state department is demanding its own employees to break u.s. and international law and in both of you i am very dissatisfied that mainstream media has not focused enough on this cable everyone who goes after the funny ones the embarrassing ones and there's plenty of them what politicians by definition can be embarrassing i think ok but what about this again this is more smoke and mirrors and it's trying to change the topic and what do you think about that because it's very clear which state department officials are supposed to do their marching orders. absolutely and again it just shows that the mainstream media is not doing its job adequately and that's why we need organizations like wiki but it's interesting as well it's the idea that the state department to be ordering diplomats to spy on u.n. counterparts and things now is being released by wiki leaks this story of course broke as well in the u.k. and us way back in two thousand and three in the run up to the iraq war where we had a very famous u.k. intelligence whistleblower catherine gun

state department.roosevelt was drawn into the fray by a proposal in 1943 by the romanian government saw the handwriting on the wall and knew that they were doomed. they thought that they would try to save themselves from future war criminal action by offering to ransom some 70,000 jews were a considerable sum of money. the money would somehow not go to the axis of powers until after the war. treasury secretary morgenthau was in charge of making the financial arrangements for the payment of the ransom. he founded every move he was frustrated by the state department, whose key officials involved in visas were suspected of anti-summit system. anyhow, morgenthau carried the fight directly to roosevelt himself. he was not reluctant to do that, unlike some of his colleagues andy sent roosevelt, had one of its aids dry report entitled report to the secretary on the acquiescence of this government and the murder of the jews, i'm quote. that got roosevelts attention and helps gain approval for a broader gain wi

here at the state department. and he has been in the hospital over the past weekend and today numerous surgeries. in fact, about 20 hours of surgery. but eventually he did seccumb. we're told by people who were with him that he put up a very, very good, strong fight but in the end this extremely strong man and one of the giants of american diplomacy has died. the coincidence was that here at the state department today, you know, they had a holiday party, president obama here, secretary clinton, and both of them making very strong and heart felt comments about dick holbrooke and his 50 years, nearly 50 years in diplomacy going way back to the vietnam war and then to the dayton peace accords. a man who is able to sit down and really take it to the person on the other side. in fact, many people have said that richard holbrooke was a man they wouldn't want to have to face in negotiations. he was extremely strong and also very intelligent in the way he approached things. and also, over the past couple of years, when he

was transferred to another county office to continue to work out his service for the united states department of agriculture and they gave him a big party. a big retirement party. so i can tell you that this discrimination is real and i invite mr. king to walk in my shoes, and other black farmers' shoes in this country before he pass judgment and refer to them as johnny or someone that has a drug problem. and i'll tell you that, anderson, these farmers have proven their case and they deserve to have their cases heard based on its merit.

finally he waited for a while and to what got to be impossible and the state department couldn't shed a doubt about it and so he made the news public. but he himself, as he said, it's so horrible i can't leave. well, that's kind of an expression of disbelief it seems to me to be a rationale for not doing anything because as you say this is terrible. then what are you doing about it? you know, and you can't say well i don't want to see roosevelt because it would get him mad and then so you just say well it can't be true. anyhow, to answer your question i think that explains a lot of the people who express the jewish leaders and sympathizers as i guess frankfurter would be. they were reluctant to admit and it was horrible, but after a while when you have all this evidence piled up and as you mentioned himself he was a firsthand witness you have to see the other horrible things that happen and this is the lead stand may be the biggest perhaps there's something to be done. thank you for the question. >> you started your talk buy noting that neither roosevelt nor the american jews and the

it's about the state department. we are revealing, you know, our internal controls because, you know, -- >> let me put it this way -- >> we want to make sure that our documents are adequately protected and that we have the ability to detect, if anything like this occurs in the future. but you know, i'm constrained in what i can say here because there is an ongoing investigation. to the extent that their are a number of networks that feed into this database, we have made some adjustments. and that has narrowed, you know, for the time being those who have access to state department cables across the government. >> okay, so it is correct that there are people now who, two weeks ago, had access to cables outside the government and now do not have it, is that correct? >> that is likely, yes. >> and it is also the case that there's some people and said the department who do not have access to these cables? >> inside the department -- i mean, i'm not sure that there's a change in access, but we have made -- we are going bac

