now, the relocation of the internal panetta review was lawful and handled in a manner consistent withts classification. no law prevents the relocation of a document in the committee's possession from a c.i.a. facility to secure committee offices on capitol hill. as i mentioned before, the document was handled and transported in a manner consistent with its classification, redacted appropriately and it remains secured with restricted access in committee spaces. now, the january 15, 2014 meeting with director john brennan. in late 2013, i requested in writing that the c.i.a. provide a final and complete version of the internal panetta review to the committee, as opposed to the partial document the committee currently possesses. in december, during an open committee hearing, senator mark udall echoed this request. in early january, 2014, the c.i.a. informed the committee it would not provide the internal panetta review to the committee, citing the deliberative nature of the document. shortly thereafter, on january 15, 2014, c.i.a. director brennan requested an emergency meeting to inform

informed the committee it would not provide the internal panetta review to the committee, citing theeliberative nature of the document. shortly thereafter, on january 15, 2014, c.i.a. director brennan requested an emergency meeting to inform me and vice chairman chambliss that without prior notification or approval, c.i.a. personnel had conducted a search -- that was john brennan's word -- of the committee computers at the offcite facility. -- offsite facility. this search was not only of documents provided by the committee by the c.i.a. but also a search of the stand-alone and walled-off committee network drive containing the committee's own internal work product and communications. according to brennan, the computer search was conducted in response to indications that some members of the committee staff might already have had access to the internal panetta review. the c.i.a. did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review or how we obtained it. instead, the c.i.a. just went and searched the committee's computers. the c.i.a. has still not as

[applause] and p for panetta. it is an absolute thrill and a joy to be here in monterey and with leon and sylvia and with all of you. ronald reagan's greatest strength. he knew why he ran for the presidency, and he knew what he would do once he was president. he would focus the country and the world on the united states rebuilding its economy and creating respect for america around the world. cutting the rate of spending increase, cutting taxes, rebuilding our national security, building up, and finding over burdensome regulations to eliminate. he stayed focused all eight years to those priorities. he was able to put in practice, along with the private sector, obviously, 18 million new jobs in an economy that he inherited that with double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, and america was, as jimmy carter said, suffering malaise. at the end of the carter administration, most people suggested that the presidency might be too big in this modern era for any one person. they stopped saying that with ronald

i love leon panetta. you guys are lucky to have him. [applause] know, anything i say, you can blame it on him, because he taught me it all. greatest strength. clinton'sesident greatest strength was his intellectual curiosity. and his absolute ability to do the homework it takes to understand a problem from all angles and his willingness to accept advice from people of all walks of life. theknow, we could walk into oval office and give them a piece of advice, and we could say red, yellow, and green, and he would see orange, and then he would say wow. he could take a problem of no matter what magnitude, and he could distill it down into some facts that he could communicate it so that anybody could understand it, and that is a unique skill. we could have nobel scientists in any subject coming in two weeks from now, and we could not get him to hit a lick at a snake for the first 13 days. we would not do anything, but on would seeday, you books from the white house library stacked up this high on thatesk, and he reads like old evelyn woods r

practices learned of the fact that senate staffers had a document which has come to be known as the panetta review document when cia officials didn't believe that it formally had been provided to the senate investigators as part of a huge dump of more than a million documents that was given to the investigators. when the cia made the request about where the document had come from, that the senate investigators were inquiring about, a real standoff between committee chairman diane feinstein and cia director john brennan began. >> we continue this evening with mark lyall grant, the united kingdom's ambassador to the united nations. >> it's clear that the intense negotiations that have been going on behind the scenes may be coming to fruition. and we do hope that there will be agreement by both sides, both by hamas and by israel do the over 72 humanitarian hour pause. but the trick is to use that humanitarian pause if it sticks which previous pauses have not done, to try and sustain a more sustainable cease-fire. by sustainable i mean we have to address some of the underlying causes. this is t

