instead of making a political statement, it's threatening the viewer. >> probably around the same time that vietnam, i'm black and i'm proud. >> absolutely. also, you can tell it's orange on this page, maybe a bit hard to see here, but also appearing in an urban scene. it doesn't appear to be at least from my reading in a psychiatric hospital and so of course, this is also the same time period that the detroit riots, newark, other things are happening in the united states, and so what i feel like what is happening here is there is this conflation of a social -- and assaultive and belligerent cooperation begins with hall done the -- haldol the ad tells us. those are some of the more obvious shifts of what is happening in the 1960's. i'll also say there are two other key shifts that i'll blow through and maybe conclude in five or sex minutes and then the response --

there was word today the f.b.i. illegally collected some 2,000 u.s. telephone records during the bush administration. "the washington post" reported it took place between 2002 and 2006. it said the f.b.i. sometimes invoked emergencies that did not exist. the agency said again today the practice involved records of incoming and outgoing calls, and not their actual content. the u.s. supreme court has refused to close two shipping locks near chicago to keep asian carp out of the great lakes. the state of michigan asked for an injunction. it warned the carp will wipe out native fish if they reach the lakes from the mississippi river watershed. illinois and the federal government warned an injunction would damage the shipping business. the u.s. army corps of engineers is considering long-term action, and the case may yet return to the high court. the los angeles city council gave initial approval today to close hundreds of dispensaries for medical marijuana. there are now more than 1,000 places where marijuana is available in los angeles. that is more than

onceç those hijackers came to the country not shared with the f.b.i.. had it been, the f.b.i. names in san diego in the phone book. similarly here as the president said again today, the nsaç intercepted messages that said a terror attack was being planned in yemen using a nigerian. theç suspect's own father, a respected nigerian banker went to the state department not once but twice. talked to uxe central intelligence agency too. then followed up with telephone calls and with written communication. as the president said that was enough at a minimumç to get him on the no-fly list in which case he wouldn't have boarded the flight at all. >> lehrer: mr. simon, youç know this. you've worked in government as a career. you're a specialist in this particular area.v: do you leave the words... hearing the words of the president with a sense of confidenceç "now, final he, they're going to get their act together and we're going to stop this and they're going to stop... they're going to start connecting theç dots, et ceter, et cetera, et cetera"? >> well, look. this case was complic

the f.b.i. has arrested two more men in an alleged plot to stage bombings in new york city. the men attended high school in queens, new york, with najibullah zazi. he was indicted in september in the same investigation. law enforcement officials have said they believe the men traveled with zazi to an al- qaeda training camp in pakistan. another u.s. soldier has been killed in afghanistan. it happened thursday in a roadside bombing. five americans have died in the afghan war since the new year began. and in a separate attack, eight afghan soldiers were killed thursday when their truck hit a roadside bomb. bitter cold refused to let up across much of the u.s. and europe today. britain endured more of its longest cold spell in nearly three decades, with deep snow and sub-zero cold in scotland. and in germany, there was a rush to buy snow sleds. in this country, bismarck, north dakota, had wind chills of 50 below zero for a second day. the deep freeze extended as far south as florida. and schools closed in at least ten states. vice-president joe biden's mother, jean biden, died

and there was an air strike attempt and a house target on f.b.i. wanted list.his attack >> up next, live at "newsmakers" said with reporters pam hess and tim starks. then that the debate on health care. that will be followed by president obama. >> you have lost it. you do not own it anymore. you are trespassing. and that hurts. my possessions are an hour and a storage bin. what i was able to get out before the house was locked up. >> this week, who was later coburn on american casino, thereir documentary on the subprime mortgages. >> joining us on "newsmakers" is tim starks and pam hess, intelligence reporter with the associated press. the subjects of the closure of the embassy in yemen. >> the u.s. embassy was attacked twice in a very directly with suicide bombers in 2008. 17 yemnis died, outside the perimeter of the embassy. with the attack in december that the u.s. apparently participated in, and the stepped-up counter- terror 8 that the u.s. is providing to yemen and the special forces in yemen, it is creating a situation that is not the safest for diplomat

