the assistant secretary feldman and the way use to them from lebanon was exemplary. however, i think without protecting that lebanese democracy, the small colonel from the campaign of terror raised by the syrian regime, if we were not ready to use those tactics of our own it would be very vulnerable and fragile experiment. and resaw secretary rice at the time pointing every time the syrians did some things saying we know you are involved in something is going milan, which is fine to say we know you are involved but to not do anything in about it where exact a place for that vineland's i think that was a serious problem against our friends. that is not entirely inadequate answer but you are right for you found one of the contradictions of the book but one of the dilemmas that i am still trying to figure through. >> we will turn it to the audience for questions will begin in the back. >> i implanted to offer a comment of praise of the book and i will amend it go ahead and buy the book also read it. [laughter] but some people who have to read it or should read it are pe

but i, you know, i know lebanon well enough to admit honestly that our friends in lebanon, you know, continue to have questions about this and continue to ask, continue to ask us about this. on egypt, you know, our dialogue we egypt covers the full range, covers the full range of issues. at every opportunity this administration has engaged egyptian government on democracy, political reform and human rights issues. when president mubarak visited the white house in the summer, it was the president who told the media afterwards, yes, in fact, president obama had raised the democracy and human rights issues with him. there are definitely still areas of concern, and, you know, we watch very closely, for example, and raise with the egyptian government the case of the bloggers that were detained over the last few days that went to try to pay con doll lenses in -- condolences in what was a sectarian crime. on democracy and human rights, and i'll close with this, you know, the secretary's met with representatives of civil society, with democracy activists on basically all of her trips that sh

we do not see how it is in serious interest for new fighting to break out in lebanon.hat could escalate and drag syria into itself. more over we will maintain sanctions on syria as long as the supports terrorist groups like hezbollah and hamas. thus if confirmed there is much for me to discuss urgently with the syrians about lebanon and syria and action in support of terrorist groups. connected to the lebanon situation is another priority with the support for them and believe east peace efforts you know, how hard the special envoy mitchell is in this regard and the policy is clear, we seek a just and comprehensive piece that would be in the interest of our friends in israel and in the interest of the arab region and the broader international community. we have been urging the syrians to support our efforts to restart negotiations between israel and the palestinians. and in addition senator mitchell and his team have been exploring ways to restart negotiations between israel and syria. for the past 16 years it said a peace agreement to be in its effort to foster movemen

but then are you saying it was a mistake for you to withdraw from lebanon? for sharon to withdraw from the gaza? >> no, that was great decision to avoid them from developing and i'm proud of it and i believe sharon if he could say a word of it he would have been proud of it. but we have to make sure that if we have a palestinian state and we withdraw from major or most parts of the weapon, weñr would not end up with another third place where rockets will cover everything from tel aviv to the airport. that's crazy. we should make sure that security is stable, long term security, we'll make sure that it cannot repeat itself because when you see we had u.n. security council resolution when we left lebanon, it'sñr not abot absence of political will, it's about the capacity to make sure it won't happen. >> rose: and what salaam fayyad is doing on the west bank is helpful to creating that kind of circumstance on the ground? >> i think personally that what fayyad is doing is good for the people. we are trying without making too much credit for it to help the bottom

it will never come at the expense of lebanon's sovereignity. do succeed, it could be transformtive in galvanizing the peace process and improving the peace process for our friends in israel, lebanon and the west bank. in short, this presents us with the opportunity to change the strategic landscape in the middle east and that is an effort that we cannot afford to ignore. most immediately we have much to gain by reinvigorating syrian-israeli diplomacy. today the parties have reached a public impasse. president assad wants israel to make a deposit promising that a successful deal would deliver the heights to syria. president netanya huh says that is an unacceptable condition. history shows that progress is not just a pipe dream. progress is possible. remember in the 1990's, two israeli prime ministers came very close to an agreement with syria. and just over a year ago, prime minister olmert and president assad made real progress toward direct talks in negotiations brokered by turkey. going forward, our challenge is to translate this into tangibl

