>> yes, leon panetta has admitted to systemic failures in this case. he has said that perhaps peoples' judgment was clouded by the prize that they thought that they were going to find, the second in command of al-qaeda. and there are some 23 recommendations as to how things can be improved in future first and foremost communication between different countries and agents and officers within the c.i.a. has to be more disciplined says leon panetta, security procedures need to be standardized. but he has not singled out any individual or group of individuals for blame. he says this was a clective failure of procedures. it would be wrong to blame any one individual. the lady who is in charge of that died in the explosion. during the investigation, clearly she wasn't here to defend herself. >> steve kingston. chilean politician claims that on the day the mine had collapsed the men voiced safety fears. the congressman carlos vil chaise had spoken on it. >> a recent bout of flu called lady thatcher to miss an official party arranged to mark her 85th birthday.

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we'll be right back. >> larry: there's no slow news day anymore. >> leon panetta is quoted as saying this is a crazy kind of war. >> larry: it's a crazy kind of world. >> it's a crazy kind of world. exactly. >> we all know and you all know this when we were at the white house recently, obama walks into the room with a stride a very self-confident guy. what does he worry about? >> he told me that. he just kind of volunteered. he said my number one worry, the thing i'm worried about is terrorists setting off a nuclear weapon in an american city. and that would be a game changer. turns out at this time last spring they conducted a secret exercise in the white house called the continuity of operation exercise. what would they do in the government if this happened. and in the exercise scenario, terrorists set off a nuke in indianapolis, indiana, and thousands of people were killed and they deal with how the government handles it. the problem is in the exercise they never talk about what the media does, what the public does, what the congress does. now, if something like that happened, god

leon panetta, the current cia director who stepped up these attacks and they are quite lethal but it's not enough and he's quoted in the book saying we have to get boots on the ground, either pakistani boots or our boots. and he also notes, which i think is something fundamental, this is a crazy kind of war where you have these safe havens, all of these taliban insurgents are -- go back for r&r, get rearmed, training, go back across the border, waved through checkpoints to go into afghanistan and kill american and other soldiers from the other countries in the coalition. >> and when we look across the border and the border crossings have been closed because the tensions with pakistan have risen, leon panetta was only in the past couple of days in islamabad and then in india in trying to shore up the pakistani response, when we see what's happening across the border in afghanistan, you reported that a.m. bmbassador eikenberry, a f general, reported about hamid karzai, our alie there. he's on his meds. he's off his meds. that he really has a condition. that this is not just an uncertain

he calls leon panetta regularly and say, who have we killed today? he is pushing this. of course, as the book shows, the people who are doing these drone attacks realize that it's not going to change the conditions on the ground. it's not going to win the war. it's -- you have to -- i mean, p pen n panetta is in the book saying we need boots on the ground, pakistani boots or our boots. the president, himself, says at these secret meetings, pakistan is the cancer. >> the relationship that the president has with the military, and the intelligence community, for that matter, let me read from the book. dennis blair who was the intelligence chief saw a fault line in the administration. rahm emanuel's us meant obama and his team of political advisers in the white house. the military leaders and former four stars such as general jones the national security adviser and himself were outsiders. talk a little bit about this us versus them mentality. >> look, any white house is political. this is no different. and they measured the political impact of everything. somebody like gene

cia director leon panetta was there yesterday, trying to shore up a government that some fear is on the verge of collapse. and now for the first time in seven months, osama bin laden has issued a new audiotape. the u.s. believes that bin laden is trying to exploit anger in pakistan at that government's response to this summer's floods. u.s. officials say that they do not see bin laden's message as some kind of signal or trigger for attacks that al qaeda has been plotting against a growing number of countries in europe and this while bin laden is certainly aware of those plots, he's not directing them. officials here are working closely with european intelligence agencies to thwart a number of plots in different stages of development. aimed, officials say, now at england, france, germany, italy and other european countries. not all the threats against europe are coming from al qaeda in pakistan. officials say that france is being targeted by al qaeda offshoots in the arabian peninsula and north africa. as far as u.s. officials know, however, none of the plots they're now tracking are dir

