but we do not have word of official charges.who may be charged. >> his name did appear in a day today base as far as having a terrorist nexus. it was a somewhat sophisticated device. it was obviously more than a fire cracker. he himself has third-degree burns. he's being questioned. obviouslily this is going to be looked upon very seriously. he has third-degree burns himself. >> from what we understand, and this is what we do know from the federal government, the situational awareness bulletin, he was being treated, and he's claiming to have extremist affiliations. it was initially reported it might have been firecrackers possiblily because of the size or how it went off. do you know anything about it? was it strapped to his leg? >> caller: i cannot tell you what it was. it was certainly not a firecracker. and it appears to be a different type of detonation than has been used before. it could have been far more serious than it turned out to be. and again, fortunately, you know, we were lucky on this one. it could have been devas

we're told by a senior administration official the president has been told that officials believe this was an attempted terror attack, that essentially did not happen in terms of being terror. it was an attempted one. obviously there were some injuries and some concerns there on the ground. but as you noted earlier, the plane landed safely. the reason why the president increasing these aviation security measures is that we're told by officials obviously there is so much air travel going on right now all around the country because of the holiday season, right through new year's that they want to make sure they're on top of the situation. >> we've heard from jeanne meserve, our national security correspondent, and from richard quest in rome. they both said even without raising the terror threat level in air transportation, without raising it beyond orange, which it's been since 2006, they can do a lot more even within those constraints. >> reporter: yes. and as jeanne meserve was reporting, they can send more k-9 dogs to various key roirpai, do more behavioral monitoring, checking people

officials. they claimed that not only were the people killed but they were tortured and dismembered. that isn't true. a later forensic investigations revealed they weren't tortured or disfigured. nevertheless, it does appear there had been a massacre. it was not an armed confrontation as the serbs claimed. and this is widely publicized as an example of, you know, atrocious action by the serbs which undoubtedly it was. the united states then worked with europe to call a major peace conference in february of 1999 for a full settlement of the kosovo conflict. it took place in a castle outside of paris. it was officially chaired by the foreign ministers of france and britain, though, behind the scenes the u.s. clearly played a dominating role. and the united states and its european allies put together a predetermined agreement that's quite complex but, in essence, what it demanded was that the serbs would have to agree to full regional autonomy for kosovo, not independence. independence at this poin

security officials or the u.s. embassy in lagos? two, if they got information, what did they do with it? oftentimes the mere fact of radicalization may not be enough to connect him to a threat to aviation. but it should have tipped people that he should have been selectee as jeanne meserve explained so he got special scrutiny if he tried to board an aircraft. >> larry: eric margolis, how do you win a war on terrorism? isn't a terrorist born right now today? >> well, i think it's wrong to call the war on terrorism. it's a police action against terrorism. it's not a war that you can really win. and as long as the u.s. is deeply involved in the affairs of the third world, particularly, we are going to face attacks and terror ifl. look, i think this event in detroit is the opening salvo of deeper you u.s. involvement in yemen as peter mentioned in the beginning. we have u.s. special forces now, i believe, and u.s. aircraft involved in operations in yemen, a three or four-way civil war there. yemen is fast becoming the afghanistan of the

it was unclear how the man identified by federal officials managed to get the explosive on the plane.it was a plane carrying 270 passengers that departed from amsterdam with passengers who originated in nigeria. a senior administration officials said the government did not yet know whether the man had the capacity to take down the plane. the article goes on to say that a federal counterterrorism official who asked not to be identified said that the suspect was apparently in a government law enforcement intelligence data base but it is not clear what extremist groups or individuals he might be linked to. ubt "the washington post," the suspect's name appears to be included in the government's record of terrorism suspects. he has told federal investigators that he has ties to al qaeda and traveled to yemen to collect the incendiary device and instructions on how to use it. we want to find out from you your thoughts on whether the process needs to be re-evaluated and changed. east lansing, mich., an airline for democrats. you can see the airport. tell us your thoughts. caller: i think the

drew, do you know what he has been officially charged with? >> yeah. larry, i have the charging papers. it is two counts here. i will try to get them exactly right for you. he was charged, gee wiz, larry. you would have to ask me that one question. let's bring in jean. she has been following that. >> larry: i got to get a break. >> bringing a destructive device on an airplane. the first one attempting to destroy a northwest airlines plane. >> larry: we thank the panel. we are going to hear from the man who helped subdue the suspect. cnn's exclusive interview in 60 seconds. if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: these duracell batteries were given... to the mattel children's hospital, u.c.l.a. because when it comes to kids and healing... you're not just powering a toy. you're powering a smile. duracell. trusted everywhere. about all the discounts boswe're offering. i've got. i some catchphrases that'llideas make these savings even more memorable. gecko: all right... gecko: good driver discounts. now that's the stuff...? boss: how 'bou