the arab lobby has a different approach, especially the arabists in the state department. they believe a number of things. one, that israel has to be coerced. they are not making peace on their own unless the united states uses its power to force them. they believe that israel, the israeli people are either too stupid, too immature, too evil to know what's good for them, and that they should be saved in spite of themselves. in fact, there's a very famous article written by a state department official called "how to save israel in spite of itself." a third common thing is that the palestinian issue is the most important one that if we solve that issue, everything else goes away despite the obvious problem of afghanistan not going away if palestinian peace broke out tomorrow or that sunnies and shiites stopped killing each other if there was peace in the palestinian issue and so on. there's a number of cases to disprove that, but there's the belief. finally, there's a belief that the united states has to be actively engaged in peacemaking because if we are not constantly push

leaving a big hole in the state department. the latest complication in an effort that has already been very complicated. the american public, skeptical in afghanistan, facing the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan he put together a very good team. the upcoming review of the strategy will have his mark all over it. in many ways he was indefatigable. he never stopped. often on the plane traveling to pakistan and afghanistan he would still be reading while we were all sleeping in the back of the plane. he was at home at the white house, a cocktail party, or on the ground in afghanistan. >> joining me now from afghanistan is the director for afghanistan central asia. we have heard the tributes, but what do you believe of the significance of his loss as seen from government circles in afghanistan and pakistan? >> i think that it is a great loss for the world, absolutely. especially for the u.s.. i think that he has a reputation as a great negotiator and diplomat. a few things happen whereby his success in this arena did not

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. >> i continue to work for the state department part-time, so i am not speaking for the state department. among other things that i have done recently as teach the course on table right thing, and i have updated my powerpoint slides. paul mentioned a couple of things which i think are absolutely spot-on, which is -- the first one -- how can you download a quarter of a million documents and a huge alarm bell does not go off? i have to assume they are fixing that as we speak. that is an incredible oversight. another point he mentioned was access. if you're working in iraq, you need access to embassy cables of baghdad, but venezuela does not make sense. i think that system is sort of already in place. when i would check into a new place and set up a separate internet account, i would tell technicians i need access to certain kinds of cables and certain areas of the world. the one i do not think will work is the idea that we could have a revised security clearance procedure which would identify people like -- before i was an fso, i was a security officer. you'll never catch people like that

arms race to become by far the most weaponized nation on earth is an asset when it comes to the state department bullying other countries and undermining their democracy to get what they want and you've seen tremendous power come to the united states but you've come to see i think the cost as our economy probables where does this kind of right to bully other countries stem from and why do other countries allow that to happen well if they had my say about really really that powerful well i think the other i think other countries might be about to fight back in europe we're seeing a very big explosion of fury in spain and in germany as the cables reveal the degree to which the state department has tried to bully those governments in the spanish case to actually stop an investigation of u.s. tera tactics in the german case again to not bring a lawsuit against cia agents who list. did. german civilian off the streets and sent them to so-called black sites for interrogation i mean this stuff is getting a response elsewhere it's just here in the united states the public's being told oh there's nothing

in the biological convention, in 2005, the state department concluded that "russia maintains a mature offensive biological weapons program and that its nature and status have not changed" and then in 2010 the state department report said that russia's confidence-building measure declaration since 1992 have not satisfactorily documented whether its biological weapons program was terminated." even back in 2005 they said it was inadequate because they are still continuing. they're violating the accord. this was back in 2005 -- on biological weapons. then that was renewed in 2010 saying they're still not doing it today. so that was biological weapons. chemical weapons we find the same thing. in 2005, the state department assessed that -- quote -- "russia is in violation of its chemical weapons compensation, obligations because its declaration was incomplete with respect to declaration of production and development facilities." in 2010, the state department again stated that there was an absence of additional information from russia resulting in the united states being unable to ascertain

