david sanger fully documents a top-down control od sanger fus a top-down control of policy and his penchant for secrecy. he has vastly expanded the use of drones against terrorists, sometimes with little regard to the sovereignty of others. his most startling revelation in this book are the president support of the disruptive tactics including computer worms to delaying the iran nuclear program progress for americans to long-running engagements obama is looking at the time tables first with iraq now afghanistan despite reservations of military officers. david saks says to thinking in the white house delivers a picture of disgust of pentagon generals and corrupt pakistan in leaders. his nature comes through in the reporting as well as the on easy concern of allies. david sanger finds home and abroad the jury is still out on obama is handling of international relations. next is "little america" by rajiv chandrasekeran. initially america's intervention in afghanistan was strikingly successful. the al qaeda forces responsible for the 9/11 attacks were driven into neighboring pakistan and the po

the white house cooperated with the sanger book.udes quotes from oval office meetings, leading some republicans at the time to demand pan investigation, accusing the president's own national security team of being the source of the leaks in an effort to bolster the president's image as having been tough on iran. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong, and, people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. >> what's surprising is that the investigation would end up targeting the general who is known to be the president's favorite. martha? >> indeed it is. jennif jennifer, thank you very much. >>> joining me now is a veteran of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and ceo of concerned veterans for america. pete, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you make of this in. >> i talked to a highly placed general officer who is familiar with general cartwright, has respect f

in his book, sanger wrote about the computer virus that affected iranian computers. officials have not commented, nor from cartwright or his attorneys. >>> late word tonight that massachusetts police are seeking an additional man in the murder of oden lloyd, his name is earnest wallace. he is considered armed and dangerous. aaron hernandez is charged with murder in that case. and a source says the former nfl tight end is also being investigated in connection with a double homicide in boston a year ago. >>> a massachusetts grand jury returned a 30-count indictment against the bomber. 17 charges carry the possibility of the death penalty. anderson? >> susan, thank you very much. that's it for us. join us again tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern for a special "360" coverage of the george zimmerman trial. "early start" begins after the break. >>> former south african president, nelson mandela, critical, but stable condition this morning. president obama heads to that country this morning. will they meet? >>> the world watching and waiting. where is nsa leaker, edward snowde

in his book, sanger wrote about the computer virus that affected iranian computers. >>> late word tonightmassachusetts police are seeking an additional man in the murder of oden lloyd, his name is earnest wallace. he is considered armed and dangerous. aaron hernandez is charged with murder in that case. and a source says the former nfl tight end is also being investigated in connection with a double homicide in boston a year ago. >>> a massachusetts grand jury returned an indictment. 17 charges carry the possibility of the death penalty. anderson? >> susan, thank you very much. that's it for us. join us again tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern for a special "360" coverage of the george zimmerman trial. another edition of "360" is coming up in about three minutes from now just after this break. stick around. every day we're working to be an even better company - and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested

they are investigating his role in leaking, they allege, to "the new york times," to the david sangerthe new "the new york" who first published details about the stuxnet program about -- in his book "confront and conceal: obama's secret wars and surprising use of american power." "the new york times" published an excerpt from the book on june 1st of last year under the title "exclusive: obama orders sped-up wave of cyber attacks against iran." the report was published five months before the u.s. presidential election. it revealed details about the administration's role in the secret attack on iran's nuclear program using the stuxnet virus which sources told the times' reporter, david sanger, was crafted by the nsa along with israeli computer scientists and inserted using thumb drives into systems that then spread the virus to iran's centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility. knocking many of those centrifuges offline. general cartwright was described in the article as an architect of the program and frequently briefed the white house on it, according to the sanger article. fox ne

foreign covering the week, pete williams news, martha raddatz of abc news, and david sanger of "the new york times." >> award-winning reporting and covering history as it happens, live, from our nation's capital, this is "washington ifill.ith gwen corporate funding for "washington week" is provided .y -- >> we went out and asked people old ise question, how the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us and learned a lot of us have known someone who their 90's.nto even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed, retirement age. the question is, how do you make sure you have the money you need these years?of >> additional corporate funding for "washington week" is by boeing. additional funding is provided annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by to your pbss station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. it appears the government is net over private communications in the name of national security. president's response today was basically, move along, nothin