officials that they had achieved this. but at the same time there was a recognition that the major justification for u.s. power, which was fighting communism, had disappeared. and there was concern that now there was really no longer a good justification for u.s. military power. either in terms of the vast number of overseas u.s. military bases or in terms of the fleets around the world or in terms of u.s. security alliance such as nato or in terms of the u.s. military budget by way of justifying it to the u.s. public. and so the question was, what would replace anticommunism as a sort of central guiding logic for u.s. power after the end of the cold war? and no obvious solution presented it. in particular there was a fear that europe might establish an independent foreign policy and, indeed, european official thes were talking openly about the need to establish independent foreign policy independent from the u.s. and independent from nato, okay? and were openly collaborating to establish a european military force that was

the officials, outstanding officials.asket. >> marques: it was close but now nelson is down. there's the contact right there occurring. because of the injury, that was way after the contact. good call by the officials. wow. >> steve: look at. he says i made that shot? are you kidding me? >> marques: and they took it away. >> steve: yeah. going to have a black eye. no reward. this kid has six offensive rebounds in today's ball game. >> marques: take another look at that. poke from morris. i thought they may count that because over the last couple of years pac-10 officials are a lot more lenient with those kinds of nba-like, continuation type plays. they tell me if you start with a shooting motion, you get the benefit of the continuation. he was close to it but not close enough. that eye is a major concern right now. >> steve: he is getting worked on. we will see brendan lane see his first minutes of this game. >> marques: with the new rules you can choose to be the opposition, one of the players on the floor to shoot the f

as a result, officials say women have been empowered. >> resources are given to the mother. not to the father, so there has been a change of power within the household. >> suarez: but opportunadades has detractors too. mario luis fuentes, an economist in social welfare at the university of mexico, says the government should be more focused on job creation - because even for the poor kids who finish their education, mexico still has few jobs. >> so the whole question is at the end of the secondary and high school these young people wont have the opportunities of a job, of decent work. >> suarez: the world bank is heavily promoting the program last spring giving mexico a $1.5 billion loan. helena ribe manages the latin american region for the world bank. >> the evidence is very compelling, and in all my many years of experience working in development in many regions of the world, i have never seen a program that receives so much interested and is being replicated in as many countries as this model of conditional cash transfer. >> suarez: in fact, at least 30 countries have now

>> the top official exercises that were done that involves cabinet level officials, as do the national level exercises. for a long time, the states and regions have practiced natural disasters. and i think we were playing -- >> at the direction of the federal government or on own? >> both on their own and to some degree with the federal government as well. >> so perhaps, you know, terrorist attack is not like it would be some kind of involved in desiderata the united states, yet we have national exercises there. >> i think to some degree we are playing catch up on not having practice that terrorist event. so we went through several scenarios on that, and now we are getting back to the need to do those high level officials exercises with natural disasters as well. >> makes one question. so you agree that there wasn't a lack of authority. >> no, ma'am. >> and i think it is, you, mr. decker, that cautions the notion, the statutory changes may be necessary. we did look at the statute. you know, congress always rights statutes. people go into you with some major, don't get picked the author

i've been pressing white house officials today. why didn't she say what the president said today on sunday? they said well she cleaned it up on monday which she did but it seems surprising the white house in the early stages didn't acknowledge the obvious that there were specific problems, dots were not connected, and maybe heads are going to roll. it is clear though now. the president said it today. he gave the intelligence community a deadline of thursday. get me some answers. it's clear some heads are likely to roll. >> i was just going to say she couldn't have said what the president said today because they were still vacuuming up information from within the intelligence community and figuring out exactly what they had and what dots weren't connected. i think that's why she couldn't have gone that far, certainly, as ed says. she might have been a little bit more transparent about the system. the system working. it wasn't her best moment as we all know. we'll hear from some former government insiders and get their reaction to to

on the "newshour" tonight, dutch officials called the preparation of the plot "fairly professional, "but its execution, "amateurish." >> ifill: why didn't anyone connect the dots and can anything be done to foil future attacks? we'll explore that with members of the 9-11 commission. >> brown: and we'll get the views of two representatives on what congress did and did not do in the past and should do now to prevent more terrorist incidents. >> ifill: also tonight, from san francisco, spencer michels reports on a battle about putting literature online. >> google is in the process of digitizing 40 million brookes. not everyone believes one company should control that much knowledge. >> brown: and margaret warner talks to author kati marton about her parents-- hungarian journalists targeted by the secret police in the 1950s. >> i think it's really important for us in our country to understand the human cost of the cold war before all the witnesses to it disappear. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world n

