i call it "petraeus envy." they are all trying to do what general petraeus did so much. it is to bypass the chain of command that gives petraeus a lot of influence. he has been on the covers of everything. they say he places media game so well and look at the advantages. he can do what he does so well. he can push whatever policy he wants. i believe there was intent to create the same sort of cult like or hero status for general mcchrystal which would allow general mcchrystal to get away with more to push his own policies and create a separate power base in the media. >> why would you want to do that? >> the concrete example happened during the review when mcchrystal and petraeus actually use the media and strategic leaks to get the number of troops they really wanted. >> when did the 60 minutes profile come out and general mcchrystal? >> in the middle of the beginning of the controversy over the strategic review. there was a concentrated campaign given by friendly journalists and think tankers who had worked with mcchrystal earlier. it was a conscious campaign. >> give

we have just finished a conversation with holly petraeus, who is the spouse of david petraeus and spent much of her time as a military spouse and working on financial literacy and other policy issues. she's now at the consumer financial protection bureau. from your point of view because you raised the question of funding for the military, which is a big issue in washington now, where will the intersection with concern over the kinds of issues we talked about and the concern over spending intersect? >> i think the first place they will look to are sort of the size of the military and weapons programs. as far as trying to draw actual savings out of the kinds of numbers they are talking about, they will be looking -- big programs. but i think their concern is real from many folks that that will very much, the pressure will trickle down to any number of programs that could be there for the troops in terms of financial literacy funding for those types of programs. i have not seen any particular cuts related to those types of programs. i haven't reported any of that. but the concern is real,

. >> general petraeus, thank you for coming.ing discretion of the national -- session of the national security symposium. shall we pray? almighty god, we are here, and as we gather as a family, a fraternity of citizen warriors, our bodies stand united in serving the beloved nation which you have bestowed upon us, the united states of america. as reservists and citizen warriors, we serve authority three times removed; country k community, family. but most of all we serve you collectively pursuing the highest ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. blessed creator, pour out your holy unction upon this gathering, renew the selfless relationships that continuously bind us together and most importantly, allow us to hear and discern the wisdom from our distinguished keynote speakers here today. we finally ask your intersession in comforting the families of our colleagues who have lost loved ones that have served our great country. also strengthen those citizen warriors who serve in harm's way around the globe and never a

petraeus has been defrauded. he's at cia.l mcchrystal -- who is running the war in afghanistan now? you probably know. but some guy named john allen. none of the other generals -- there's no big-time general that can threaten the president's command. >> are you troubled -- not ambivalence but the way that generals do pr. describe the problems with civil affairs as a struggle in the military. and also the sort of weirdness about generals picking up civilian pr pros to essentially as famous people. do you have mixed feelings about that? was i reading that right? >> i think we're using taxpayer dollars to give generals their sort of personal pr team. and what are they doing with the media influence? they are using it to push their own agenda and policy. david petraeus sort of pioneered this message. you get a fan base in the media. therefore, you can bypass the traditional chain of command. by the way, this is the book to read for petraeus opposition research. this is the one that they are going to go to. >> general petraeus' na

her book is called "all in: the education of general david petraeus."lease welldom the program paula broadwell. (cheers and applause) >> jon: thank you for joining us. i haven't seen you since the triathlon we both did. >> you did great. really proud of you. keep after it. >> jon: the book is called "all in." now so the last time i recall a journalist or author with embedded... embedded with the person at this level it was mckrystal and it was "rolling stone" and he got fired. how did they let you... how did petraeus allow that? did he know you were there? were you, like, hiding? did he allow this? (laughter) >> i was an insurgent. no. i had been working on this project as my dissertation and when he went to afghanistan in the summer of 2010 i decided to turn it into a book and i shot him an e-mail and said "i'm going to go for it." i'm not sure he took me seriously but i showed up in afghanistan, sent him an e-mail and said "i'm here i'm doing this." as you know my background is the military and i went to the military academy also so i had a natural ne