today, the pakistani prime minister pressed the issue with the visiting cia director leon panetta. another official wondered whether the west was an ally or an enemy. >> are you fighting a war or are you in war together? >> reporter: the pakistani partnership is vital to the war effort. since 2001, the united states has given pakistan's military more than $10 billion to help it fight insurgents. fueling tensions between the two nations, cell phone video has surfaced purporting to show pakistani soldiers killing blind folded civilians. today, military officials told nbc news they're investigating and suggested the videos were staged to discredit them. tonight, nato officials say that border crossing would have to be closed for some time before troops begin to feel the pinch. but one told me they are actively looking for a way to bypass pakistan with those supplies all together. brian? >> john yang at our nbc news bureau in kabul tonight. john, thanks. >>> a grim story in the news today in this country for the fourth time in the last few weeks, a teenager has taken his own life after

release about a book that it's going to sell i think the reason they did this it was directed by leon panetta i think you beleaguered over there i think he needs the support of his seventh floor doing this to curry favor now you said also you know that the cia censored your book because you exposed it as a place to get rich millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted is this something that you think only gets worse throughout this years in this post nine eleven culture that we have with the top secret america with the need to to spying gather more intelligence coming out every day. i do it we just have to know. money for this purpose because human intelligence doesn't really require that much money and when we when we force billions into the system it has to go somewhere human intelligence is just is just a lonely job of meeting agents in hotel rooms we need money for plane fares in the low salaries we give them that's about it i want tell me that you know i mean you're saying that the original plans of the cia was just to have a lonely agents be around the world not on u.s. soil don't you even

chief leon panetta who flew there wednesday to discuss unfolding terror plot in pakistan. >> we have other options. >> reporter: pakistani government closed the main supply route in afghanistan at the border in the kyber pass, leaving 150 nato supply trucks stuck at the border. some pakistani officials are asking whether the u.s. and pakistan are allies are enemies. >> people ask questions. are you fighting a war or in a war together? >> reporter: protest broke out in pakistani cities friday, where angry mobs blame the u.s. and nato for pakistan's problem. they played a double game in recent years criticizing u.s. attacks in the tribal areas publicly, while encouraging the drone strikes on the al-qaeda leaders in private. according to the recent bob woodward book "obama's war" he told then c.i.a. head hayden to step up the drone strikes against al-qaeda in pakistan. collateral damage worries you americans and it does not worry me." u.s. officials downplayed the border closure today. >> it's inconceivable to me that the closing of the routes, the allege closing, which is not a full cl

leon panetta later on, john podesta, ken duberstein and then jim baker the well-organized political brain and succeeded by what many people thought were a larger ego than necessary for the job, don regan who blew up at the first lady. this is a different model, because this is someone who the president is very comfortable and very low key and he's an inside man, and he's not much of a star player on "meet the press." >> no, he won't be voluntarily. it may be part of his duties. >> kicking and screaming. >> yes. rahm in addition to being kind of the enforcer in a way, was the legislative shepherd in fact and worked a lot with the hill. that's a role that pete rouse obviously can fill. i'm wondering if he will also do more of the traditional chief of staff role of kind of really organizing the flow of information to the president, sort of access to the president, and, you know, organizing his decision making, in a way that some very successful chiefs of staff have done in the past. >> one role that rahm played and that david axelrod has played which has made some people on the foreign polic

director leon panetta, been in the job now almost two years. he's quoted in the book telling at meetings saying "look, you've got to get boots on the ground. you can't do this from the air. you have to get pakistani boots or our boots. and we are squeezing the pakistanis in many ways. there was a raid last week cross-border raid, killed 50 people. killed some... it turns out some pakistani military people. there's a 3,000 man secret term c.i.a. has that is doing cross-border operations. so we are in a period where the pressure is on and, quite frankly, it could blow up. pakistan could blow up. there are all kinds... >> rose: it could blow up in this particular case because of the 3,000 c.i.a. troops on the ground and perhaps being prepared to cross the border and go into... >> not being prepared but they're conducting operations. the f you expand it... look at how pakistan's response has been to just the cross-border raid with helicopters. they closed down some of the supply routes into afghanistan. they have said this is an issue of sovereignt