officials on the field. and oversee projects to ensure the proper use of taxpayer funds. i did centralization, usaid officials bring with them at finding and flexible authorities to enhance the responsiveness of programs and better coordinated afghan parties. we found that not only does decentralized programs enhance productivity, but it is also a more cost-effective. on increase in direct assistance, we are increasing our reliance on international contractors and building institutional capacity by increasing direct assistance to afghan government, in consultation with congress. this includes more u.s. backing for [unintelligible] they must be certified. support to the civil service commission increases the leadership within the afghan government, enabling them to increase -- to assume responsibility for their own economic discussed -- recovered. our goal is to certify six afghan ministries. at the start of our review, ambassador holbrooke reviewed individually ever major contract to make sure they were all

officials stressing that the president is not raising the color-coded level beyond orange where it is already. but that there will be other measure, some visible, some perhaps not to flyers around the country to show that it's beefed up at key airports all around the country. white house knows that this is obviously a peak time for holiday travel. people moving all around the country and around the world. and they do not want a repeat of the situation. that's why i'm told the president since that secure conference call this morning has had a series of paper updates from the white house situation room back in washington, sending secure communications to the president so he has the latest possible information. i'm told he's expected to get one more around dinnertime here in hours, a couple of hours from now. we're five hours back into the east coast. even while the president is on vacation, this white house realizes it needs to move quickly to stay on top of this situation and make sure there's no repeat of this situation and make sure this is not some bigger plot and that they get to t

what senior officials are telling us, is that squares exactly with what jeanne is reporting, if more dots had been connected and more people had been talking in different agencies, they believe they could have thwarted this terror attack sooner. we're told by the senior officials that early tuesday morning today, the president went on a secure conference call with his national security adviser jim jones and others who told him about this new intelligence, and that is why the president came out and his aides say in the interest of transparency telling the american people there's more here. he wanted to get it out there, and that's why it came out, candy. >> as ed mentioned the president was out again today for the second day in a he row talking about this incident. we want to play you a little bit of what he said. >> secretary napolitano has said once the suspect attempted to take down flight 253, after his attempt, it's clear that passengers and crew, our homeland security systems and our aviation security took all appropriate actions. but what's also clear is this. when our governme

. >> phil: the clock will start when the official blows it. spike the ball again. it's -- >> phil: he was raising his hand right away. it wasn't like he couldn't get off the field. there was a bump at the line of scrimmage. but it's not enough. vincent jackson gets down there quick. >> jim: you see dennis norman, reamizing he's going to get in to this game with 16 seconds. philip rivers practicing -- mruczkowski you can see quite a bit of pain. >> jim: he's been filling in, capably for nick heart wig who is out with an ankle was inactive today. >> phil: it's amazing how they come together had guys step up on these two football teams especially talk about defensive and offensive linemen being out. multiple defensive linemen. multiple starting offensive linemen. nick hardwick on the sideline. >> jim: hoping to get him back come playoff time. hardwick is in the gray on the right. in the pregame warm up, nate kaeding. >> phil: that was 60 yards. >> jim: actually made one in a game with 57 with his longest. >> phil: made that look easy, too. remember, once play resumes,

officials had concerns about him. so while police are still investigating the apartment that he lived in here for three years, we learned from the security services in britain, trying to make sure friends that might be perp operating similar terror attacks. this department goes on. but the picture of a man who was getting more and more emerging here, larry. >> martin, i understand that the government wants to get a dna sample of the suspect. why? >> we are not exactly clear on that, larry. they are going to be in court tomorrow making that specific request, asking if they can get a dna sample from the 23-year-old. why they want it, we don't know. perhaps we'll get an answer to that. >> larry: cheas ts situation at the airport in london, nick? has it doubled? and with the delays and traveling to the united states and you can certainly expect that process, larry, and, of course, the security at these airport security officials, very, very concerned and now have another set of possibilities that they have to deal with pe

games, including some he was officiating.on about 75% of his bets, an incredible percentage, confirmed by the f.b.i. tonight, tim donaghy speaks out publicly for the first time, telling us why he bet on n.b.a. games, how he won so often, how his world collapsed. and what a world it was. it was your dream job. >> tim donaghy: yes. >> simon: why? >> donaghy: i had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world. i just loved the game of basketball growing up, and my goal was to somehow be a part of it. >> simon: so, everything was going just fine? >> donaghy: it was a dream situation all around. >> simon: and then, you committed the cardinal sin. you started betting on n.b.a. games, including games that you were reffing yourself. >> donaghy: yes. >> simon: what were you thinking? >> donaghy: obviously, i wasn't thinking to cross that line. >> simon: why do you think you did it? >> donaghy: because i fell into an addiction of gambling. >> simon: how did it begin? >> donaghy: playing golf at c