general petraeus, thank you for coming.r as a family, a fraternity of citizen warriors, our body stand united in serving the beloved nation for which you have a stowed upon us, the united states of america. as reservists and citizen warriors, we serb authorities three times removed, country, community, family but most of all, we serve you, collectively pursuing the highest ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. blessed creator, pour out your holiness on this gathering. renew the selfless relationship that continuously bind us together and most important, allow us to hear and discern the wisdom from our distinguished keynote speakers here today. we finally ask your intercessioe families of our colleagues and lost loved ones who have served our great country. also strengthen those citizen warriors who serve in harm's harm's way around the globe and never allow us to -- and finally all of us to continuously grow in you as we strive continuously to be the leaders you desire us to be as servants of our great repub

how do you think petraeus will play into that?o the culture of the cia. >> i have sources who confirmed it. he absolutely loves the agency. i think it's a great place for him. i try to show in the book how well-prepared he was. because his work in the intelligence community, he's a voracious consumer of intelligence, every commander is, but he tries to bring in all sorts of intel, and intelligence drives operation, that's really critical. he understands that. there's a biographical digression that covers his period in bosnia. he was there right before 9/11 and working on a war criminal pursuit. but he put together, helped to galvanize a joint and inner agency terror zone task force. this was comprised of intelligence agencies, you know, from the entire community. there are 16 different organizations in the i.c. and he really learned a lot during that period how to get them to work together better. there was a lot of animosities and it was a huge owning point for him. but throughout his career, he becomes more of a consumer, driver

there's a saying he was a big failure general petraeus no i think betrays his reinventing himself and has had much more influence on this defense budget we have seen roll out that people know betray us was essentially a strategy and the intelligence dimensions of it because part of the counterinsurgency strategy and part of the drone strategy is to have these nimble forces out in the field collecting information and intel return synthesizing human intelligence on the ground to technical and. sort of the new world of i.t. if you will applied to these areas and david protégés is the new king of that arena and has partnered with leon panetta in achieving that so while these big counterinsurgency sort of occupations seem to be coming to an end david petraeus is getting the most important slice of that pie and he. doing just fine so he's got to move on and i guess you could say we're going to wash our hands out of some of those aspects and i want to give i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you. i still to come tonight it's been almost two years since the supreme court

we i think, and let me ask this of you, director petraeus, i think the world has to know what's happening, it's one of the reasons that i believe that the iaea -- they're in pakistan now bush really must make transparent and public what they find there, what they see there. so that we know for sure what is happening. i think the world is entitled to that. particularly when you have a situation, where one country views this as an existential threat. it believes it's their survival, they're determined not to let it happen. to really get the correct picture on what is happening. i think it's important. do you have a view on this? >> i do, madam chairman. let me address clapper's remarking about tagging you and the vice chairman for your kind words on the accomplishments of this past year. some of which obviously were of enormous significance and thanks to both of you as well for your comments on the agency's efforts to keep the committee fully and currently informed. we work very hard to be accessible to you. i have personally, myself and the deputy and the 1256, we think the facts reflect t

[applause] measure o -- >> i just want to say to general petraeus with, director petraeus, that that sounds like a cliche, sir, but it's honestly not. we are so honored that you would take the time to be here today, and thank you so much for your remarks. we wish you the best, sir. >> thank you all very much. [applause] [background sounds] >> wow. and there's more to come. we have fantastic speakers to come yet. so before we get down to business, i would like to take a moment to recognize a few people in the audience. and in the interest of time, i'm going to not ask you to stand, but we do want to recognize you. seated up front here is roa's past national presidents in the red coats, most of them. in addition to our -- [applause] okay. in addition to our past presidents, i would like to thank the executive committee for their hard work and dedication in support of our association. we thank all of our department presidents and national council members who are here in attendance. we also have mrs. kathy luke, the president of the roa league and the rao past presidents and current lead

