most because gitmo has been taken off the table. capturing and interrogating terrorists remains one of the best ways to get actionable intelligence and prevent future threats. again, mr. olsen, i congratulate you on your nomination, and these issues need to be lean on the table and need to be fleshed out because the direct form of contact with this committee is going to be you in so many instances, and we need to certainly have that feeling of trust that we have developed and need to develop stronger over the coming years while you are in this position. so thank you, madam chair. >> thank you mr. vice chairman. now i would like to recognize the distinguished senator from north dakota, chairman of the budget committee and the democratic side, kent conrad. >> mr. chairman, welcome. >> thank you, chairman feinstein. thank you, vice chairman chambliss, senator coats, good to see you in senator wyden, senator udall come senator warner. i'm delighted to be to introduce matt olsen. his parents are from north dakota, people live in a very l

december 2009, it had become clear that many transferred gitmo detainees had joined the qap in yemen. additionally the icm state department took a dim view of the willingness or capability of the yemeni government to monitor detainees and i believe such assessments were made clear to the task force. yet in late 2009 the task force decided to transfer seven yemeni detainees back to yemen. only one of him was ordered released by the court and his case was not appealed. now, my questions are common december 2009 did you personally believe that it was a good idea to transfer detainees to yemen and secondly you told us before that you were trying to test the system by sending a group of detainees back in december of 2009. do you think testing the system when the result of a failed test could be an attack on americans was a good idea? and lastly, in hindsight, in light of the fact that the government is winning all of its habeas appeals would you have changed any of of the task force transfer decisions and do you think dangerous detainees were transferred as a result of the task force proce

you talk about gitmo.le are given books movies, good food, qur'an, good medical care, able to watch tv and sports. on enhanced interrogations, you point out, but for those interrogations, when we finally got bin laden that would not have happened. everything was president bush and dick cheney's fault, according to president obama. obviously, he didn't give you any of the credit for the intelligence that led to the location of bin laden. irritating? >> we're used to it. >> sean: mildly irritatinging? >> mildly. i think first of all -- consider i think you have to give president obama credit for making the decision to send in the seal team to get bin laden. >> sean: i gave him credit. >> so did it. i made a public statement. which was unusual for me. [ laughing ] >> i felt that the people who really deserve the credit are the professionals, the guys in the special operations communities, the seals, delta, task force and the air force. intelligence folks and so forth. day after day, month in, month out, year

the gitmo task for said gitmo had prepared assessments. those were all part of our information and in many cases those cases i believe agreed with those assessments. but there were instances we looked at the facts and came to different conclusions but there was never on any occasion an effort to change altar or hide from those factors. those were all fully aired. on the second question, if i may come the question of whether or not i intentionally misled congressman wolf in the briefing. again, i did not. we met in april 2009 in his office and i was part of a team from the department of justice and the white house that went to brief congressman wolf on not just the guantanamo taskforce but all three of the task forces that were set up under the three executive orders issued by president obama in january of 2009. this is the early stage of the review process. we had just begun efforts to review the set of detainees and it was made clear to congressman wolf during that briefing that the ground rule would be that we could discuss the process t

i don't think i've seen you since we took our vacation to gitmo. >> we'll always have gitmo mark. >>s part of a pattern of attitudes by so-called progressive liberals to female conservatives? >> absolutely. they hate all conservatives. but they have a special floating for women -- special loathing for women conservatives like sarah palin and michelle bachmann. in the 2008 campaign the mainstream media savaged sarah palin in every way. she is very strong. they are doing the same to michelle bachmann. this "newsweek" cover is going to be the first of many things we are going to see this . the reason is, these strong conservative women represent an existential threat to liberalism. they are pro-life, pro-gun, fizz s who lead their lives according to those values. they don't just talk a good line, they live what they believe. therefore, they must have be destroyed. if somebody like sarah palin or michelle bachmann were to gain real traction with a broader american electorate that gender gap that the democrats have relied on for decades, disappears like that. >> mark: you say that monica,

