what does the pentagon do well and what does the pentagon need in terms of what it manages? >> i would say there are many things that the pentagon and our military does extremely well. one area i would highlight is our supply chain. we actually do get the material where it needs to be all around the globe, you know, where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. so our operational readiness has been significant and extremely productive. some of the areas that -- and i think everybody has their list of areas of improvement for us, not the least of which is the government accountability office and we do own quite a few of their high-risk areas and predominantly in the business space, an area that i'm very much interested in, things like the information technology, that is definitely an area that we're putting time and attention, i think i mentioned, as part of our strategic business priorities. we've certainly recognized that acquiring business i.t. solutions are different than command and control so we've adopted our instructions and policies around a more agile approach to

that's obtained through a contract that the pentagon issues with, i guess, choicepoint? >> it's a different private company but they are basically trying to compile records on students so they can reach out to them and recruit them into the military. >> what do you think of the pentagon having dossiers on every young person in america, mr. chairman? >> i haven't heard that honestly. it's obviously a huge task and i don't think it's being done in the light that you are talking about. i think they are probably trying to identify those individuals that would be a high risk in terms of potential terror to this country, and i think that's what they are concentrating on. i don't think they are going to the average student and developing a dossier. i their doing a scan mechanism to find out is this particular student a u.s. citizen? is he a student from a country which is hos aisle or wants to indicate or has a past history of trying to hurt the united states? those the students they probably should watch carefully. >> is it engaged in domestic spying with undercover intelligen

to promote the war former military officers would get talking points directly from the pentagon than say them on the air no questions asked if answered the. gesture. that is needed retired u.s. generals talking points. in iraq ruled by the message yet needs to be a legend in iraq imagine iraq under control zarko you're talking point link iraq to iran i believe that iran is now the number one troublemaker in iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits were making big money from defense contracts most of the t.v. and the radio military analysts have ties to military contractors people who could possibly be making money on the. most would consider that a potential conflict of interest maybe not even potential at the same time reporters who did ask hard questions were punished by the white house luckily their managers stood by them reporter jonathan landay covered the speech dick cheney gave in august two thousand and two to the veterans of foreign wars many of us are convinced that saddam hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon that was based on absolutely nothin

to trip pentagon trip since. that three years. the chill by white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice president did like that we wrote. there was no. it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions. of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war. because they were afraid of losing access and having happen to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy for reporting. sheds light on the reasons why. they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else then we're doing and if that displeases the secretary of defense if it just loses the vice president so be it. the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public laughs. the story really begins with him bastard joseph wilson wilson was the acting ambassador to

early in the pentagon the newsweek poll showed forty one percent of americans thought saddam hussein was directly terrorist attacks i don't think we ever should i know i didn't say that there was a direct connection between september eleventh and saddam hussein nobody's ever suggested get the attacks of september the eleventh were ordered by iraq no wonder the news media has lost the public trust they want to make policy choices based on truth and what i heard is that people didn't really quite feel that the mainstream media in the media as we most of us experience. was truth telling group fairness and accuracy in reporting did a. study of two weeks around february fifth two thousand and three right before the invasion before major nightly newscasts m.t.c. a.b.c. c.b.s. and p.b.s. news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews down around war only three were that they were leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was supposed to be invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme. in the drums for war a recent new y

october is energy awareness month and we figured this would be a good idea to get some of the pentagon's top energy minds together to talk about the efforts to date and what's ahead. joining us today are casper hammock, the assistant secretary of the army for installations, energy and environment. terry yonkers, the assistant secretary of the air force for environment and logistics, thomas hicks, the deputy secretary of the navy for energy and dorothy robien, the undersecretary of defense for the environment. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> dorothy, i'd like to start with you. for generations -- and then have all of you guys take a crack at the same question. for generations the u.s. has looked at the energy as a limitless limitless commodity. general martin dempsey said that has to change, there is an imperative greater need for the fuel and martin dempsey hosted an energy roundtable where you guys all participated to focus the department's attention on this issue. what are some of the concrete steps that have been taken over the past couple of

we have vividly remember the horrific sides of the world trade center in new york, at the pentagon in virginia, and at the crash site in pennsylvania. hundreds of those who perished where people sworn to serve and protect. 343 firefighters, 50 law enforcement officers, 37 from the port authority pd, and others from new york pd. we each remember that day. we remember the tragedy we face as a nation under attack. we also remember how we came together a san franciscans, neighbors, and partners. the city came together as a family to ensure that all those were safe and that our loved ones were free from harm. one of the most important ways to honor the memory of the innocent victims is to continue to strengthen our collective effort, to maintain vigilance, to enhance our preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. it is a shared responsibility. we all play a role in being resilienct neighborhoods, citie, and states that are a foundation for a strong nation. we can accomplish much more when we work together. over the last decade, incredible progress has been made in integrating collaborat