director leon panetta in islamabad. gilani said he was profoundly concerned about a recent surge in drone and helicopter strikes. nato and u.s. officials said they were investigating today's incident. but they maintained a special agreement allows for and justifies hot pursuit of attacking militants across the pakistan afghanistan border. five nato troops were killed in southern afghanistan today. three died when a homemade bomb exploded. the others were killed in separate attacks. nato did not give their nationalities. meanwhile, the u.n. reported afghanistan's opium production fell by half this year. disease heavily damaged the poppy fields. former president jimmy carter has been released from a hospital in cleveland. he left today after recovering from a viral infection. the former president was taken ill tuesday during a flight from atlanta. he'd been traveling to promote his new book, "white house diary". toy maker fisher-price issued a host of recalls today over safety concerns. the list includes seven million tod

director leon panetta said tuesday no one person was to blame. instead, he cited systematic failures. the attack involved a jordanian double agent humam al-balawi. he was allowed in to a c.i.a. base in khost and then, blew himself up. the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas has been rebuffed in a plea to anita hill to apologize. in 1991, at thomas's confirmation hearings, hill accused him of sexual harassment. thomas adamantly denied the claim. then, earlier this month, virginia thomas left hill a voicemail, asking for an apology and explanation. last night, hill issued a statement that said she stands by her testimony. the graco company will recall two million baby strollers after reports that four infants were trapped and strangled. the quattro tour and metrolite models were made in china, and sold at retailers across the u.s., before 2007. the consumer product safety commission warned today that babies can slide down between the stroller tray and seat bottom. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer

director and whether or not -- leon panetta. take him away from the c.i.a., then you've got to fill his shoes. those are big shoes to fill. >> the thing about panetta that surprised most people is he is highly respected inside the c.i.a. for standing up to his troops in very difficult times. to pull him out tikritcal period would not only be a bad political move, but it would also be bad for the morale of the agency. >> julie: hillary clinton that, a real possibility? >> no, no. >> julie: her name is out there. >> one thing about secretary clinton is she tends to finish the job she starts. i just can't see her walking away. >> julie: they've also potentially talked about her being a vice president to president obama. i don't know. this is all gossip. >> it's all gossip. >> julie: you probably hear it more. >> i do. but not likely. >> julie: and i just want to talk about some of the other -- you touched on michelle flornoy. >> specific person. she's number three in the pentagon. terrific resume for policy and strategy. >> julie:

state like hillary clinton and secretary of defense like robert gates, and senior director like leon panetta are finding to be successful in a place like afghanistan you not only need a host of diplomats, but you need an intragovernmental strategy to be successful. that is the role of the national security adviser. tom donlin has played a critical role in the policy review of afghanistan and another one is coming up. the interesting thing about the timing here is that general jim jones was nato's supreme allied commander earlier in the career, and president obama is going for a big conference in nato in november, so little odd that jim jones is deeply involved in the preparation for that, and he is no longer attending. >> well, candy, i thought he would be leaving, but not this month and wait a couple of months to see what happens. but you will have more on this sunday morning on "state of the union" 9:00 a.m. this sunday. >> we will talk about it. >> a deal. thank you all very much. >>> a reprieve for thousands of homeowners facing foreclosures. bank of america is extending a freeze on all

rick: jennifer, wasn't leon panetta just in pakistan, the cia chief? what was he doing there? >> exactly. he was there yesterday, he was meeting with his counterpart, the head of the pakistan's isi, which is their intelligence service. i'm told from sources that he was meeting to talk about this unfolding plot in europe that was being masterminded. i'm told it was a mumbai-style attack, they were going to attack hotel, we told but it but it was masterminded by a pakistani, number three in al-qaeda, mohammed iliad cashmereie, someone the pakistanis know about. rick: a lot of people have been suspicious about the pakistanis for an awful long time, of course, they are our allies in this war, but some people are concerned that they're playing both sides of the fence, right? >> absolutely. and in fact, the closing of the border, you've heard from -- we've heard this morning from u.s. officials, they don't seem tong that the border will be closed long, but it does, as the pakistanis have been playing a double game in terms of criticizing u.s. and nato strikes inside pakistan's triba

with the secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, campbell, and leon panetta, are trying to read the tea leaves of what happened with this leadership conference and this succession. guest: having a younger generation start to be groom and take -- host: having a younger generation start to be groomed to fake power, is there diplomacy or making enroads? we know he went to a swiss boarding school at least for a little while. has there been a look into relationships he's had with westerners? guest: one hopes there is a greater emphasis on the new leadership group, there may be opportunities -- excuse me -- to engage them. i think we have to look in a comparative way of what the united states is doing and doing what the chinese have been doing. it's one based on north korea coming back to the six-party talks and living up to their obligations under the six-party talks. there is an agreement cald the september, 2005, joint statement that all six countries, the two koreas, the united states, russia, china and japan signed that north korea stops in the implementation side of that

