investigating not the state department's first amendment violation against my client her brother mr van buren himself are you. do you have any regrets or do you wish that you hadn't written this book had written this blog said what you did and then you couldn't in jeopardy right now in the short term in the short term this is been a lot more difficult than i ever anticipated i did not expect the full force of the united states government all its electronic tools in its nastiness to come after me because i wrote a book i thought the american government was stronger than that that they were afraid of words that the state department organization i probably worked out for twenty four years was not going to stoop to these mccarthy like tactics yet at the end of the day i don't regret what i did i did what i did because it was important for people to understand what was going on in iraq so that americans can understand why things went wrong there so that they can judge why things are going wrong in afghanistan and other places i felt that i was uniquely placed to tell that story and at the end of t

mr. van buren's specific case or any other employee except to say the claims of retaliation in this case are without merit. gary nurenberg, 9news now. >>> an update now on a story you saw first on 9. a local priest who denied communion to a woman at his mother's funeral said he did it because she openly introduced another woman to him as her lover. the father says barbara johnson openly confessed her sin so he withheld the communion. she forced the issue on him just moments before the funeral. now, she says he is lying and she never introduced her partner, let alone called the woman her lover. he has been placed on administrative leave. >>> a new anti-smoking ad campaign is getting ready to launch nationwide. and when it does, it should raise a few eyebrows and perhaps even turn a few stomachs. and that's exactly what it's intended to do. matt jablow has details. >> i'm going to get ready in the morning. >> reporter: get ready to see a lot of terry hall whose long time smoking habit led to cancer of the larynx. >> my fingers started to go piece by piece. >> reporter: roosevelt smith is a

mrs. upchurch, that's part of what happened. so you as the embodiment of aknee that van buren can stand in the role of mrs. people. i want to show one more segment of you in the role. and this is from unique harris' story and making that call to ask people to do the work of calling in. >> unique harris' family continues to search for her. although her children are too young to join the efforts, their job is to hope for the best that soon they'll see their mother. unique's mom holds it together for the boys knowing come what may, some day, she will get the answers about her daughter's disappearance. >> i think for me watching that and reading so many of the stories as we were preparing was a sense of empathy, part of what happens is you feel, oh, these are young people or these are adults whose stories matter. so we are going to take a quick break, but we'll come back. we have more voices in this conversation, including a mother who lost her daughter and found her. right after this break. [ male announcer ] with six indulgently layered desserts, all at 150 calories or less, there's definitely a temptations