cia interrogation practices, learned of the fact that senate staffers had a document, which is the panetta review document, when the cia officials didn't believe that had been provided to the senate investigators as part of a hearing dump of documents that was given to the investigators. requestscia made those about where the documents had come from the senate investigators were inquiring about, a real standoff between the committee chairman, dianne and john brennan began. referral from what was alleged to be possible criminal activity i senate staffers in obtaining the document. that is what the inspector general was describing as the improper actions. >> will it lead to brennan's resignation? >> the initial response from the white house today was to defend brennan, to say that this had not damaged him. we will have to see how this plays out. in particular, we will have to see what senator feinstein, the leader of the senate committee, w angry she is. feinstein and brennan clashed personally. brennan made a public speech, a public criticism of the head of his senate oversight committee in

has still not asked the committee any questions about how the committee acquired the panetta review. in place of asking any questions, the c.i.a.'s unauthorized search of the committee computers was followed by an allegation which we now have seen repeated anonymously in the press, that the committee staff had somehow obtained the document through unauthorized or criminal means, perhaps to include hacking into the c.i.a.'s computer network. as i have described, this is not true. the document was made available to the staff at the offsite facility and it was located using a c.i.a.-provided search tool, running a query of the information provided to the committee pursuant to its investigation. director brennan stated that the c.i.a.'s search had determined that the committee staff had copies of the internal panetta review on the committee staff's shared drive and had accessed them numerous times. he indicated at the meeting that he was going to order further forensic investigation of the committee network to learn more about activities of the committee's oversight staff. two days after

secretary panetta's opening of the combat of women. what is significant? i think what is significant is, do you think we did this out of pure, alter richard -- altruistic reasons? i do not think so, either. one of the problems we had was, with our operations in afghanistan and iraq, we needed more combat medics. the great signature achievement of this war and conflict has been a better capability for medical care at the point of injury. if you look at what our medical establishment has done over the 12 years, we are saving people with wounds on like any, that we have ever seen. our medics are women. we had to figure out a way to get that additional talent to the battlefield. what we did was abandoned the combat assignment restrictions that had previously prevented women medics to serving at the point of injury. that is one reason we did that. the second reason is, believe it or not, there are not as many folks who are qualified to join our armed forces these days. it is about maximizing talent, having opportunities for military servers, for women, who can

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former secretary of defense leon panetta moderated the discussion. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you very much, and i welcome all of you to the final forum of our lecture series this year. our theme as you all know, we are looking at 100 years since world war i, 2014 to 1914, an awful lot of history. and to analyze the changes that have been made, we have looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena. we have looked at the role of government, and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security.

if david petraeus is in the room, leon panetta is in the room and secretary of state all say we have to do something about this and we have to take action right away and actually arm these people that you call pharmacists and doctors who, by the way, they got word of that quote the president just said the other day, highly insulted and i believe we won the revolutionary war with a bunch of farmers and doctors. having said all that, the president didn't take the secretary of defense and the c.i.a. director and the secretary of state's advice. who was he listening to? >> we don't know. but the dance hillary clinton is doing as we approach 2016 might not work so well for her. karl rove puts it in historical perspective. >> in 1968 vice president hubert humphrey who disagreed with president johnson on the vietnam war, had difficulty breaking from the administration. he finally did in a speech in salt lake in october. by doing so, he neither placated the critics of president johnson's war policy nor kept the support of all of johnson's -- >> it's just the beginning. vernon jordan is havin

it was not until later i realized what was being told panetta thought he was saying the trip would be hard. the trip was easy. i know if anyone has read books that combine traveling and history, they look easy to write to. it becomes very hard because you start thinking, well, i'm talking about myself too much, this too much. the rate -- the way i wrote a book which i would not advise anyone to do is i wrote everything and then spent two years editing, editing, editing, cutting and was about a thousand pages when i first wrote it. it took me a couple of years to write it. >> did you ever at any point in time ever feel caught up and those political or defensive school of thought one. >> the only library that had any was the nixon library. everett @booktv terms of different people having different issues. it is pretty seamless and most of the libraries. everything gets along pretty well. i go to the nixon library in the nixon library you go through the bookstore. and then there is an elevator brick behind. she is anywhere you're sending pre she says to my don't know. i was picking up on