. >> to david sanger. brilliant book by sanger, of the "new york times," on the whole issue of how we slowed down the iranian nuclear program with israel working to undermine their computers. >> it is kind of hard to understand the motivation. >> it could have been an inadvertent leak which was also the case in the valerie plame case. >> i'm probably in the minority on this but this strikes me as as big a deal in snowden in a kind of way. we aren't talking about a disaffected 29-year-old hacker. we're talking one of the nation's senior-most military leaders. a criminal investigation. i think this is going to have an impact -- again, we've talked a lot in recent days about the chilling effect all these leak investigations have on journalism in washington. but from a national security side, that was a pretty amazing leak and it did clue the iranians in to what we were doing. >> it was an astonishing leak. this was the first offensive act of cyber warfare by the united states. now very difficult to deny. >> t

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it was leaked to the "new york times" and then subject of a book by david sanger. of okays by republicans and others in the congress saying where is this all coming from? so now we see this allegation that general cartwright is being investigated. there is no proof of guilt. all we have is this bare allegation and story at this point. but the larger issue becomes if in fact it's true, why is he doing it? who is he doing it for? is there someone in the white house that had directed him to do this for the white house's own purpose? >> steve: at this point we don't know? >> yeah, because a lot of people said this makes the white house looks like it's strong. it looks like it's engaging in a foreign policy way, that it's standing up for america's rights. the problem is that the leak outed israeli intelligence officials who apparently went crazy about it, pushed back on the c.i.a. the c.i.a. pushed the doj and now we have this investigation that i'm sure is giving a lot of gray hairs to the white house. >> steve: absolutely. and it is curious because when it comes to th

regarding top secret material that appeared in a book written by the new york teams reporter david sangerght may have leaked information about a virus called stuxnet. when news of stuxnet virus broke, republicans accused the white house of leaking the information itself because they haute it was going to boost the president's national security kred before the election. so what happened? the president has made a huge show of going after leakers, investigating mean so far, seven have been charged. twice as many as all previous presidents combined in this country. but cart wroigt was his trend. cartwright was his buddy. >> what happened. i don't think anybody has an answer. we do know that cartwright, everyone's jaws dropped when this story broke because he may have his enemies, but he is a respected, retired four star military officer. this is not a guy who goes rogue. so you may wonder if somebody in the white house originally encouraged him to discuss this program. late today his attorney fired back. his attorney well-known gregory craig here in washington, d.c. issued a statement saying

we don't know the answer to that, but what we do know is david sanger had multiple source for his worka new arrest, new details of the evidence of the murder case against the former nfl player, aaron hernandez. susan candiotti is in attleborough, massachusetts. what are you hearing, susan? >> major developments tonight coming from the district attorney here, announcing that two people who he allegations were with aaron hernandez the night odin lloyd was murdered are now behind bars, but those two men are not yet charged with murder. >> we have those three individuals that were in the car at that time, oudin loud got into the car that we now have in custody. >> earnest wallace was last seen driving a car was rented by hearn does hours after lloyd's murder. a car allegedly swapped out for one who have been used the night of the murder. police say hernandez drove the new rental back to his house with two so-called confederates. >> after arriving back, the two confederates get back into the car and then leave. >> after seeing this wanted poster, wallace told police he wanted to surrender w

. >> reporter: the investigation began a year ago, after "the new york times" reporter david sanger published confront and conceal, obama's secret war and surprising use of american power, a book outlining the collaboration between the nsa and israel to launch the worm to destroy iranian centrifuges and stop iran's nuclear program. he was described as architect of the program. cartwright's lawyer issued the following statement. general jim cartwright is an american hero who served his country with distinction for four decades. any suggestion that he could have betrayed the country he loves is preposterous. june 1st last year, "the new york times" published an excerpt from that book, obama order sped up wave of cyber attacks against iran. it included direct quotes from oval office meetings, leaving some republicans at the time to demand an investigation. the romney campaign accused the president's own national security team of being the source of the leaks in an effort to bolster president obama's image as having been tough on iran. the notion that my white house would purposely release classi

