waste and i started it working at the pentagon institute nearly seven years ago at the area of tailings ponds was about fifty square kilometers that area has now grown to one hundred seventy six. some of the tailings ponds like this one at suncor run parallel to the athabaskan river. pollution from the petrochemical industry weakens the speaker system in which the northern peoples live. where the river ends deep in the northern forest the land of the first nations the native americans there are no roads there you have to fly over the mines and discover what this land looked like before oil sands extraction began. last stop for chip away and in the middle of nowhere. one thousand two hundred souls live here on the banks of the athabaskan lake formerly a significant site for fishing. today these indian tribes can see the oil industry swooping down on them between fatalism and resistance. huge. huge ship is where it's just ten kilometers where and this whole area is slated to be my endo. which is under its where i think it's four thousand square kilometers less than ten percent is being mi

breakdowns due to climate change this is extremely fascinating considering that the pentagon is the largest polluting institution in the world why do you think defense officials are suddenly so interested in studying the societal impact of climate change well that again it's a very good question because as we know in terms of meaningful action to address climate change scientists across the board have been have been telling us that you know even our current emissions reductions targets are just not enough and they will still guarantee disaster not even you know even the administration's recent measures which are most welcome are still again within that danger trajectory at the same time however we've got the plans or go on funding this kind of research which is really about trying to track what are the consequences when climate change does happen how's that going to make societies kind of more vulnerable. you know the kind of extreme weather events that we've been seeing of the last few years how is that going to make them more vulnerable and what kind of planning do we need to put in place to ensure that wester

driving force behind the subsequent changes in policy instituted by the department of defense within five years of the film's release the pentagon established casualty reporting regulations that specifically addressed friendly fire for the first time regulations dictated that the army inform families of the inflicting force involved and stipulated that reports should include circumstantial evidence as long as it's made clear where facts and supposition begins the army was now mandated to notify families of situations where friendly fire was even suspected. the integrity of this new policy would be tested in gulf war one. it's all about misselling member lloyds banking i think that was their specialty in the u.k. was mis selling unlike barclays with their specialties live or fraud or a just b. c. their specialty is money laundering and then roll back a scholar of course they're into the leg breaking and mafia whacking of their subsidiary of the global restructuring group's every bank has their own special way to commit fraud here in the u.k. if you want to get mis selling fraud definitely go to lloyds. with the economic down in t

driving force behind the subsequent changes in policy instituted by the department of defense within five years of the film's release the pentagon established casualty reporting regulations that specifically addressed friendly fire for the first time regulations dictated that the army and families of the inflicting force and stipulated that reports should include circumstantial evidence as long as it's made clear where facts and supposition begins the army was now mandated to notify families of situations where friendly fire was even suspected. the integrity of this new policy would be tested in gulf war one. the final month. and the rest. will be. in the middle east. political realities in the region. for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with the summer. tour. to build a new. mission to teach me. why you should. only. time to be. the image of the. society. it was rather bumbling incompetent ineffective institution and the officer corps in the couple of decades following the vietnam war was absolutely committed to. changing that image and restoring the reputation of the american

driving force behind the subsequent changes in policy instituted by the department of defense within five years of the film's release the pentagon established casualty reporting regulations that specifically addressed friendly fire for the first time regulations dictated that the army inform families of the inflicting force involved and stipulated that reports should include circumstantial evidence as long as it's made clear where facts and supposition begins the army was now mandated to notify families of situations where friendly fire was even suspected. the integrity of this new policy would be tested in gulf war one. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear anyone say that story it's true that lights there's a reason they don't want you to now point. out now let's break the set. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others to fuse to notice. the faces changing the world lights now. so picture of today's these long long distance from roads to blow. up to. fifty. by the time the vietnam war ended. the image of the united states military in american society was that the military was rather bumbling i

driving force behind the subsequent changes in policy instituted by the department of defense within five years of the film's release the pentagon established casualty reporting regulations that specifically addressed friendly fire for the first time regulations dictated that the army inform families of the inflicting force involved and stipulated that reports should include circumstantial evidence as long as it's made clear where facts and supposition begins the army was now mandated to notify families of situations where friendly fire was even suspected. the integrity of this new policy would be tested in gulf war one. well this is. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. misselling. their specialty in the u.k. was. like barclays. see their specialty as money laundering. breaking. every bank has their own special way to commit fraud if you want to get. in the middle east. political realities in the region. for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with the summer. by the time the vietnam war ended. the image of

some aides that they blow up the brookings institution because he believed, and he was told by these a's plumbers, that some papers left over from the pentagon papers were still in the office and they should set afire, and in the confusion go in there and get those papers. the president is suggesting they blow the brookings institution. there was somebody on the staff of the sense to stop it, but that was rare. so you also had what is learned later, you had a president who frankly was drunk a lot of the time. he was a very heavy drinker and he slurred his words, i and he s also on medication called dilantin which was really for convulsion but it was not meant for depression but somebody had given it to him for depression. dilantin enhances the effects of alcoholism. so he would pick up the phone at 3 a.m. and called david cohen. this is the president to fire everybody on the sixth floor of the state department. this is an order. slam it and then calling back and say this is the president calling again. that order is a people. slain. it was up to people i called and and erlichman and being in such folks to decide whether not to carry out his