with respect to lebanon and hezbollah, this is a serious problem. it is not a new syrian policy.it dates back 25 years. it is something i intend to raise regular because we're a conflict to break out again and we had a bad one in 2006, very serious, syria could be dragged into it even if it doesn't intend to at the beginning, the risk of miscalculation and second, it does not help their credibility with the broader international community to be seen as one of the parties facilitating the kind of conflict. they have an interest themselves in being helpful on these things. one of my jobs is going to be to explain to them with their interests can be better served. >> thank-you very much. >> senator webb? >> thank you. ambassador, i would have to say that -- i would like to give a big congratulations to this administration for having matched someone with your background and your experience into this job. i wish you all the best. >> thank you. >> i would like to follow on something that began with senator dodd and a number of people picked up on this and your own responses, as well wi

sister and a girlfriend arranged bogus marriages to get their green cards and avoid going back to lebanon. 18 years later, in 2007, prosecutors rounded them all up and charged them with conspiracy to defraud the united states. under pressure, prouty agreed to waive the ten-year statute of limitations on immigration fraud and plead guilty to two felonies related to the sham marriage. she also agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of unauthorized use of an f.b.i. computer, a charge she now denies. >> prouty: i've made that mistake when i was a 19-year-old teenager. and i shouldn't have made it, and i own up to it. but i did not look into f.b.i. a.c.s. system without authorization. i did not mismanage or mishandle any classified information. >> pelley: you pled guilty to that. >> prouty: that is correct. >> pelley: why would you do that if it wasn't true? >> prouty: i had to make a decision. i could not see our limited financial resources disappear in front of our own eyes. >> pelley: from attorney's fees? >> prouty: from attorney's fees that amounted in the hundreds of thousands o

there were about of bombings going on in lebanon at the time. in the spring of 1983 u.s. embassy was attacked by car bomber and more than 60 people were killed and more than most of the cia in lebanon. the fbi investigated the bomb that was used and found that it was a sophisticated combination of explosives and easily available commercial materials to magnify the intensity of the blast and their conclusion was that a very sophisticated terrorist organization was operating in beirut targeting americans. the report was never shared with military commanders at the base of that they can shore up defenses of the marines at the airport. and finally come the national security agency, the government's chief eavesdropping agency intercepted medication and iran to terrorist forces that eventually became what we known as hezbollah in lebanon, instructing them to take a spectacular attack against the marines in beirut. there was only one place for the marines in beirut were, the airport. of these pieces of the puzzle that nobody fused and poindexter realized this and i think correct

it is not israel's border with lebanon. is lebanon poorest border with syria to which iran and syria smuggle thousands and thousands of rockets and missiles to hezbollah. our main security problem with dasa is not israel's border with cassette. it is the gaza border with egypt under which there are thousands of tunnels dug through which hamas smuggled weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience shows that only an israeli presence on israeli presence innt or the eastern border of a future palestinian state. [applause] if peace with the palestinians proves its stability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war matt. we want a future in which israel realizes its full and great potential as a global center of technology anchored in its fall use living in peac

it's not israel's border with lebanon. if lebanon forced border with syria to which iran and syria smuggle thousands and thousands of rockets and missiles to hezbollah. and our main security problem with gaza is not israel's border with god that, it's gaza's border with egypt. under which there are about 1000 tunnels dug to which hamas smuggled weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience has shown that only an israeli presence on the ground can prevent or limit weapons smuggling. and this is why a peace agreement with the palestinians must include in is really present in the eastern border of the future palestinian state. [applause] is peace with the palestinians proves its durability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the life of the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war. we want a future

and in fact that legacy of lebanon, vietnam and mogadishu has been put to rest by a victory in iraq, a victory that would not have been achieved if the people that brought these debates to the floor 44 times in the 110th congress, resolutions that were designed to under fund, underfund or undermine our troops. now we have a victory in iraq that's being claimed by this administration who opposed it back then. i don't trust the judgment of people who have always been against armed conflict. i trust the judgment of the people that fight and win wars and the people that lead us through those wars that we fight and win. this is an american destiny question that is before us, and if we walk away from this conflict in afghanistan for any reason, america's destiny will forever be diminished and they will never take us seriously again. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. farr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from c