gerian officials say abdulmallab returns to lagos for one y, on christmas eve, to boa the flight. he checks no bags, and pses through security. he aives in amsterdaon christmas y. the dutch inrior minister says nothing seems iss before he boards northwest flight 25for detroit. >> ( translated the suspect did not leave the customs ar schiphol during his transfe hepent the usual transfer timea couple of hours as per the norm, in the airport's internationalounge. as p protocol, he had to pass a curity gate within the customs areat schiphol, a metal detector, and this presented no irregularitie >> reporter: hours ler, abdulmutallab's flight was on final proach to detroit, when he allegedly tried to set f the bomb and was overpowered now, as he sits in a feral prison in michan, his ties to yemen and its gring al-qaeda presen have come under intense new scrutiny today, security forcestormed an al-qaida de-out along yemen's weern coast, and arrested at let one suspect. and the deputynterior minister declared h government "will continue its strikes against the grp until it is totally elim

they make official notifications to the families in the event of death or injury. we have a memorial garden with stones with names on them. that is part of the indoctrination process for the people who come to deploy to understand the significant sacrifices the others have made. >> let me talk about injury. you have employees that are american citizens, european, third-world, indigenous. do you keep track of all of them or just americans? >> i believe we keep track of what we consider ex-pats which are foreign nationals who from europe freed third country nationals, we really do not have interaction with the families. -- from europe. third country nationals, we do not have interaction. >> do you have something in your contract lines out how you treat the wounded? >> it is part of proposals because it is an important part of the contract. >> in terms of your seeking to recruit, i would think they would want to know what benefits and how the family is treated. i am assuming that is true. i found this panel very helpful and i appreciate the questions. i do not think w

officials are not going that far. their operating belief is that these are the five young men from northern virginia but they cannot confirm that information at this point in time. and they underline that at this point no charges have been filed against anyone. >> larry: do the parents know that the boys were going overseas? >> from what i understand, they were concerned about this. and there was a video left behind by one of the young men. as it's been described by some of the individuals you'll be talking to here tonight, it was a very disturbing video. and that there were hints in there that these young men were going somewhere. there were images of conflict and an exhortation that young muslims had an obligation to do something. so the families suspected that pakistan was possibly their final destination. that is why the state department reached out and informed pakistani authorities that they might be there. >> larry: you have viewed the video, is that correct? >> yes, i did. >> larry: how did you obtain it? >> t

his teachers had concerns about his, his family had concerns about him, and now british officials had concerns about him. while police are still investigating the apartment that he lived in here for three years, we understand that security services in britain are making sure he doesn't have any colleagues or former friends who might be about to perpetrate similar terror attacks. the search of this apartment goes on, but the picture of a man getting moorad callized is emerging here, larry. >> larry: i understand the government wants a dna sample the suspect. why? >> we're not clear on that, larry. the government wants to go forward. in fact, they'll be in court tomorrow making that specific request asking to get a dna sample from the 23-year-old. why they want it, we don't know. we anticipate in the court documents we'll get an answer to that tomorrow. >> larry: what's the situation at the airport now in london, nic? have precautions doubled? >> precautions certainly if you're taking an international flight to the united states, you go through the additional checks. you can expect long

in pakistan, intelligence officials said missile attacks by u.s. drone aircraft killed at least 17 people today, near the afghan border. they said some of the victims appeared to be foreign fighters. the u.s. has carried out more than 40 drone attacks this year inside pakistan. u.s. officials today played down reports that insurgents in iraq and afghanistan have intercepted live video from american drones. an account in "the wall street journal" said militants are using $26 software programs-- available online-- to hack into the feeds. a senior pentagon official insisted the problem has been addressed. the senate banking committee has endorsed the nomination of federal reserve chairman ben bernanke for a second term. the vote was 16 to 7. supporters said bernanke helped stave off financial ruin, while opponents argued he should have seen the crisis coming. >> had he and others not acted, some of whom sit on this committee at a time of critical importance to our country, we'd be looking at a very, very different, and far more dire situation in our n

this is the second official portrait that i have.fficial portrait of the pentagon in the hall of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. that portrait was done during the clinton administration. and that was during the time when al gore was doing the reinventing government program. so, it is an eight by 10 glossy that has been blown up. [laughter] it is an aid by 10 glossy that i do like and it was blown up to full size, put in a framed and hung on the wall. [laughter] you are even come on today -- you are even today hillary. >> well, that is how we balance the budget. >> i am honored and thank full for your presence today. so many have come from -- friends and family from the bronx, friends and family as a soldier, my life in the government. if i can audit knowledge everyone here or we would be all afternoon, but there are a few people i have to say a word about. first, i want to thank the artist, stephen colstonpoleson for a marvelous job. stephen is a wonderful artist and i thank him for the magic he has applied to this portrait, i