three years ago she instituted continuous process improvement. most people in the pentagon don't even have any idea what that is. but it's how every other modern business combines their audit information with their management, so that they achieve savings. the general and her team have saved year to date in the last year about $680 million. and they did it because they actually know what they're doing, because they got good numbers. the question i asked after she made her presentation, could you pass an audit? >> of course, we couldn't do continuous process improvement unless we could pass an audit. so i want to take us away from audit readiness, which is the buzzword we're hearing at this hearing, to having an organization that has the financial controls with which to make the proper decisions, because that's the whole basis. that's -- the audit is simply a check to see if you've got the information systems, you've got the financial data. i also have one other aneck dote, a commanding general cut $100 million out of his budget in one year. it's a small air force base, and

pentagon papers. there was no national security involved. pat buchanan had an alternative he thought was better. let's undertake a major public attack on the brookings institution. 10 days after they were released he said 98% of the pentagon papers could have been and should have been declassified. -- hysteriawhere was created months after the identity came out. he said the special investigative unit was created in an entirely legal manner. i doubt he can support that. this is outside the ordinary way the executive branch operates. mr. st. clair concedes there is a shift in the unit's way of acting, but he said the purpose he failed toe. tell us why they had sterile phones in this little cubbyhole and why you would need special passes to enter and why in total defiance of the law and the cia they regularly violated that prohibition against security matters of the cia. he testified and said there was no area of violation of federal or criminal laws which was not covered by statutes and if there thean additional it goes to department of justice. this was political and unlawful from the beginning. the names came later. if the president says there is an epidemic of

pentagon. the reality is, in this institution we've had time for benghazi, week of had time for the i.r.s., and guess what, next week and the week after we're going to find time to sue the president of the united states. but we don't have time to address the american tax code, whereas mr. -- where, as mr. van sholen has just described, 40 -- van hollen has just described, 40 companies are lined up to leave. yesterday the acting head of the v.a. said, we're going to ed $18 billion to straighten out the v.a. based upon the men and women who have honorably served the nation. and mr. camp said yesterday in an email to "the wall street journal," our tax code is dysfunctional. let me refer to what the gentleman from alaska said just a few moments ago. he blamed democrats in this chamber for thwarting tax reform. i guess he didn't vote for the speaker of the house. because the speaker of the house looked at the issue and said, blah, blah, blah. about tax reform. even as $20 billion in terms of base erosion is about to abandon the united states. if you want to do something about charitable giving, and

pentagon. let's go in depth now with the former adviser to the palestinian authority leadership on negotiations with israel. now with the brookings institution in washington. thank you very much for joining us. how strong is hamas right now? >> it's actually quite weak. hamas is in one of the weakest positions it's been in many, many years. the changes that have happened in the region and especially in egypt closure of the tunnels and access to weapons have been severely diminished in the last year in particular. they're in a much weaker position. part of the motivation for sort of taking the israeli bait, if you will, in this latest round of violence has been the fact that they're in a state of disarray and, you know, in a way i think it's an act of desperation by a very weak hamas. >> where are they getting their support? some of these missiles are pretty sophisticated. >> yeah. i mean, they have been stockpiling these weapons for a long time. so, even the disruption of the flow of weapons. i think it doesn't take away from their exist ing existing c. they have quite a substantive stockpile. right now i think they're clearly drawing on tha

pentagon. but just nine days before the war began, the president had agreed to keep the iraqi army. >> the briefing recommended that the regular iraqi army be maintained as an institution because we believe that it would be dangerous to put 300,000 men on the street with guns, without jobs. >> narrator: the u.s. commanders, desperate for boots on the ground, had been counting on a pacified iraqi army to do the grunt work. >> we actually had people negotiating with iraqis to bring them back, and there were a lot of iraqis saying, "okay, we can bring back units." >> they were clearly anticipating, at least as late as 9 may, of having available iraqi forces for us to use in a reconstruction effort. >> now you have a couple hundred thousand people who are armed because they took their weapons home with them, who know how to use the weapons, who have no future and have a reason to be angry at you. >> who knows how many folks who got disgruntled and went to the other si? i will tell you this: 72 hours after the decision was made, the first major attack from the airport road took place. and i got two of my military police killed. and it's been downhill from there. >> narrator

institute. also a professor at the university of san diego, joining us from california. thanks for being with us. this headline caught our attention as the pentagonnds more on training for the mexican military in 2013. about $15 million. can you explain? guest: yes. we have been working closely with mexico on security matters the last several years, particularly since the initiative was started in 2007 under presidents bush and calderon in mexico. these funds are intended to assist with counter drug efforts in mexico fighting against organized crime groups, taking down kingpins, leaders of the mexican cartels. host: let's go through the summary. you mentioned one disrupting organized crime groups linked closely to drugs in this country. also encouraging reforms inside mexico's criminal justice system and strengthening the border. let's talk about the final two, especially the border issue and reforming the criminal justice system inside mexico. guest: those components of the context.e are not d&d they are four pillars of the initiative. the first is disrupting or fighting against organized crime. the second being judicial reform and feeling the r

pentagon papers. there was no national security involved. pat buchanan had an alternative he thought was better. let's undertake a major public attack on the brookings institution. 10 days after they were released he said 98% of the pentagon papers could have been and should have been declassified. the hysteria was created months after the identity came out. he said the special investigative unit was created in an entirely legal manner. i doubt he can support that. this is outside the ordinary way the executive branch operates. mr. st. clair concedes there is a shift in the unit's way of acting, but he said the purpose was legitimate. he failed to tell us why they had sterile phones in this little cubbyhole and why you would need special passes to enter and why in total defiance of the law and the cia they regularly violated that prohibition against security matters of the cia. he testified and said there was no area of violation of federal or criminal laws which was not covered by statutes and if there was any residual jurisdiction, it goes to the department of justice. this was political and unlawful from the beginning. the names came later. if the president