in iran with the implicit promise they would intervene to try to get american hostages freed from lebanon and then and then would fund the rebels in nicaragua which they said this of -- specific a said don't do. the iran-contra affair threatens to derail the reagan presidency and john poindexter is at the center of it and his career is essentially over such our drought total affirmation awareness that i see poindexter is not giving the briefing but nevertheless let me lay it out for you. the idea behind total affirmation awareness is yes we did not connect the dots before 9/11 or the egg government had the permission in the database but however most of the useful stuff the electronic britcom is left by the of bread crumbs car rental records, receipts, private transactions with stuff you don't have access to now also in fact, getting access because to get the private and permission to put it together and see if we could not define patterns of activity that bit templates that they plan to devise of the kinds of sequences and the balance the terrorist us to go through before an attack begins

first, -- particularly lebanon? first, there are a series of opportunities that exist now in the mutual interest of your neighboring countries as well as israel but did not exist before -- some for good reasons and some for not such reasons. there is much more cooperation end mutual concern with other arab nations in israel because of the unintended consequences iran has had. you have had other middle eastern countries as worried about acquisition of nuclear weapons and most urgently, the active support of terrorist groups by the iranian government than ever existed before, and that has a consequence of increasing connections, dialogue, discussions between countries. i am not going to characterize the degree, but it opens an avenue that never existed before. secondly, the very men and women with whom i met earlier, who are the economic engine, the imagination, the technological future not only for this country but the region and the world -- it is not lost on the arab world that their progress, their ability to thri

it's not israel's border with lebanon.hrough which iran and israel smuggled thousands of rockets and missiles to hezbollah. and our main security problem with gossip is not israel's border with gaza come adis gaza's border with egypt under which there are about a thousand tunnels dug through which hamas smuggles weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience has shown that only israeli presence on the ground can prevent or limit within smuggling. this is why a peace agreement with the palestinians must include an israeli presence in the eastern border of a future palestinian state. [applause] if peace with the palestinians proves its stability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war matt. we want a future in which israel realizes its full and great potenti

it's not israel's border with lebanon.der with syria through which iran and israel smuggled thousands of rockets and missiles to it's gaza's border with egypt under which there are about 1,000 tunnels dug to which hamas fires weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience has shown that only an israel presence on the ground can prevent or limit weapons smuggling. and this is why a peace agreement with the palestinians must include an israel presence in the eastern border of a future palestinian state. [applause] >> if peace with the palestinians proves its durability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and with the one and only jewish state. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war. of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war matt. we want a future in which israel realizes its full

what about news editors from lebanon or india or pakistan will report on them and create the ideas are people like the international red cross or jack officers will argue over the laws of for so tease "wired for war" is gathering the stories behind these people and what they're doing today but also shines a light on the ripple effects that robotics have on our war fighting and you name it. the rest of the time our like to give you a sense of the ripple effects planning out with the robots in war today. first of a future report may involve more inform machines , and is not just american machines there is no such thing as a permanent first mover advantage that now may people in this classroom right now still use commodore computers? how many of you play atari video games? that may have been the dominant players when computers and video games first camel but not anymore. the same thing with war. the british and into the tank the germans figure out how to use a better. the u.s. is ahead but we're not the only player in town there are 43 other countries working on military robotics like bri

lebanon is a member state of the united nations. it has happened to have a militia. the militia happened to have members in parliament, even ministers in the cabinet with the veto power over the decision of the lebanese government. now it is supported and equipped by two other member states of the united nations. syria and iran. technologically and with equipment. and many civil servants in uniform and without uniform of both member states of the united nations are serving in lebanon within the chain of command of hezbollah and giving orders stemming out of the interests not of the lebanese people, but of other place. and it happened to be that this militia doesn't just develop a new long bow or more effective -- [inaudible] but it happened to have 45,000 rockets and missiles that happen to cover all israel, and they are part of a deployment that tells that they will activate it, and we have seen that they already did it in the past. these militia happen to have weapons systems that some many sovereigns do not have. we cannot accept it, we cannot accept the differenc