there will be no parking at pentagon north and limited access to pentagon south parking. metro opens at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >>> he's the only pianist to have a number-one record on the billboard pop charts. roger williams, the piano man to the presidents, has died. this is video of williams playing the piano at the ronald reagan presidential library. he played for every president from harry tuman to george h.w. bush. he liked to improvise on the keyboard. he died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. roger williams was 87 years old. >>> still ahead tonight, kids with courage under pressure. >> i thought she was in pain. i thought is she going to be okay. >> coming up, special recognition for youngsters whose quick thinking likely saved a life. >>> and pretty tense moments as a plane makes an emergency landing in the ocean. >>> plus, a special tribute to the king of pop, jackson's children are among those who turned out for a special concert. >>> we certainly had a beautiful day outside today. it looks like we're going to be able to get off to a sunny start o

of transformation within the pentagon and gloanl campaign csh gobble campaign against terrorism. he was a former editor of the chicago tribune, spending time with the moscow bureau chief. he's wrote about the military and national security affairs for the newspaper for more than 20 years. he's covered some of the biggest stories, part of two teams of times reporters, awarded the pulitzer prize including one in 1999 for coverage of the transfer of sensitive military technology to china and another in 2009 for coverage of afghanistan and pakistan. since the september 11th attacks, both made numerous trips to afghanistan and iraq vetting with troops at various levels to cover military operations there. please welcome tom and eric. [applause] >> well, thank you, christina, for the warm introduction. thank you for coming out on au >> to understand where we are today, you have to understand where the country was on 9/11 to understand how far it's come and how far it still have to go in terms of changes. one focus was on 9/11, just how little the united states government really knew abo

in the days immediately after nine eleven was brought into the pentagon to meet with senior pentagon officials because he was perceived as a moderate muslim who would support bush's plan to invade afghanistan. given that osama bin laden's stated purpose for not eleven was to get us to start a war given the george w. bush told his biographer in ninety nine before he was elected that if he was elected the first thing he wanted to start a war only in iraq because it would give him political capital it seems that bin laden's goal of our being in a war in the middle east bush's war goal of our being in that you know we're in the middle east. we're kind of aligned although i'm not trying to create any kind of grand conspiracy theory here just an interesting confluence and one of the people in this article is a former intelligence officer here's the quote who was horrified but this guy who was being brought into the pentagon without being any security. they vetted people politically and showed indifference toward security and intelligence advice. could it be that the law keeping in the pent

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barbara starr working your sources at the pentagon and reza in islamabad. barbara, let's start with you. is some sort of military action being discussed here? >> at this point, kyra, the answer is no. look, the pentagon always says all options are on the table. that is the standard language. but all of our sources are indicating there is no indication of that yet. it would come, of course, at the direction of the president. one of the key problems is, if you want to do military action, what would you strike? what would your targets be? what you're talking about the revolutionary guard core, the group of people that make up the most militant wing of the iranian military. what they're still trying to pin down is whether this plot actually went beyond them. did it really go all the way to the top to president mahmoud ahmadinejad and to iran supreme leader. these are some of the key intelligence questions on the table. right now, however, they are sticking with sanctions, financial sanctions and the possibility of taking this to the u.n. security council. look

>> this is what some of the critics and the pentagon and other people were saying. how do you make this work? let me give you a few examples from our book and again a lot of things things are happening in the fields as we write in this book. many of these things the innovations are coming from the young military officials officers, young analyst, people who are trying to solve problems on the ground, not in direct from washington or higher headquarters. so let's take this example of thinking about deterrence and networks as thom it mentioned before. this idea of networks is really important because again, the idea that you can have on one end of the spectrum suicide bombers, probably most of them are not deterrable. although the government tried as we fight about in the secret efforts after the 9/11 attacks to get to him through his family with secret messages. he never responded that the people in the middle that thom talked about, these enablers, the supporters, these are people like the logisticians, the gunrunners, the financiers, these are people in the network

. >> reporter: playing in the grass where flight 77 hit the pentagon, these puppies hardly look like the front line in the fight against terrorism. they are the tsa's future dogs. >> they have all the raw potential. we do it by good breeding. >> reporter: the tsa puppy program was launched after 9/11. every puppy is named after a victim of the terrorist attack. these two are the last names of a port authority manager and fbi agent both killed at the world trade center. their special names are tattooed inside their ear. it's also a gesture that touches the relatives. lisa met the puppy named for her husband that was killed inside the pentagon. >> it seems like this puppy has completed a circle for my family. >> reporter: scott manages the program in san antonio. >> as soon as they are born, we expose them to the different odors they are going to be looking for. >> reporter: formal training doesn't begin until they are a year old. they make promising recruitinre. >> a dog that likes it -- >> reporter: puppies that make the cut go on in a bomb career. train stations and passenger planes

