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geoff morrell said that is the way we say it is. i quoted geoff and he got upset with me.i thought it was important to lay down a marker here because we got a lot of push back from readers when we do thinks like that. in "the new york times" a lot of times they attend the briefing and walk out. that is not realistic. i think pushing constantly on this just as bad at the white house. just as bad at the state department. >> right. >> anyways, those are my comments and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> i think pay cross the board covering national security, fbi, ci. a other agencies are like that too. i want to cover something basically and broad which are the new guidelines. work begun on it long before the uproar that led to stanley mcchrystal's firing or leaving. the incident increased the secretary's resolve to add more discipline with the defense department interactions with the media. secretary gates, said quote, i said many times we mice be strive to be as open, transparent and accessible as possible. at the same time i'm concerned that the department has grown lax

spokesman geoff morrell also announced secretary gates travel travel in the one-year commemoration of the 14 shooting. this is 45 minutes. >> hey, guys. good afternoon. it's been a while. let me go over a few items and we'll get right to your questions. first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with the fort hood community as they prepare to mark the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting that killed 13 and wounded 32. tamara secretary mchugh and general casey will travel to chile to participate in a ceremony remembering those lost in honoring the soldiers and civilians who helped tend to the wounded. you may recall the 1908 and the 467 medical detachment from the process of deploying to iraq and afghanistan respectively to me and others came under attack at home. i'm happy to report those units have recently returned home from successful tours overseas. meanwhile the prosecution of the accused shooter is moving into pretrial hearings. the entire fort hood family has shown truly exemplary strength and resilience that they were to recover and we'll continue to support them in eve

pentagon spokesman geoff morrell to questions from reporters about 25 minutes. >> good to see you all but me give you a quick rundown of secretary gates schedule the rest of the weekend and get to questions. right now he's in the middle of what we call the large group loss. this is a meeting of the military and civilian leadership upstairs to run the pentagon that includes service chiefs, combatant commanders and senior dod civilians. today's session more than six hours in length is this latest news series of gatherings focused on the department wide budget deficiencies initiative and developing the 2012 budget request. this is, as always, an inclusive process in keeping with the secretaries commitment to ensure that those responsible for executing changes and reforms are involved in developing both options and recommendations. i would also note the key role played by the leaders of over operational military reflecting the secretaries desire that they be able to weigh in and shape all aspects of these initiatives all the department's leadership has been working hard to implement the s

>> let me give me a shout to geoff morrell who's taking a beating. he's having to deal with the same kinds of issues we are. i don't think he's sated nor is it our intent to state, whatsoever, that we are out to bomb wikileaks. >> no, cyber. >> cyberattack. okay. wikileaks is another one of these. in my view, it's the template of the inability of policy and law to keep up with technology. >> right. >> you now have the ability to send anything, anywhere, to anyone at any time. >> uh-huh. >> in doing so, i think wikileaks has given whistleblowers a bad name. there are absolutely justifiable reasons for whistleblower to want to make available information that they honestly and truly believe people needs to know if they have been mislead. i think here this is a different case. >> right. >> i'm not sure what the journalistic credentials of our wikileaks. >> right. >> you are hundreds of thousands of documents that have been released illegal. ly. they are in the possession of wikileak illegally. >> right. >> they contain information that could put the live

. >> there's a look at the pentagon briefing room where we are waiting for spokesman geoff morrell. he is going to be talking probably about iraq and afghanistan as well as the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. we will bring that to you as soon as that gets underway. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> while we wait for the pentagon briefing to get underway, some news for you. the house ethics committee is meeting right now on the appropriate sanction for congressman charles rangel of new york. he was found guilty of it of an ethics violations on tuesday. subcommittee never cited clear and convincing evidence, and that led to the nearly unanimous ruling. that's going on currently right now on the companion network c-span3. to the committee meets in open session they will go behind closed doors to discuss and vote on the disciplinary measures. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello, hello. pardon me for being a couple minutes late. good afternoon. goodie sewall. let me give you a very quick rundown of s