march marines to their offices, fit them for orange jumpsuits, and whisk them off to gitmo for some enhancedounting. [laughter] a little number boarding. rough stuff, but it's the only here to tell me other ways we might save our credit rating, please welcome new york times washington bureau chief, david leonhardt. dave, thank you so much for coming. good to see you. [cheers and applause] does it really matter if we have a triple a rating? can't we let the chinese kids get the good grades and we're copy off their financial report? >> it probably matters. >> stephen: why does it matter? >> not so much because of rating but because the rating reflects a reality. we have a serious deficit. >> stephen: he we just made the hard cuts. >> we didn't make the hard cuts. >> stephen: we made the hard choice to make the hard cuts later. we didn't even do that. that is a small part about the budget. they are not about medicare which is by far the dominant source of the deficit. they are not about new tax revenue which is one way to deal wit. >> taxes are job killers. do you understand that at the tpho *r

forces from britain even the united states without giving them training and this in some way below gitmo is the rebels because the words before an imprint on centrally what was before the rebellion like the egyptian rebellion or the tunisian rebellion. british m.p. barry gardener from the main opposition labor party that's helping the rebels that their ground assault went way beyond the terms of the un resolution only there and you can watch the full interview with him an hour's time but he is. it was very clear in the original un resolution it was very clear for our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no occupation force one of the things that troubled me all was this ambivalence as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we. go left go they go left these instructions being yelled out by obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading battle vans group now that i think it's where we've overstepped the line. meanwhile in syria violence continued throughout the weekend with accidents claiming at least five

forces from britain even the united states without giving them careening and this in some way below gitmo is that because it puts their foreign imprint on centrally what was before the rebellion like the rebellion or the conies in rebellion. the nato allies have already spent millions of dollars on their participation and the coalition's campaign in libya are now racing to cash in on profitable oil deals arky sarfraz reports now all the coalition members lining up to secure lucrative contracts. kill to the hearts of most modern was and you'll strike oil whether or not that's things true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future q we have to feel restruck interest me. the question interest to check if it's one. or two rebels fighting when you try to do government intervention to restart shelling all it's possible is stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi's been quick to kacey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group from the grill to italy. was good at these closest european allies when the na

forces from britain and even the united states without giving them training and this in some way below gitmo is that because of. their foreign imprint on centrally what was before the rebellion like the rebellion or the tunisian rebellion. looks like looks like leaders are the latest to celebrate the end of a long standing to take shape following their neighbors in tunisia and egypt that's continuing difficulties in the revolutionary aftermath i mean it's too unclear if the people how want what they wanted from the arab spring uprisings and looks at the parallels between the egyptian. the regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering. the same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted there a long time leader hosni mubarak but six months on many egyptians say their hopes have been crushed by reality. but you know i love the revolution. it happened i welcomed it and it looked at the time like a light at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have from nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't ma

rule with the republicans got us a bunch of nothing to as in no plan to end the wars no plan to close gitmo no plan to solve our energy crisis no plan to bring transparency to our elections no plan to solve illegal immigration and as of right now no plan to end the bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires as you promised and we can let a lot of these things slide most of us couldn't imagine back in two thousand and nine the links that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and his republican soldiers would go to in their efforts to sabotage your presidency even though last year he promised to take you down. to our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a short term could any of us really have guessed that the republican party would try to crash the economy just to kick you sir out of office i was predicting it but people called me a conspiracy that turns out i was right and now that we do know how totally lacking in ethics or patriotism these republicans are now that we've seen what these republicans are willing to do in this recent debt limi

story more of the techniques and where they were used this includes a little known testimony by former gitmo detainee. before the house committee on foreign affairs where he described not waterboarding but a form of water treatment plants not waterboarding water treatments. you were there was a book and you're. wrong. you were aboard it was. it we're told it was a bucket of water. and. i'm. going . so have patients been using a semantics loophole to hide the military's actions and why has nobody investigated that joining me is geoffrey kay psychologist and contributor for truthout dot org jeff i want to thank you for joining us tonight and i want to know what you concluded here when you compiled a lot of these reports was that it was an outright lie that nobody has ever been want waterboard of the guantanamo bay or were they just other techniques where water was involved or they got to play this game of semantics and not call it waterboarding. well one of the problems with playing around with semantics is that there's not an easy answer to that in my opinion yes they have why they used the t

this is really an attack on america and these physicians should be imprisoned in gitmo. >> that is a fine idea. i need to agree with you on everything. first of all, they will have to get hot dog-flavored gum. >> you are right. they are good at baseball games and nascar races. i think, screw it, i am getting butt cancer, but at least i will have my dignity. >> i want to say that i think the science -- when they do these studies with food are exaggerated because if you eat hot dogs there is a chance you are sedentary. that might play a role or you smoke. they are focusing on food as if it is bad. it is not the right way. it is a correlation that is a part of a greater lifestyle. >> modern society causes cancer. >> cancer causes cancer. >> our entire society to one degree or another causes cancer. >> go ahead. condemn america, john. >> embrace it. when you are on your death bed you will regret not having that hot dog. >> the other thing about the hot dog, it is not the meat, it is the bread. it is the bread that makes it fat. it is the cor bow hydrate. the meat is a protein. >> you sou

