this is a dictator was sentenced to twenty five years and i frankly believe that bush cheney rumsfeld and the rest of them they're not they're not very comfortable about traveling about because we have international law on our side and the doctrine of your star in the doctrine of universal jurisdiction so when it comes to committing war crimes work. women also have to watch their step this is just the beginning of a whole new era and international law as far as i'm concerned so moving forward how do you plan on rallying up the crowd. part as i said of a small group of people who consider ourselves part of a movement we're calling it the accountability movement it was strongest right before obama got elected and it was comprised primarily of impeachment activists who had become very frustrated with their own party the democratic party which at every turn made it very clear that they did not want to impeach and for whatever reason. was suggested it kind of boiled down to political expediency first they wanted to win over control over congress in two thousand for and and then they wanted

cheney and rumsfeld they went too far they went overboard in such. a transparent way i say transparent because we finally were able to find out what happened but i just think it was it was too excessive and it's caught up with them and the reason why we're putting our foot down is because we see that some of what they began has been carried over into the obama administration and therefore that is proof of my claim and others that if we don't stop them for what they just to the impunity will get worse and we're going to lose our democracy you recently wrote an article called the battle for justice heats up in which you say that the united states needs to look at argentina as an example. because argentina has finally had its day in court so to speak at least the mothers of the disappeared the families of all those people who several decades ago lost their loved ones during a very brutal dictatorship and the last of the dictators has been sentenced to prison for the crimes that he committed during that period and that brings us hope that shows once agai

." >> rumsfeld: ...anyone in the building felt the impact, it was so powerful. >> woman: i look in the... and i remember that smoke. >> man: ....the pentagon, quite clearly you could see black smoke rising up, it was just awful. >> bernard salamone: and i said, "my wife works there," and i hadn't...( choking up )... ...i hadn't heard from her. >> woman: i got out the office roster and started calling people: "have you heard from anybody?" >> and then next i checked the voicemail, and there was about 30 messages on the voicemail, and i started going down, and i was hoping that jan had called, and then when i got down to three, my hope started dwindling. >> bush: as long as the united states of america is determined and strong, this will not be an age of tyranny. this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world. >> americans awoke on september 12, 2001, with the realization that our nation was changed forever. we were living in a new world, with history broken into the pre-9/11 era and the post-9/11 era. >> gen. richard myers: there probably wasn't any other event that made us u

the attacks of the new century, when bush and donald rumsfeld called wolfowitz, they wrote the pack about the american unilateral control of the world. they would not allow for the emergence of military or economic rivals. whenever obama says, this is what he is pursuing. there has been no real change in policy. the empire, we are the world's police. it is a soft power. >> i was watching a documentary last night. reading what some people had to say about, some people that think you were too soft. >> the fair and balanced approach. that is the fox news. frankly there is criticism in the film. it is not up-to-date. i am not a journalist. but there is a lot of criticism of him in the film. the truth is that they would not be happy unless the film came out against you go chavez. i do not understand that. in the long run of history, this man has done wonders for his country. not to everyone's liking, but all of the other presidents have as well. the u.s. has knocked off so many reformers. except for castro, they all went down. guatemala, panama, chile. this is the first time we have not been a

secretary rumsfeld wrote a very famous memo in 2003 about the global war on terrorism and posing the question whether we are winning or losing. i pulled out the other day for the purpose of this -- when asked about a couple of points he made. today, we're having mixed results with al qaeda but we have put considerable pressure on them nonetheless. today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. are we capturing, killing, or deterring enough terrorists every day than the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploy against us? what is the answer to that question seven years later? >> i think on some fronts, we are actually doing better, certainly better than we were in 2003. in 2003, we saw some really worrying signs about the receptivity in many majority muslim nations to al qaeda's ideology measured in part by the attraction of osama bin laden as an individual and the tactics being used. we let the public polling and other polling that we have over the past several years, receptivity to those messages has been declining. to some extent, gl

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at the insistence of then- secretary of defense rooms filled r -- rumsfeld. how can you bring the department of defense intelligence operations under your orbit so that you can function effectively? >> well, sir, i do not see the problem there. i know the department of defense pretty well and that is where roughly 67% of the manpower and the money of the national intelligence program is vetted. i would suggest respectfully that having run through the agencies in the department of defense and served as intel chief, it will help empower me to sustain having -- i will call it a positive relationship with the department of defense components. i been there, done that, don the t-shirt, so i know how to take advantage of that. >> he who pays the piper calls the tune. a lot of that defense intel activity does not have to report directly to you on the appropriations. how do you get into that when someone wants to go off on the wrong person margin well, i would intend -- go off on their own? >> i would crystallize the relationship established in may 2007 designating th

and long before the supreme court issued its ruling in the fair versus rumsfeld case, we were doing exactly what dod asked us to do. >> so it is your testimony that the decision you made immediately after the third circuit opinion, you concluded was inappropriate? you and president summers and you reversed that policy later? >> senator sessions, what i did after the third circuit decision was to say, look, the only appellate court to have considered this question has struck down the statute. we have always thought that our policy was in compliance with the statute. the appropriate thing for me to do, really the obligation that i owed to my school and its long-standing policy was to go back to our old accommodation policy, which allowed the military full access, but through the veterans organization. when dod came to us and said it thought that was insufficient, that it wanted to essentially ignore the third circuit decision because it was taking it up to the supreme court when they came back to us, we went through a discussion of a couple of months, and made a decision to do exactly what do

guest: i don't recall that statement of secretary rumsfeld, but i don't think anyone will claim that the pentagon has had a tight eugh rein over its budget. i applaud the call by bob gates to put some spending cuts on the table. and i say that as someone who represents the los angeles area and who relies a great deal on defense spending. nonetheless, we can do this better, and if we are going to bring our hemorrhaging debt and defici into some reasonable bound, we have to put everything on the table. and i've been one who's been saying this for a long time, and that certainly included putting defense spending on the table as a place that needso cut waste and also a place where we need to monitor much more closely the places like afghanistan and iraq. host: the focus is on homeland security, terrorism, and intelligence. what worries you t most, what keeps you awake at night? guest: well, i worry about attacks here. i've made that very clear. and i think that -- host: what type of attacks? guest: well, i think the most likely type of attack is a conventional attack. some very capable,

guest: i don't recall that statement of secretary rumsfeld, but i don't think anyone will claim thathe pentagon has had a tight enough rein over its budget. i applaud the call by bob gates to put some spending cuts on the table. and i say that as someone who represents the los angeles area and who relies a great deal on defense spending. nonetheless, we can do this better, and if we are going to bring our hemorrhaging debt and deficit into some reasonable bound, we have to put everything on the table. and i've been one who's been saying this for a long time, and that certainly included putting defense spending on the table as a place that needs to cut waste and also a place where we need to monitor much more closely the places like afghanistan and iraq. host: the focus is on homeland security, terrorism, and intelligence. what worries you the most, what keeps you awake at night? guest: well, i worry about attacks here. i've made that very clear. and i think that -- host: what type of attacks? guest: well, i think the most likely type of attack is a conventional attack. some very capa

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