that man has already pleaded not guilty that he lied tote f.b.i. about a 2008 trip to pakistan. both men have been linked to asazi accused of terror attacks to make home made bombs. >>> last sunday's security breach. a student taken into custody yesterday. and later released, police believe he is the man seen in this surveillance video, this video, walking the wrong way to an airport exit. reportedly to talk to his girlfriend. it sparked a six hour long shutdown causing headaches for many travelers. >> reporter: did it did take a lot of legwork to identify the man. after a lot of rewinding that surveillance tape we were just looking at, investigators found their man and tracked him down to find out what kind of security this guy posed. he is a 28-year-old graduate student that was studying at rutgers university. friends describe him as a romantic that just wanted to see his girlfriend. she was kasmg a flight to lax. after following up on leads, they found jarngs in new jersey. he is expected to be charged with defiant trespass which could carry a $500 fine. this security tape pu

this risky practice was allowed to continue long after the f.b.i. warned in 2004 of an epidemic in mortgage fraud. here's what the bottom line is: the bottom line is that there are -- the key responsibility of the fed is to maintain the safety and soundness of our financial institutions and they failed. they failed. and as a result of the greed and speculation on wall street, which the fed should have been observing, which the fed should have acted against, which the fed should have warned the american people and the congress about, they did nothing, and our financial system went over the edge. and then, mr. president, after not doing their jobs as a watchdog, not fulfilling their obligation to protect safety and soundness of our financial system, then the financial collapse occurred. and what happened? what the fed did is provide not only -- not only the -- that congress put $700-plus billions of dollars into the bailout, the fed provided several trillion dollars -- trillion dollars of zero interest loans to large financial institutions. and, mr. p

he gave everything to the f.b.i.. in fact he was the operative. it was almost like he was bragging. there was some fear that maybe he was spreading diz information. it turns out so far that the story he has told has checked out every step of the way. he said he went to yemen. said he got explosives there and said he trained on the arabian peninsula there. he told one thing that's very haunting. he was training in yemen with a number of other people. he didn't know how much. he called them his brothers. he said though we were segregated. he felt (garbled audio) you have to assume there.... >> schieffer: chip reid, i take it the president was briefed. we begin every news cycle getting word that the president has been briefed. what else is going on out there? >> well, they're talking a lot about what is going to happen when the president gets back to washington. i think what you're going to see beginning on tuesday when the president has this meeting in the situation room with the heads of all the various agencies related to homeland security is kind of another version of the afghanist

and there was an air strike attempt and a house target on f.b.i. wanted list.this attack was believed to be a number of senior al-qaeda leaders, no recall of what happened. host: good morning to our caller. caller: it seems to me i can't believe my government about terrorists or al-qaeda. i believe that ñhsal-qaeda is a c.i. a. operation and the boogeyman, i believe that my government is the number one terrorist on the planet. how many people have we murdered? and how many senior al-qaeda officials have we killed since 2001? time i turn the tv on and a group is talking about senior al-qaeda officials are killing. we don't know how many our government is killing and i wouldn't trust them. host: thanks. guest: when we look at yemen, and al-qaeda has targeted american citizens a number of times. sailors that were attacked and the american embassy was attacked twice last year. there is a danger and threat from yemen of american interest for sure. host: put this in broader context and u.s. is supporting the effort of yemen to fight the folks there. and iraq and afgh

but the f.b.i. now reports he admitted that he got weapons and explosives training from al-qaeda in pakistan. now two other men are in custody here in new york. live now to david lee miller in the new york city burrow of brooklyn where there was a court date today. david lee? >> reporter: that's right. we had two arrests today, but there was only one arraignment. only one of these two defendants actually appeared in court. the question now is why. also not clear is what, if any, charges this other individual is going to face. he is a boss kneian born individual. he's a building supervisor. he was taken into custody after there was a traffic accident on the outskirts of new york city. he apparently then tried to flee on foot. that's when he was nabbed by authorities. he was taken to a local hospital for treatment and he has been in custody ever since. moments ago, his attorney, who represented him since this investigation began in september, said that prosecutors informed him that his client no longe