the american people deserve an official hearing into a corn. we have repeatedly asked for that and have not gotten it. today's government-sponsored forum will attend to -- i attempt to shed light on this abuse, in spite of the fact that it is by definition partisan. and it is necessarily partisan. we would like to have this committee appropriately non- partisan. partisan. we will show that acornno carri0 as they know about it on a corn. anyone having any information concerning further wrongdoings of acorn can go to our whistle- blower web site. republicans.oversight.gov. write to us or call us. this the first that and having the needy in america, those needing to renegotiate loans, those maintaining -- those with problems maintaining their housing, and those who would like to take advantage of their rights as citizens to take advantage -- to use organizations that are not tainted with one party. we're grateful but the documents -- for the documents that we have today, it thousand pages provided by various states. my staff tells me that in fact

it was unclear how the man identified by federal officials managed to get the explosive on the plane.it was a plane carrying 270 passengers that departed from amsterdam with passengers who originated in nigeria. a senior administration officials said the government did not yet know whether the man had the capacity to take down the plane. the article goes on to say that a federal counterterrorism official who asked not to be identified said that the suspect was apparently in a government law enforcement intelligence data base but it is not clear what extremist groups or individuals he might be linked to. ubt "the washington post," the suspect's name appears to be included in the government's record of terrorism suspects. he has told federal investigators that he has ties to al qaeda and traveled to yemen to collect the incendiary device and instructions on how to use it. we want to find out from you your thoughts on whether the process needs to be re-evaluated and changed. east lansing, mich., an airline for democrats. you can see the airport. tell us your thoughts. caller: i think the

jeff lebo still cueing on the officials chewing on the officials' ears. >> daymeon: if you are coachow, you have a chance to win the basketball game. what you are doing if you are coach bennett i'm expecting zeglinski to go up and make the free-throws and afterwards i'm sure we will pro epifor auburn to try to get down in a hurry. >> matt: oddly enough, zeglinski who does not hit from the free-throw line that much because seven a three-point shooter, only 6-10 at the free-throw line this season. >> you know is a better free-throw shooter just. he is not that high that you want 2:but again, he has to make all three and definitely has to make two to keep from being down. if i'm auburn i'm loud and hoping you get a miss right now. >> matt: virginia, 5-7 as a team at the free-throw line. only seven assists. auburn has missed more than virginia has taken. >> daymeon: any time you are playing and you got pressure you want to see the first one go down and takes the pressure off. >> matt: tie game. and coach jeff lebo fryin leboo ice them a little bit. you want to make some type of plan whet

officials are not going that far. the operating believe is that they were the young men but they cannot confirm it and at this point, no charges have been filed against anyone. >> do the parents know that the boys were going overseas? >> what i understand, they were concerned and there was a video left behind by one of the young men. it's its described, it was a disturbing video and there were hints in there that the young men were going some where. there were images of conflict and an exhortation that young muslims had to do something. and they suspected that pakistan was the final desation. that is why the state department reached out and informed pakistani authority they might be there. >> you have viewed the video, is that correct? >> yes,dy. >> larry: how did you obtain it? >> the families brought it with them in the presence of lawyers. >> larry: what disturbed you about it? >> it's almost like a video on the internet. young muslims misread and misunderstanding verses of the koran to justify actions they would l

the prospect of filling it appeals to thompson village's president when federal officials toured the site last month. >> from what i've heard so far thompson would be even more secure. that's what would make me sleep better tonight. >> warner: today some townspeople said it's time to put the prison to good use. >> i think it's a good thing. it will bring jobs to the area. the economy will be boosted. >> warner: but others in the area were more skeptical. >> as far as the residents are concerned in the town, sure, i'm sure it will be great for them. i don't know. my comment about it relates to the idea of him being... any of them being here in the first place. i don't think they belong here. >> warner: whatever it does for thompson, the transfer plan, if carried out, would sharply reduce the inmate population at guantanamo to roughly 100 detainees. but administration officials have acknowledged they won't meet the president's initial deadline for closing it by january. now, more on today's announcement. we get that from lynn sweet, washington bureau chief and columnist for the "chicag

officials there were preparing for the worst. we're looking at total accumulations now through friday, 15 to 20 inch range there. >> sreenivasan: and farther south, heavy rain overnight knocked out power at houston's hobby airport. electronic ticket machines shut down, and travelers had to wait in long lines to check in manually. the storm, which tore through the southwest earlier this week, is expected to lurch toward an already slushy east coast by week's end. pope benedict xvi had a scare this evening as he celebrated christmas eve mass. a woman jumped security barriers in st. peter's basilica and knocked the pontiff down. the procession halted, and guards began running to the pope's aid. but he was unhurt and continued with the celebration. vatican officials said the woman was apparently mentally unstable. in the middle east, thousands of pilgrims gathered in bethlehem under tight security as singers, rock bands and dancers performed. bomb attacks across iraq took the lives of at least 27 people, as a major shiite religious o

