>> this is the heart of the pentagon, in washington, d.c. since the early years of world war ii, this building has been the home of america's department of defense. it's one of the largest office buildings in the world. about 23,000 people come here to work every day. a good many of them are not even members of our armed forces-- many are civilian employees from all walks of life. all of them, though, are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. the men and women who travel these halls every day come here for one purpose only: to help defend our nation and the cause of freedom around the world. it's been that way for nearly 70 years. the story you're about to hear today is a story i hope will reach every american, because it's really a story about america, about ordinary american families, about how we face the perils, uncertainties, and tragedies of life, and about how we, as individuals and a nation, come together to heal the wounds of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for all that we hold dear. it's a story

you know i think any washington insider could tell you the pentagon the pentagon has congress by the balls but today we have the perfect story to prove it let me explain to the brass over the pentagon are telling the democratic led congress to pass a thirty seven billion dollar defense bill by august recess or they might be able to pay salaries that's right the pentagon is making this a while demand and they expect congress to write a blank check to continue paying for two endless wars now the bill to fund the war has a lag in congress for the past few weeks despite pleas from defense secretary robert gates who says of that money is needed to fund the troop surge in afghanistan and while i understand that funding for the war is needed and democrats in congress are dragging their heels on the bill guess who is all in arms about this republican in there calling it a true emergency and they're already to give the pentagon another thirty seven billion dollars to spend without any questions asked but here's my question do you think this spending might add to our deficits because i'm prett

a martian may land on the pentagon at any moment in time. that doesn't mean that it's correct. >> larry: so you don't take this seriously, this criticism? any fear, any conscious about possibly what you did cost a life? >> when you're talking about any and possibly, of course, all sorts of things can happen in political affairs that are not predictable. but insofar as we can understand the material, we see material that's at least seven months old. we have withheld approximately 15,000 reports for a further min mization process and we don't see anything here of tactical significance. what we see is a lot of reports that are sort of of evidentiary significance that describes the sort of cut and thrust of the entire war over a period of the last six years. former sort of initial evidentiary basis for getting up, say, prosecutions or understanding how this war has progressed. we say the who, the where, the what, the when and the how of each one of these attacks. >> larry: do you always know the sources? >> we usually always do not know the sour

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> a short walk from the pentagon is arlington national cemetery and the scandal there is growing this morning. arlington is the resting place for more than 300,000 americans. and a u.s. senator investigating the cemetery now says thousands of graves may be mislabeled. she calls it, quote, heartbreaking incompetence. >>> on "moneywatch," it was downhill for most stocks in asia this morning. alexis has the latest on that. >> reporter: we'll begin with the asian markets where stocks edged down today. the nikkei lost a fraction and the hang seng saw a late day rally. today wall street gets the latest on consumer confidence. on monday, better than expected news about home sales gave stocks a boost. in the end the dow gained almost 101 points, its third straight triple digit rally. the nasdaq added nearly 27. both indexes are now in the black for the year. >>> bp has set aside $32 billion to cover the costs of the gulf oil spill. that led the company to post a record loss of $17 billion for the second quarter. bp stock rallied nearly 5% monday after the

there's a lot of you know this is a trust in the media of the pentagon and the pentagon's motives andthe founder of wiki leaks told a german magazine der spiegel that he likes to crush bastards that's motive and of course in their view the truth here is that this war is not only unwinnable but it's been savaged it's taken a many many innocent lives and that's what they're really trying to show with this . and in a few minutes the authorities in russia who are almost literally on a witch hunt. the law is aimed at ads and articles printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is literally chock full of people who claim that they can heal or tell the future using these and mystical abilities we report on how russia is predicting the end of the line for fake fortune tellers. while the public face of b.p.'s oil disaster management is to quit tony hayward is being replaced by one of the american executives bob dudley however the beleaguered boss is expected to resurface in a new role that b.p.'s joint venture with a russian all firm which is where dudley used to be now to

