for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature. of the nature of the leaks and whether us soldiers or informers or people working with us will be put in danger by them they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves staying in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy was sentenced to death this week tariq aziz was found guilty by the country's high court of persecuting opposition shiite islamic parties the decision to hang as easy as seventy four has drawn much international condemnation and some experts view the sentence as an attempt to divert attention away from the we can leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn is among the critics o

for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers or informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years and nowhere is that more true than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said quite matter of factually we don't do body counts but americans have been doing body counts and those body counts now combined with the iraqi body count of n.g.o.s and aid agencies say that some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves former cia officer ray mcgovern says the damning truth from the files shows the iraqi premier had h

for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves well of course fifty thousand u.s. troops remain in iraq to train and support local security forces but in many places like kurdish controlled care kook the legacy of the american led invasion remains an uncertain one people their fear of civil war could eventually you're. that's the passion meyer now reports. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk we're in the suburb of d

for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves. this week a top aide to saddam hussein was given the death sentence on charges of murder and crimes against humanity but the verdict has drawn international condemnation british m.p. jeremy corbyn says referring to the old regime was a ruse to deflect attention from the revelations by wiki leaks the reason they're doing it now correct this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed

he was at the pentagon, and the intelligence community, and at the state department. he served as deputy assistant at stake for intelligence. -- deputy assistant of state for intelligence. he is in the private sector. he is a partner in a consulting firm where he is advises clients on a range of issues. i first met him during the clinton administration. dick was at the national security council. i was at the fbi. the department of justice and fbi are hard organizations to crack. there was an amount of respect for dick and the service that he had performed at the national security council, trying to focus the united states government on the critical terrorism issues and the emergence of cyber issues. he has been at it for very long time. regardless of how one feels about it and the issues that surround this, it is fair to say he is someone who has devoted a substantial part of his life to service of the public. he is always labored in a manner which he thought he was doing the best things he could to ensure the stability of the republic and the security of the public.

pentagon documents. it is that of daniel ellsberg, the top policy analyst for the defense and state departments. >> i thinkt is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspaper. >> in the first year of marriage we're talking about him going to prison for the rest of his life. >> wouldn't you go to prison? >> we felt so strongly that we were dealing way national security crisis. henry kissinger said that dr. daniel ellsberg was the most dangerous man in america and he had to be stopped. >> well, daniel ellsberg, we welcome you to the program. let's just start at the top because one of the things that -- i looked at the documentary and was impressed by was the number of presidents who you said deceived the american public about the reasons for the war in vietnam. how many presidents are you -- >> i was talking about five presidents. there were four covered in the pentagon papers, which ended in 1968. the reason i copied them and gave them to the senate and then to the press is that i knew that a fifth one, richard nixon, was following in the

and asked him to start covering real news. he did. on capitol hill, at the pentagon, at the state department and at the white house. it was there in 1974 as reports circulated that president nixon would soon resign and leave the white house because of watergate that our intrepid correspondent thought he had a huge scoop. >> a moving van has pulled up to the white house. members of the crowd began to applaud when he did. >> bought -- bob had an exclusive. he is almost never had a loss for words. while there was at one time that he struggled to explain the ken starr report. >> the president was on the telephone, according to her, he unzipped his pants and exposed himself and they had sex. >> he has covered all the major beats in washington and he has anchored a renews broadcast that cbs. he returned to washington in 2006 where he continues to question all of the top newsmen. >> how are you? >> i am fine. >> he sometimes even offers his own suggestions. >> if you should become speedster -- speaker, you can set an example by saying that you would stop smoking. maybe the two of you could find a way to stop smoking. that

reluctance on the part of the pentagon to accept these kind of responsibilities and roles, simply because they didn't see them as essentially military. the state department on the other hand, doesn't have much surge capacity. the number of foreign service officers is pretty small, and when you spread them over the world, there just aren't that many around that can get into the details, the nitty gritty, that's required in a peace building effort, and so the military has sort ogotten dragged into it and now accepted the role more. but as colonel hughes said, it's a wide array of activities that you have to engage in, including building civil society if that country is going to be sustainable. so, it's not only economic reconstruction, it's that creating that society politically, and that's manpower or person power intensive. >> let me focus our attention a bit on iraq and afghanistan, two specific examples. great decisions spoke with some other experts on this topic as well. let's hear what they have to say about it. >> we used to see conflicts as proxy wars and depended on the superpowers, uh, for resolving them or managing them or aggravating them. and