a career foreign service officer, he has also served as executive secretary of the state department and a special assistant to secretaries of state christopher and albright. ambassador burns is a central player in the obama administration's iran policy team. in october 2009, he led the u.s. negotiating team in the p5 plus one talks and iran with geneva, where he struck an agreement with the iranian negotiators that would have removed significant amounts of low enriched uranium from iran sacks. the agreement was widely held internationally at the time, both subsequently rejected by the leaders in iran. as i understand, he will once again be leaving the u.s. negotiating team at upcoming p5+1 talks with iran, scheduled to begin in a few days in geneva. stuart leavy as the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, a position he has held since 2004. in this position, he has played a central role in the efforts about the bush administration and obama administration to combat iran's illicit conduct in the international financial system. in fact, he is widely consider

a career foreign service officer, he has also served as executive secretary of the state department and a special assistant to secretaries of state christopher and albright. ambassador burns is a central player in the obama administration's iran policy team. in october 2009, he led the u.s. negotiating team in the p5 plus one talks and iran with geneva, where he struck an agreement with the iranian negotiators that would have removed significant amounts of low enriched uranium from iran sacks. the agreement was widely held internationally at the time, both subsequently rejected by the leaders in iran. as i understand, he will once again be leaving the u.s. negotiating team at upcoming p5+1 talks with iran, scheduled to begin in a few days in geneva. stuart leavy as the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, a position he has held since 2004. in this position, he has played a central role in the efforts about the bush administration and obama administration to combat iran's illicit conduct in the international financial system. in fact, he is widely consider

then again in 2010, five years later, the state department again stated that there was an absence of additional information from russia resulting in the united states being able to ascertain whether or not russia has declared." well, again, if it's -- if we're predicating all that general chilton said on the fact that cheating has all of a sudden miraculously stopped, then this is a great reform measure and i -- but i'd like to see the evidence of it before we assume that that is the case. the senator from massachusetts also stated the people responsible for verification of this treaty would never have been sent to the united states, this treaty would never have been sent to the united states if the treaty did not have adequate verification measures. so it ta÷ -- it talks about all of these verification measures. then he says, it is the judgment of our military, our state department and our intelligence community that the -- that these measures are adequate. well, that may be true with the current -- those that are answering to our president who are strongly in support of this treaty

it's about the state department. we are revealing, you know, our internal controls because, you know, -- >> let me put it this way -- >> we want to make sure that our documents are adequately protected and that we have the ability to detect, if anything like this occurs in the future. but you know, i'm constrained in what i can say here because there is an ongoing investigation. to the extent that their are a number of networks that feed into this database, we have made some adjustments. and that has narrowed, you know, for the time being those who have access to state department cables across the government. >> okay, so it is correct that there are people now who, two weeks ago, had access to cables outside the government and now do not have it, is that correct? >> that is likely, yes. >> and it is also the case that there's some people and said the department who do not have access to these cables? >> inside the department -- i mean, i'm not sure that there's a change in access, but we have made -- we are going bac

i want to start by going back to jill doherty at the state department.ed in your piece how he was sure of himself. some thought him cocky, some thought him arrogant. but he was never shy which is a gift any good diplomat needs. >> it's true. we always had this impression of diplomats as people who go to receptions and things like that but actually the past two years richard holbrooke put on his hiking boots and went off to afghanistan and pakistan and went into some of the most remote areas assessing how the surge and how the u.s. policy was working. in fact, he really was considered the architect of that strategy combining those two countries in kind of one unit in the sense that it was very important he felt to attack both issues at the same time. that it was a regional approach that was necessary. and the timing of this, john, is significant. because after all this week on thursday we're going to get the roll out, the report on afghanistan policy that's being headed by the nsc, the white house, and certainly mr. holbrook we was very much a par of that

the state department web site, i suppose it's under "frequently asked questions." the question -- quote -- "why doesn't the new start treaty cover tactical weapons?" that's a really, really good question. why doesn't the new start treaty cover tactical weapons? well, it goes on and states that, from the outset, as agreed by presidents obama and the president of russia, that the issue of tactical weapons would not be raised. i guess that begs the question why wasn't it. nonetheless, the question still out there, why doesn't it address that? this is what the state -- they state here -- and i quote -- "deferring negotiations on tactical nuclear weapons until after a start successor agreement had been concluded was also the recommendation of the perry schlesinger congressional strategic posture commission. that's an knack rat statement, and you -- that's an inaccurate statement. you recall as i read from the perry schlesinger report that that's an inaccurate statement. some members from the perry solis skwrer commission -- from the perry schlesinger commission were dis

