letters, phone >> two pp men attended shane's -- bp men attended shane's funeral service. in never extended a hand or a hug or said i am sorry. i never saw them after that. >> they came right up to you an+ ask you? -- asked you? >> they spoke to me right after the service -- right before the service and i have not seen the incense. >> mrs. kelp? >> two bp men came to the service. one extended his hand. i shook it. he told me he was -- he wanted to hug me. the other gentleman extended his hand, tolddme who he was. that was the extent of my conversation or dealings with bp. >> did they identify themselves as too high up they were -- how high up they were in the company? >> no, ma'am. >> was there ever any indication from either of your husband's thatocean and beat tbp, different instructions were coming down, that there was any feeling that bp was not doing what it should do? was there ever any of that? >> my husband never spoke of that. >> no, ma'am. >> aside from both of your feeling that we should repeal death on the high seas act, it sounds like you not think there needs

according to scott shane at the "new york times," on the front page today, president obama's prosecution of leaks to the media has already outdone every previous president. we'll read more from this article in a bit, but for the next 45 minutes, in light of that, we want to talk to you and get your thoughts on how much secrecy is needed in a democracy. there are three lines you can contribute to today. only do so if you haven't called in the last 30 minutes. 202-737-0001 for republicans. 202-737-0002 for democrats. 202-628-0505 for independents. of course, there are two other ways you can contribute this morning if you want. eleccronically, if you follow us on twitter, and we invite you to do so, twitter.com is the website. our address is cspanwj. you can also send us an email. as promised, here's the front page of the "new york times" this morning. obama steps up the prosecution of media leaks. this is scott shane writing, saying that, hired in 2001 by the national security agency to help catch up with the email and cell phone revolution, thomas drake became convinced that the governmen

. >> shane harris. >> hi, daid. shane harris of washingtonian magazine.nt to give it a little bit off the discussion of the department and sk ittle bit of self-intested. i take it youreot gong to discuss the dictment of thomas drake or the subpoena that's be issued to james rison, i like to ow gieon what ared to be an unusual numbe of publiclydisclosed cases of qualified information being leaked to the press andt publ. what is your opinion on whether or not jrnalistshould have legal privilege that protects them from ving to disclose the identity of their confidential sources? >> i think law-enforcement is an extremely meod of combating terrorism, shae. [laughter] and will bealng about that later. so credit where credit is due, ose two casesyou mentioned our work othe departments criminal division, not the tional security divion. i think te leaked cases are challenging to prosecute for obvious reasons. i think under doj policy tody there are requirements as you well kw and not u.s. attorney's mineral when it is you can go and get information from a reporte

so today we are two great spears, ris heffelfinger who is going to speak first and scott shane here chrisis a consultant with the combating terrorism cter at west point as well as for the fbi and his author of the forthcoming book about radical islam in america. chris is going to speak for about 15 or 20 minute and then scott sane will speak. scott is national security reporter for "the new york times." i'd like to ask everyoneo turn off your phones as they will interrupt and disrupt the speaker and the audio system. also, during the q&a i'd ike each of you who asked a question to please identify yourself and you phrase your question in the form of a question. with that, chris, thank you. >> well, first ever to thank you for organizing this. it's certainly an important topic right now. it's one more and more people have started to foll since last november. so i would like to start really -- i like to cover three things in the next 15 minutes if i can. first of all, give a brief overview of his biography, what he saw, thank you -- and try to account for his popularity. white we are talking

. >> shane harris with washington ian magazine. i want to ask a question of the justice department that is a bit self interested. i did you are not going to discuss the indictment of thomas' straight for the subpoena that has been issued. i would like to know, given what appeared to be an unusual number confidential, classified information being leaked through the presence of the public, what is your opinion on whether or not a journalist should have legal privilege that protects them from having to disclose the identity of their confidential sources? >> i think law enforcement is an extremely effective method of combating terrorism. [[aughter] and we will be talking about that later. credit where credit is due, those two cases mentioned are the work of the department's criminal division, not the national security division. i think leeked cases are challenging to prosecute, for i think under doj policy today, there are requirements, as i am sure you well know in that u.s. attorneys' manual, for whee it is you can go and get informa