leon panetta when he was over at cia, david petraeus, internally within the obama administration they were warning back a year ago, if we do ia, first of all it will spill over and we are creating a vacuum in which these sorts of forces can grow so they were lobbying quite specifically that we have to start arming the moderate opposition and start creating that. they now feel their views were painfully vindicated by events and now it may be too late or we have to do something much bigger. true well a lot of the foreign-policy agencies all against the white house and the white house was very firm. >> the president had done a series of interviews. one with the economist and another with todd freeman in which he tried to outline his foreign-policy and he started with the west point speech. said he thought it was a fantasy. it's a difference of opinion about whether he could have done something in syria. >> he still believes that, david. hillary clinton is very modest and it is kind of a winning interview and i really liked her after reading it. we will never know. she is very human and t

so has secretary panetta. so has former deputy director of central intelligence petraeus.he president didn't see any way that this was going to work. and that was a dispute between them. i thought we should have picked a horse. i'm not sure we are in a very good position now to run this run backward and to change the outcome of the course of events in syria. but this is just one of those unknowns that we're going to have to deal with for a long time. the track record of building up such actors is not great. so you know, it's an open question whether it would have succeeded or not. >> daniel benjamin -- director of the john sloan dickey center at darth mouth, thank you so much for your time. vindication for hillary clinton? why pointing out president obama's failure in syria is pretty close to her saying i told you so. what would she have done different? angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. by making it easy to buy and schedule service by top-rated providers, conveniently stay up-to-date on progress, and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects w

advisor, which lasted about 18 months because he is totally unsuited for the role. , whoutting in leon panetta is been a wonderful civil servant of the years, but was a rather tired civil servant by this time. he was not an effective director of the central intelligence agency. captured from the outset of the operational side of the house and he carried out the white house mission started by george w. bush to weaken the process of oversight within the cia. remember, the role of the statutory inspector general of the cia was extremely important. it was created by one of the reforms after iran contra. a statutory ig as opposed to just a regular inspector general. this was an inspector general appointed by the president of the united states. individual a terminus amount of clout. we think of the work was done by the statutory ig's over the years, particularly the reports and 911 a lot of reports we had not seen yet, the report that work, itntion policy produced a 6000 page report that isortunately the cia dragging details on in terms of sanitizing for the american public areas i think senator fei

overold his own -- overrode his own national security team including hillary clinton, including leon panettaouple of years ago when they were pleading witheding with ths administration to go in and arm the good rebels as opposed to the isis-type rebels. he overrode them, and, yeah, this was our attempt to go in and or a very narrow level protect citizens. this goes to the narrow focus this white house is insisting on having on the threat of isis. isis is not just about kidnapping americans in the region, it's about a direct and deadly threat to the united states the same way that the prime minister of britain very clearly made that statement this week. barack obama does not see this as a clear and deadly throat the united states -- threat to the united states, which is it is. jon: this is the same group he compare today a jv team putting on lakers' jerseys back in january. thank you both. >> thank you, jon. molly: now to the u.s. strategy in iraq, the u.s. stepping up fighter jet and drone strikes in iraq, and the obama administration is weighing more military intervention that could include

you know that two years ago the entire national security team, clinton, petraeus and panetta recommended arming them. the white house said no. now we have to get on 0 it. >> general keane, thank you for joining us. >>> when we come back, two americans are killed in syria fighting alongside isis. so how many more westerners are there, and how big a threat do they pose to the homeland? our "name your price" tool helps -- oh, jamie, you got a little something on the back of your shoe there. a price tag! danger! price tag alert! oh. hey, guys. price tag alert! is this normal? well, progressive is a price tag free zone. we let you tell us what you want to pay, and we help you find options to fit your budget. where are they taking him? i don't know. this seems excessive! decontamination in progress. i don't want to tell you guys your job, but... policies without the price tags. now, that's progressive. from the experts in feminine protection. introducing dance-all-you-want bladder leak protection new always discreet underwear for sensitive bladders. only always discreet underwear has soft dual