it's not israel's border with lebanon.r with syria through which iran and israel smuggled thousands of rockets and missiles to hezbollah. and our main security problem with gossip is not israel's border with gaza come adis gaza's border with egypt under which there are about a thousand tunnels dug through which hamas smuggles weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience has shown that only israeli presence on the ground can prevent or limit within smuggling. this is why a peace agreement with the palestinians must include an israeli presence in the eastern border of a future palestinian state. [applause] if peace with the palestinians proves its stability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war matt. we want a future in which israel realizes its full and

we follow carefully what happens in lebanon.m just allowed it to become more complicated. there is a bizarre anomaly. lebanon is a member state of united nations. it has a militia. the militia had 12 members in parliament. even ministers in the cabinet with recent power over the decision of the recent government. now it is supported and equipped by two member states of the united nations. syria and iran. technologically and with equipment and many civil servants in uniform and without uniform in both member states of the united nations are serving in lebanon within the chain of command of hezbollah and giving orders stemming out of the interests not of delivering people but of other players. it happened to be that this motion does not just to develop the new longbows or more effective arrows. they happen to have 45,000 rockets and missiles that could wipe out israel and are part of what they have activated. they already did it in the past, we've seen this. this militia happened to have weapons that many sovereigns don't have. we

bidding side-by- side in peace and security, with peace between israel and syria, and israel and lebanon, and normal relations between israel and all arab states, a comprehensive peace that israel, not a slogan, rooted in a genuine recognition of the right to exist of israel in peace and security. and that offers the best way to promise in during survival and well-being of israel. that is the goal that the obama administration it is helpedeterd to achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations beginning with the proximity talks on both sides. these talks are hopeful first up and should be serious and substantive. a ultimately, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and and the conflict. the u.s. stands ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks and to support the parties as they work to resolve permanent status' issues, including security, borders, refugees, and jerusalem. the u.s. knows that we cannot force a solution ordained the outcome. the parties themselves mu

in the recent case went israel attacked the hezbollah operations in lebanon because they had attackedisraelis in the north, for the first time ever, you had egypt, jordan, saudi arabia issuing a statement blaming hezbollah for initiating the war. it is rare that you have dishonesty. with all the difficulties that we go through, america is the strongest military power and the world. we have a system that is admired. americans themselves are admired, probably less than it ought to be, if we could fix immigration officers being mean to all of those foreigners. it is hard to come to this country if you're not american canal. it is tough to go through immigration. -- if you're not american now. it is that to go through immigration. it is not anybody's fault. >> so we are not despised. but we could do things to be more admired than we already are. >> did the administration worry -- not that americans were despised -- that the attitude toward the american government was causing problems that we're serious and needed to be resolved because it was dangerous to us? >> yes. one of the things is

>> know, this is south lebanon. >> 0, hezbollah. and were you going to sell them? to the united nations. >> this first photograph of a young man. >> he was riding a motor bike with is that on the final days of the conflict. Ñiand they drove over cluster bomb and he was burned and lost ñrfs body wasñr burned. >> the next photo? >> a mother who lost a son. he was hanging from a tree. the kid died four months after the conflict ended. even years after the conflict, there are still victims happening every month. ñrpeople get killed or lose ther leg. that is about the size of the battery, about the size of a cell phone. >> what did you say to people when you wanted to take their picture? >> i have worked with a lot of ngos with the united nations, and i talked with them before i could photograph them. and a lot before i get a photograph i think it's good enough to show the public. n>> how did you do this photograph? ì(lc@&c+ together and i was using the black background just to show in detail the injuries. Ñi>> what did you say to those three people that you're going to

worked to support accountability before various ad hoc tribunals, the yugoslav tribunal, sierra leone, lebanonet cetera. in the business setting, when worked on questions of the ironic u.s. claims tribunal in its third decade. the u.n. compensation commission, the nafta tribunal, and we've taken positions in a number of domestic litigation, mostly like the brief that we filed along the office and the salmon tart case which will be argued on march 3. now, i think there's been a pattern over time, john bellinger noted this when he was himself a legal adviser. of the justice and state departments taking positions in many cases involving foreign policy issues, but not necessarily a novel or significant foreign policy interests of the united states. just to remind you, back in 1964 in the sabatino case, the supreme court famously said often the state department will wish to refrain from taking an official position, particularly at a moment that would be indicated by the the development of private litigation, or which might be an opportune diplomatically. in other words, the fact that a private case