that they weren't paying attention to the fact that now it's been found in the pentagon that there's been some serious child. horn found on a lot of computers of people that were very high up and had all kinds of classified access i maybe because here's a terrorist but it's way too convenient to have that many people have that much child porn on the computer i'm telling you somebody had said oh i think somebody hacking that they had to hack into computers and i think this man is a genius i don't want to be arrested i do this man should probably call me because i got a ticket in richmond last week and a right there is a particular cop who might need some chop or show up on his thing so he didn't show up at the trial all right all right man so just call me up all right i'm not saying that you're guilty but i'm saying that i'm on the internet email me. dot com. you know i think i'm starting to believe you on that because you figure if these guys work for the pentagon and i say they're going to know how to hide the stuff you tell them hey you know no other thing i don't know the computer

this trust in the media of the pentagon and the pentagon's motives and the founder of wiki leaks told forty german magazine der spiegel that he likes to crush bastards that's what if and of course in their view the truth here is that this war is not only unwinnable but it's been savaged it's taken a many many innocent lives and that's what they're really trying to show with this . now coming up in a few minutes the authorities in russia who are almost literally out on a witch hunt. the law is aimed at ads and articles printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is literally chock full of people who claim that they can heal or tell the future using these of mystical abilities we report on how russia is predicting the end of the line for fake fortune tellers. or russia's foreign minister who has criticized the latest e.u. sanctions against tehran as unacceptable and that they fall outside the scope of the latest u.n. restrictions moscow says such unilateral actions undermine collective efforts to find a solution to the iranian nuclear issue on monday the european un

claims that had received no reliable information on him in years pentagon chiefs admit it will take weeks to assess the damage caused by these revelations one of area on gun a chicken has been hearing from soldiers involved in last week's wiki leaks exposure and while while it struck the civilians not insurgents. something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were recruited dan including to reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated and the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the u.s. military is ok with causing some quiet old damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warf

we begin tonight with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. based on this new report, the army promises to fix its mental health problems and put its soldiers first, but it's got a long way to go. as a specialist in the army jennifer crane was sent off to afghanistan. >> two weeks after we landed there, we were attacked for the first time. >> reporter: the war took a heavy personal toll. once back home, she got hooked on cocaine and ended up on the streets. >> unfortunately, didn't cope with anything fairly well. >> reporter: jennifer got the necessary counseling and is back on her feet, but a devastating new report from the army today reveals that after nine years of war, thousands of soldiers never survive their own personal battles. >> we have an army that's been fully engaged for almost nine years now. i don't think that we fully understand the toll that that's taken on the forces. >> reporter: the numbers are staggering. last year, more than 1,700 soldiers attempted suicide. 160 succeed

more documents than the pentagon papers during vietnam. a group online, called wikileaks, along with three major newspapers, has published 92,000 classified intelligence documents about the war in afghanistan from 2004 to 2009, the largest leak in history. in a moment, we'll tell you about the american soldier. allegedly he copied the files from the pentagon computer. first, our martha raddatz, just back from afghanistan. spent the day reading the documents to tell us what's new. >> some of this is really quite stunning to me. i certainly knew a lot of the information in general terms, but the sheer volume and specificity is really astonishing. the leaked records give precise accounts of missions gone horribly wrong. helicopters shot down and supposed alleys, the pakistanis, playing a deadly double cross with the americans. no wonder the leaks have created a firestorm in washington. >> there are names. there are operations. there's logistics. it poses a very real and potential threat. >> reporter: perhaps the most damning reports concern p