leon panetta tells us in public testimony that between 20 and 30 nations have created military or intelligenceorganizations to fight in cyber space. so cyber war is real. and it can cause things to happen. it can cause generators to explode, it can cause trains to derail. i asked the head of union rail if he relied a lot on computers. he said, dick, i'm not a train company, i'm a computer company that has train. do you remember when the red line derailed last year? the metro's response to that was to have the conductor start driving the trains. because up until then, the computers have been driving the trains. and the derailment occurred because one of the computers malfunctioned, one of the little switches on the tracks. the cyber war plans that are being drawn up by many nations around the world cause attacks or could cause attacks that would explode generators, that would cause high tension wires to melt, that would derail trains, that would cause gas pipelines to explode, or that could cause mass confusion in financial systems. now, so far the united states government at least has drawn a

i quote leon panetta, the cia director saying we've got to get boots on the ground.se drone attacks o from the air are not enough. and as he quite neatly sums it up, this is a crazyind of war. host: michigan, this is steve on the republican line. good morning. you're on. caller: good morning. i've got a couple quick questions. one, i would like to find out if you're telling, are you a democr or a republican? and number two, i'd like to find out how you voted. i think it was in 68 and 72 when nixon was being voted on. guest: a fair andood question. because i live in the district of columbia, which is so predominantly democratic, i am a registered democrat but i am an avowed neutral. and to put that intoractice, i take my young daughter into the voting booth and she votes for me. she is now 14. we've been doing this since she was about age 4. she is now quite informed and they let you bring a child with you in the voting booth and she actually makes the selections. . . guest: it was republican george bush who started the war with almost unanimous support from the congr

current member of leon panetta's advisory board. he represents entities that we are discussing, including congressional investigation and prosecution. to his right, eric lieberman, vice-president of the general counsel. before that, a litigator at the firm of williams and connally. before that, a staff to senator kennedy on capitol hill. quite a group to begin the conversation. i think we have to begin with the fundamental premise. the fundamental premise, it seems, to me is what is the role of the media fundamentally in the formulation of foreign and domestic information? what is the starting role? is it to be a member, watchdog, and after the fact watcher? walter, what is the role of the media in providing, becoming part of the sausage making process of the formulation of foreign policy? >> it is a little bit of both. i think when we are operating the way we should, we should be covering people who are involved in the dialogue. public officials, hearings on the hill. we ought to report what is going on. but we also have a responsi

with the secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs, campbell, and leon panetta, are trying to read the tea leaves of what happened with this leadership conference and this succession. guest: having a younger generation start to be groomed and take -- host: having a younger generation start to be groomed to fake power, is there diplomacy or making enroads? we know he went to a swiss boarding school at least for a little while. has there been a look into relationships he's had with westerners? guest: one hopes there is a greater emphasis on the new leadership group, there may be opportunities -- excuse me -- to engage them. i think we have to look in a comparative way of what the united states is doing and doing what the chinese have been doing. it's one based on north korea coming back to the six-party talks and living up to their obligations under the six-party talks. there is an agreement called the september, 2005, joint statement that all six countries, the two koreas, the united states, russia, china and japan signed that north korea stops in the implementation side of

i quote leon panetta, the cia director saying we've got to get boots on the ground.hese drone attacks o from the air are not enough. and as he quite neatly sums it up, this is a crazy kind of war. host: michigan, this is steve on the republican line. good morning. you're on. caller: good morning. i've got a couple quick questions. one, i would like to find out if you're telling, are you a democrat or a republican? and number two, i'd like to find out how you voted. i think it was in 68 and 72 when nixon was being voted on. guest: a fair and good question. because i live in the district of columbia, which is so predominantly democratic, i am a registered democrat but i am an avowed neutral. and to put that into practice, i take my young daughter into the voting booth and she votes for me. she is now 14. we've been doing this since she was about age 4. she is now quite informed and they let you bring a child with you in the voting booth and she actually makes the selections. . . guest: it was republican george bush who started the war with almost unanimous support from