. >> got friends here from lebanon high school pioneers. you guys are going to be performing at carnegie hall today? >> lincoln. >> lincoln center. very nice. got whole thing planned out. someone over here, that's very nice. there is a rogue group that broke off over here. they don't want to be with the main group. i don't know what happened there. anyway, i don't know what that's about but i'm just going to keep moving forward. that big storm out in denver, still picking up about two to four inches of snow between denver and colorado springs. south of there, they're going to talk about still as much as a foot. and further east ahead of that storm, risk of strong storms from central texas into central oklahoma. possibilities of isolated tornadoes. you can see stuff starting to fire up now. rainfall amounts relatively light. however, we are going to be looking at the posat >> looks like it is going to be a beautiful wednesday. mostly sunny skies. we will make it into the mid 60's. >> what's your name? >> mat from west virginia. >> and lovely

the regime continues to average fund, train, equip and direct proxy, streamist elements in iraq, lebanon, gaza and to a lesser degree in afghanistan. it continues significant intervention in the domestic politics in each of those location as well. iranian regime's internal activities are also troubling. as the violent suppression of opposition groups and demonstrations in the wake of last year's hijacked election, has made a mockery of the human rights of the iranian people, and, fomented further unrest. those internal developments have also resulted in greater reliance than ever on iran's security services, to sustain the regime's grip on power. having discussed the developments in these countries i'd now like to explain the importance of two key enablers in our ongoing missions and raise one additional issue. the commanders emergency response program continues to be a vital tool for command,in afghanistan and iraq, and small cerp projects are the most responsive means to address local communities' needs, and where security is challenged, cerp often provides the only tool to address pre

it was iran that created the hezbollah, which is the shia terrorist group most active in lebanon and, by the way, until 9/11, hezbollah had killed more americans than all the other terrorist groups in the world, combined. iran today sponsors shia extremists, as far away as the yemen. but, iranian support for terrorism is ecumenical because iran is also today the major supporter of the sunni terrorist group, hamas, and, iran is in effect at war with america, because they are killing our soldiers in iraq, and afghanistan. these are the facts. now, like sunni extremism, this iran-shia extremism is anti-democratic and anti-western and indeed the basic premise of the mullahs who rule in tehran is that the supreme leader rules by divine right. a senior iranian cleric, one of president mahmoud ahmadinejad's clerical mentors, has said, quote, accepting islam is not compatible with democracy. and, after the june elections, we saw how the iranian leadership felt nothing but contempt for the idea of a free election in their country. now, in sum, radical extremism, whether sunni or shia variety r

it was iran that created hezbollah common-law -- hezbollah, the terrorist group in lebanon, and by -- before 9- 11, hezbollah had killed more americans than all other terrorist groups combine. iran sponsors shia extremism from as far away as yemen, but iran is also the major supporter of the sunni terrorist group, and iran is in fact at war with america because they are killing our soldiers in iraq's and afghanistan. these are the facts. like sunni extremism, this iranian shia extremism is anti- democratic and anti-western. the basic premise is that the supreme leader of rules by divine right. a senior iranian cleric has said, accepting his slump is not compatible -- a excepting his lawn is not compatible with democracy, -- accepting islam is not compatible with democracy very good -- with democracy. radical extremist islam resembles in many ways the 20th century totalitarian creeds like not season and communism. in the ninth legitimacy of western -- like pronounced nazi -- like nazism and communism. the revolutionaries motives have consequences for our security, because the new terro

