connell: what about capability, jim woolsey? who has the legitimate capability or threat right now? >> all you really need is a nuclear weapon and a booster that can put it to orbit, simple ballistic missile like a scud, and the nuclear weapon can be simple, it does not have to be sophisticated at all. and we have of course russia and china have this capability, but unfortunately the russians tell us they've been working with the north koreans, they told us years ago, and the north koreans have something very much like this capability. the next scary country that will probably develop it is iran because iran has the ballistic missiles and launchers and everything they need except for the nuclear weapon, and they're very, very close to having that, and our negotiating position in dealing with the iranians makes it pretty likely they're going to have highly enriched uranium before too long. connell: we started this discussion out by pointing out how you gentlemen don't think we've done enough to prepare as a nation. how about that, peter? where are we on preparation says in falling be

if you look at clinton's woolsey,nts, jim george tenet, the same george tenet who told george w. bush said it would be a slamdunk to produce intelligence to support the decision to invade iraq. remember, george bush did not want that intelligence to convince himself, he wanted the intelligence to convince us. bush was dedicated to the idea of using military force in iraq. and i think it really mattered what the intelligence said, but if you go to the memoirs of bush, rumsfeld and condoleezza rice, the convince them that we needed to take action. that was just total nonsense. the intelligence was totally knew,, the people who knew there was also intelligence amid a clear there were no weapons of mass destruction. bush,ou get to george w. and get really to some of the cia conduct inf the field of clandestine operations. i am talking about the secret prisons, the renditions policy which was a kidnapping policy. detentions, torture and abuse. all of these things were part of what cheney called the dark side and u.s. clandestine operations. barack obama comes into office with for a li