true driven into the world trade center towers, one into the pentagon.hat was the threat that people were worried about? it was a concern that a couple of the ten possible u.s. citizens have gone back into the country and were going to carry out a truck bomb. so the scale is quite different. what we argue in our book her, however, is that this country's starting with the president on its way down to the congress has not prepared the american public for what we believe will be another attack. we don't know what format will be. the creativity of these lawmakers up there now, it could come in the form of another airplane strike. could come in the radicalization of an individual as we saw at fort hood, texas, where an army major picked up an automatic rifle and shot his colleagues. but what this country has not done, the country's political leaders have not started talking about how the next attack will come and have the country needs to be more resilient. and we don't mean to say resilience in the form of rebuilding. all this is all the images of crown zero

given who is live at the pentagon. video has a real news purpose here because it is all we have at this point in terms of determining what happened to him, how he was killed and how this was carried out. >> reporter: well, what's really interesting, martha, is we have been checking back every few minutes with defense officials, the operations center here at the pentagon as well as intelligence officials, and no one as of yet can confirm that he's dead. but i was sitting in one official's office just moments ago, and as we watched the video, it was slowed down, and we were looking very carefully, and it did look like you could see a bullet wound behind the ear of gadhafi or what is purported to be gadhafi. the assumption is that he is dead, and now the real question is, was he killed by bullet wounds, or was it, in fact, a nato air strike? nato did issue a statement earlier today about the same time that gadhafi was reported killed that it had fired on two vehicles in what they described as a convoy of gadhafi loyalists

given that, i think it is essential for the pentagon and the u.s. government writ large to develop a coherent long-term strategy for deciding what pieces of the defense industrial base are really going to be important going forward over the next several decades, and make some real strategic choices. we talked in the report of six or seven or eight major areas which we think should be invested in preferentially. we do not give you or suggest a list of what those are. but we think if you're going to have the strategy in so far as strategy is about choice, that you are going to have to focus on capability areas that are probably in the single digits. at the end was 75 for 123 most important things you just don't have a strategy, and it's very difficult given the interest of the various here on the hill and congress the various services and constituencies and industry to not end up with a very large list, so i think making that choice going forward is really critical. let me just say that it's not easy. you need to start with the challenges that we face

jennifer griffin with the news, she's live at the pentagon.er an impasse about this troop immunity deal. >> in fact, the defense secretary today saying that there is no impasse. it certainly looks like an impasse, but he pushed back on that notion that it's too late for the iraqis to ask zoetropes zoetropes -- u.s. troops to stay. >> at the present time, i'm not discouraged because we're still in negotiations with the iraqis. >> a top iraqi official, spokesman said to us this weekend that the issue of immunity, they are not going to bend on, that all the iraqi forces agree the forces would not be immune and that a deal breaker for the pentagon. >> trace: now you have some on capitol hill who are already saying the obama administration may have waited too long to cut a deal. >> that's right. senator john mccain accused the administration of daddling, saying they took too long to begin negotiations. here is what he had to say. >> we could have negotiated an agreement. we didn't. we had an ambassador there prior to this one that had no experience

why shouldn't troops if you take a look at people who are coming it's based on the states or the pentagon controls about five hundred billion dollars of sunday in a year and it uses that to control or high technology industry the costs of the initial stages of technological development are all subsidized by the taxpayers through the system because the pentagon is publicly funded institution obviously you know half the federal budget now is devoted to things that are either military or intelligence or homeland security and all those bureaucracies feed or a lot of contractors and the people making large amounts of money and why would they want to stop why would they not want to feed at the trough anymore the british historian the people once said that it was misleading to say that the soviet union in the united states had military industrial complex and he said it was more accurate to say that they were military industrial complex and. in the u.s. case you could just as well have said military industrial academic given the role of the university of california where you see. a very important

and jennifer has this news live for us from the pentagon this afternoon.ms to be, is there an impasse here? it feels like it. >>reporter: it looks that way if you listen to what the iraqi officials told thus weekend when the report surfaced they said they, that they essentially would not give immunity to any u.s. troops that stay. that is a dealbreaker we know for the pentagon, but, when we asked secretary panetta a few minutes ago on the steps of the pentagon about whether they hit an impasse he said, no, they are still negotiating and no one is willing to call it an impasse at the pentagon but back in this story, admiral mullen then the chairman of the joint chiefs says it is a physics problem, you bring 40,000 troops home you have to know if you are leaving some behind. right now it looks like they are on a path to bring them home. >>shepard: something on capitol hill or accusing the administration of delaying this. >>reporter: they are saying, according to senator john mccain on the senate armed services committee and he is accusing the administration