i see obviously iran and united arab emirates and lebanon and the idea money laundering, i know you are dealing with terrorist related to that. do you believe that one of the reasons that these countries and afghanistan even, what are the kind of terrorist concerns about terrorist financing that we should take away from these reports specifically in afghanistan, iran and kind of the countries and proxies iran is using right now and then on venezuela, last week, venezuelan ambassador was quite forceful in defending his country's efforts to combat the problem and he maintains that he gave specific statistics that were quite impressive and i want get into them now but just to say that he said that your charges in this report are political. .. toussuire did with venezuela i don't contradict -- the statistics that are in this report are based on the self report of the countries involved so the statistics you see here for 2009 shouldn't differ from what was cited by venezuelan government official. it might but it is their numerals. but i would say is if you look at the evidence on the ground

with peace between israel and syria and israel and lebanon. normal relations between israel and all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace that is not real, not a slogan, that is rooted in recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security. it offers the best way to ensure israel's survival and well- being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the party to prepare the ground for the perception of direct negotiations beginning with the proximity talks in both sides have accepted. the proximity talks are unhelpful for step. there should be serious and substantive. ultimately, of course, it will take the writ negotiation and between the parties to work through all of the issues and and the conflict. the united states stands ready to play an active and sustainable in these conversations. we want to support the parties as the work to resolve permanent status' issues including security, borders, refugees, and jerusalem

we have done this with lebanon to a limited degree.think we are thinking hard about -- in afghanistan we're up against, you know, between a rock and a hard place. i think on the one hand we would like to use the training and quipping of the afghan security forces, but on the flip side of that, we have a need to get troops rolling off assembly line and sit down into r.c. south and what's soon to be r.c. west. >> i would like to chime n this is nothing new. we have always -- latin america history, we have always conditioned military aid. the question is, is congress going to pose the conditions or can the administration do it, which is often more palateable. the whole idea is where the real lessons learned haven't yet occurred. i notice this conference is primarily focused on the military but i think we have a real gap in the national security civilian cadre and they could have their own conference and learn a lot on this front. >> steve and bill, it looks like a follow-up conference. >> yes, in the far corner. >> thank you very much for

and in the same -- i mean, we've done this with lebanon to a limited degree and i think we're thinkingard now. we're up against, and afghanistan were up against between a rock and a hard place. i think we like to be able to use the training and equipping as leverage over the political leaders, but on the flipside is that we have a real need to get troops rolling off the assembly line and sent down into rc south and west into brc west. >> i would just like to chime in. i think andrew is right but this is nothing new. in latin american history of always commissioned military aid. the question is is congress going to pose the questions or can an assertion that which is often more palatable. i think this whole point is really about the civilian national security policymakers are where the little lessons learned how learned how to get occurred. i know this conference is focused primarily on the military, but i think we've got a real gap in the national security civilian cadre and they could have their own conference of learned a lot from on this front. >> looking at stephenville sounds like

it was a round that created a shiite terrorist group that is most active in lebanon. until september 11, they had killed more americans than all of the other on -- all of the other terrorist groups in the world combined. iran, today, sponsors shiite extremists as far away as yemen. iran in support has been economical. iran it is, in effect, at war with america because they are killing our soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. these are the facts. like sunni extremism, this shiite extremism is anti- democratic. the basic premise is that the supreme leader rules by divine right. a senior iran in cleric -- around in the cleric, has said that "except in islam is not compatible with democracy -- accepting islam is not compatible with democracy." after the june elections, we saw that islamic leadership of nothing but contempt. radical, extremist islam, whether it is sunni or shiite, resembles in many ways the 20th century totalitarianism creeds like not system. the -- like not see is some. the revolutionary malteds of these extremists reject the revolutionary motives of these e

admiral john poindexter who pushed for more surveillance of the 1983 bombing of a marine barracks in lebanon. this hourlong talk was hosted by the spy museum here in washington. >> it's my pleasure today to introduce shane harris and his book. today is the publication dates of this is the launch, appropriately enough at the international spy museum. i think you picked a fine place to do it. and just a comment or to as we go into this. shane harris has written a very powerful book. i think we have all read privacy versus civil rights and these are issues that have been with us particularly since 9/11 as the whole issue of surveillance of folks both abroad and concern about enemies within. the concern is still there and we read even today with this latest hacking scandal that organized groups like criminals are gaining the same capability to do this as states have had in the past so we are dealing with some extraordinary threats. i think one of the things that struck me about this book plus shane particularly focuses on five people who have been part of creating what he is calling were referri