this trust in the media of the pentagon and the pentagon's motives so the idea that you could go to theactual data the actual reports by soldiers in the field of what happened and make that available to the public so that people can judge for themselves is quite a step and then not just doing it because of the belief in media or a belief in being against war they're doing it out of a belief in democracy you know that the founder of wiki leaks told the german magazine der spiegel that he likes to crush bastards that is motive he wants to try to get the truth out and of course in their view the truth here is that this war is not only unwinnable but it's been savaged it's taken a many many innocent lives and that's what they're really trying to show with this this is a problem for the obama administration too because you know one of the great heroes of the people who supported obama it was daniel ellsberg the person who leaked the pentagon papers now the u.s. government is condemning we can be leaks so this could have political consequences for the obama administration as well and you know

the pentagon assesses the damage from the afghan war documents. >> there does appear to be evidence of war crimes. >> the african union pledges thousands more troops for somalia with stronger rules of engagement against militants. a wave of freezing weather devastates parts of prove, and -- parts of peru, and the man who was given the first phase transplant appears in public -- face transplant appears in public. >> "bbc world news" is presented by kcet, los angeles. funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. the pentagon says the damage caused by the leaking of more than 90,000 classified military documents could take weeks to assess. the founder of the whistleblowing organization says it appears to reveal evidence of war crimes. our north american editor reports. >> this is not so much a leak as the hemorrhage. anybody with a computer can now read more than 92,000 supposedly secret documents, reports that paint a picture o

that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon says are one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening which looks like indiscriminate fire in baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were recruited dan including to reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated in the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the us military is ok with causing some collateral damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in a decent mcu or a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience he went as far as to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances mccord said the message they got from their commander was if someone in your line gets hit wi

first, our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this massive leak provides incredible detail and insight into the u.s. war in afghanistan. day by day, battle by battle it's a tough look at the worst of the war. the staggering mountain of documents, nearly 92,000, covers a six-year stretch of the war ending last december when the u.s. war effort was failing and the taliban was on the rise. the secret documents were released by the whistleblower website wikileaks and its founder, julian assange. >> the real story of this material is that it's war. it's one damn thing after another. it is the continuous small events, the continuous deaths of children, insurgents. >> reporter: many of the documents tear the cover off pakistan's alleged secret support for the taliban. the u.s. has long complained to pakistan that its intelligence service, the isi, was working with the taliban, but today's release provides shocking and specific new details. even as pakistan accepted billions in u.s. ai

a captain in the pentagon who is working on the budget should not speak to it. he should keep his mouth shut and go through properly channels. >> warner: chris hanson, does that sound like the right line there to you? i mean do you find that reassuring? that if you are embeded with a unit in the field and you have been cleared to do it that they will be free to speak about what they know? >> no, i don't find it reassuring at all. the issue here is what are national and international implications. i mean you had a segment recently on -- sebastian younger's documentary about a year in afghanistan with troops. the company commander there had a lot of trouble in his relations with the local afghan leaders. he spoke about that. that has national and international implications. >> but i'm telling it you here right now, we're not trying to restrict that kind of speech what sof ever. >> but it's going to happen. >> it's to the going to happen. if we do this right t should not happen. we should empower people to make wise decisions. all we're asking for is when something

and the pentagon's hunting for the sources behind the biggest leak in u.s. military history the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks published some ninety thousand classified documents exposing cover ups over the war in afghanistan reports include details of civilian casualties at the hands of american and allied troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency several files track osama bin laden despite the u.s. claims it received no reliable information on him in years pentagon chiefs admits it will take weeks to assess the damage caused by the revelations he's going to teach it comes been hearing from soldiers involved in the last major wiki leak. you know something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet is secretly video of american soldiers opening would looks like indiscriminate fire in a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dan including two reuters news staff also two chi

. >> reporter: but the pentagon says it's still assessing the damage. >> are there any things in there that could jeopardize our operations or our nation's security? we just don't know at this point. >> reporter: the man who published the papers say it's a true picture of the war. >> it is the most significant history of a war to have ever been released during a war. i -- at the time where it can make some difference and shape policy outcomes. >> reporter: meanwhile the pentagon is calls pfc bradley manning, a 22-year-old intelligence officer, a person of interest. he's being held in kuwait on suspicion of a separate leak. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> senate republicans have blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political campaigning. yesterday's vote, which fell three short of the 60 needed to advance the bill, helps pave the way for corporations to spend as much as they want on attack ads during this year's midterm elections. democrats said the bill was needed to force special interest groups to disclose their donors, but republicans maintained

