as rita williams reports, his father is on a campaign now to change john lindh's image. >> reporter:se images, some two months after the 9/11 attacks were shocking. u.s. officials call this marin county man arrested in afghanistan a terrorist, a traitor. >> he's 20 years old. he really did think that he was doing the right thing. >> reporter: that's part of how john walker lindh's father defended his son today. to a room full of law students at the university of san francisco. most barely teenagers in 2001. >> everything that is so obvious to us now, after 9/11 was not obvious then. >> reporter: if he feels any guilt as a divorced parent, allowing his son to go to yemen, he doesn't say it today. he blames hysteria and the media for turning the country against his son. >> it was impossible to get a fail trial. >> reporter: lindh accepted a plea bargain. said he was an armed taliban soldier. reaction from law students was mixed. >> when he saw bin laden at the camp, there should have been some sort of light bulb that went off. >> i would like to believe it. but also, i haven't looked a

as rita williams reports, his father is on a campaign now to change john lindh's image. >> reporter:se images, some two months after the 9/11 attacks were shocking. u.s. officials call this marin county man arrested in afghanistan a terrorist, a traitor. >> he's 20 years old. he really did think that he was doing the right thing. >> reporter: that's part of how john walker lindh's father defended his son today. to a room full of law students at the university of san francisco. most barely teenagers in 2001. >> everything that is so obvious to us now, after 9/11 was not obvious then. >> reporter: if he feels any guilt as a divorced parent, allowing his son to go to yemen, he doesn't say it today. he blames hysteria and the media for turning the country against his son. >> it was impossible to get a fail trial. >> reporter: lindh accepted a plea bargain. said he was an armed taliban soldier. reaction from law students was mixed. >> when he saw bin laden at the camp, there should have been some sort of light bulb that went off. >> i would like to believe it. but also, i haven't looked a

john walker lindh grew up in marin county and serving 20 years for supplying his services to the taliban but could be released in 2013. >> your favorite bookstore might be about to close. a dozen borders bookstores are getting ready to close down. borders is filing for bankruptcy. >> this borders bookstore is one of 200 that will close doors after the company announced it must restructure. >> it makes me sad. they just arrived here in alameda. i'm going to be sad to see them go. >> i was disappointed when they came n they drove out a couple of small bookstores in the mall. and in this investigator bay area, two are closing in san francisco. and three in the south bay, and one in santa cruz. the mish-based company says the store that's are closing represent about 30% of the 642 borders nationwide. they employ 18,000 people. and jeff nunberg says boredders didn't look at other venue autos they were late getting into online book sales, very late in e-reader market he says what hurt the most is that it dmot keep up with the big box stores. >> nobody can compete with big discounters like walm

john walker-lindh was arrested at an enemy combatant in 2001 during the u.s. invasion of afghanistan and is currently serving 20 years. >>> a registered sex offender accused of another sexual assault will have a -- will have another psychological evaluation. the judge ordered the evaluation after ramos stopped responding to his lawyer. police say ramos attacked a 2- year-old store inside a union city dollar tree store. he's due back in court on march 25th. >>> a rags to riches story. anna nicole smith. you may recall she married a millionaire oil tie con. there are warnings that the movie contains sex, drugs and violence. the shows are all sold out. and there's only six hours. >>> the great highway is closed between lyndon and vote -- between lincoln and sloat. this there are no cars here. this is because of the flooding here. they don't want people to be surprised by this. they will get out there and make the water go away. they will reopen it. we're looking at 101 approaching the 80 split. that traffic is okay. if you are driving on the westbound bay bridge,

lindh was here, he testified that the department had failed to comply with the law requiring audited financial statements be filed annually in the years 2007, 2008, two dozen nine, 2010, all years of course that she was secretary of defense. and my first question is are any of those years, 2007, eight, nine or 10, were you unaware that the law required that dod required audited financials even? >> i certainly did not -- was not aware that we were in violation of the law. the mac so you not know you were in violation of law? in the second question. mr. lind further testified that no such statements would be filed this year, but he said it was the party of the department of defense issued in compliance and they should have a plan to do it. has that always been a priority of yours since you been secretary of defense? >> yes, it has. and i think if you go back to testimony four years ago, the person who had the job before mr. hale had begun the planning and execution of getting us to a position where we could comply with the cfo bob. >> mr. secretary pickard, i don't know if we had an op