international operations for the american center for law and justice and from our studio in new york jeremy scahill national security correspondent for the nation magazine who has been reporting on the elite military unit that killed bin ladin now jeremy because you have to leave us next you're going to start dropping like flies like i said i do want to quickly touch upon your reporting that you have been doing on these units this team of six who apparently are the most dangerous people on the planet as general mccaffrey said today. do you think you know that we're going to start seeing more of these elite teams more of these operations with the obama administration as we move away from land wars move on to air and sea as we've heard robert gates say. well i mean in fact these operations have really been hidden in plain sight for years and the obama administration has heavily utilized which is essentially like an all star team of the most elite soldiers and sailors from various entities within the u.s. military apparatus the people that took on the pirates that seize the maersk alabama in two thous

all right that was jeremy scahill he's a national security correspondent for the nation magazine and author of blackwater now with the discovery of osama bin laden right under pakistan's nose that country's value as an ally to the united states has come under scrutiny now pakistan has gotten more than twenty eight billion u.s. dollars since nine eleven making it the third largest recipient of american foreign aid that's not a small sum now of course outraged lawmakers on capitol hill have just now discovered that there's been sending all of that money abroad to a country that's not exactly the closest of allies and you know what they're saying no more take a listen thank you stan is most recognized united states does not give out blank checks. now that was u.s. senator lugar his warning to pakistan at last week's senate foreign relations hearing there's another hearing this morning looking at the issue but you know the american lawmakers debate pakistan's worth as an ally and neither country china has made it very clear that its support for osama bot is here to stay now from getting

administration and the bush administrations are not as different as many may think i want to go now to jeremy scahill he blogs at the nation dot com and also wrote this book blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army. hey there jeremy spoof you you know now that we've had some time to digest what's happened many pundits and so-called experts are starting to talk about what it means osama bin laden of course used as an excuse at least a symbol of for the involvement of the war in afghanistan now that he's gone what changes. but i think first of all we have to remember that nine eleven was used to justify the invasion and occupation of iraq a country that had nothing to do with al qaida nothing to do with osama bin laden and nothing to do with nine eleven and the billions upon billions of dollars that were spent on that war the american lives military and civilian that were lost in that war and the hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians that died should also be remembered this week as people declare that sort of and human error or say that they're getting closure the vast majorit

exploits in the united arab emirates there's a lot to talk about here and for more i'm joined by jeremy scahill he's a national security correspondent for the nation magazine he's also the author of this book here blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army journey it's great to have you back on the program thank you so much for being with us and before we get to the real news with the an implacable outer quick reaction to netanyahu speech today i mistakenly thought i was watching a twenty eight twelve nomination party before i realized as just his address to congress right i mean he had at least thirty or forty standing ovations depending on who you ask for warmer reception than president obama has received certainly from the republicans but you could argue also from the democrats it seems as we enter a political season here in the united states that you know you could potentially get the nomination for either the democratic or republican party i mean it's really it's incredible the amount of enthusiasm that is thrown on benjamin netanyahu particularly in light of the fact

to consider boots on the ground in a more extensive way than they already exist and i was jeremy scahill the national security correspondent for the nation magazine and also author of proc black. now after the resignation of its managing director dominic struck on the international monetary fund has been racing to find his replacement and many say that french finance minister christine lagarde is the front runner and she's been described by many as a financial rock star of. orts but perhaps more importantly she's a european but leaders of the brics countries of course that is brazil russia india china and south africa they want to do away with all of that they want to scrap what they call obsolete unwritten conventions and they say that it's time for the world's largest developed developing economies to see one of their own at the helm of the i.m.f. so it is a time for a new era in global finance well joining me now to discuss this is robert naiman he's the policy director at just foreign policy robert thank you so much for joining us it's great to have you back now the brics countries a

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we'll look at what's next with jeremy scahill and.y with us. >>> thanks for staying with us here on "the ed show" on msnbc. the last 48 hours raised important questions across the country like this one. why are we sending billions of dollars of aid to pakistan when they had no part in helping us find and kill osama bin laden? the united states spent $28 billion, sent it to pakistan since 2001. now, they are complaining. they put out an official statement the united states carried out this operation without prior information oroutization f the government of pakistan. as for afghanistan, the president, well, he may have the political capital he needs to persuade the american people his time line for afghanistan, well, he might need more time. and it might be the correct thing to do in the opinion of the american people because of the successful operation. president obama's approval rating spiked in the latest poll, particularly in national defense. 69% approve of the handling, up 13 points from last month. 60% approve of his handling of

of the may be gone but his agenda may certainly live on as american investigative journalist jeremy scahill. there's a way in which some of bin laden did win because in fact someone have a twitter account in hell that they started and said i've taken your civil liberties with me you know the united states spent over a trillion dollars on these wars invaded a country that had nothing to do with nine eleven or bin laden and in fact was an enemy of saddam hussein and in doing so created or inspired a whole new generation of people to rise up against united states that probably wouldn't have been inclined to do so otherwise so in that sense i mean i don't know that victory is the right word but in that sense osama bin laden's agenda of trying to chisel away at the u.s. power in the world certainly was successful and maybe successful for the forseeable future on our website we're asking how you think international terrorism will change with the news of bin laden's death so far the overwhelming majority of respondents believe that everything will go on as usual as a lot of wasn't the main driving

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american investigative journalist jeremy scahill says bin laden may not be alive but his agenda will certainly live on there's a way in which some of bin laden did with him because in fact someone had a twitter account and how they started it said i've taken your civil liberties with me you know the united states spent over a trillion dollars on these wars invaded a country that had nothing to do with nine eleven or bin laden and in fact was an enemy of saddam hussein and in doing so created or inspired a whole new generation of people to rise up against united states that probably wouldn't have been inclined to do so otherwise so in that sense i mean i don't know that victory is the right word but in that sense of some of the agenda trying to kill the way. u.s. power in the world certainly was successful. and the latest revelation suggests pakistani special forces have been shielding been a garden for many years political analyst ivan either and says the fact he was found there an expensive mansion close the pakistani capital is a loon raising a certain degree of suspicion. but ther