. >>> pentagon bombshell. thousands of classified documents on the war in afghanistan leaked by a tell-all website. >>> wild weather. summer storms cause a dam break in iowa and topple trees near washington as the heat wave goes on. washington as the heat wave goes on. this is the "cbs morning news" captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. it has been 98 days since the deepwater horizon exploded and sank, killing 11 workers. 98 days since that bp oil well began spewing crude oil into the gulf of mexico. now it appears bp's board has had enough of ceo tony hayward. bp is denying it so far, but it is expected hayward will be forced to step down today. >> i'm devastated. by the accident. absolutely devastated. >> reporter: unfortunately for tony hayward, too many of his comments about the disaster in the gulf spoke much louder than those. terry mcalister, energy editor of "the guardian" in london says the decision to oust hayward is an attempt to salvage the b

. >> this morning, the white house and pentagon are in damage control mode. nick schifrin is in kabul. we begin with john hendren in washington. >> reporter: good morning. most of the tens of thousands of documents are what's called raw intelligence submitted by junior officers. but u.s. intelligence, as well as everyone else are now sifting through them. this flood of documents was written through january 2004 to january 2009. underfunded and undersupported, despite a taliban insurgency at that growing strongerer and fiercer. the white house immediately condemned the leak saying those conditions were exactly why the president announced a new strategy and a troop surge this year. still, the white house is struggling to stem the damage. >> it will create a lot of tension. the national security adviser

the pentagon has lost track of almost nine billion dollars which was meant to be spent on reconstructing iraq that's ninety five percent of the money given to the development fund the american military was given the money raised from the c.e.o. of rocky gas and oil by the u.n. after the invasion in two thousand and three a u.s. audit found poor control over where the assets for spend in a country still suffering a way to fill tricity and other a basic services former cia analyst roy mcgovern says the lack of oversight needs further investigation. there were doubtless people who were supposed to be supervising overseeing these funds the fact that as it's said here that they have sort of disappeared and that they were liable to have been per law and you know that's no explanation and we have to find out who provided them and what happened to these funds you know most reminds me of of the search for weapons of mass destruction in iraq the so-called. judging from who didn't get sacked last time there probably will be people promoted despite all this doesn't seem to be much in the way of acco

, the president defends the war called into question by thousands of secret field reports as the pentagon opens an investigation into who leaked them. i'm katie couric. it's day 99 and tax pa wind up sharing the cost of that oil spill after all. b.p. says it will take a $10 billion tax credit for the clean-up. a tax payer revolt in bell, california. the former city manager's pension could cost them tens of millions of dollars. and for one small village in japan, a rice field is their canvas. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the leak of those secret field reports has reignited the debate over the war in afghanistan. how well it's going and whether it's worth fighting. in its first public comment since the documents were posted online, president obama defended his war strategy and urged congress to approve his latest funding request. the president also said the leak could jeopardize individuals or operations. and the pentagon promised, quote, "a very robust investiga

this trust in the media of the pentagon and the pentagon's motives so the idea that you could go to the actual data the actual reports by soldiers in the field of what happened and make that available to the public so that people can judge for themselves is quite a step and then not just doing it because of a belief in media or a belief in being against war they're doing it out of a belief in democracy you know that the founder of wiki leaks told the german magazine der spiegel that he likes to crush bastards that is motive he wants to try to get the truth out and of course in their view the truth here is that this war is not only unwinnable but it's been savaged it's taken a many many innocent lives and that's what they're really trying to show with this . filmmaker and blogger danny schechter talk to us there from new york now in a few moments in the program. once latvia was the fastest growing european economy now many people their own charities for the bare necessities we report. for that fresh e.u. sanctions against a round of come under fire from moscow russia's foreign ministry s