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it comes 20 years ago when he was an f.b.i. agents and confidential records about his ex-wife birthday. >> i'm gregg jarrett. join me at the top of the hour. back with us a one of my heroes, a man that i think about all the time, and i try to model myself after him. his name is jon huntsman. he is a fill hahn throppist, a businessman and a creator of the lig l exggs panty hose container, the actual egg carton, the plastic fork and spoon and bowl and everything else. jon huntsman is his name. he says he's going to die broke. i believe him. is your family ok with you dying broke? everybody is like, yeah, dad, give it all away. let me start here before i get to the story about what happened right after september 11, when did you think, gee, i should give it away? is this a new idea? when did you think it's better to give than to receive? were you well off at the time? >> no, no. when my wife and i were first married, one of the things that we did was i made $310 a month as a young naval officer and we gave $50 a month. we paid our

f.b.i. has some of the best interrogators in the world.o i'm confident that we're going to continue to be able to work the system and see whether or not -- >> chris: once he has miranda rights he doesn't have to speak at all. >> he doesn't have to, but he knows certain things are on the table. if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that. >> chris: but why not treat him -- you certainly had the right, still have the right to treat him as enemy combatant. why not do that? if he has more actionable intelligence about future attacks -- and you say there is a real possibility of that -- doesn't the president have a responsibility to do everything legal he can to get that information? >> the president has a responsibility and the department of justice makes determinations about what is the best tool to use. in this instance, we felt as though the best way to address mr. abdulmutallab's case. we'll continue to look at each of the cases individually and proceed accordingly. >> chris: just briefly, what is th

f.b.i. officls said today the was no evidence of any rror plot. it turns out missing guard triggerethe shutdown sday night at liberty internatial airport in newar new jersey. airpt surveillance video was released tod. it shows a gua leaving his security checkpoint. momentlater, a man ducks under a rope into a secured area t say good-bye to a woman waing r a flight. the securityreach closed the newark terminal for six urs, delayinglights and scrambling schedules across the country in brussels, belum, today, members of the european ion debad whether to use full body scanners at airportsbut there were sharp divisions. at the same ti, italy joined the u.s., britain d the netherlands and announceit will install the scanns soon. >> we havelways said that the security com before everythi. the right to life r those who fly, for those who travel is a ndamental right that we want to protect. with the introductioof these instruments, these body scanns, we have decided as you have hed to introde them at the airports of milan, rome d venice, starting at minimu

. >> reporter: while the majority of organizations collecting money for haiti are legitimate, the f.b.i. has warned donors to watch out for bogus on-line and telemarketing campaigns. >> suarez: and for more about this and related issues, we are joined by stacy palmer, the editor of the "chronicle of philanthropy." stacey, there have been natural disasters. there have been humanitarian crises in the age of the cell phone. why the different response this time? >> one reason is that people are really comfortable doing text messages. they haven't been for a while. it's been popular in europe but not so popular here. the charities have gotten good at doing it. and the cost has gone down so the charity is getting a lot more money than it used to get. that's one reason that everybody is expecting texting to take off. i think one of the things we're going to see now is that every charity is going to be raising money this way. >> suarez: is there a good ballpark figure on how much has been given by text and what portion that represents of the entire donation so far? >> it's still a relatively sm

