why are not those concerns yours, secretary panetta?houldn't americans be concerned that if the iraqis don't have the will to fight, why should more u.s. trainers make a difference? >> this isn't just about iraq. this is about a threat to our national security. if i.s.i.s. is allowed to have a base of operations in iraq, make no mistake about it their intentions are to use that as a base of attacking our country and attacking our homeland. that's why we've got to push the iraqis to make sure that the sunnis do engage and that the kurds do the same. >> woodruff: you're saying you don't think the iraqis have that will. >> with all due respect, i think secretary panetta is vastly exaggerating the threat, those by i.s.i.s. the threat posed to i.s.i.s. by the united states of america is actually very, very limited. we probably should be worrying more about drug lords in mexico, in terms of a direct threat to our safety. i.s.i.s. threatens the stability of a region that we ourselves destabilized as a result of our own folly back in 2003, and

with cochair mike mccurry, richard parsons, executive director of the commission, janet brown leon panetta, mitch daniels, olympia snowe, alan simpson -- who are these individual? -- individuals? guest: these are members of the commission. we put on six new people in the last few years. they cover a broad sector of the united states. where they lived from a geographic standpoint. there are people from academia. we have the former president of princeton, father john president of the university of notre dame. we have former journalists who are on. it is former senators and you named a couple of them. i think we have tried to create a broad spectrum of people throughout the united states who make these judgments. they are all volunteers. no one has paid. i think they take their responsibilities pretty seriously. host: you can get more information fight locking onto debates.org. our guest is cochair of the commission. paul joins us from maine. good morning. caller: good morning. two points -- i enjoy sports a lot but it seems to me that we are willing to sit in front of the tv and watch three

with cochair mike mccurry, richard parsons, executive director of the commission, janet brown, leon panetta, mitch daniels, olympia snowe, alan simpson -- who are these individual? guest: these are members of the commission. we put on six new people in the last few years. they cover a broad sector of the united states. where they lived from a geographic standpoint. there are people from academia. we have the former president of princeton, father john president of the university of notre dame. we have former journalist who are on. it is a broad -- former senators and you named a couple of them. i think we have tried to create a broad spectrum of people throughout the united states who make these judgments. they are all volunteers. no one has paid. i think they take their responsibilities pretty seriously. host: you can get more information fight locking onto debates.org. our guest is cochair of the commission. paul joins us from maine. good morning. caller: good morning. two points -- i enjoy sports a lot but it seems to me that we are willing to sit in front of the tv and watch three hours

detainees but said he felt pressure from the white house to clear more, and his predecessor leon panetta transferred only four men. today the army announced the preliminary hearing for sergeant bowe bergdahl has been put back to mid-september as the defense team's request. bergdahl was swapped a year ago for the taliban five commanders and their confine independent the gulf nation of qatar has been temporarily extended but a leading republican sauce ail five commanders have reengaged with their old it inworks and will go back to the fight. >> i wish i could tell you i thought the administration understood the threat from these five as well as the threat from al qaeda and assist in the case of these five, the administration continues to underestimate what it means for them to come back. >> the administration for its part has publicly downplayed the risk,. >> catherine, great reporting as all. >> thank you. >> i want to look at the corp over wall and broad something that could happen tomorrow. big concerns that the greeks are just not going to pay up. we are hearing very, very belligerent

remember that group of 20 liberals, barbara boxer leon panetta. they were all married people with solid marriages. though hugged together to keep everything together. they were all good people. so there's a lot of really good straight arrow members of congress who are loyal to their families and wives and husbands. it's a very clean operation. prudish operation, most of it. cases like this pop out. i go with the old rule, i think it's better than it looks. >> i know it is, too. i understand why the public doesn't believe me. >> it creates a vicious cycle for the institution of congress which is more and more of these scandals come out. fewer and fewer really great quality candidates want to run for office. that's what we are seeing s, i think in public office today. being a member of congress is no longer honorable in most parts of the country, which is sad. >> it is. that will have a recurring cycle. amy, i want to get to one thing about this hastert thing. how is a guy who had a net worth less than $500,000 in congress end up with $12 million. h

. >> sean the former cia director leon panetta warned in 2012 of a cyber pearl harbor he was referring to lives lost electrical grid shut down transportation derailed. how close to achieving that kind of chaos these chinese hackers if they wanted to do such a thing. >> it goes beyond china. we're talking russia iran and terrorist groups that are currently developing these capabilities to not only access networks but to actually destroy networks to disrupt networks. we saw this recently at sony. emails were stolen that were incriminating or embarrassing but parts of the network were physically destroyed. we have electronic communications destroying physical capabilities. this is something we have to be concerned about and what the cascading effects of that kind of attack would be. >> the dod, the pentagon get hit with 10 million cyber attacks each day we're told. the nsa ranched up their internet surveillance. why wasn't the pentagon or whatever cyber apparatus guarding the infrastructure why couldn't they detect this attack until some time in april? >> that's the most surprising part h