the white house who retained counsel, who were getting questions about their contacts with david sanger of the "new york times" who broke the story about the stuxnet computer virus. the initial demands came from charges among republicans last year that this whole story was leaked by people, senior people, to sold of bolster president obama's national security credentials during the campaign, that this made him look forceful that he used this new form of sign warfare to disable the iranian nuclear program. i've spoke to a lot of people involved in this investigation. late last year, lawyers got word that the probe was moving away from the white house and into another building. that building turned out to be the pentagon, where general cartwright was vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he was, by the way, very close to president. so this does go, in some ways, into the white house. he was one of the top advisers. he's now the target. he hasn't been charged, but he's clearly in the justice department's crosshairs right now. >> thank you. turning now to our friday daily rundown roun

. >> joining me now, "new york times" chief washington correspondent david sanger.ut china and edward snowden, the source of those leaks, he acknowledges, was last seen in hong kong. what do you think about his decision to go to hong kong, of all places, with which we have an extradition treaty, given that it is not iceland, not sweden, it is not a place where he could escape u.s. arrest. >> it is an interesting choice, andrea, because as you say, we have the extradition treaty but we don't have one with china. it would be interesting to see what happened if he went over the border. he's obviously got to be of some interest to chinese intelligence as well. he made it pretty clear in one of the interviews that i read the transcript of that he did -- he was interesting in finding a place where he could seek asylum. in that regard he would be a little bit like julian assange who ran wikileaks. i was thinking about that clip of you interviewing the director of national intelligence. i thought what was interesting in what mr. clapper said about the chinese is we each mon

the story of the stuxnet virus was reported last year by david sanger in "the new york times."ave a lot to say about when we condemn leakers in this country and when we don't. coming up. >>> for the last two days in the trial of george zimmerman, the prosecution's key witness has been on the stand. her name is rachel jeantel. she's the last person trayvon martin talked to before his altercation with george zimmerman on the night of february 26th, 2012. she was on the phone with martin, and the moments before that altercation, an altercation which ended with trayvon martin dead. george zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting and killing of trayvon martin. zimmerman has pled not guilty, claiming he killed martin in self-defense. rachel jeantel is in the unfortunate position of being caught in the middle of it. and even in direct examination, jeantel's testimony got off to a rocky start. >> and i know you grew up in a haitian family, so make sure that everybody can hear you try to speak as clear and -- >> can you repeat what your answer was, please? >> when

. >> it's widely known that the white house cooperated with sanger's book which includes direct quotes from meetings in the oval office. harris? >> harris: interesting. and you say this general would have been so close to the president as well. jennifer, thank you very much. well, speaking of the president, he is in south africa tonight. he says he is not sure if he will visit former president nelson mandela in that country. mandela an iconic leader in south africa after spending 30 years in prison for fighting for equality and wiping away constitutional discrimination known as apartheid. officials say he remains hospitalized in critical condition with a nasty lung infection. the president saying he does not want to intrude. ed henry is traveling with president obama. he is live tonight in johannesburg. ed? >> were that's right, harris. the bottom line is nelson mandela is on life support right now as we all know. the president did something that he rarely does. he came to the press cabin in the back of air force one today to talk a little bit about nelson mandela's legacy. he didn't d

with us today chief washington correspondent of the "new york times" david sanger, the national editorthe "washington post," rajiv chandresekaran, plus harvard university's joe nye whose new book is "presidential leadership and the new era" and mark rhett brennan. let's talk about the summit. the president and the president of china met, they talked about global warming, keeping north korea from becoming a nuclear power. i'd like to get the takeaway from all of you. joe, let me start with you. >> i think it's probably the most important meeting between an american president and the chinese president or leader in 40 years, since nixon and mao. >> schieffer: why? >> because xi jinping represents a new china and he's also a new kind of man unlike his predecessor hu jintao. he's a bit more relaxed and assertive at the same time. getting the ability to communicate informally between obama and xi jinping is very important to manage this relationship for the next few years. >> schieffer: so it's not what they agreed on but the fact that they met? >> exactly. they met in an informal situation