that incident is from 20 years ago when southers was an f.b.i. agent and accessed confidential records about his ex-wife's boyfriend. in november, he told a senate committee that he had asked a police officer to get those records. but a day after the vote, southist admitted he did the searches himself. susan collins, a republican from maine, tells the post that she has suspicions even then, but approved it conditionally. now she says she's satisfied with his explanation. but fellow republican demint isn't. he originally blocked southers nomination over concerns he might unionize tsa and says southers shouldn't be confirmed if he can't tell the truth. the white house is standing by its nominee. spokesman shapiro tells fox, southers has never tried to hide this incident and expressed it's errors he made in judgment and an error he made in account of events that happened over 20 years ago. congress gets back over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the full senate has to confirm the nomination. >> thanks. you can bet national se

the f.b.i. lied about that.now we have this man that's accused, comes from yemen the -- not just the banker, the banker there, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. and he is -- he didn't so much go -- "my speculation." he didn't go there to warn. he was thereÑi toÑi sacrifice h son to say hey, i got this here. i don't see anything coming from the main stream media on this. to get hit on the fact that we're going now into terrorists for terrorism. host: thanks alex, we're going to leave it there. guest: well i have not seen or heard of any evidence that would suggest that this alleged terrorist father was attempting to sacrifice his son. on the contrary, he seemed to warn about his son's importantly sfloment islamic extremism. >> the idea that the imf is some somehow ar tick late its reasons for carrying out specific attacks. >> and if there was one that referenced the i.m.f. attack, i guess i missed it. host: secretary of state clinton, we'll hear what she has to say. >> obviously we see global implic

michael german, former f.b.i.curity immigration and privacy of american civil liberties union. priscilla lewis, co-director of the u.s. and world initiative. jacob shapiro, assistant professor of politics and public affairs at princeton university's woodrow wilson school of international affairs. soon-to-be joining us, still in the middle of his commute, is paul pillar, former c.i.a. official official, now professor and director of the security studies program. he will be here within the next five to 10 minutes i do believe. it will take a lot of the morning to lay out all the credentials of this fine group. instead of doing that we have put together a biosheet many of you picked up. if you didn't manage to pick it up i'm sure a neighbor did and you can took at it. as i said after our session this morning, daniel benjamin will give us direct evidence of the administration's thinking and plans, especially in light of the christmas bombing attempt. we are very appreciative he could join us. no between our session an

similar to what the congress has done in the past in the appointment process for the director of the f.b.i it has had six administrators averaging terms of just 1.5 years. the attempted bombing of the u.s. airliner points to the need for capable and strong leadership that is outside of the political process. in a separate letter to john brennan i posed a series of pointed questions concerning the security situation in yemen and the circumstances surrounding the christmas day failed attack. how does it plan to deal with the possible radicalization of some 55,000 americans, 55,000 americans that are currently visiting, living or studying in yemen. pointing out that these individuals can fly back to the united states with american passports. the dangers of radicalization in yemen are troubling. the alleged shooter at fort hood was radicalized. and now we have learned that the alleged christmas day terrorist was reportedly also in contact with the cleric in yemen. convicted terrorist john walker lind was radicalized, leading to his collaboration with the taliban in afghanistan. last week, pres

that is from 20 years ago when southers was an f.b.i. agent and accessed confidential information about his ex wife's boyfriend. he asked a police officer to get those records. after the vote he did the searches himself. susan collins a republican from maine says the post she had suspicions, now she says she is satisfied with his explanation. fellow republican is not convinced. he blocked over concerns that ee may uin onize tsa. white house is standing by the nominee. spokesman nick shapiro says southers has never tried to hide the incident and expressed these were errors he made in judgment and deeply regretted and it was an act of events that happened 20 years ago. conscious comes back two weeks ago but they still have to approve his nomination. >> julie: thank you. >> gregg: a lot of finger pointing in the days following the failed attack on the u.s. bound jetliner. much of it taking a partisan tone. some republicans blasting the obama administration over a series of security and intel missteps and democrats taking shots at the gop. p