this is a sad day for me, for the state department and yes for the united states of america, secretary of state hillary clinton. some would say that state and defense, power and diplomacy, sometimes did not match or mix, but richard holbrooke knew how to walk that line. ambassador holbrooke was one of the most consequential public servants, bringing his energy, ten asity and intellect to bear on the most difficult national security interests of our time, secretary of defense, robert gates. he never lost time fighting for ideals he believed in, never lost touched faced by the millions of people he never knew and never lost hope that those same people could live in peace, security and safety and he shared his joint aspirations, joint chief of staff, michael musclens. he was a frequent visitor to the white house. those who worked in this area and those who did not knew ambassador richard hole brookee and drew the admiration and respect and sometimes the intimidation of those who watched him work and wondered what he would say next. i can tell you someone who has watched his work, he would

pentagon and the state department. that's what they've done they've done it quite well and now there's a whole social movement of over two thousand computers an activist. going along with this world while. it's a man using systems to empire what would you say briefly as you can the people that say you know hang on in some ways assad has gone too far here with the information that he's let loose into the public domain i'm talking about those those recent cables that were supposed to be behind the scenes is cause a lot of embarrassment some people say that's been a step back. well you start to expose the truth and you see the real side were. our of course that's an embarrassment to the power but if we're talking about democracy and human rights we need that information it needs to be out and it needs to be public or i will thanks for being on the line with pete if it is media freedom campaign or as you are on the line from since so no mother penny that wasn't quite so good but good try thanks very much. all right well st

state department spokesman p.j. crowley answered in washington. >> what we...are determined to help haiti achieve is a credible election and a result... not one that the united states will impose, but one that the people of haiti can participate in fully, and that the government that emerges reflects the will of the haitian people. >> reporter: the presidential runoff is scheduled for january 16. in afghanistan, defense secretary robert gates voiced cautious optimism about progress in the war effort. he met with president hamid karzai in kabul and said he'll add his observations to the latest u.s. review of the war. >> i will go back convinced that our strategy is working and that we will be able to achieve the key goals laid out by president obama last year, further embraced by other nato heads of state in lisbon. that is for afghan forces to begin taking the security lead as they have in kabul in more and more areas in the coming year. >> reporter: gates' visit came as the taliban released a video including images of u.s. army specialist bowe bergdahl. he has

it -- it is very simple and it uses the state department language, mr. president, stating that provisions adopted by the b.c.c. that affect substantive rights -- and those are the very words used by the state department in the fact sheet -- are those that create new rights or obligations for the united states and must therefore be submitted to the senate for its advice and consent. the bottom line is this: if it is determined that a substantive change has been made by a decision of the b.c.c., then that change should be subject to the advice and consent of the senate. i urge a yes vote to this very simple but straightforward amendment. mr. kerry: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, the amendment from senator wicker is really an amendment that's looking for an issue. it's -- it's -- there is no -- there is no issue that's joined here with respect to the bilateral commission or what it might do with respect to the creation of rights, but if this amendment were to pass, there would be an issue, and

arms race to become by far the most weaponized nation on earth is an asset when it comes to the state department bullying other countries and undermining their democracy to get what they want and you've seen tremendous power come to the united states but you've come to see i think the cost as our economy probables where does this kind of right to bully other countries stem from and why do other countries allow that to happen when they don't i say about really really about powerful well i think the other i think other countries might be about to fight back in europe we're seeing a very big explosion of fury in spain and germany as the cables reveal the degree to which the state department has tried to bully those governments now another thing that many common americans might not be aware of is that the u.s. involvement in afghanistan has actually now been longer than its involvement in the second world war and i'm sure many people when they hear this would say while that that means it's a really long time again to go back to these wiki leaks releases you've got the bastard in pakistan telling the

i continue to work for the state department part-time, and i'm not speaking for or on behalf of the state department. one other thing i have done recently is teach a course on cable writing, and yes, i have updated by powerpoint. paul mentioned a couple of things that are spot on. first, how can you download a quarter of a million documents and a huge alarm bell does not go off? i have to assume they are fixing bad as we speak. -- fixing that as we speak. that is an incredible oversight. the other thing is access. you need embassy cables from baghdad, but venezuela does not make sense. i think that system is already in place. but i would check into a new place and set up my account, i would tell technicians that i need access to certain kinds of cables certain areas of the world. that one is going to work, too. the one i don't think will work is the idea that we could have a revised security clearance procedure which would identify people like pfc manning. i was a counterintelligence officer and netted thousands of security clearances -- i did thousands of security clearances. you will ne