the secretary of defense leon panetta, david petraeus, the secretary of state's envoy to the region, people resigned, the chief person for the state department in charge of syrian policy resigned. there were a lot of people in the administration who thought president obama made the wrong decision. it's hard to argue that what is going on right now in iraq and syria was from -- you know, was a good result. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. we'll be watching your interview with josh rogin on that said horse hockey. >> if you don't like horse hockey, what am i supposed to say? >> horse bleep. other way we get it. >> that's so hip. >> that's how we roll. >> thank you, jake tapper. >> thanks. >> let's take this offline. thank you, my friend. >>> coming up next, the iconic laugh factory paid tribute to robin williams today on the billboard out front. the owner of the club says that 80% of comedians come from tragedy so he's set up the sofas and two nights a week the comics meet with psychotherapists to help them. how much help do they need? where did he get the idea? who is using this sofa? we'll ask him

as hillary clinton argued recently, she and general petraeus, leon panetta had all advanced the argument previously in the administration several years ago, the same argument that i and my democratic counterpart made in our committee, we should be arming the free syrian army because it was the opposition to assad and it was clear that isis in a vacuum would move into -- move into that position, and that's what we've seen happen. so -- >> would you support troops on the ground, meaning american troops on the ground? >> absolutely not. >> you would not? >> there is no support in the united states on either said of the aisle for introducing u.s. ground troops there. the question is do we support the kurds? do we support the free syrian army in their effort to turn back isis? and in doing that we need to give them the heavy equipment, such as anti-tank missiles that they desperately need, and that was communicated to us but three days ago by the kurdish foreign minister. that's what we should be doing. >> congressman, as horrific as was that execution of james foley, does it change the d dyn

the secretary of defense leon panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff go to the white house for a prearranged meeting. they have been met in the hallway by general carter hamm who had been getting reports from stewed guard and he ran up to see them and said hey we have a real problem. the diplomatic compound is under attack. you might want to inform the president and here's the best information i've got so far. fragmentary but we diverted a predatory -- predator and it will be overread 5:05 p.m. so we will have eyes on intelligence to see what's going on. so they are getting all this literally as they are walking to the see the president and they get there there and talk to him for half an hour and bring him up to. >> on what's happening. as best anyone that i know has been able to piece this together and that includes the members of congress who have been actively investigating this for the past year and a half as best anyone knows the president essentially told leon panetta the secretary of defense and charlie dempsey guys i have to -- in las vegas and this is really bad a

obama rejects clinton, petraeus and panetta's proposal to arm the free syrian army.g the same time president obama rejected a request from the iraqi government for emergency air strikes to stop isis advance. two weeks later, president obama wound up authorizing air strikes himself. general jack keane, a fox news military analyst, good evening, welcome. good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> the additional 130 marines and special ops forces on the ground to assist in this case, what do you make of that decision? >> well, i think it's probably needed assistance with the evacuation, and also to flush out the joint operations center that we have in erbil. in your intro you mentioned june is when they took mosul, emergency request from prime minister maliki for air support. we rejected that. if we had provided that air support then we would have been able to stop isil's advance, because we have the capability to do that. we can't defeat them, we can stop it. there would be no mt. sinjar today. that's tied to that policy decision we made, and we were waiting for pol

there was cia director petraeus, defense secretary panetta, a bunch of state department officials. >>ot to mention a lot of people in the syrian opposition begging for arms. for president obama to be so dismissive, in his "new york times" interview he said it was a fantasy these doctors and pharmacists would be able to beat the assad regime. to the doctors and pharmacists fighting for their lives in syria, that was seen as an insult. doctors and pharmacists and farmers, this sends a message to people all over the world fighting for dignity and democracy that may not have been what president obama meant. he said this in a private meeting i was able to report. that is the feeling a lot of these people have now given his remarks. >> there's also a pushback to secretary clinton saying that don't do student stuff which has been described as a principle of the obama administration. is enough of one. and there's some pushback to that. move on org.com put out a press release today. david axed rod tweeted just to clarify don't do student stuff means like occupying iraq in the first bad which w