it took the f.b.i. 44 days to find their bodies.py of the missing poster is a missing part of the core exhibition. reing visitors of all ages and backgrounds that all of us do matter and that none of us is free unless all of us is free. after andrew's murder, his mother carolyn became synonymous with the civil rights movement. she spoke in this very room to our gallery of educators inspiring them with a message of social justice and act vism and inenforcing their work at the museum. when she spoke to audiences in this theater she shared intimate details of her family life. like she stuck bandages into his duffel bag when he wasn't looking, just in case. she also participated in several programs. dr. goodman is a permanent part of our core exhibition and can be heard on the museum's audio tour recalling her son's decision to go to mississippi. he told her they are americans and they should have the right to vote and they are not permitted. she relates he was 20 and needed his parents' permission to go and she and her husband were ver

third, when you get to the -- f.b.i. you've determined the person has dioxin in their system, it doesn't necessarily mean it's associated with the dioxin in their system. there may be other contributing factors. there are a number of new initiatives going on in vietnam. my understanding is a census is being done under the auspices of the ministry of health to try to identify within the vietnamese population individuals who may have been adversely affected by dioxin. there was a recent joint study that looked at 47,000 veterans inside vietnam, vietnamese nationals, trying to differentiate between expose and had nonexposed, to see whether or not a higher incident of health problems. that study confirms that, yes, there is a differentiation. let me finish by talking a little bit about the impact on u.s. and vietnamese relations. for a period of time, the vietnamese government seemed to accept that this issue can remain on the back burner t. wasn't that it wasn't raised, but they were willing to let it set aside so that othe

we know that the director of national intelligence, dennis blair; f.b.i.rector robert mueller; national counterterrorism director, michael leiter, and the homeland security director, janet napolitano, were not -- were not consulted about the decision to read abdulmutallab his miranda rights. we know as soon as this terrorist was told of his right to remain silent, that's what he did. he stopped talking. it is unfathomable that these individuals were not even consulted before this hugely important decision was made. after the hearings conducted last week and interviews over the weekend, it appears that it was ultimately the attorney general who made the decision to read miranda and place abdulmutallab in the court system. there is ambiguity to show just how this decision came to be maismed were there any deliberations or meetings that occurred prior to this decision? was the president brought into this discussion? all of these ambiguities need to be cleared up so that we do not make the same mistakes again. as a member of one of the committees charged with

next to the f.b.i. you probably know that i.c.e.aw enforcement agency. that i.c.e. and customs enforcement is the second-largest federal law-enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency that has about 20,000 employees, has a budget of about $5.7 billion so we are talking about a very substantial enterprise. john of course has had a career in federal law-enforcement. he has substantial experience and knowledge of the immigration law and policy as well as the overall criminal-justice system. i would have to say that i have known and followed and worked with him throughout that period. beginning in 1994, the wind he came to the government from the university of virginia school of law, as an agent and his first position was in the office of the general counsel at ins one i was there. there was no question but that john was smart. he was incredibly hard-working. he was capable of handling difficult and sensitive issues, and he advanced very quickly, given those characteristics and interviews, through a variety of positions and into

and f.b.i.d issue is in fact an intrusion in our lifestyle. i don't think the answer is to b@put that back, the fact that it's a threat. and your question gives me an opening to note, we are not just talking about this threat regarding al-qaeda. this is a threat and things that will be with us throughout this century. they will grow. one of my motivations and inoculate the public to give them more information to work with, and to get them used to the idea that these threats exist and not be surprised with them. we will be living in a more dangerous group this this century, more groups will try to use this inspiration and the intelligence community that lead to this report, to ensure that this effort is strong and robust over the next decade. host: we have willie on the lines. caller: good morning, mr. larssen will you please explain to me the difference between fiction and fact. when you talk about weapons of mass destruction. and i can pinpoint to you because you are a former c.i.a. agent, what