it was early of the women's movement, suffrage, and margaret sanger was there, before she started planned parenthood, and villages like john reed organized the giant patterson strike pageant of 1913. mill workers in patterson went on trike, haywood and flynn went there to try to organize it as an iww strike, and reed own other folks in the village thought the best way to get the word out is to bring the strikers to new york city where all the media are, so they represented out the old madison square garden, which was still on madison square at that time and held the pageant. john reed led 1100 workers from the mill up the streets and into the building. they put giant red lit up letters that said "iww" at the top of the building, and the idea was they were announcing they arrived, and, unfortunately, they announced they arrived, and the mainstream and the establishment and the "new york times" and other people were just shocked that a these an ark kisses took over, and it would come back to haunt them in years in the red scare. oh, and, and i'm a baby boomer. my generation likes to think w

that story written by the "times" david sanger revealed that the computer worm in 2010 destroyed 1 milliones. cartwright who oversaw the program and who served as the nation's second highest ranking military officer has yet to be formally charged. the news came after president obama sought to down play the administration's quest to gain custody of snowden who is still believed to be in hiding in a moscow airport. obama also addressed the delicate diplomatic balancing act required in the wake of snowden's leak. >> we've got a whole lot of business that we do with china and russia and i'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where i've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues. >> snowden is believed to have some 200 other secret documents in his possession. another of which was revealed by "the guardian" yesterday with the paper reporting that for two years the obama administration continued to bush era program in which the nsa collected bulk email today that before the program wa

more than all combined and he had david sanger on and it is a bizarre combination that excludes voters and you see it on the sunday show so saying it is easier than we think is a reflection that only a fraction of 1% of the people in this country spend any time on civic engagement. they do volunteer and charity work, a country that has more justice so with every community those to try to uphold the retention of a civic culture and actually spend time on it. what if it goes to imagine what would happen? organizing themselves in every congressional district on 13 directions in our country that have majority support with the hospital cracking down on corporate crime and living wage and labor reforms and the kind of changes that we would all like to see a majority of people would like to see in this country to change the tax code is not just a hypothesis but the greatest changes for justice have all started with water to people by definition the woman suffrage movement the famous meeting in upstate new york the abolition movement, the civil-rights movement with rosa parks and a few other s

you know, i think david sanger of the "new york times" on our show in the morning said, look, you'd hope that someone like edward snowden wouldn't obscure larger relations on economic and other issues between countries but the white house has made it an issue. >> rose: when someone is screaming as loud as the u.s. government is, it suggests that they think he could do a lot of damage. it's not just a question of being embarrassed. >> well, there's a couple of things. one, there's no total assurance of what all he still has that he hasn't disclosed, a. and then beyond whatever he's downloaded or taken he's worked inside the central intelligence agency. he's worked inside the n.s.a. there are things in his head beyond what he has on paper or digital media that would be of value to adversaries and he's been in -- he's been in, at least geographically-- the pocket of two of our biggest intelligence adversaries since he went to do this. >> rose: since he went to hong kong. >> right. >> rose: phil >> i think we're talking about the trees, not forest. the issue isn't even what n.s.a. is doing.

telling me it is for material that appeared in a book written by "new york times" journalist david sangeront and conceal" about iran's nuclear program. cartwright potentially leaking information of the computer virus stuxnet that the u.s. used to try to slow down iran's nuclear program. this is one of the crowned jewels of u.s. intelligence absolutely unprecedented that a four-star general even retired would be under investigation for this type of leak. kate? >> barbara, thank you so much. barbara starr at the pentagon for us this morning. >>> a strong bipartisan showing of support for immigration reform, the biggest overhaul in a generation passed the senate 68-32 but now it moves to the house where passage is less certain. dana bash is live in washington. what do you see down there and good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the house speaker has planned a meeting for when they return from recess for how they'll deal with immigration reform, that depends on what they hear from constituents and a lot of people who are supportive of this are concerned that conservatives are not going to

the disclosure was revealed in a book by "new york times" correspondent david sanger. the publication enraged members of congress. cartwright's attorney declined to comment, as did the justice department. the implications of this case are potentially huge because cartwright was such a senior official. he served as the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff from 2007 to 2011. amy? >> and, pierre, we've been talking about quite a few leaks during this administration. snowden comes to mind. there have been many others, as well. >> reporter: you're right. there's been a barrage of leaks. the obama administration, in fact, has prosecuted or charged double the amount or suspects of the previous administration in terms of leaks. >> all right, pea year thomas with the latest from washington. >>> we're going to turn now to the latest in the george zimmerman murder trial. an emotional and very difficult day for the prosecution's star witness, who was talking with trayvon martin just before he was shot. she got a grilling from the defense. and abc's matt gutman is in sanford,