. >> where are they going to put him if they took him alive to gitmo? >> think about that, greg. think about how far the administration has come. they went from terror trials in downtown manhattan to kill teams in pakistan. that's a huge -- >> before we run out of time, you guy, monica, there was a very politically correct muslim-approved burial at sea for the corpse. >> what you get from the new yorker piece is that the cia called their counterpart in saudi arabia and said, we have your countryman, osama bin laden, he's dead. would you like the body? and the soudys said no and they preside over mecca. they said, we think what you are doing is entirely appropriate and is in keeping with islamic law. >> can you give the shoutout for the team? >> the shoutout for the president. you gave him credit and i thank you for that and then you dumped all over him. >> do you have a burial at sea when you go? >> there is no blood on my hands. >> coming up, only in obamaland, the department of justice is suing another u.s. state. it's trying to keep its borders secure. we have the details toni

they took him to gitmo they would have been in trouble. >> andrea: think how far the administration hastown manhattan to kill teams in pakistan. a huge -- >> greg: a grown-up moment. >> eric: before we run out of time, guys, monica, then there is a very politically correct muslim approved burial at sea for the corpse. >> monica: what you get out of the new yorker piece is the military -- sorry, the cia called the counterpart in saudi arabia, and said we have your countryman, usama bin laden. he is now dead. would you like the body? the saudis said no. the saudis, remember they preside over mecca and medina. they said we think what you are doing the burial at sea is appropriate and cop analysis tent with islamic law. >> andrea: give seals a shout-out for what they did. the finest team. >> monica: amazing. >> bob: shut out to the president. you gave him credit. thank you. then you dumped all over him. do you have something to something set up at burial when you go? >> eric: there is no blood on my hands. >> bob: thank the seals, bob. >> eric: coming up, only in obama land the department o

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54 gitmo hmmm. >> it doubles every 18 months. it is increasing our bandwidth has been increasing. doubling every two years from a network architecture standpoint. we have these crazy statistics. how many people use netflix? streaming netflix? that didn't exist two years ago. we were ordering dvds. of all the internet usage across the united states, half of it in prime time is netflix being streamed. it is incredible. the other thing that is amazing about that is think about the economics of that. netflix has built a business where the primary cost of delivering that product, netflix is paid nothing for. think of ford selling a car where they didn't have to pay to build the car. netflix is paying to license the content but that is only part of the delivery of the product. someone has to have bought the device to watch it on and someone has to have paid for the bandwidth. >> that which is the new oil. all three carriers announced if you haven't checked your data plan, start taking down the or you can eat data plan. because of the video usage. how much what cost to watch that netflix

victims' families there is no public time table for putting any of the five terror suspects held at gitmo on trial, that includes mohammed the mastermind of the attacks. catherine herridge has for for us. >> reporter: they were sent letters as the 10th anniversary approaches. the letter clearly states there is still no public timetable for the guantanamo military prosecution of the men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 americans. although we are not able to give you a more precise answer on when to get a decision by the convening authority we will continue to provide updates. the five 9/11 suspects were last in this guantanamo courtroom two years ago and they decided to send the trial to a federal court in ne new york city. in april, eric holder reversed his decision and sent the case back to a guantanamo military court. >> we simply cannot allow a trial to be delayed any longer for the victims of the 9/11 attacks or for their family members who have waited for near will he a decade for justice. >> reporter: right now we are waiting for a decision by the office of military commission on t

received a letter staying there is -- still no timetable for a trial for the notorious suspects at gitmon years after the worst terrorist attack on american soil. let's bring in charles sully simpson, former secretary of defense for detainees, legal fellow at the heritage foundation. thank you very much for being with us. this is obviously very frustrating for so many people whose lives were devastated by this. especially when you look at the sequence of events. and let's put it up on the scene, khalid sheikh mohammed, captured in pakistan in 2003, at a military hearing in 2007, four years ago, he confessed to planning the attacks, december 2008, informs the judge he wants to plead guilty, when eric holder became the attorney general, the case was dismissed, transferred to civilian courts in the su, he later reversed himself, holder did and now it's back at a military commission. look, shouldn't this case have been resolved a long time ago? >> heck yeah, and i think everyone appreciates the frustration of not only the victims of 9/11, the families directly impacted, but the americans who

