mccaffrey had gone from being a poster boy to rehabilitation to a problem child. sometimes your own worst enemy? >> yeah, sometimes. my mouth can get me in some trouble. i won't deny that. >> reporter: it was his mouth that got him confined in this state psychiatric hospital for four days. >> if you don't stop busting chops i'm going to go home and blow my freaking brains out because you're driving me crazy. that was the statement i made. >> reporter: he insists he wasn't. >> i would never kill myself because i'm not going to give certain people the satisfaction. it is that simple. >> he is not the most pleasant person in the world. he is abrasive. he is direct. he is not gentle in any way. >> reporter: john nickerson has been mccaffrey's attorney since this incident in may, 2009. that's mccaffrey in the camouflage shorts at a gas station going toe to toe with a hulking ex-con. it's not shown, but mccaffrey pulled a knife, inflicting a small wound, which required no stitches. >> i utilizeed the force they deemed necessary to protect myself. >> reporter: the distri

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moneyed interests aka the defense industry and he sees events or response to glenn was a general mccaffrey is but one of many voices that they hear from and whose opinions they value and that's fine but just because you claim to hear from many different people in your editorial meetings doesn't mean that your audience actually gets you on air when you give one individual so much time and they don't disclose their conflicts of interests so anyway this is just a good reminder of what the mainstream media does to keep you in the dark so they can continue to choose to miss. i've got a number of foreign policy issues to discuss tonight take another look at civilian casualties of drone strikes in pakistan yesterday we brought up the not only of the a.p. done they found new evidence of unreported civilian deaths but their previous also file the case with the u.n. human rights council so we actually see that both somewhere and secretary of defense leon panetta was testifying on capitol hill again today well the areas that are getting come from defense spending are being publicly discussed are ther

. >>> we want to return to retired army general and military analyst barry mccaffrey. general, how surprised are you that the officers could be killed in a heavily secured building and the attackers escape? >> lester, this is shocking. we may be seeing a watershed event after a decade and hundreds of billions of dollars and 16,000 u.s. casualties. we see how shallow the impact we have on this primitive society is. yeah, we'll take it in context. these are thousands of demonstrators in a country of 30 million people, but this is really outrageous. we have had dozens of u.s. and nato forces killed by afghan uniformed people. and karzai is clearly not standing for and leading on this effort. >> but the cornerstone of the u.s. strategy, you know, is this partnership with the afghan government, the training of afghan troops and working alongside them. is all of that now potentially in jeopardy? >> i have been skeptical about this from the start. once we get u.s. combat forces out of afghanistan, it was going to be 2014. secretary panetta said it's 2013. we need to re-evalua

i asked general scales and general mccaffrey to do a military assessment.n no uncertain terms the cartels are doing their best to get a foothold inside the united states. and the rural regions of texas are the ones that are suffering the most and our administration is turning their backs on them. >> as a footnote, both generals testified before congress and they were treated unbelievably rudely by one member of congress. vinever seen anything like it in my entire life. >> caller: i was sitting beside the general when is that occurred. it's -- we have an unbiased opinion from two of our nation's highly decorated and nonpartisan, unbiased military professionals saying the problems are extreme, the intimidation, the gun battles, the shootings, they are occurring in the rural regions of texas. 93% of texas border is rural and largely in-- unincorporated. our cities are doing a good job. it's very unfortunate what happened in el paso to the lady hit boy a stray bullet. i think that was probably an isolated incident. but what is not isolated is that our farmers a

retired general barry mccaffrey. we probably murdered dozens of them. both the armed forces and the cia. tens of thousands of americans being held in supermaximum security prisons where they are deprived of content and psychologically destroyed. undocumented workers vanish from their families for weeks or months. militant police units breakdown the doors of 47 americans a year and hauled away in the dead of night as if they were enemy combatants. habeas corpus no longer exists. philip green in that article i quoted before, a people that accepts as the normal course of the events the bombing of civilian leaders will torture, kidnapping pleaded indefinite detention, assassination, covert wars abroad has lost touch with the moral basis of civil society. the u.s. military which soaks up 50% of the discretionary budget is apparently unable to win two wars in two small countries. in fact it has not had a serious victory since world war ii after which it decided to stick to dictators and minor nations. u.s. intelligence report released in 2008, global trends 2

so, this is from general mccaffrey, the four-star marine corps general.was there. here they say, this is on 356 if you're following, 50 years after castro trusted our guantÁnamo strategic irrelevance is universally acknowledged. guantÁnamo served no military purpose, of course no strategic advantage. we are not going to attack cuba, the place that is the policy of inadequate inertia. others strategic naval silicon and it was important, as was the esta. there are people who disagree with them. he is a marine guy. today jeffrey johnson, guantÁnamo as absolute nothing to the navy. if guantÁnamo disappeared from every ship would sell, every sailor would be trained. more with the navy would say $50 million per year. so as i said, the navy feels like you're taking one for the team. the coast guard uses it. the date department uses it. you know, there's talks that we're using it for covert stuff. a lot of evidence over the last 50 years. castro says, he's a very straightforward man, he doesn't like a lot of the bush administration pulls. the recent tragedy is th

so this is from general barry mccaffrey. general jack sheehan, and then another person who is the head, the commander of public works while i was there. here they say, this is on 356. after is rise to power guantanamo strategic and relevance as universally a knowledgeable. guantanamo, really close, low military purpose of ford says g. jeter advantage of those u.s. marine corps general jack sheehan. your not going to attack cuba. guantanamo is once important as a political icon. of the judges a naval facility, they're people who disagree. today, jeff it to doug jesse johnson, nothing to the navy. fontana disappeared every ship would fail. the navy would say $60 million per year. feel like they're taking one for the team. there is stalker using it. a lot of evidence. but a very straightforward man. as a fourth tragedy of what happened. this great secret place anymore. >> but it is not a ship repair. it's a port of call. >> not really. it wasn't until 1994 during the second of the mining operations when the move across florida.

our fellow military colleague general mccaffrey had this to say, this could be a water shed event.t's your assessment. >> i think this is very big news and very big business. we've had a lot of incidents like this where americans have been killed and wounded by afghans that were trying to train. i, myself, was an adviser in vietnam and know how difficult it is to deal with indigenous people you're trying to train. i think the timing of it and the circumstances of it and the location of it are such that this is going to have a very, very big negative impact on a relationship with afghanistan. >>> all this because of the accidental burning of the koran a week ago. does this give all of us a disproportionate few of what's going on inside afghanistan? if you listen to administration officials, they say there's been significant progress against the taliban. >> it's one thing to say there's significant progress. it's something else for the president of the united states to apologize for a single specific incident. i think the fact that the president has done this, and i think it was a mi