political spear, the office of the president, defense department, pentagon, state department or across the media, either by ignorance or by choice andn many cases, it is by choice, they have kept the american people in the dark about activities that surely our tax dollars would not be used to fund open slaughter of innocents and torture for years after we were told our money would not be used for that purpose. whether you believe iran is a serious threat, whether you believe the iraq war was the best thing we ever did, the primary problem of solving in america right now is not covering up these issues or arguing our differences. instead of sweeping everything from mass theft to mass murder under the rug, it's time for some major investigations in this country. and while what decisions we make as a country are important, the only thing more important than what is how we make our decisions as a country. and a country that makes decisions through monopolies, opaque systems, systems that depend on lies and deception and misdirection that reward fear and exploitation is a country with a lot of room for improvement in the way it makes dec

somebody who can deal with the state department and pentagon as an equal.e the taliban starting to come to the table and a move to bring in the karzai government and the taliban sitting down for a possible peace agreement. is that the gunnibeginning of t ground work we're seeing for a withdrawal and president obama can wipe his hands clean of it, you know what, we can't do anything more, we've brought the two together, we've got to step back and bring our stoops troops out there? >> absolutely, i don't think this is the right time to negotiating, i don't think we are negotiating or the karzai government is negotiating from a signal of strength. i think it will strengthsen their negotiating position to see what they can get out of it. i think the predicate is absolutely to try to find some further basis to justify that u.s. and n.a.t.o. troop withdrawal. so i view this as a very bad signal. >> it seems kind of obvious now that you put it in those words. mr. ambassador. always great to see you here on "fox & friends," thanks so much. >> always glad to be here

know more about the travel alert, the state department has the full alert and we have a link on our web site. >>> an army ranger killed in afghanistan. the pentagon says sergeant first class lance herman vogue her was shot and killed friday. he was a native of fed rick and veined the army in may of 2001. >>> an armored car driver shot a suspected robber in the district t happened yesterday ate shopping center on brentwood road in northeast. police say the guard was picking up a bag of money from a shoe store. the guard shot the man in the leg outside the store. >> the armored car courier follows him out, orders him to stop. the guy turns around. we are looking into the investigation if he had a weapon ho im. >> investigators say they don't think the suspect had a weapon. he is in stable condition. police have for the released his name but they say he is 35 years old and from d.c. >>> d.c.'s mayor takes tough action to deal with the budget deficit. >>> tea party favorite christine o'donnell addresses talk of her being involved in witchcraft. d twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. vo: it's america's egg farmers who feed millions in need... vo: ..

state department urges americans to use, quote, common sense precautions and avoid places where americans tend to gather. cnn has also learned the pentagon imposed a curfew practice on u.s. troops in germany and ordered service members not to wear their uniforms off base. cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson is here with more. >> reporter: what concerns officials in europe and has for some time is that when people get to these camps from germany, from belgium, from britain, they form compaqs and networks and when they come back to their home countries, they tuesday those camacts and networks to plan and prepare other attacks, so that remains a concern. there is also the concern that other people may have slipped away who weren't under surveillance who we're told by counterterror authorities here that they had a number of people in this mosque under surveillance but when they formed plans for groops to go to pakistan, that he did so quitly they couldn't be stopped. you have groups known to be plotting an attack like this, there are others who may be beyond surveillance who could have been in training camps, back in germa