they voted before he mischaracterized a personal incident in his past at 20 years ago when he was f.b.iagent and acessed records about his wife's boyfriend. he asked a police officer to get the records . a day after the vote suters mitted he searched himself. susan collins, a republican from maine said she had suspicion and approved his nomination conditionally. leement blocked the nomination over the concerns of unionizing tsa. the white house is standing by the nominee. the spokes man tells folks. suters never hide the incident and experienced they were errors in that he deeply regretted and an error that he made over 20 years ago. harry reid plans to push hard for a full confirmation vote. back to you. >> caroline thank you. >> we begin with a fox news alert and a new warning from iran. the west has until the end of the month to accept the counter proposal on draft proposal or it will make its own nuclear fuel. they must swap it for enriched uranium f. no deal is made iran will enrich it to a higher level . the deadline on the union - u.n. drafted deal. it would have duced the abilit

they wanted to communicate with the government and facilitated with the f.b.i.n the presence of lawyers. we realize the shock that the community has and the parents had about the disappearance. they did not see any sign of radicalization in their kids. they have not been charged with any crime to my knowledge. because of thisnd others, we wanted to deal with this issue to make sure our kids, those who go on the internet have answers at home and in the community. they are open and can community and speak their mind. we give them a sense of direction and priority and understanding so that they lead a protuck tiff life. let me say this. if you see extremist video, they try to exploit religious grievances people have around the world, especially among muslims. they try to appeal to the since of injustice many people have. it is important for us as a nation to look at the bigger issue and war for peace and community. to drag the carpet from underneath these groups trying to recruit people that do not have a past history. that's the element of surprise to empower the

i understand that 10 days after his white house visit, elvis was in washington and toured the f.b.i. headquarters and wanted to meet j. edgar hoover who was on vacation at the time. did you know anything about this? did he stay in washington the whole time? did he fly back to memphis and ply back -- fly back again? >> after we left he personally, in the car, dropped me off at the airport where i could get back to my job and then he and sonny took a commercial -- another commercial flight back to memphis. i think in his excitement about the visit, and we had a good friend, bill morris, who was the mayor back there, he was the one that got elvis as one of the 10 outstanding young americans which elvis mentioned to the president, who was one of those as well. then elvis, and i'm back in l.a., but he did make another trip and brought bill and a couple of people and he did not meet hoover. it was a lot harder to meet with j. edgar hoover than with the president. i can vouch for that. >> thank you. >> i'm just wondering, did you get to keep your job in l.a.? and how did the explanation go?

right now, the f.b.i.is investigating more than 2,800 such cases, up almost 400% from five years ago. the recently enacted federal budget for 2010 will enhance these efforts, as will the enhanced legislative authorities that congress provided the department last year in the fraud enforcement and recovery act of 2009. now, i'm confident that with the new authorities, with the new resources, and a bold new plan of action, we can and we will make measurable, meaningful progress, and working together, with our law enforcement and regulatory partners, we will succeed in restoring the integrity our markets, preserving taxpayers resources, and protecting the vast majority of hard-working americans, investors, and businesses who play by the rules and who adhere to the law. i thank you again for the opportunity to participate in today's hearing. and to outline the department's ongoing efforts, and to address financial fraud in the wake of our economic crisis. i look forward to working with you, and along with assis

and f.b.i.they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i beg your pardon. chris: go ahead. chris: john: he has been the most honest person i have ever heard on any program anywhere about this problem. i agree that the way we can really help mexico is concentrate on our country, the consumption in this country. if we stop the consumption here, no matter what it takes but stop it, it will automatically help mexico and everywhere else. thank you for taking my call. >> final thoughts. >> well, i think that our last question was very clear about this. if as she said quite rightly, we, meaning the united states, stop consumption. but the answer is no, you ñrwon. because you don't want