there is a famous kind of discussion where there was a disagreement between hillary clinton and leon panetta on basically who is in charge and it became very clear it wasn't in charge with whatever they thought. >> they thought they carry carried out the strike very next day. >> it was the day after he was released. speculative giant sort of middle finger. so, going back to the question is looks like the program initially was to take out the leaders of al qaeda and it evolved into a sort of counterinsurgency overtime. and the administration tried to unscrew this to a degree with an average of a couple of dozen a year now. they gave the big speech. so has the administration gotten better and they they recognized a case which is obviously a mistake and it is indicative certainly but overall, you and i follow the strikes carefully and we both kind of agree it is close to zero now with some exceptions. but also characterize for us the obama administration and if it has changed why. >> you are absolutely right. as far as we know the number of civilian casualties has dropped. the reporting has rea

there seemed to be in the wonderful discussion you had this week with general zinni, a secretary panettars that there seemed to be a consensus that it wasn't going to happen without greater u.s. involvement and engagement, and i just don't see that being a reality either politically or militarily. >> woodruff: the majority view of some of the analysts out there but david is it the right thing to do now? >> i think so. i think the drawdown of the troops was too fast. one of the biggest mistakes of the presidency is to draw down the troops too fast. some stability had been achieved, the sunni tribes in sunni areas drew down too fast i.s.i.s. came in. the troops, what 450 advisors will do, their effect, the key thing is we were effectively arrived with sunni backed shias. they're shifting helping some of the sunni tribes. and it's got to be the sunni taking over sunni areas. it does not work to have irony backed shia taking over sunnis. that's a recipe for hostility and resent meant. a lot of the irani militias were coming in executing and looting places. >> david makes a good point. the st

i think that is a starting point -- amy: leon panetta. >> right. i want to thank you for being with us, wells dixon senior staff attorney with the center for constitutional rights, where he represents guantanamo detainee majid khan and specializes in challenging unlawful detentions. this is democracy now! and we come back, part two of our conversation with evan young, the 18-year-old high school senior who was valedictorian of his class but could not give his graduation address because his principal did not want him to say that he was gay. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we return now to the case of evan young, the colorado charter high school valedictorian who was barred from speaking at graduation because he was planning to come out as gay. on may 16, he was due to be the 2015 class valedictorian of twin peaks charter academy high school in longmont, colorado. but just before the ceremony his principal prevented him from giving his

launched the raid that killed osama bin laden because according to then secretary of defense leon panetta, we can't trust them. this bill puts seven conditions on our aid to pakistan. they are good conditions. earlier this evening, about an hour ago, the ranking member mentioned these conditions for aid to pakistan. they are commonsense things like if pakistan wants our money, it shouldn't support terrorist activities against the united states. imagine that. . these these i.e.d.'s have killed many of our troops. each year we put conditions on our aid, the bills also give the secretary of defense the authority to give the money to pakistan even if pakistan doesn't meet those conditions. this year is no exception. once again, we give in this bill the secretary of defense the authority to waive the can be -- conditions congress puts in the bill. four of the five last years pakistan has failed to meet the conditions congress has imposed on this type of legislation and then the secretary of defense went ahead and gave the waiver, thus giving money to pakistan anyway. the administration has nev

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i was president obama's cia chief for about three weeks when we were waiting for leon panetta to get confirmed. actually attended the first meeting he had on iran. and the president turned to me and said, general, how much leu and heu do they have or meu, and i said to the president mr. president, i actually don't have the answers to those questions, but for a moment let me give you a different way of thinking about this issue. and what i said to the president was, sir, i don't think anybody in my community thinks that there's an eelectron or neutron that's ever going to end up in a nuclear weapon. what they're building up in facilities are competence and technology, and to go ahead and move to heu requires them to cheat so badly that it could be detected or to kick the inspectors out. therefore, what we believe would happen in a breakout is that they would simply take the technology from nutons and replicate it at a secret military facility. it's there in that facility that the heu for a weapon would be en enriched. at the time i told the president, we knew, a secret nuclear facilit

"i can't sit here and glad to say i was there to do my job" >> reporter: panetta of the coliseum workstations are close once again train service suspended its scheduled to resume by about noon today and then to law morning sun. the service will resume at noon so it shouldn't cause any problems appear planning to take part to the warriors came to modern incisions close again next week and as well barker's are placing a switch that was in bad condition enforces trains to a slowdown in the area free bus service will be available during those closures. >> reporter: 0 city hall may be coming to an end in and get people angry after the city removed speed bombs following a deadly hit-and-run accident. and yet police department started to step up traffic enforcement in that area and yet police chief says one officer will be assigned to traffic the during the day. and hope to eventually add more officers to the unit. it was dismantled five years ago because of a need for more patrol officers now the police chief says the plans for new traffic unit have been discussed prior to deadly hit-and-run accide