and the pentagon, ah, gent who was a cybernaut said, "we'd been hit six-million times in one day." and then the goldman sachs guy piped up and said, "well, we've been hit one million times in one day." >> who's doing it? >> anything from a 14 year old to the chinese government. it's very difficult to tell who's doing it, and of course, they will not tell you how many times it's been successful. ah, we heard from one of our sources at the pentagon that they managed to shut down one of their systems, internal system, for four consecutive days. >> and what are they after? >> ah, insofar as dod is concerned, the defense department, obviously secrets, anything to with the war in afghanistan, ah, orders, the defense industry, anything they can pick up. and also, i think they are preparing for the day when the--what they did in estonia a couple years ago, is to shut down the whole country. >> vanda, organized crime covers a lot of other areas as well, such as? >> indeed, ah, drugs are one of the most obvious ones and the one that gets a lot of attention, especially because afghanistan and

our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski has more on the hearings and the general. >> reporter: this is not exactly what general james mattis had in mind when ordered to take the hill. but in his senate hearing today, mattis, true to form, did not pull any punches. like his reaction to the leak of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. >> one of the newspaper headlines was that it's -- the war is a tense and dangerous thing. well, i -- if that is news, i don't know who it's news to that's on this planet. >> general mattis is also known for engaging at times in a little straight talk. something that this senator particularly appreciates. >> reporter: but it's his gruff demeanor that sometimes gets him into trouble. such as remarks in 2005, which appeared to glorify killing the taliban. >> you go into afghanistan, you have women walking around not wearing a veil. those guys have no manhood left. >> reporter: he was reprimanded and that was enough for gates. >> the lesson was learn. >> repor8-r: a 3year veteran, mattis has commanded combat marines in iraq and afghanistan, and w

katie. >> couric: david martin at the pentagon, thank you. chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan lived in afghanistan for a year at the beginning of the war. she's been back many times since. she's in the east african nation of uganda tonight on assignment for "60 minutes." lara, one of the revelations in these documents is that pakistan's intelligence agency is aiding the afghan insurgency, even planning attacks on american troops. how big a setback will this be for u.s.-pakistani relations? >> well, it's potentially a setback, katie. clearly the white house is concerned about that. because their relationship with pakistan is very sensitive. it's a complicated one. on the one hand pakistan is important ally. on the other hand, pakistan has known to be harboring al qaeda and the taliban from the beginning of this war. but the obama administration has been quick to point to the fact that pakistan has been taking more action than in the past. these documents only go up to december of last year. at the same time, it is clear that al qae

the justice department is joining the pentagon in the investigation. >>> united airlines has apologized to the parents of the boy who was stranded in the airport for eight hours. united employees fail to get the boy on his flight to canada. he was on his way to his mother's hour from his father's home here in san francisco. the boy was taken to an airport facility but airline workers failed to pick him up for his flight. >>> almost 200 new meters are being installed in hayes valley. eventually 5,000 of them will be placed around the city. in addition to coins, the meters also accept debit and credit cards. and starting next year, wireless sensors in the streets will determine whether a parking spot is vacant and the fee will fluctuate based on demand. for example if there's a special event in the area or based on the time of day. >>> these are good times for whale watchers after the bay area coast. huge numbers of big whales are being reported. while the whales are stirring a lot of attention, they are also stirring a lot of concern. so much so, that officials are asking boaters here in

