deputy defense secretary william lynn was appointed 10 months after he lobbied for raytheon. and ron clain who lobbied for fannie mae during the housing boom. quote: >> bret: president obama has sinned against sin city again. wednesday, the president told a crowd at new hampshire, quote: when times are tough, you tighten your belts. you don't blow a bunch of cash on vegas when you are trying to save for college. well, senate majority leader harry reid of nevada quickly responded to the president's second vegas-related comment in a year saying, quote: the president needs to lay off las vegas and stop making it a poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money. democratic congresswoman shelly berkeley said, quote, enough is enough. and las vegas democratic mayor oscar goodman said, quote, the president is a real slow learner. president obama wrote to reid saying: i was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars and not college tuition money to have fun. and south carolina first lady jenny sanford said her husband asked her for relationship advice

. >> is it going or raytheon that are doing worse than before? i am excuse and no one from this -- excusing no one from this conversation. >> you are seeing [inaudible] >> continued would be the proper term. i'm not going to name names. we have problems with all of our products. >> [inaudible] >> that is one you might say, no one is delivering poor quality and not paying for it. . . >> a recent firing exercise, it was reported be abstracted -- to be extracted, and the pullout that targets, the pullout a couple of parachutes and start to drop toward the earth, the booster motors shot off, and it assumed the trajectory. we all sat there and watched the target fall into the water. the failure review board disclosed the big time quality problem. that's it -- that is the most recent example. early december. >> when you talk to the contractors -- [inaudible] they are responsible for their lenders? >> that is all part of the contracting process. >> is the failure possibly the result of the quality-control process? >> is strictly a part of the quality co

the have a jilty emerged in the last cycle, the debt on raytheon and lockheed, known but only a focus late in the game. this goes back to more monitoring of this. i will say it was inevitability and the question you have to ask yourself, do we have a sufficient number of robust competitors in the core sectors in the industry? i think we kind of came out of it and the answer, youn the maj. >> all right. other questions? i'm having trouble seeing hands, because actually the lights are more bright than your faces. so -- i think there's one in the back, and then we'll come over here. so -- yes? >> hi. aye maim is rod from the -- institute. my question is pertain og to some of the issues addressed around bringing in really third and four tier suppliers or attracting new suppliers that are capable of addressing some of the emerging needs. suppliers that are really bringing newability abiliabilia a defense market specifically, defense sector specifically what do you see as really key barriers to entry and key barriers to attracting those types of companies that are developing in the emerging

in afghanistan they set up this shell company paravant in collaboration with a mammoth war giant, raytheonwhich held the prime contract for this, and they set up this contract to try to hide the fact that the pentagon was once again hiring blackwater, this firm that's been under investigation by practically every federal entity in the united states. it's a shell company that was used to essentially defraud the government by convincing the army that blackwater was not getting the contract but this company paravant. and as was pointed out in the hearing today, paravant represented in its contract documents that it had years of experience. paravant hadn't even existed for a few months when they got that contract to work in afghanistan. but i have to say, rachel, that we're talking about very small details in a much larger picture that has blackwater as the tip of the spear in assassination programs and involved with all sorts of other dirty deeds on behalf of the u.s. government and other corporations. >> jeremy, what do you think is the most serious of these new charges that have been levele

doesn't work at this point, the perimeter intrusion detect -- detection system, it was designed by raytheon and was supposed to be installed at jfk, la guardia, la guardia and teterboro, and it's made up of censors, they've got cameras on them, monitoring devices, all the equipment ready to go, high technology. it's just failing big time. bill: why is there the delay, julie? >> essentially they didn't test the question before -- the equipment before it will -- installing it, that's the problem, because they wanted to install it first, then test t. so essentially these fences are unable to distinguish, let's say, between a person trying to climb over the fence or a bird or blowing winds, for example. so very ultra-sensitive monitoring devices that are essentially being triggered by the wrong sort of things. so rather than detecting someone illegally trying to cross the perimeter of an airport, a bird is setting it off. that's not a good thing. bill: julia banderas, thank you for that, la guardia, here in new york. eul eul -- uma: one in five detainees are getting into the terrorism business,