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fran townsend, thank you very much. are talking about fran townsend about iran, want to mention that fran, along with many other former national security officials from both sides of the aisle, and nearly 100 members of congress, have publicly and privately worked to get the state department to drop its terror designation as a prominent iranian opposition group, that is the nek. that group operates principally out of iran. the european union did drop the terror designation a few years ago based on evidence provided that the nek has renounced and ended its violence that included civilian targets in iran. >>> here's a rundown of some of the stories up ahead. first the deadline for u.s. troops to leave iraq means a great homecoming for our nation's heroes. going to take you to a rock star welcome inside ft. hood, texas. >>> and u.s. workers could be looking now at a tax increase. what it means if u.s. congress doesn't act quickly. >>> then, former penn state coach jerry sandusky tells his side of the story -- again. but, w

. >> drew, i want to bring in our national security contributor, fran townsend. fran is here not in her usual role but as a spokeswoman for siga technologies. she's on the board of directors. fran, thanks for being with us. you just heard the reporting. how do you respond. >> i'm glad we're calling it keeping them honest because there are so many factual inaccuracies i kind of don't know where to start. so, for example, the contract was put out in a competitive process and frankly it was clear that the government wanted it to be a competitive process. it was awarded to siga, as drew's package reports, and it was set aside because of the small business concern. they then went -- the government then goes out with what is a sources sought solution. the only one that respond is chimerix. they are not competitive because the scientist who discovers their drug admits in an application to nih which siga provided to drew that the drug, their smallpox antiviral, causes toxicity in the gastrointestinal tract, so there is no competition. and when the government finally award

we turn to cnn national security contributor fran townsend in new york and here in washington, mohammed al abdullah. i want to play more of the interview. first, barbara walters sitting down with president assad, denying he's the president of the country, he's the strongman who succeeded his father, but ask him about the troops in the military, he says, not my problem. >> do you think that your forces cracked down too hard? >> they are not my forces. they are forces that belong to the government. i don't own them. i'm president. i don't own the country, so they're not my forces. >> but you have to give the order. >> no, no, no. >> not by your command? >> no, no, no. nobody -- no one's command. there was no dmooncommand to ki to be brutal. >> no command given to kill or be brutal. stand by for one more second. back in time, we've been at this for months, he said they're not his troop no command to be given to kill or be brutal. how do they explain this? we can go back through the videos posted by activists in syria, you clearly see troops, protesters gather, shot upon, mohammed, this is

>>> joining us from new york to talk about the potential intelligence fall outout, fran townsend.r: thank you. >> so it took iran a couple of days to display this drone on state television. we all wondered why. what does that say to you whether this is the real thing or not? >> as we heard in chris' package, there is, there are disputes among american officials. the length ever time it took that the -- just the picture itself makes it look odd to most officials, but we know that iran has got friends in russia and china who have this sort of jamming material. jamming equipment that would interfere with the signal and may have permitted this to go off course. remember, carol, remember, the iranians initially said they shot this down and that turned out not to be true. i don't have any greater confidence in their current statements, to tell you the truth. >> so as pentagon officials look at this video from iran state television what specifically are they looking for? when you just look at it, the two drones side by side, they're talking about the same aircraft? >> they'll do a -- wha

. >> i want to bring in our national security contributor fran townsend.. i want to talk about this drone. what do we know about it? what kind of drone is it and what can the iranians learn from this? >> u.s. officials identified it as a stealth reconnaissance drone run from the afghan side of the border to support nato and u.s. troops in afghanistan. if this is the u.s. drone that iran has, there are two things that are of most interest to them, certainly a, the technology that makes it stealth, what is the technology that the u.s. uses to avoid detection and second depending on the condition that the drone was in when it landed, can they understand what was inside, what was the payload? what is it its capability? and what is it collecting? we don't know whether or not -- whether the payload survivored and what condition it's in. it's not clear the pictures we've seen are pictures of the u.s. drone. u.s. officials have given us conflicting views on that. but if this is the u.s. drone -- >> are they set up at all? i'm not hearing anything. fran, are you st

cnn national security contributor fran townsend is joining us here.nd xurlt and cia external advisory boards. let's start off with iran's ahmadinejad. only member left of president bush's axis of evil. is he still a big threat? >> he's not only remained a big threat but probably stronger right now than he was even when president bush gave that speech. we've seen the development of their continuing development of nuclear weapons program. strengthening ties with hezbollah in lebanon, which reportedly picked up a group of american spies and growing strengthening ties with assad who is seeking to murder his own people. ahmadinejad was not only a member of the axis of evil and his sort of policies in iran, but remains a very serious threat to the united states and to the region. >> fran, what about now that kim jong-il is dead. do we know enough about his son kim jong-un to consider him a member of this axis of evil, a real threat? >> when you listen to president bush's speech, he's not talking about individuals, he's talking about countries and regimes wh