with cochair mike mccurry, richard parsons, executive director of the commission, janet brown, leon panettatch daniels olympia snowe, alan simpson -- who are these individuals? guest: these are members of the commission. we put on six new people in the last few years. they cover a broad sector of the united states. where they lived from a geographic standpoint. there are people from academia. we have the former president of princeton, father john, president of the university of notre dame. we have former journalist who are on. it is a broad -- former senators and you named a couple of them. i think we have tried to create a broad spectrum of people throughout the united states who make these judgments. they are all volunteers. no one has paid. i think they take their responsibilities pretty seriously. host: you can get more information fight locking onto debates.org. our guest is cochair of the commission. paul joins us from maine. good morning. caller: good morning. two points -- i enjoy sports a lot but it seems to me that we are willing to sit in front of the tv and watch three hours of

some time now the president's secretary carter, all of our secretaries secretary gates secretary panetta, secretary hale, have implored congress to end the damaging effects of the budget control act sequester and spending caps. however, this bill following the budget resolution, does not address the b.c.a. issue. instead, it turns to this o.c.o. fund. this transfers $39 from the o.c.o.'s budget to the contingency operations budget leaving the base at surprise surprisingly the b.c.a. level. and it raises several concerns, and i've mentioned these concerns but lit me mention them again. first, adding funds to o.c.o. does not solve it actually complicates the d.o.d.'s budgetary problems. the defense budget needs to be based on our long-term military strategy which requires d.o.d. to plan at least five years ahead of time. when you're acquiring weapons systems, doug technology innovation investing in programs that are not going to come off the shelf in six months you can't rely on one-year money. it doesn't provide d.o.d. the certainty, the stability it needs. it's got to have money in the b

last fall leon panetta, secretary of defense, at the time of the bin laden raid, said of the pakistanis, we just can't trust them. i agree. we can't trust pakistan. so what my amendment does is cut money to help protect pack -- my amendment does not cut money to protect pakistan's nuclear weapons. the amendment does recognize the u.s.-pakistan relationship for what it is. we don't need to pay pakistan to be our enemy, they will do it for tree -- free. pakistan has already received over $30 billion of our money since 2002. after 13 years of giving pakistan more and more money, it's time to do something different. my amendment simply cuts the money we give pakistan in half. and i will reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment and i certainly understand the gentleman's passion and at times i share some of the same concerns he stated in his remarks. but just to put a little perspective on it. if the coalition suppor

from 17 former secretaries of defense and retired military leaders including collin powell, leon panetta and donald rumsfeld. in that letter, these leaders said "we write to express our strongest possible support for enactment of trade promotion authority legislation, which is critical to the successful conclusion of two vital agreements the trans-pacific partnership, t.p.p., and the trans-atlantic trade and investmentinvestment partnership ttip. t.p.p. will shape an economic dynamic that will link the united states with one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic regions. if however we fail to move forward with t.p.p., asian economies will almost certainly develop alopping a china-centric model. in fact, comien is already -- china is already pursuing an alternative regional free trade initiative. t.p.p. combined with ttip, would allow the united states and our closest allies to help shape the rules and standards for global trade. the concerns outlined in this letter went beyond china. the letter continues "the stakes are clear. there are tremendous strategic benefits to t.p.p. and ttip.

this was penned by leon panetta and stephen hadley, the defense secretary in the obama administration. they wrote a piece that was entitled the oil export ban harms national security. well-founded well-written, to the point. it said directly, we keep this ban in place this decades-old ban, it hurts us as a nation. it harms us from a national security perspective not to mention the benefits that oil export will provide when it comes to increased production, increased jobs, benefit to our economy. there's other folks out there that feels weighed in lauer -- other folks out there that weighed in. larry summers also the director of the of the national economic council for president obama and he said -- and i quote -- "the merits" -- the merits on oil export lifting the ban. "the merits are as clear as the merits with respect to any significant public policy issue that i have ever encountered." this is a guy that many people look to for leadership in a host of different areas. as clear on any public policy issue he has encountered. tom donlin, former national security advisor to president

and you see people like leon panetta, among others, who have stepped forward and said we need to be smartecurity asset, particularly in the light of those who would use energy as a weapon and talking specifically about vladimir putin and his willingness to turn the energy off, they cast off to ukraine and other countries in europe. but we need to make sure that our friends around the world know that america can be a reliable trading partner when it comes to our energy assets. it also undermines the efforts of our adversaries like mr. putin to use energy as a weapon. we can do that by passing the amendment which i've introduced to this national defense authorization bill and to help our colleagues will join together to continue this bipartisan consensus and discussion about how we can use our energy assets as a source of our national security. >> yesterday the president in germany said the health care law is working well. today at a meeting of the catholic health care group, the president again talked about health care and counseling the reality is the reality is. the president is must be