. >> madam chair, supervisors, naomi, i feel like a broken record petraeus was so excited to be here again this week on such an amazing thing, and i am here with the perspective of a collie, a fellow department- head, but also as someone who is here on the first day that the omi came in to the city as a college graduate, and it has been such an amazing experience to watch her grow through the city's own policies and practices, to now be a mother of two taking on the top job, the top-appointed job in the city of san francisco. and one of the comments she made is how important it is that that legacy move forward for the next generation, her generation of children, and i cannot be more proud of her, and she is someone who knows how to do it because she has done it herself. so i sincerely hope you will confirm her nomination today. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. vince courtney, here on behalf of ramon hernandez and oscar dilatory, laborers union. 30,000 members in northern california. 3000 members in san francisco, the majority of which live in our communities here today. it

i just want to say to general petraeus, director petraeus, that this sounds like a cliche, sir, but ito honored that you would take the time to be here today and thank you so much for your remarks. we wish you the best, sir. >> thank you all very much. [applause] >> there is more to come. we have fantastic speakers to come yet. before we get down to business, i would like to take a moment to recognize a few people in the audience and in the interest of time, i'm going to not ask you to stand, but we do want to recognize you. seated upfront here is r.o.a.'s past national president in their red coats, most of them. in addition to our past -- [applause] ok. in addition to our past presidents, i would like to thank executive committee for their hard work and dedication in support of our association. we thank all of our department presidents, the national council members who are here in attendance. we also have mrs. kathy lieu, the president of the r.o.a. league tabbed past presidents and current r.o.a. leadership. we appreciate our reserves chief serving today and some of them are with us.

that so while these big counterinsurgency sort of occupations seem to be coming to an end david petraeuss getting the most important slice of that pie and he's doing just fine so he's got to move on and i guess you could say reinvent to wash your hands of some of those aspects and i want to give i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you. all right still to come tonight it's been almost two years since the supreme court ruled on citizens united but the battle against it is heating up after the break we're going to hear from james about the growing momentum to stop the ruling on a state and local level. internal mirror military mechanism do not work to bring justice for accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as they care is now a version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don

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. >> thank you very much, general petraeus. to me, pakistan is a very puzzling country. we know that thousands of pakistanis have been killed by terrorists and we suspect that what pakistan it is doing is trying to essentially, used but the macular, what both sides of the street. i think i and most of us believe that having a positive relationship with pakistan as a nuclear power, a significant nuclear power, is very important. the question i have is how do you assess this relationship, which certainly had its low in december, and may or may not be approving? how you assess it at this time? >> let me start, and i will ask petreaus to add in. clearly, as you alluded to, chairman feinstein, this is a challenging relationship, but it is an important one for exactly the reason that you mentioned, which is pakistan is a nuclear power. pakistan and our interests are not always congruence. their existential threat continues to beat india. they have also paid a huge price because of the militants they have had in their country and suffered literally thousands of casualties in th

please join me in welcoming the director david petraeus. thank you.ll and thinks for a warm welcome. it's great to be with you all this morning and part of your 2012 national security symposium at the 86 on the i know it and it's great to be with so many to might serve in the past decade in particular. just a lot of curiosity, how many here have been deployed since 9/11 if i can see a show of hands. how many have been deployed more than once since 9/11? how many more than twice? do any of you have three years or more in deployment just out of curiosity? right here. how many do you have with you, fellows? three years or more deployed since 9/11, peery and we will see how quickly we can respond otherwise we will do a photo. come up here. [applause] [applause] [applause] those are the individuals and the others in here and so many more that you've represented and served with who have naturally made that video a true video and brought to life that statement when the nation needed you you responded to the call. thanks for the kind introduction , overly kin

this is the case against general -- general petraeus. it seems odd to have to say, this also marks the beginning of a crack-up, a self-ignited blinder that blinds us to the global jihad. when did you begin to feel that strongly about general petraeus? >> i wish i could remember the exact year. there was a time in which, when he stepped to the forefront because we did not focus on him until that time so following 2006, when the policy became an american military effort to pacify the violence, and stop the civil war that was breaking out, that would thereby spark an iraqi renaissance that would make switzerland proud. this is a situation where we had a strategy that did not depend on what we could accomplish, but that we could accomplish that was there by the iraqis to accomplish. it was to be accomplished by appealing to the iraqi people in terms that were appeasing, to make them like us and want to please us. to make them want -- to buy their loyalty, which is what the sunni awakening was. it was bribery on a large scale. it was a very f