. >> reporter: recent base closures saved the pentagon almost $7 billion.h of that money was supposed to be used for clean-up, but the money to clean up hunters point and the money to clean up much of the old bases has been slow in coming. >> the department of defense's perspective, cleaning up old base sans obligation, but it's not a top priority. this is the top priority, the war in iraq, building new weapons, looking ahead, not cleaning up things left behind. >> reporter: the military has spent about $350 million in the past 31 years to clean up parts of hunters point. sounds like a lot, but the pentagon spends that much every couple of the days in iraq. >> we have been an afterthrough the. >> reporter: the "we" referred to is the african-american community in the hunters point. >> my father and my brothers and my uncles, everybody worked in the shipyard. >> reporter: the bay view was already in drine when the shipyard closed and the bottom fell out. >> the shipyard closed down and it destroyed a lot of people. >> reporter: and few have invested in an ar

of information is getting out there but at the same time i read somewhere that julian said that pentagon officials had offered to meet with him in some sort of neutral place to discuss what other information he may be holding holding back because there are some more documents he has yet to publish he said that he has not agreed to this i mean we'll just have to see the guy is good getting around and being noticed too much and apparently is capable of slipping through here and there so i think you'll be you will be able to make out i don't know these days he's not really slipping through and maybe he wants the media attention who i think will have to you know continue following this is that unfolds and what's the most interesting part of it off course is that he's not american so it can't be all that matter i guess are those loose enough for our team producer filling us in now like i mentioned the last time the wiki leaks had this big release it took the mainstream media days to catch on and the debate was about whistleblowers whether they're a friend or a foe to the people and this time

it is absolutely astounding, very troubling, that somebody in the pentagon, during a time of war, would make the effort to gather and release 90,000-plus documents. i think this calls into question the general seems to be parlor game mentality and too much of washington, that it's a risk free effort to leak sensitive documents. there is one nsa employee who's being prosecuted, but we need to see a lot more people in orange jumpsuits because these leaks can significantly imperil our troops in the field, our allies and harm our national security. that's what the 911 commission said, and when i interviewed general mike hayden several years ago before his confirmation as director of the cia, i asked him about the leak of information including the president's surveillance program and he shook his head and said, now, we're only catching the dumb terrorists. when we start leaking sensitive and particularly top secret and classified -- highly classified information, which give our enemies all the tools they need and we send a message to our allies that we can't be trusted with their secrets so

a research lab funded by the pentagon and housed in the department of physics. at three forty two am on the twenty fourth of august nine hundred seventy an explosion destroyed the army math center. hundreds of f.b.i. agents from all over the united states were sent to wisconsin this was of extreme interest to the white house was that this yellow explosion absolutely it went all the way to the director's desk there was daily contact with the the oval office as to what was happening out here and why it happened and we had to come up with some answers real fast as to what was what was going on so anyone killed yes. as a young physicist by the name of robert foster not was killed in initial blast. the f.b.i. team immediately focused their investigation on a car spotted flaying from the scene at high speed. the bombers were led by a twenty two year old college dropout carl armstrong. this is the route you came up from the y.m.c.a. armstrong agreed for the first time to return to the building and talk about the night he's bombed wisconsin. where did the idea come from

today, pentagon officials in effect accused wikileaks and its source within the u.s. military of murder. >> the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an afghan family. >> reporter: in what appears to be an attempt to build a criminal case against julian assange, the head of wikileaks, defense secretary gates asked the director of the f.b.i. to join the investigation. >> the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies, and afghan partners. >> reporter: the documents reveal the names of afghans who provided intelligence to the u.s.; their lives are now in danger. and their exposure will send a chill through anyone else thinking of helping >> will people whose lives are on the line trust us to keep their identity secret? >> reporter: the documents also provide a road map to the american military's tactics. this, for instance, is a moment- by-moment log of what u.s. troops did after specialist bowe bergdahl was captured by the taliban. and t