convictions of your primary voters any more than in the last cycle the democrats would be for keeping gitmothe policy in the wisdom of the elected candidate, you can't have that policy discussion. this is not a negotiation session. this is communicating fundamental principles to your voters. >> the democrats are having a field day with this one. these republicans are so committed to the no new taxes pledged to grover norquist and that organization they're willing to give up 10-1 in spending cuts in tax increases. >> wolf, i think tony's absolutely right. what has happened in the republican primary is that they're all playing to their base. they are trying to convince primary voters that are very conservative that they can outdo each other on these very consere principals. 80% support a balanced approach that includes revenues and stepping cuts. what republicans are doing is bab pg themselves into a corper. if you look at the s&p results, they basically point the finger at the political gridlock here and the failure to look at the entire picture. >> the democrats ever since i have been a chi

and i can quote you right now frank rich who calls americans who wouldn't take on the torture and gitmo good germans to call john ashcroft the best of the mall. paul krugman who committed religious believers islamic extremists, maureen dowd who equate to the male domination of the catholic church to the taliban and the bush administration that we really are in a theocracy and the arizona shooter and the anti-immigration antiillegal immigration law was meant by linda greenhouse with an image that came out of nazi germany. so i think that the times and the left as a lot to answer for and may be because the internet people get more slashing and attention to it allows you to make a precise analogy about something the government of nazi germany did it again to get precise analogy and make it stick and then lowercase it's fair game hunt. r. dee very critical piece of him. you know, i would return to the question was -- there you are. i don't think anybody says that there has to be equal members and says 42% of the population of the news room has to be xx1 on balance it is better to make an ef

bush claims that habeas corpus doesn't apply in gitmo. i mean these are profound implications for a constitutional republic and there is this new book on presidential power called -- and that is basically what the indications are, the constitution and laws. >> let me jump in. i am part of the department of education reform so i'm fairly abscess with education and i think we educators has something to answer for because we have tended to encourage or at least not stop the mindset when we deify her demonize president so we elect someone like rocco bomb and we expect too much. in some ways we expected too much from bush. it would be healthier if the american people had a more realistic understanding of what they can and can't do and people in it to operate who operate under very uncertain information the problems that they have this leader's. >> that doesn't sound like much of a re-election. [laughter] >> but i'm not running for re-election either. >> the 2012 election -- math. >> i'm sorry. >> ours is going to say that 2012 election is goin

and i can quote you right now frank rich who calls americans who wouldn't take on the torture and gitmo good germans to call john ashcroft the best of the mall. paul krugman who committed religious believers islamic extremists, maureen dowd who equate to the male domination of the catholic church to the taliban and the bush administration that we really are in a theocracy and the arizona shooter and the anti-immigration antiillegal immigration law was meant by linda greenhouse with an image that came out of nazi germany. so i think that the times and the left as a lot to answer for and may be because the internet people get more slashing and attention to it allows you to make a precise analogy about something the government of nazi germany did it again to get precise analogy and make it stick and then lowercase it's fair game hunt. r. dee very critical piece of him. you know, i would return to the question was -- there you are. i don't think anybody says that there has to be equal members and says 42% of the population of the news room has to be xx1 on balance it is better to make an ef

and i can quote you right now frank rich who calls americans who wouldn't take on the torture and gitmo germans to call john ashcroft the best of the mall. paul krugman who committed religious believers islamic extremists, maureen dowd who equate to the male domination of the catholic church to the taliban and the bush administration that we really are in a theocracy and the arizona shooter and the anti-immigration antiillegal immigration law was meant by linda greenhouse with an image that came out of nazi germany. so i think that the times and the left as a lot to answer for and may be because the internet people get more slashing and attention to it allows you to make a precise analogy about something the government of nazi germany did it again to get precise analogy and make it stick and then lowercase it's fair game hunt. r. dee very critical piece of him. you know, i would return to the question was -- there you are. i don't think anybody says that there has to be equal members and says 42% of the population of the news room has to be xx1 on balance it is better to make an effort