supported hostilities in aid of such enemy armed forces now this is important because the pentagon and department of justice have justified everything from drone strikes to indefinite detention under this expanded a definition in fact the d.o.j. white paper released earlier this year on targeted killings specifically says quote the president has authority to respond to the imminent threat posed posed by al qaeda and its associated forces arising from its constitutional responsibility to protect the country the inherent right of the united states national self-defense under international law. but what exactly is an associated force of al qaeda that we are at war with but we have some idea this is a two thousand and four list of associated forces identified by the department of defense this information was found in the guantanamo files made public by wiki leaks as you can see it's a rather large list and includes organizations you probably didn't know we were at war with over the last day. including the iranian intelligence agency pakistani intelligence the muslim brotherhood is blow up and hamas plus more th

department sees phone -- seized phone record from owes vateassociated press,s journalist. newly uncovered court of document shows justice department seized phone records, at white house at state department and the pentagon. if i semajr sieman agree about . >> and george ros rosen personal cell phone number and the number of his parents home in new york. what we are witnessing is a assault on the first amendment of this nation's constitution. by an administration that has gone too far across the line, the judge who handles the rosen leak case, today apologized for the year and a half delay in unceiling the duties in this case. prosecutor in the case, big donor to president obama's campaign. is going back to 2003. >> ben bernanke has been making it rain on wall street but investigator do not like the idea of slowing that flood of easy money. george areao with us next. >> irs abused its public trust, david bossy, president of citizens anighted talks about clear government overreach. lou: euronext guest says president obama issued marching orders to democrats and administration by attacking. joining us is david bosse president of citizens united. when you say. in essence, what do you mean? >> well, thank yo

the heart of the pentagon paper heirs case, and he will join us next. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: the justice departmentap phone records has outraged defenders of the first amendment. among them is james george counsel of the "new york times" when president richard nixon ordered the old gray lady to cease publication of the pentagon papers detailing america's involvement in the vietnam war and published excerpts that shows the american government in less than favorable light. but as counsel for the times goodell argued that publication of the pentagon papers fell under the freedom protected of the first amendment. judge murray gurfein wrote this. : what a beautiful way of putting it. the supreme court ultimately agreed 6-3. but as recent events have shown president obama does not suffer a con con con tankerrous press james goodell published a memoir of his time called "fighting for the press." he joins us tonight from new york city. welcome to "the war room," james. >> thank you glad to be here. >> michael: we are certainly glad to have you. let's go back to june 13, 1971 when president nixon first lear

department and pentagon, as well as other fox offices and cellphones. the final four numbers of the numbers have been redacted, making it impossible to know who the justice department had tracked, however fox news has confirmed that two of the phone numbers are an exact match to both rosen's cellphone and his parents' hard-line at their home in new york. >> this seems to be incidents that are clear violations of the spirit and the letter of the law in the first amendment. >> the government originally obtained a search warrant giving investigators access to rosen's personal email accounts based on the affidavit of an fbi agent, who not only repeatedly accused rosen of committing a crime, but asked that the search warrant request be sealed, suggesting rosen could be a flight. quote, if persons notify anyone that a warrant has been issued on the subject account, the targets of this investigation, and other persons, may further mask their identity and activity, flee, or otherwise obstruct this investigation." white house press secretary jay carney was pressed again today on where the president stands on the rosen case and the doj's decision to track 20 assoc

department and at the pentagon. the final four numbers of many of those phone lines were redacted, making it impossible to know exactly hot justicet was tracking in each of those cases. now, remember the government originally obtained a search warrant giving investigators access to james rosen's personal email g mail account after an fbi agent james rosen may have committed a crime. the chief judge of the federal district court in washington today acknowledged the documents in the james rosen case were kept under seal for 18 months longer than they should have been. that judge apologized. and now says a review is underway. the boston bombing investigation took a surprising turn today when a man who apparently knew one of the terrorist suspects was about to confess to a different murder. until things got violent. now that man is dead. and that story is coming up from the journalists of fox news live from moore. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is

knowledge at the pentagon is trying to hammer in to the legal system, in which the department of justice is complicit in would mean the end of national security journalism in the u.s. andt only the u.s. because the pentagon is trying to apply it extraterritorial it, why would it be the end of national security journalism? because the interpretation is that any document the u.s. government claims to be classified is given to a journalist who then makes any part of a public, that journalist has committed espionage and the person who gave the material has committed the crime communicating with the enemy. >> julian assange was speaking to us from the ecuadorean embassy in london, where he is holed up. he got political asylum in ecuador, but the british government will not allow him to come out of the embassy to make ecuador.to th he is worried about being extradited to the u.s., were you say, you think there is a sealed indictment against him brigit we know there's a secret grand jury. >> i don't know, it is a secret. but that is why he is holed up. his lawyers are convinced one step out, he is in sweden and he is right through sweden over here. he is quite right about tal

and effective. on this weekend you have four of the most important agencies -- five if you crd h.h.s.-- under a cloud. you have the justice department, state department, the pentagoner sexual assaults and treasury over the ice, and h.h.s. on the affordable care act, all with questions about lelegality, competence, managerl strength, and people look at the government and say under this president the government is not working. people can decide who is at fault on that but i don't think there's any question it's not working. >> schieffer: lois, you have been around here for a while. what do you make of all this? have you ever seen anything quite like what's going on in washington right now, where the government is basically paralyzed and we're all engulfed in all of these controversies. >> well, watergate, to go -- >> there is that. >> i really haven't, where five agencies are totally paralyzed. i think when the dust settles, i agree with david, it's going to be about the i.r.s. for all the complaining and how upset first amendment rights people are about the ap situation, i'm not sure the public really cares or they don't quite understand how it might affect the bro