reaction from the pentagon. >>> starting over. after months of speculation, ceo tony hayward given the boot. replaced by american bob dudley as the company reports a whopping $17 billion loss. >>> hospital mix-up. new details of the tragic case of mistaken identity. two families, their lives turned upside down. we will speak to the aunts of one of the survivors. >>> chelsea's big day. four days until chelsea clinton's lavish wedding that will now reportedly cost as much as $5 million. we are live from the spot where the wedding is set to take place "early" this tuesday morning, july 27th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good tuesday morning to you. i'm erica hill. >> i'm harry smith. good morning, everybody. >> lot of activity. couple of hours away from us here. rhinebeck, new york, where it is all but official, i guess, chelsea clinton and mark mezvinsky will be getting married. potential cost for a media consultant, $100,000 which sinning because it is not a lot of talking going on. >> don't people have to sign confidentialit

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officials say this leak could be bigger than the release of the pentagon papers in the 70s. administration officials are condemning the development but bill it impact the united states efforts in that region? fox's jennifer davis reports from washington. >> reporter: it could be the largest leak of classified u.s. information ever. more than 90,000 documents of raw intelligence relating to the war in afghanistan now available for anyone to see on the website. the founder of the antiwar group says the document reveal abuses by u.s. and coalition forces and perhaps even war crimes. >> if governments don't like populations being upset they should treat them better, not conceal abuses. >> reporter: a official is calling the documents a mix of rumor and second hand information. they detail a variety of assessments about incidents over the last six years involving friendly fire, civilian casualties and intelligence officials from pakistan, a u.s. alley cooperating with taliban extremists. >> it is not the content as much as it is there are names, there are operations, there is log

the pentagon is not positive that he leaked all of these documents. they are going to look at his computer. i have a question, too. i want to know what his supervisors were doing if he was sitting there day after day and downloading 90,000 classified documents and apparently bragging online, if in fact this was him bragging online, saying he was listening -- he would pretend he was listening to lady gaga and downloading c.d.'s at the same time. so how did he spend all day doing that without anyone else noticing? so i wouldn't be surprised if they also looked elsewhere. >> let me ask you about the number of casualty. you say this is the deadliest month. what's behind that? why is that the fact? >> well, certainly there are more operations going on, and particularly in the south. but frankly, pete, it's no, sir i.e.d.'s. the bigger we make vehicles, the more we invest in that, the bigger they make the bombs. the majority of people are being killed by i.e.d.'s. now, there's a lot of small-arms fire. they've had a lot of small-arms fire death and it's pro

the pentagon can't account for this money according to the g.a.o. but i think the issue here is the issue really is governmental control and the information system again is at the crux of the problem. and yes, a lot of this money, if we read the series this week, does go to the private contractors and as we know private contractors are more expensive according to the report done by the director of national intelligence. than are government employees. host: our next call is from tom in massachusetts. independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i like the title of your book there, shadow elite, but i know it's primarily discussing military contractors. but let me give you the scenario and see if these kind of folks fit into the shadow elite. i look at, for example, it seems the pathway to success now is to become a staffer for somebody on capitol hill. you work for them for a while. all of a sudden you're in politics. you get into politics for a while. the next thing you know, your big payday is the private sector. and to give you just two e

the pentagon says navy petty officer justin mcneley of colorado was killed and he was scheduled to come home next month. >>> moving on now to the news from the gulf tonight. 99 days into the crisis, fishermen are fighting back, almost a quarter of the gulf is still closed to fishing, even though there's no oil to be seen in much of that area. the fishermen insist that they're pulling safe fish from the water right now tonight, and they'll eat it to prove it. and here's jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: just how safe are gulf fish? one way to check is the oysters because unlike fish and shrimp, they can't swim away from the oil. mitch jurisich and his brother frank are third generation oystermen. more than half of their oyster beds are closed, but government inspectors have reopened these. and what did they find? >> nothing, the water samples are good. that's why we're open. it's coming out of good, clean water. >> reporter: and this is safe? >> safe. i'm still standing here. >> reporter: but will i be standing in 12 hours? >> you'll still be standing in 12 hours. i guarantee you. >> reporter