in addition, as ted mentioned, close to to launch officially approved blogs -- close to 200 officially approved blogs, and this is according to the official web site of the cuban journalists union. the emergence of this blogging community can be traced back to april 2007, when the first few belongs -- blogs were written. most independent journalists and free press advocates point to sanchez as the pioneer of the border community -- blogger community. hers was the first to be written under her own byline, -- itbiline. -- her biline. citizen journalists can offer opinions that have no room in the cuban media. bloggers are largely based in havana, where computers and internet are easier to access them on the rest of the island. most of the bloggers are in their twenties, thirties, lawyers, musicians, artists, and others. our analysis of the more than 20 journalistic blogs find that the critically examine issues that cubans face daily, like food shortages, housing problems, education, health care, and also restrictions to internet access. there are also some blogs that chronicle sports and

because they are law enforcement officials, for example.there is a lot of sensitive information in here. my question for you, have you notified the agencies whose credentials are included in this document to tell them that the information is out there? and that now their credentials might be vulnerable to being counterfeited? >> thank you, senator. i should thank the under- secretary for the opportunity to answer this question. let me echo the comments that this is entirely unacceptable. no one at this department has any opinion to the contrary on this. you bring out to what the next steps are. first of all, a full investigation is underway. in the last 48 hours we have removed information from the website. the practice of posting these documents has been fully suspended upon further review. all standard operating procedures have been designated as ssi in whole the appropriate persons have been put on administrative leave. . >> we have already put in place interim security measures being deployed enterprise-wide. we have, as you have asked,

wagner, a few months ago at a reception i had a pleasure of sitting next to a former mi5 official and i shared some insights on this war on terror of forging solid and productive relationships among federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. his point to me was that what the brits do and we do not do is use the contacts we have, the continuing contacts we have with state and local officials to task them to bring information up the chain of command. we send information down but local police department or a local sheriff's office is far more likely to know when or hear when something amiss is going on in their community and report that back up the chain. so we've talked about that. and i think while it's very important -- and i hear complaints and not enough intelligence is being pushed downstream, there may not be enough intelligence coming upstream and i hope you will pursue that. we can make fusion centers work but there's a lot of intelligence, i believe, can be gathered -- best gathered at the local level. on the federal level we need to make a firmer commitment to training

officials that they believe he has gone operational. other words, he's crossed a threshold from propaganda to operations which makes him extremely dangerous. and he's a very crizz mat hick individual. he's american. he understands the west. and some people see him as the rising star >> all this week at 8:00, a rare glimpse into the nation's highest court -- tonight, we talk with justices stephen brier and clarence thomas. just as briars gives a tour of his private chambers and justice thomas discusses how his approach to oral argument differs from his colleagues. interviews with supreme court justices, this week at 8:00 on c-span. for more information about the court, go to c-span.org where you will find a virtual tour of the building and a photo gallery of its construction and interviews with the justices. >> tonight on c-span2, notable books of 2009. "the td" looks at the best books of the year as voted by several publications. tonight, the authors of "the audacity to win" and "the culture of corruption" and others. you can see the va

he's in the ear of the official hoping that the official will back off and let the team play. this is a familiar style of defense. >> barry: a traveling call against mann. sixth stanford turnover. very uncharacteristic. >> marques: he wasn't penciled in this year. they would cause some problems. the transfer comes in. the senior shooter extraordinare. he has to hold down the point guard shot and withstand the full court pressure that oklahoma state is throwing at them. >> barry: there's gulley bringing the ball across. driving on trotter. pilgrim had seven. >> marques: matt pilgrim started out and he had a look at kentucky. kentucky didn't play that on a transfer year, and that situation changed. he moved on to oklahoma state and petitioned it and got this year so he didn't have to sit out again. he's good. he's good. >> barry: got a man in the air and puts it on the floor with travis. >> marques: oklahoma state is causing major problem. that athleticism and quickness beating stanford to the shot. zimmermann is a catch-and-shoot guy. there's the catch and shoot, and there's th