she said this was a sad day for personally, to the state department, and america. she said richard holbrooke delivered almost 50 years of service and help shape the history and managed the present and secure the future. we heard from the former british prime minister tony blair called mr. holbrooke are remarkable man who had done lots of work for a more peaceful world. >> what sort of legacy will he leave amongst the political community in washington? >> i think we heard the statement by mrs. clinton in particular. the legacy of his historic role that he played. she describe id the peace accors that ended the war in bosnia. he managed to bring warring leaders to the table. more recently, there was his role as president obama's envoy in afghanistan and pakistan. many will be asking the question who is to succeed him in the time when the u.s. is pushing to stabilize the situation in afghanistan and perhaps a transfer of more afghan troops forces involved in the fighting. >> i spoke earlier to the pakistani ambassador to the united states to was a close friend of rich

i expect they are under investigation by our state department. if it will be interesting to see whether those countries far unnamed and sanctions. if if not, then we will have pretty much adopted the policy of the last 13 years. what the state department does, they do not say they are intentionally violating the law, they say they are announcing a particular investment that they never got. it will be interesting to see whether one of the three major chinese oil companies is named and subject to sanctions. i want to review the comprehensive iran act. has that already been done? >> ok. i will go through it rather quickly. i know we have some c-span viewers that may not watch the full 20 hours of this conference. this became law in july of this year. it should have been adopted by 2002 when i ran's nuclear program was announced. what does it do? first, it turns in the foreign banks that facilitate iran transactions or terrorism or transactions with the revolutionary guard corps and makes it extremely difficult for them to do business with the united

for or on behalf of the state department. among other things that i've done recently is teach the course on cable writing, and, yes, i have updated by powerpoint slides. [laughter] paul mentioned a couple of things which i think are absolutely spot on which is the first one, how can you download a quarter of a million documents and a huge alarm bell doesn't go off? i have to assume they're fixing that as we speak. that's just an incredible oversight. another point you mentioned was access. if you're working in iraq, you need is's to embassy cables out of baghdad, but venezuela doesn't make sense. and, actually, i think that system is sort of already in place. when i would check into a new place and set up my siprnet account, i would tell the technicians i need access to certain kinds of cables and certain areas of the world. so that one, i think, is going to work too. the one i don't think will work is the idea we could have a revised security clearance procedure which would identify people like pfc manning. i was a counterin

. >>> the state department is confirming that richard holbrooke has died at the edge of 69. he underwent heart surgery on saturday. andrea mitchell reports on his life and legacy. >> thanks, p.j. >> reporter: widely considered one of the most gifted diplomats of his generation, richard holbrooke began his career as a foreign service officer in vietnam in 1963. a war that was a crucible, forcing relationships that would shape his career for decades. he rose to the white house under johnson, where he drafted a key war memo and wrote a chapter of the pentagon papers. often at the side of great figures like kissinger and presidential counselor clark clifford, he aspired to be a great man himself. his signature achievement, negotiating an end to the war in bosnia in 1995. that ended a religious and ethnic war that had raged, tearing europe apart, leading to ethnic cleansing against minority muslims, rapes and genocide. until he negotiated a peace treaty, signed in paris at the end of 1995. >> this is the best alternative to continued war. >> reporter: he served as ambassador to g

very unconventional, right, for a state department. this is an entrepreneur almost, right? he had i think one of... one of aides is quoted as saying this has a feeling of a start-up which is very unusual inside the state department. he's academic. he has a journalistic sensibility. he wants more inputs and outputs than the standard conservative bureaucrat. >> i think in part this was a reflection of his view as a young man that his own views should be taken into account. as he ascended.... >> lehrer: he said listen to me. >> so when he got where he was in a position to do so, he wanted to listen to others. he knew that younger officers and younger people had inputs to make and views to be heard. >> lehrer: the other thing that people have overlooked until his death was he was quite a writer in addition to being a diplomat. was he not? >> absolutely. in fact i was thinking about, you know, let the young people be heard. when he was 29 years old he wrote a very critical piece in the very first issue of foreign policy magazine in the winter of 1970. >> lehrer: you got there. >

