prosecuting him colonel morris davis is a retired air force attorney and a professor at howard university school of law colonel davis thank you so much for joining me so first of all let's talk about these nondisclosure formats are forms how how binding are they expecting when you're out of the military well they're very clear i signed similar agreements when i was in the military and sure like mr bissonnette when i left as well you signed saying that you would not disclose classified information and it explains or penalties for doing so that it's fairly explicit what you're getting into and talk about the process of vetting books i understand that they actually have to look through everything because it's a matter of national security if these books have classified information but do they ever claim that things that are maybe not necessarily national secrets just things that maybe make them ill military look bad well there's a good example tony shaffer who was a former army officer wrote a book that the pentagon made a bestseller overnight because they went out and bought up every edition of the first

there quantum of a colonel morris davis retired air force attorney and now a professor at howard university school of law thanks so much. well the u.s. house of representatives will vote this week on whether or not to reauthorize the foreign and intelligence surveillance act. and essentially this would extend the government's power to warrantless the wiretap americans for another five years the vote is scheduled for today under closed rule which means no amendments may be offered and even though the house is expected to approve there's a lot of what both we and they don't know about it like how many americans would be surveilled or how who is surveilled is determined to produce or adriano said joins me now and i saw you just a little earlier kind of keeping your eyes out on this hearing what are we saying what's the latest some essentially what we're seeing right now is just within the hour a lot of to a healthy debate on the house floor and our only one hours on it only one hour so we see. rather you know going down party lines with many republicans arguing for the passage of this nation if you will and

going home of a colonel morris davis retired air force attorney and now a professor at howard university school of law thanks so much for. well the u.s. house of representatives has just voted to reauthorize the foreign intelligence surveillance act or essentially this extends the government's power to warrantless wiretap americans for another five years the vote was three a one to one eighteen mostly along party lines but with more than seventy democrats voting in favor of it and fewer than ten republicans voting against it the bill was discussed for about an hour today under a closed rule which means no amendments were able to be offered there's a minor issue though there's a whole lot of the both we and they those who voted for it don't know about it like for example how many americans will be surveilled or how who is surveilled is determined i'm joined by alan butler now appellate advocacy council with ethic and alan let's talk about the significance of this i mean what does this mean well basically what it means is that it moves along the pfizer reauthorization moves along through the process the

going on a monday colonel morris davis retired air force attorney and now a professor at howard university school of law thanks so much for. well a short time ago just a few blocks from our studios several people gathered to remember the four americans who lost their lives in libya tuesday night including of u.s. ambassador it is a story with developments that continue to change in terms of why and how this could have happened it was said initially to be a response to an offensive video posted on you tube by an american filmmaker that ridiculed islams prophet mohammed new information has come out though that the attack was planned for much longer and that there may or may not have been a full film and the filmmaker may or may not have been who we thought it was what we do know is that ambassador jake christopher stevens was pronounced dead at the hospital and at this hour the president obama has sent u.s. surveillance drones and a group of marines into the country to investigate here's president obama earlier this morning reacting to the killing and vowing to take action make no mistake we will work wit