justice department seized associated press phone records. and a discussion on the recent pentagon report on sexual assault in the military with the co-founder of the's service action network. "washington journal" is live on c-span.t 7:00 >> next is u.s. and south korea's options in dealing with north korea. after that a discussion about u.s. laws and standards for overseas workers. then the senate agriculture committee marks up the farm bill. >> on nond former assistant secretary of state for east asia talked about relations with north korea in light of new threats from the kim regime. he said north korean leaders are not likely to use their nuclear weapons for offensive purposes though he would not rule out further nuclear tests. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> let me introduce -- it's a great pleasure to introduce one f my great friend who is better known as the president korea society or acting secretary of state for -- >> you keep promoting me. did you know him? glad to i am very have this top expert on north korea. and also let's give him a big hand first. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> and a couple of my colleagues who are with

of all the white house. we are asked to believe that this malfeasance went on at the irs, the justice department, the state department and the pentagon, without the president's knowledge. we know the nation's commander in chief is not exactly a tape-a work horse, but doesn't his telephone ring isn't investigators are unbound with six committees in search-and-find mode. as the lady said, fasten your seat belts. >> new debate over plans to lower the drinking limit. you may be surprised by the groups that are saying that the limit should stay right where it is, we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. that was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again, and now i gotta take more pills. ♪ yup another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] this may, buy aleve and help those in need. available out there. i knew devry university would give me the skills that i needed to make one of those te

pentagon to pick a site in the united states for military commissions to be held here. they will be held here and no longer at guantanamo. he says he has ordered a review of justice department guidelines for spying on reporters as part of leak investigations. he says he wants a review of proposals for more oversight when we kill people outside of war zones like drones. he's putting a senior envoy in charge of trying to close guantanamo, again, even though that didn't work the last time he did it. all of those plans and the president declaring the global war on terror has got to be ended someday, this is a big deal, what happened today. this has been a long time in coming. joining us now is someone who has been working since the first day of this president's first term on pretty much every big national security and civil liberties issue that the president talked about today. jameel jaffer is deputy legal director of the aclu, currently representing the families of three american citizens killed by drone strikes in yemen, including anwar al awlaki's family. a detainee that's been held in guantanamo since 2002. and won a big victory in courts when the court of appeals ruled th

department, the white house, the pentagon, right down the line. and having demanded release of the e-mails for six months, that leaves republicans now trying to figure out what to demand next. on the department of justice'se associated press" phone calls, the white house announced it had convinced senator chuck schumer to reintroduce his media shield legislation, shot down by republicans in 2009. and on the i.r.s. targeting of tea party groups, president obama read the inspector general's report got angry met with treasury secretary jack lew and then fired the acting head of the i.r.s. and put new guidelines in place. all in all a very effective response. now, maybe we can get back to work on things that really matter like gun safety, for example? congressman earl will be with us tomorrow. [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: chris what? why didn't you tell me jacki schechner emailed me? this is worse than watergate. hi, jacki schechner. >> we have a hot off of the press script here. >> stephanie: all right. here we go. >> what did i'm you? >> stephanie: just kidding. john dean is going to be on the show to talk about why each of these scandals

and away from their alleged perpetrator. now, this lieutenant colonel, his case apparently, is being handled by a local police department because the allegation came outside of his pentagon duties. however, hagel is looking at overhauling the military justicen someone is convicted of a sex seoul assault crime, that conviction cannot be so readily overturned as some have in the past. zoraida? >> all right. barbara starr, live at the pentagon for us. thank you. >>> new developments on the boston marathon bombings. the funeral director where tamerlan tsarnaev's body was taken say russia may be the only place willing to bury him. meanwhile victims are starting to find out how the money raised for them spent. and a friend of dzhokhar tsarnaev accused of lying to investigators is free on $100,000 bail. cnn's paula newton live for us this morning. >> good morning, christine. many developments in this case. but still no resolution about what to do with the remains of tamerlan tsarnaev. he, still, this morning, is in a funeral home in a suburb of boston, and nowhere for the body to go. still sheltered by her parents, and under constant watch by the fbi, katherine russell has kept her silence publicly. letting one act speak for itself. as next of ki

when the pentagon papers leaked one of the first questions i got is could the "new york times" be prosecuted. went to the department of justice anduting journalists and newspapers under the same law he's prosecuting leakers. he has drawn the line and said no, i'm only interested in the leakers. we could also be forcing reporters to reveal their sources. he has not gone that far. they could have gone after the reporters, editors, and what have you and they drew the line, so it's an balanced act that annoys the press so they are squealing, because it dries up their sources. >> stephanie: reading a piece this morning, holders say the subpoena is more efficient and humane than jailing reporters. obviously others would disagree say it's a overreaction. but it keeps sources low, and allows officials to track down leakers more quickly, and avoids months and months of high-profile court cases. >> it's a disagreement with policy. not a scandal. that's what it is. >> stephanie: that's what i'm saying, and it doesn't take much imagination to say if this were george bush, they would scream about national security and who cares about the ap s