give the f.b.i., give the department of justice and the department of defense that latitude to pick the best place to achieve this type of prosecution. i understand in this case, of the so-called christmas bomber, that there was a fumbling in terms of which direction the case should go. there's no excuse for that. we've got to learn from that mistake and we have to make certain it doesn't happen again. but to say that automatically every suspected terrorist has to go to a military commission is to send them into a venue, a court venue with rules that are currently being developed and tested and are likely to be challenged by courts all over the land. to send them into our regular court system is to -- is to bring them into a system with an established set of laws, established precedent, where we have successfully prosecuted over 190 alleged terrorists since 9/11, while in military commissions, only three, 190-3. the score is overwhelming. so i think we ought to take some consolation in the fact that our court systems have worked so well. let me make one other point. the administration h

which is in september 2004, the f.b.i., head of the criminal division, warned that mortgage fraud was so rampant in this country, that it was a potential, quote unquote, epidemic, and that if unchecked, it would result in a crisis as big as the s & l crisis. did you take any specific steps in the wake of that 2004 crisis to evaluate the mortgages that you were selling in the marketplace? if you don't -- >> we were not an originator of mortgage. we did -- we are audited and reviewed and subject. and we have due diligence practices that we think were robust, and so, the answer is, people can examine what our due diligence processes were, but as i sit here, i have no reason to think they weren't robust. >> ok. let me -- >> would i do more now? >> listen, there's no after required information that wouldn't change my behavior in some respect. anyone who says i wouldn't change a thing i think is crazy. knowing now what happened, whatever we did, whatever the standards of the time were, it didn't work out well. of course i'd go back and wish we had gone whatever it took not to be in the posi

and it appears that it was made by the f.b.i. locally in detroit and some high justice official yet unnamed. without going through all the intelligence groups that are given the responsibility under our laws to inter gatt enemy -- interrogate enemy combatants to achieve whatever intelligence gathering they can achieve during the questioning process, the first goal in fighting terrorists is to get good intelligence on them, and you can't do that when you read them their miranda rights and tell them they don't have to say anything more and that you'll provide a lawyer for them. most important front in the war on terrorism, of course, remains the battle for afghanistan. several weeks ago the president announced that he would be deploying an additional 30,000 troops to finish the mission. i strongly support that decision, yet, i also worry that the president has set an artificial time line for withdrawing american forces and that that will impede our efforts. the president declared that withdrawal would begin no later than july of ne

811 of the counterintelligence and security enhancements act of 1994 requires the director of the f.b.i. and the head of a department or agency with a potential spy in its ranks to consult and periodically reassess any decision to leave the suspected spy in place so that additional intelligence can be gathered on his activities. as the senate intelligence committee noted in its report on the legislation that added the espionage consultation requirement, while prosecutorial discretion ultimately rests with the department of justice officials, it stands to reason that in cases designed to protect our national security, such as espionage and terrorism cases, prosecutors should ensure that they do not make decisions that in fact end up harming the national security. the committee got it right. the committee went on to explain -- quote -- "the determination of whether to leave a subject in place should be retained by the host agency." mr. president, the history of the espionage consultation requirement is eerily reminiscent of the lack of consultation that occurred in the case of abdul abdul

and f.b.i.liticians and the palins and obama's and everything else, and yet we are the greatest country on earth and most powerful. but nevertheless osama bin laden has never been caught or vried like hussein. guest: as an american citizen we have a right to not be satisfied that we have not caught osama bin laden. i don't think that we have done enough focusing on finishing that job. i regret the fact that wmd issue is in fact an intrusion in our lifestyle. i don't think the answer is to b@put that back, the fact that it's a threat. and your question gives me an opening to note, we are not just talking about this threat regarding al-qaeda. this is a threat and things that will be with us throughout this century. they will grow. one of my motivations and inoculate the public to give them more information to work with, and to get them used to the idea that these threats exist and not be surprised with them. we will be living in a more dangerous group this this century, more groups will try to use