. >> a few days later the kelly report was officially published and we asked what they thought of it.>> we hear of christopher kelly of the rumors are leaked. >> the most crucial of the issues is accommodation. the main recommendation here is that support of mortgage should cease and in the future the members of parliament should be only offered that of rent and in some cases hotels. >> christopher kelly had more reasons. >> it is considered a package as a whole, and i think that cherry picking is a bad idea. once you open something up like this, who knows where it will stop. >> next they move on the floor of the house of commons and that kelly would be the head of the authority. and mp's are less thrilled as he gets double of what they get paid. >> he will be paid a maximum of 100,000 pounds per year. order, order. >> harriet harmon came to the dispatch box and said they would have to take this without the commons vote. >> this house of commons has yet to fully resolve this damaging episode. but with clear acknowledgment of the public anger, with firm action already taken with the ke

in moscow to of a russian officials he remarked in a briefing earlier that north korean officials acknowledgearance of the six-party talks and a joint statement of 2005. in a statement and calls for the north to end its nuclear an update on the climate some of this hour. developing countries are refusing to produce a bit in working groups, putting it talks in copenhagen into disarray they are demanding that rich countries raised pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. meanwhile, a senior official says the meeting by five world powers on iran's nuclear program has been counseled. to china's opposition. the u.s., china, russia, britain, and germany plan to meet on friday in brussels. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> head of the u.s. enmr!y information administration announces projections for u.s. energy supply, demand, and prices for the year 2035. live coverage begins at 9:30 eastern on c-span3. the peterson-2 commission on but to reform was to the discussion on the federal debt. participants include former congressional budget office director, alice rivlin and

we could see potentially some assassinations of mexican officials. could become much like what happened in colombia in the 80s when the war on drug cartels there caused a lot of civilian casualties. >> woodruff: david luhnok of the "wall street journal" joining us from mexico city, thank you. >> ifill: next, violence in another part of the world in the african nation of somalia. and to jeffrey brown. >> reporter: this was the scene last week when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a medical school graduation in mogadishu, the somali capital. 22 people were killed, including three government ministers. somalia has been plagued by civil war, piracy off its shores, and massive violence for several decades. just in the last three years, 19,000 civilians have been killed and a million and half displaced. the group believed to be behind the most recent attack, "al shabab", meaning 'youth' in arabic controls the southern part of the country and most of the capital. it also has ties to al qaeda. and that has raised new alarms. >> where al qaeda and its alli

two former cia officials will talk about it. (announcer) we understand. you want time to enjoy the holidays. >>> joining us is tyler drumheller, served the agency for more than 25 years. the division chief of director of operations in europe. author of the book "on the brink: an insider's account of how the white house compromised american intelligence." also with us is larry johnson. he served as deputy director of the u.s. state department's office of kourcht terrorism. a former cia analyst and co-founder and ceo of berg associates. first, our condolences. eight americans killed in afghanistan suicide bombing all believed to be cia employees. you have a comment on that, tyler? >> yeah. i just heard that just now, and it just underlines the world we live in and the sacrifice that the officers of the cia and not only the military but the cia make in these places really is heartbreaking. my thoughts go out to their families, obviously. >> larry: larry? >> it's a no-win situation. the cia gets kicked around for not connecting dots. then you've got men and w

. >> larry: the washington times quotes that homeland security officials have good intentions but they lack purpose. he thinks the homeland security has not risen to the level it beneath to achieve. agree or disagree? >> he is right. there are a lot of problems on the president's plate. he is dealing with health care, finances and global warming and all very important problems but the most important problem in the world is keeping americans safe. and this has to be at the top of the lits morks matter what else is going on. >> larry: we always look back and say this guy shouldn't have been stopped at the airport. isn't it true that president bush had an august 6th memo that might have prevented 9/11? >> that is a little unfair. there wasn't a single branch of the united states g. that get with terrorism that wasn't responsible. the problem this time, you know, it's like reading the same script over again. they talking about the fact that intelligence agencies didn't talk to one another. and that was the major fault we found in the report. if they had talked to each other, there was a po

illinois was officially notifiedn a letter from the secretaries of statedefense and homeland security us the attoey general and director of national telligence. after a briefing at thwhite house, governor paquinn and senar dick durbin told reporters why they enthusiastically back the move. >> this is a great opportuty. our ate unemployment numbers, the most recent es, were 11%. in some parts of the state like northwesterillinois, even higher. people are desperate f good jobs. this jobs we're talkg about here are some of the best . over 3,000 n employees in this area, half of them om local people. >> warner:ut the senate's top republican mch mcconnell said the plan wod make illinois a target fo terrorists. >> gitmo-norths something the american peoe are early opposed to. it is outrageouso suggest th this is a good sort of federal government jobs program. warner: he also notedhat current law rs bringing to u. shores any long-term prisoners eaarked for indefinite dettion. activist groups o have urged guantana's closure applauded the decision to move se detainees but they eressed reservat