state department official. all right it's official general david petraeus will now be taking over the war in afghanistan with a ninety nine to zero vote the senate confirmed it but will what obama said hold true but a change in command does not mean a change in strategy if we look back to yesterday's confirmation hearings i'm not so sure but he said the hill take a good hard look at the directives that general stanley mcchrystal put into place to cut down on civilian casualties things like the rules of engagement so if these rules do get changed do we move away from counterinsurgency and back towards counterterrorism and by that i mean is petraeus choosing between the lives of civilians and those of the american troops joining me to discuss this is former u.s. state department official matthew hoh i think for being here so first things first do you think that a change in command here with general david petraeus stepping in means that the strategy is also going to change right away no i don't think so betrayed i

. >>> in washington, state department spokesperson phillip crowley said the u.s. government is investigating the leaks as a criminal matter. he said the government will continue to review security procedures to make sure that this does not happen again. the leaking of classified documents the whistleblowing website wikileaks is drawing mixed reactions. some say the site supports the public's right to know while critics warn that secret information is being leaked at the discretion of one individual. since its foundation four years ago, wikileaks has repeatedly published internal documents and video footage considered classified by the u.s. military. this is a video released in april of this year. it shows a u.s. combat helicopter killing more than ten iraqi people in a attack. in october, the site uploaded u.s. military reports revealing the civilian death toll in the iraq war has risen to at least 60,000. the founder julian assange spoke to nhk about why he's been publishing classified information. >> ultimate goal is to have a more just world and we had a philos

state department cable. it reveals a security scare in yemen about a year ago. a government storage facility housing radioactive material was unprotected for with up to a week. there was one guard there, but that guard was removed and surveillance cameras were b roken. the state department cable says "very little now stands between the bad guys and yemen's nuclear material." >>> well, this week, president obama aexpected to sign a b ill -- president obama's e xpected to sign a bill into law clearing the way for gays to serve in the military. the house passed the measure last week, but once signed, the new law will not immediately go into effect. the pentagon must first certify to congress that the change won't damage combat readiness. >> i want to make sure we're given an appropriate time, where it can be successful. >> full repeal won't take effect until 60 days after pentagon leaders certify that the military is ready for the change, a process that is e xpected to take months. >>> 7:17. the 2010 census report comes out tomorrow. the results may have big implic

if you go back to when richard holbrooke was essentially serving in the state department since presidentinist moment in the dayton peace accords which ended the bosra conflict. he worked with secretary madelyne. he aspired to be secretary of state and it eluded him. when secretary of state hillary clinton took over and became secretary, she appointed him to be her special envoy out to pakistan and afghanistan. you remember that holbrooke, his ideas were formed in the vietnam era and he had long argued in national security meetings as documented in bob woodward's book obama wars, holbrooke was arguing as they had the strategy to avoid viet nam. he was put in charge of the basically the conflict and in terms of how pakistan and afghanistan related to each other and he kept arguing during that period that really, you couldn't solve the situation in afghanistan without taking pakistan in account. it was well documented in bob woodworth's book that richard holbrooke felt his opinion was not taken into account during those meetings . he felt like he didn't have the strongest relationship with

central intelligence agency asked state department diplomats to gather information on u.n. officials in july last year. the orders were among the diplomatic documents disclosed by the wikileaks website. the "guardn's" thursday edition said instructions to gather intelligence on the u.n. secretary general and other officials were based on the list drawn up by a cia official. some of the data requested included credit card and cell phone numbers. "the guardian" also said that u.s. diplomats were asked to collect dna samples and fingerprints from u.n. security council officials and north korean diplomats. but the u.s. state department denied the spy claims and said american diplomats ignore requests to engage in such activity. >>> u.s. senator joseph lieberman and other lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would make it illegal for anyone to publish the name of a u.s. intelligence source. the bill was introduced thursday and comes after the wikileaks website published classified u.s. diplomatic documents. the lawmakers say wikileaks' actions have threatened the safety of t