, the possibility of attacks from southern lebanon into israel, the continued nuclear build-up on the part of the iranians, the continued statements of assertiveness by the president of syria -- assad. there is increased tensions in the region, and this is not the time, while certainly, most importantly, not the time that we give the impression that there is such differences between ourselves and israel that it could be exploited by israel's enemies. mr. lieberman: mr. president, i thank my friend from arizona. i agree totally with what he said. i think it's very important that the senator from arizona has gone to this statement, the speech that vice president biden made, i believe it was on wednesday of last week in tel aviv at tel aviv university. what's interesting is that that speech came after the first day he was there when this bureaucratic announcement of the housing permits being issued in jerusalem was made. vice president put out a statement condemning that action. i understand why he was upset by it. happening when he came up. president of israel apologized for it. said he

we'll be joining countries like zimbabwe, lebanon, jamaica, in terms of debt to our gross domestic product. that's not real good. bill: and we might move to an island and jamaica might be one of them. thank you. >>> if you want or information, log on to foxnews.com/polls and read the complete findings there. also find the results of other polling numbers that gauge how people feel about the national debt, the role of the federal government and what folks say is the biggest threat to our country today. martha: those numbers just getting behind you the whole time. the more you talk, the faster it went. did you know that? okay. do you know this guy? take a look. he's an elderly man. bill and i don't think he looks that elderly, but he's a grandpa, technically, apparently he's not idling his retirement. robin banks, here's something you can do besides golf. sometimes, though, he has a gun and the robber is called the grandpa bandit. we're going to tell you when he last struck and maybe you can help us find him. bill: should be an interesting day on the hill, day after the day, republicans taki

dart ware, a software developer in west lebanon on the western side of our state first started exporting to canada, which are neighbors of new hampshire, for those people who aren't sure on their geography. now they say to more than 80 countries and during this recession, exporting has made a huge difference on their bottom line. last year their international sales were 33% of their total sales. this past january, export sales represented 63% or almost double their total sales. another company, a small business called sky scan in nashua designs and produces state-of-the-art technologies for planetariums. you wouldn't think there would be that many planetariums around the world, but they have exported their products and services to over 120 countries. even in the midst of one of the most difficult economies in our nation's history, sky scan was able to bring on 10 new employees. now, in the state of the union speech, president obama set a goal of doubling american exports in the next five years. he recently signed an executive order creating an export promotion cabinet. i strongly support

. >> reporter: he was hosting a popular tv call-in show in his native lebanon. his viewers and occasionally predicted their futures. some thought he was a psychic, but the police thought he was a heretic, someone who used black magic and cast spells, an infidel, and in saudi arabia wahhabism, any perceived insult to god is a crime punishable by execution. after his death sentence, a case was taken up by an appeals court who found the initial verdict premature, the case went back to the original court for reconsideration. but two weeks ago the original court upheld their verdict. he is once again sentenced to die. his wife finds the whole experience brutal. >> translator: death is more merciful than what we're going through. >> reporter: rights groups are calling on king abdullah to pardon sabat. one confession aired on saudi television. his lawyer recorded it and provided a copy of the tape to cnn. his family was shocked to see him in prison, looking frail with cuffs on both his hands and feet. >> translator: for how many years have you been using magic? >> tran

suddenly gordon brown participated in a move against tony blair, a critic of the over the invasion of lebanonh led to him stepping down of of the. host: nick leggett represents what in these events? guest: he is the leader of the centrist party. most of their policies involve high taxation and greater state provision. he represents the alternative. in a sense, in britain, class bound politics on the one hand being the conservative party and the old trade unions being the liberal party has broken down as industrialization has taken place. and the democratic party are the alternative cedras hoping to get votes from those who are hoping -- the alterative centrists open to get votes from those who are disillusioned. it is similar to ross perot. it could affect the overall vote for the other candidates. host: the three debates could be seen -- can be seen on this network and we will show you more as the process unfolds with the election, you think, happening in early may. guest: may 6. host: david your on the line from connecticut with mr. boulton. caller: i spent the spring over there visiting my