been clear, the incredible and rapid spread of isis across syria and back into iraq, remember leon panettathe feel sometimes of a mission accomplished moment, they were overly triumphant about their successful defeat of the original al qaeda and had not perhaps thought about how it could become an even more dangerous enemy. i think that's where we're at right now is that it looks highly reactive and looks inconsistent place to place. that's often the case by the way, but you have a little bit of a communications challenge too, it seems to me, the administration is a highly political administration and often eager to take credit for what they've done in the world and made various claims at various points about their foreign policy that in hindsight don't look as strong. i think that quote from president obama is a good example of that. >> go ahead, sam. >> one thing that does seem to be unifying, i guess is the word we want to use, xipt throughout all of these, the president seems to have this view of military action as not a cure-all, something as he said that you can put a lid on a crisis

i think the galling thing for people in the state department, and other people, leone panetta over at cia, david petraeus is that internally within the obama administration they were warning this. they were saying back a year ago, year and a half ago if we do nothing in syria, first of all it will not stay in syria, it's going to spill over to iraq. and we'll be creating a vacuum in which these sorts of forces can grow. and so they were lobbying quite specifically that we have to start arming the moderate opposition, we have to start creating that. and so they now feel their views were painfully vindicated by events, exactly what they predicted has come to pass and now it may be too late or now we have to do something much bigger. i think there is a sense of gallingness. and i think was true of a lot of the foreign policy agencies, all against the white house and the white house was very firm, no, no, we're not going to do this. >> and the president has done a series of interviews too, first of all, equally intriguing, one with the economist magazine and one with tom friedman in which

it was by hillary clinton as secretary of state, by leon panetta, and the secretary of defense, by generalraeus, i think was chairman of the joint chief of staff. they drew up a plan way back then to arm the free syria army. it was rejected by the president. she's pretty much been there for the past several years. she hasn't changed her position. she believes -- i know. >> but the word failure is new. >> yes, well, but the fact is her position has always been we should have armed the free syria army a few years ago as been my position. >> congressman, i can't thank you enough for being with us this morning. i appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> an ebola update. russian aid, and a cease-fire holding. let's zoom through the top stories. >>> spanish missionary priest died from ebola at the hospital in madrid. he was evacuated last week. it's not clear if he was treated with the experimental drug zmapp. today nancy writebol's son talked about his mom's condition on the "today" show. >> we've seen her get physically better. her eyes brighten up. smiling, e

the first meeting i had -- leon panetta called me when i became vice-chairman, on the day, and said, i got to talk to you. that is the kind of information that we get. when i think about the way the world was in 1985 when i went to washington from a small south georgia town, and i think about the difference in the way that world looks today, boy, is it ever different from a national security standpoint. today, we have ongoing conflicts in afghanistan, and obviously now again in iraq. we have gone three situation in libya. we are in the middle of a conflict in syria. ,e have seen uprisings in egypt indonesia, and any other number of countries in north africa and the middle east. and obviously, the latest situation we've had is the ongoing and ever continuing conflict between the palestinians and the israelis. lots of complications around the world. and let's face it, the united states, even though there are a lot of folks who criticize us -- sometimes justifiably. but whether it is a military conflict, natural disaster, or an economic disaster, the first country that is looked to his

>> 2011 we knew we needed to help the free syrian army. 2012, clinton, petraeus and i panetta make the recommendation to support the free syrian army. we thought we could do that to not let those weapons get into the wrong hands. they were the on people in syria will fog fight isis and they have fought isis without the proper equipment or the proper arms. martha: we are doing some major catchup here. imagine jack keane, thank you, sir. bill: hundreds of trucks of what moscow says is humanitarian. getting the once over by the red cross. tensions rising yet again after the earlier today they crossed the ukrainian border, guard met the convoy and found two dozen armored personnel carriers escorting that shipment. what are you hear being the latest on this convoy? >> reporter: the aid convoy is at bored as we speak. but the atcs are drawing attention. it was reported that as many as 20 russian atcs had crossed over into ukraine. the nato secretary-general said a russian incursion did occur overnight. in the meantime the big news about the aid is inspection of those trucks has begun and an