the truth in advertising laws that they impose on the rest of the nation, surely this would be the official title of indeed this 1,279-page piece of legislation. madam chair, section 1609-n for those who may have written the legislation and forget it that creates a $200 billion bailout fund. to quote from "a field of dreams," if you build it, they will come. the only reason to create a wall street bailout fund is to bail out wall street permanently. the democrats claim, madam chair, that the bailout fund will not be paid for by taxpayers, but madam chair, these are the very same people who told us that the government-sponsored enterprises would never, ever receive a dime of taxpayer money. and i guess in a sense they were literally correct. instead it's $1 trillion, $1 trillion of taxpayer money now committed to the failed government-sponsored enterprises. these are the same people that told us, that hey, don't worry about the social security trust fund, it will get paid back. the national federal flood insurance program will never need a tax infusion. they were wrong then and they are wron

officials in africa about his son's extremist views.it now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligent -- intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so to get the suspect's name oó3 a no-fly this. there appears to be other deficiencies as well. even without this one report, there were bits of informational available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together. we achieved much since 9/11 and terms of collecting of the mission that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks. it is becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have. had this critical information been shared it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect could have emerged. the warning signs would have triggered red flags and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for

a top official says an attack has killed 20 people and wounded 60. many of the wounded are in critical condition. the interior minister said the suicide bomber detonated his expose of a the start of monday's procession. the israeli defense minister says iran will have the technology to build a nuclear bomb next year. they will be able to produce one in 2011. israel rejects their claim that it is designed to produce energy and not bombs. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> the columnist and author of four books takes your calls and females. it is three hours with michelle malkin on "book tv." >> "washington journal" continues. host: does the federal reserve have to much power? we will take your telephone calls, emails, and tweets. we will get to your calls in just a minute. this is from the "kansas city star." said chief bernanke -- the fed chief bernanke faces critics in his bid for a second term. it says we cannot overlook the fact that he has presided over one of the biggest economic catastrophes we have had as a country. tha

now we don't have the bill, we don't have the official score from the congressional budget office. seventy-two hours is three more days. and even though a democratic senators and other republican senator said we want to know what it costs, know what it is, and know how to do will affect us. they want it done before christmas. >> may be the reason why they don't want it to be online for 72 hours is because when they examine what we have on page 324 on this bill, and a billion dollar tax who don't have approved plans. a 20 billion-dollar tax on businesses that cannot afford to offer insurance to their employees. on page 1979, raises the number was 150 billion-dollar tax on many middle-class workers using so-called cadillac health-insurance lance. page 1997 will cost families and individuals an additional 5 billion by prohibiting the use of cb set aside for health care expenses. page 2010, make the cost of life-saving medicine more expensive by taxi pharmaceutical research $22 billion. the list goes on and on and including page 2040 increase the medicare payroll taxes by $53.8. that's

we need to give officials the tools they need to find these terrorist plots. we must not forget that we are still under attack and that the threat is very real. waiting until terrorist acts occur and innocent men and women and children are murdered is not an acceptable answer. we must deal to detect and intercept terrorists early. . murdered is not an acceptable answer. we must be able to intercept terrorists early. in doing so we need to answer fundamental questions. how can we identify who is on the path to terrorism? without infringing on the rights of those exercising the constitutional freedoms? are there trends and patterns? are there risk factors that make an individual more or less susceptible to going down this path? and i look forward to hearing the answers to some of these questions. and madam chairman, i hope this will be just the first in a series of hearings on this topic, and that in the future we will be able to hear what the government is doing to help understand and combat the spread of radicalization and terrorist ideology. there are outreac

the american people deserve an official hearing into a corn. we have repeatedly asked for that and have not gotten it. today's government-sponsored forum will attend to -- i attempt to shed light on this abuse, in spite of the fact that it is by definition partisan. and it is necessarily partisan. we would like to have this committee appropriately non- partisan. partisan. we will show that acornno carri0 as they know about it on a corn. anyone having any information concerning further wrongdoings of acorn can go to our whistle- blower web site. republicans.oversight.gov. write to us or call us. this the first that and having the needy in america, those needing to renegotiate loans, those maintaining -- those with problems maintaining their housing, and those who would like to take advantage of their rights as citizens to take advantage -- to use organizations that are not tainted with one party. we're grateful but the documents -- for the documents that we have today, it thousand pages provided by various states. my staff tells me that in fact

it was officially designated a national cemetery, and it began to fill up very, very quickly. this part of the cemetery we are in, section 47, -- 27, was called the lower cemetery. as you can see it is in the edge of arlington. there is a road just outside of the cemetery here. you conceivably mention from this location. and that's the way the officers who were living and working in the lee mansion during the war wanted it. they would want to see the burials come in. they didn't want to be living in a graveyard, working in a greater. they wanted these graves out of sight and out of mind. the quartermaster general, brigadier general montgomery banks, didn't like that idea. as a matter of fact, he didn't have much use of robert e. lee. they had served together in the union army. banks considered to be a traitor. and thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virginia. so banks came to arlington on the day it was officially begun as a cemetery, june 14, 1864, came to this part of the cemetery. looked around and was u