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max, i know you're a compassionate supporter of the end of the war and general petraeus. >> i'm also a critic of the way it was conducted for the first few years, i might add. >> but when you look back, though, $1 trillion, however many iraqi lives, 4,000 american lives, what did we gain? >> i think we gained an opportunity but whether or not we take advantage of that opportunity, i would say no. there's no question that the cost of the war has been high in both blood and treasure, but that's been true in our history. take the korean war. you could have said in the 1950s, what did we gain out of the korean war, a divided peninsula and 38,000 dead, huge cost. but today south korea is a paragon of democracy. it's the dengt welliest country in the world. and so the outcome looks a lot better than it did 50 years ago. if iraq were to develop -- >> but the south koreans, just to keep that analogy, we always had a south korean alli ally th desperately wanted the united states, that modelled our influence, that took enormous amounts of advice, aid and assistance. the iraqi government is ope

you do it by getting rid of the other celebrity general david petraeus who is now over at cia. >> do you think that was purposeful to get him out of the combat situation? >> i write about this. the white house's fear is -- >> i fear it, too. the guys in the middle up in new york. >> i think it's a very valid fear. whether -- >> although it didn't work with huntsman very well did it? >> well -- >> no. you give him a job and he comes back and runs against you anyway. >> petraeus would probably pull 20 times higher than huntsman. >> let's take a look at a dramatic moment in 2010 when the president announced general mcchrystal's dismissal. following the release of your article. here it is. >> conduct represented in the recently published article does not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general. it undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system. i welcome debate among my team but won't tolerate division. >> one of the geniuses of the constitution, we made the president the commander in chief. the top military person is our

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quite rightly, you read about petraeus and the great things he accomplished. what other soldiers do we remember from iraq and afghanistan? maybe pat tillman, maybe a handful of others who have written books. i can't think of too many names. the fact is patriquin and the sheikh -- in the sheikh's case it was because all the other sheikhs had been slaughtered by al-qaeda or they ran away like i would have done because ramadi was such a hell hole. patriquin was put there, total accident of history, and they realized in each other that we can get things done now. the sheikh thought i can trust this guy to deliver on his promises -- i speculate, that's what i got from people who worked with him -- and patriquin is on record as having said the sheikh is the key to ramadi, the key to anbar province, and he might be the way for us to leave iraq with some semblance of logic to our departure which is happening in a couple of days. in 2006, of course, it looked like hell on earth was basically opening up there, and there was no chance of anything other than civil war and

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but to a certain extent petraeus draws the line at talking about the kriismt o operations in pakistanirector, you don't see him out in public very often. he is very tight-lipped about all of this. what he's been having to deal with behind the scenes is defense secretary leon panetta, his predecessor, talking about a whole lot of intelligence matters. pakistani doctors helping in the bin laden raid, iraqi nuclear scientists, drone strikes, panetta has been the one talking publicly and extensively about plaintiff these things that had been kept very, very quiet. you have to think it might be driving petraeus a bit nuts, so we'll see what he has to say at this hearing later this morning, kyra. >> point well made. ba barbara, thanks so much. >>> this video posted online reportedly shows armed rebels in street battles with syrian troops, antigovernment protesters being shot and killed. syrian regime has banned reporters from this conflict. so much of what we see comes from home video like this posted on youtube. so many images are fascinating. this video claims to show two civilians hangin

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