the first meeting i had -- leon panetta called me when i became vice-chairman, on the day, and said, i got to talk to you. that is the kind of information that we get. when i think about the way the world was in 1985 when i went to washington from a small south georgia town, and i think about the difference in the way that world looks today, boy, is it ever different from a national security standpoint. today, we have ongoing conflicts in afghanistan, and obviously now again in iraq. we have gone three situation in libya. we are in the middle of a conflict in syria. ,e have seen uprisings in egypt indonesia, and any other number of countries in north africa and the middle east. and obviously, the latest situation we've had is the ongoing and ever continuing conflict between the palestinians and the israelis. lots of complications around the world. and let's face it, the united states, even though there are a lot of folks who criticize us -- sometimes justifiably. but whether it is a military conflict, natural disaster, or an economic disaster, the first country that is looked to his

that has the highest attention of department leadership, starting several years ago, with secretary panettathat has certainly been carried forward with secretary hagel. i can say where we are at, a lot of attention is paid to that. that is probably one of the biggest differences between what ato at dod versus what i do -- what i did at fdic. operation.aller i had very few financial auditors on that stuff. that is primarily because under the law the fdic financial audit was done by gao, which meant there was no need for ig oversight over an independent accountant. for those of you who do not know, most of the financial statement audit work in the federal government is done by independent public accountants under the oversight of the inspector general. in our office at dod, that is a big, big job in and of itself. aboute -- i think we have at doditors on our staff ig, and roughly a fourth of that are in the business of financial auditing. that is a big number, relative to all of the other things we do. our audit a fourth of staff and they are dedicated, ip aly, really, to oversight, and that

for the osama bin laden raid and put in that direction as fast as possible at the behest of leon panettae president's acted quickly on things. i think if she were looking at ambition over principal. and pull back from those hawkish views and that view of the world and that as a result of that, i don't know what was in her heart and any moment but this is the physician she held, and was pretty formal. the basket of foreign policy options, something every democrat is comfortable. vice president joe biden or john kerry, they will seek to make the distinction. >> thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you have been watching jonathan allen and amie parnes talking about their book that came out earlier this year "hrc: state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton". if you would like to have a reaction to that book we are live at the national book festival. you can call the number and your screen, 585-389 zero in the east and central time zones, 585-3891 in the mountain or pacific time zones, coming a few minutes, kai bird in the history and biography room talking about his book "the good spy: the l

. >> and when secretary panetta was with us and was involved in standing up the commission, he was very clear on grandfathering, and i've spoken with secretary hagel. he also supports grandfathering. so i think there's unanimous consent between the military leadership and the civilian leadership of the department. and grandfathering has to be a part of anything we do going forward that changes retirement. >> and when will the commission's report be, will come forward? >> that's february of 2015. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator hagan. senator graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for having this hearing and all of the things you've done over the years to keep us focused in congress about what's the right thing to do for our military. i really appreciate your leadership. >> thank you. >> seems to me, as senator reed said, we've all reached a consensus that we would like to undue what we all consider to be an unfairness here. as far as timing, i think the sooner the better, and i would just make this observation: senator wicker kind of express

i thought secretary clinton and david petraeus and leon panetta was secretary of defense and generalsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, in 2012 urged the president to do the things with the counterterrorism fund, to build a moderate opposition, something ambassador ford, on the record saying we should have done, we might have avoided the metastasizing terror threat. and the use of chemical weapons, you worry how that will echo throughout the international system. >> do you want to respond on syria. >> the key was my have. there has been a lot about secretary clinton's comments about obama but if you look at the full transcript no one really knows what would have happened and i do agree on syria but also the arab uprising in general. >> the u.s. has been a bystander except to nietzsche and intervention earlier in libya with the lack of follow-through but places like egypt as well so on syria, we would have to sit and talk about it but increasingly people in this administration and others has obvious problems and to me it is a problem that the solutions are not so obvious these