rights over here david sanger rick at the times 30 years?s worked at one place blonder than anybody on this panel. [laughter] said he has two books about the bombing administration the most recent of course, is you had information in that book that had not been known before see you have experience of that kind of thing then james lewis is senior fellow here at csis the eighth knowledge expert on cybersecurity and in and out of government most of his career and has a ph.d. from university of chicago. of very long with the may for all of these gentlemen but i just want to ask you to start off with the threshold. >> with a view bollandist -- a view on this very, very little the terms are opaque than the executive makes a secret highly classified interpretation of what the law says. then it creates a program of the then it goes to a court this surveillance court that works only in highly classified ways and with no other parties present the court makes a secret ruling and all of this draws a boundary around where should the limit be between inte

he's a pulitzer prize winner from vice president cheney who is joined at this event by david sanger of "the new york times". >> thank you very much, andrew and all of you for coming. i had a feeling we would have a big turnout for this one. we try to stay on the news. we are very much on the news today. art who has had his name in the paper a lot, "the washington post," he is the winner of the two pulitzers and wrote a book and glorified the vice president cheney, it was a best-seller and was chosen as the times book of the year, works for "the washington post," "time" magazine and of course he is the one the "washington post" had their first story about edward snowen. right over here my good friend, david singer he has been on that pulitzer and he worked there for 30 years. so she's probably worked at one place water than anybody which is really good. and he has to books about the obama administration, the most recent of course is come front and conceal. you have some information in that book that had not then before your book came out so you had some experience on that and then jim l

leaks in washington, perhaps including the white house, and perhaps including the leaks involving the sangering about why don lynn is leaving, his wife got a new job. >> not true. >> brian: peter johnson, jr., quick changes with the times as news breaks. always great to have you. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. we've seen him do his fair share of crazy stunts. nick wallenda. he has a new book and will talk about staying balanced. but first checking in with martha mccallum. you can't rattle that woman's cage. hi, martha. >> hello, brian. we'll see you later. it's the big story obviously. susan rice will take over as the country's national security advisor. big news. we'll dig into that west wing move. what it really all means. great guests on that. and senator rand paul is here. he says the president has lost moral authority to lead. but his polls are holding up for the president. so we're going to get behind that as well. bill and i will see you at the top of the hour what makes your family smile? backflips and cartwheels. love, warmth. here, try this. backflips and camm, ok!s. ching!

old friend david sanger. he were to the times for 30 years. he is probably -- he has probably worked at one place longer than anybody on this panel but me, which is really good. he has to go books but the obama administration. the most recent is confront and conceal. you had some information in that book that had not been known before your book came out. you have some experience in that kind of thing. and of course, the acknowledged expert on cyber war and cybersecurity. he has been in and out of government for most of his career and has a phd from the university of chicago. a very long resume for all of these gentlemen, but we will stop to their. you and tot to ask start off the threshold question. why did the washington post think it should publish this? >> i will speak for myself. i think it does represent the post view on this. why wouldn't we? which theituation in congress passed a law which everybody gets to read that said very little that determines are quite opaque and the executive makes a secret, highly classified interpretation of w

right over here is mild friend david sanger. he has been on two pulitzer teams.here 30 years. probably he has worked at one place longer than anybody on reallynel, which is good. he has two books about the obama administration. the most recent is "confront and conceal." you had information in that book that had not been known before your book came out. so you have some experience on that kind of thing. and jim lewis, who is senior fellow here. the acknowledged expert on cyber war and cybersecurity. he has been in and out of government both of the -- most of his career and has a phd from the university of chicago. for all theseme gentlemen, but we will stop it there. i want to ask you to start off. why did the washington post publish this story? >> i will speak for myself. i think it does represent the post's view. why wouldn't we? thead a situation in which congress passed a law that everybody gets to read that says very little but -- the terms are quite opaque. then it created a program. which works court, only in highly-classified ways and with no other parties