in the region or does not miss any opportunity to reach international law, like what happened in lebanons the time to put an end to such policies. the commission and the arab league has started steps to take into consideration a number of alternatives and is now developing an alternative position that will be suggested for submission to leaders for deliberation and a decision. it is an unprecedented anpoint. we are very aware -- an unprecedented turning point. we are very aware of maneuvering tactics. the land and the geography are being changed and altered to make the peace process and to make it palestinian state impossible or to change the identity of jerusalem to what israel is claiming is unjust narrative about jerusalem. i believe we need to be careful about what is coming ahead and discuss a number of options. one of them is the possibility of the total collapse and failure of the peace process. i wish for you to discuss this in your closed session this afternoon. iraq, yemen, and somalia -- the situation of iraq and sudan and yemen and the somalia -- and somalia is cause for preo

in the recent case went israel attacked the hezbollah operations in lebanon because they had attackedisraelis in the north, for the first time ever, you had egypt, jordan, saudi arabia issuing a statement blaming hezbollah for initiating the war. it is rare that you have dishonesty. with all the difficulties that we go through, america is the strongest military power and the world. we have a system that is admired. americans themselves are admired, probably less than it ought to be, if we could fix immigration officers being mean to all of those foreigners. it is hard to come to this country if you're not american canal. it is tough to go through immigration. -- if you're not american now. it is that to go through immigration. it is not anybody's fault. >> so we are not despised. but we could do things to be more admired than we already are. >> did the administration worry -- not that americans were despised -- that the attitude toward the american government was causing problems that we're serious and needed to be resolved because it was dangerous to us? >> yes. one of the things is

she was born in lebanon, i believe, so she spoke the native language.llegation was when she came to this country, that she knowingly cheated her way into the country to become a citizen and that eventually backfired on her. she was saying she was pregnant when she was out doing some of this investigative work. so it seems that she was giving her best to make this country better. >> and she's become a controversial personality. people don't know what to believe. they credit her back in the early 2000's with regard to working inside yemen after the u.s.s. cole. being involved in an investigation with a 1986 hijacking in pakistan that involved the killing of 22 passengers. and working on america's bebehalf. but now in some sense, she's a person without a country. she's been stripped of her citizenship. she needs approval to go more than 50 miles and she's been ordered deported which is on hold because of risks to her and actually being deported. there's some in the state department and the government community who say she's an absolute asset and that she s

he fled to lebanon after his wife's death. he gave up his extradition rights and returned to ohio last year >>> an update on that grenade found in the backyard of a home in griffin, georgia. it's about 40 miles south of atlanta. we heard from the griffin police that this grenade was live. it was from the vietnam era. it could have gone off. the ordnance disposal unit safely dislocate e ed it at ano location. >>> luckily her injuries are not thought to be life threatening 37 fire crews waiting for the utility to shut off the gas main to put out the fire. it was out after about an hour. >>> six people are dead after a bus rear-ended a pickup truck and rolled over on interstate 10 south of phoenix. 15 others were hurt. rescuers had to break out windows of the bus to get to some of the injured. the people who died were thrown from the vehicle. this bus was heading from centralexico to los angeles. the crash blocked both westbound lanes of i-10. >>> it's kind of a rough day on the road for folks in wisconsin. not far from appleton,

and we've done this with lebanon to a limited degree and i think we're thinking hard about -- we're up against in afghanistan were up against between iraq and a hard place. because of the one hand i think we be able to use the training and equipping of afghan national security forces over the political leadership. but on the flipside of that, we have a real need to get troops off, you know, rolling off the assembly line sat down and two rc south and let soon-to-be rc left. >> i think intersite, but this is nothing new. latin america history come was always commissioned military aid. the question is congress going to propose the conditions or can the administration do it, which is often more palatable. and i think this whole point is really about the civilian national security policymakers are where the real lessons learnt how to get occurred. i know this conference is probably focused primary on the military, but i think we've got a real gap in the national security civilian cadre and they could have their own conference and learn a lot from that front. >> looking at stephenville at a