the white house, the state department, the pentagon, all concerned about deteriorating relations with pakistan right now and isi's involvement with the taliban in afghanistan. jon: hundreds of nato supply trucks are still getting stuck at the border there where pakistan shut down the border crossing and our troops can't get the supplies they need as they fight theafter began war. >> reporter: there are hundreds of supply tracks lined up at the main supply routes. there are two main routes from pakistan into afghanistan. ann patterson apologized for the killing of the three border policemen who were killed by a nato helicopter. many here in the pentagon thought that after that apology took place that the border would be open. just yesterday 70 nato trucks were torched and ended up in flames by militants inside pakistan in two separate incidents. there have been six attacks on nato trucks in pakistan in the last week alone. jon: thank you, jennifer from the pentagon. jenna: right now we are just 26 days from what is shaping up to really be a monumental national election. with so much at stake some incumbents

the state department -- the website issued warning, the website has the full alert just go to myfoxdc.com and click on the travel a heart. >>> a maryland army ranger has died in afghanistan. the pentagon said the sergeant first class was shot and killed on friday in a gun battle in the helmand province. he's surprised by his wife melissa and two children. >>> another big story we're following this morning, a mysterious shooting is under investigation. a man was found shot in the parking lot of a virginia metro stop. it happened last night at the huntington metro. sarah simmons joins us live in alexandria. sarah, there are questions about what exactly happened there? >> reporter: there certainly are and still are this morning. metro police found a man shot inside a car here at the hunting ton metro stop. fairfax county police are continuing this investigation now. they say there is a shooting they are looking into and we don't have a lot to go on from here. we can tell you it occurred about 10:30 last night. fairfax county police responded because they got a call from a woman saying she was supposed to meet a family member here and when she got here, she couldn't find him. police arriv

the state department and the department of defense had to respond to that and now we have new documents that they say they will publish soon about the iraq war. the pentagonas a team of 120 people who have already reviewed the documents. their job right now is assessing what might be the damage and they say their number one goal is to protect u.s. troops. more on that as it happens. >> then with the giants game. >> that's right. another note we wanted to give folks. it starts at 1:20 p.m. it will be an issue for midday traffic, but then after the game is over, it will be crazy getting out of san francisco. the now part getting into san francisco, moves smoothly and slowly into san francisco. they will see construction as they bring up the second set of towers causing more slowing across the upper deck. a look at the toll plaza and the back up that formed has been building going back past the 880 overcrossing and the lights lined up. back to the maze and the curve, oakland 880 you get less of a view than we saw. fog affecting the view and speeds close to the limit here. sunol is where we see the slow down. clear around the great, but low clouds around as w

, maybe hillary clinton could move from the state department over to the pentagon, but that's totally other matter. the vice president now making it clear andto cnn that it should be obvious to everyone, this will be another obama/biden ticket in 2012. >>> let's move on to bill clinton right now. he is out campaigning for democrats across the country in new mexico right now during our hours "the situation room" between 5 and 7 p.m. eastern, he is going to be speaking in new mexico, campaigning for the democratic lieutenant governor who wants to replace bill richardson as the next governor, die nan dennish. she has a tough challenge from susannah martinez, the republican candidate. we will monitor what bill clinton is saying in new mexico, see what he has to say. by the way, sarah palin will be speaking during our hours as well. we will monitor what she is saying as well. >>> finally, something that is really nice and they do this often. over at the white house, this is right now breast cancer awareness month and at 6:30 p.m. eastern tonight, also during the second hour of the situation room, we are going to see something extraordinary of at

attack and a possible cover-up of something known at the pentagon, witnesses in the defense department claim they identified mohammed atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker as a threat to the united states, way before september 11th. our own catherine herridge has the report. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel tony schaeffer participated with top-secret clearance as under a cover operative for the defense intelligence agency and showed me a reproduction of a chart snufd t used. >> the project was dined to map their activities and deny, degrade, disrupt the ability of al qaeda to conduct global operations against us and our ol li -- allies and my job is to find out what is behind the links. >> when you saw the picture of the lead hijacker. >> i thought, my god this is the same guy and the picture on the chart was not the same picture they ran on tv. >> atta used many names and nationalities and had many public photos in the years leading up to the attacks and this college picture, some describe it as a shy, considerate man. and, mary said she remembered him looking more like this and here's a picture, seared in our memories of the lead hijacker. while serving in afghanistan in 2003, lieuten