state department gamble with lives. good evening it's monday july eighteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lister in your watching our t.v. now we knew rupert murdoch was taking heat with the scandal rocking his media empire but then shocking news this afternoon that his body was found dead it was a hoax brought to the world by the hacking group. that look at this they reach a rock to the home page of murdoch's newspaper the sun to a fake story about murdoch found dead from a drug overdose and they were tweeting all the way look at what they said they said arrest us we dare you we are the unstoppable hacking generation and you are a wasted old sack of a word i cannot say murdock row row row fight the power now they also were engaged in some other high jinx the sun's website rejected to their twitter feed they tweeted about it saying that it was just that saying hello everyone that wanted to visit the sun how is your day good good to have a little fun there but yet one point it also. looks like they actuall

state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even in the era like that could produce a random result then the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if all records of all the tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five even track twelve still running to the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder that thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t.v. washington d.c. . unfortunately no green cards needed to visit our web si

state department claimed a bit of computer error and the results were no longer valid now the stories coast fresh doubt on the way the lottery operates as artie's gun if you can. hoping for a better life in america will quote from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a kuchuk war that i want to launch in for a four star on the lottery but it's a good offer. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s.

state department gamble with live. good evening it's monday july eighteenth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. well critics call it build a bridge west it's a collection of some of the nation's most powerful men passed us presidents from taft in hoover to reagan and george bush both father and son also business leaders who have attended reportedly include google c.e.o. eric schmidt now they're all gathering for overtreat in the forests shrouded in secrecy it's called bohemian grove and it's the playground of the mohini and club and their annual getaway began over the weekend now on friday we question what a group of some of the most powerful men in the country meeting in secret in the course of california would lead to well past allegations have included heavy drinking sacks but more him. hackle to society and concerning for the protesters who show up to picket are the political deals and policy being hatched undemocratically in private that is the accusation at least of our own christin

official what we do know is that so far the state department awarded three security contracts there worth nearly two point nine billion dollars over five years but we don't even know if that's going to be all because the state department won't show anyone the details this is absolutely ludicrous not only does the idea of the state department having its own army scare a lot of people i mean let's admit they're not really the most experienced bunch in that regard it also raises a lot of questions about how long we intend to stay in iraq what we're going to do there i'm just dying to know how many diplomats an army of over five thousand is going to be protecting all they drive from one spot to the next but also makes you sick to your stomach to watch social programs be putting on the chopping block to watch gridlock in congress all the pentagon and apparently the state department do they get to build private armies with no oversight that's something that's worth looking into that something of the mainstream media chooses to this is just so much easier to charge late the costs of a fake

state department grants green cards to some safety thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to leave and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitches with a department claims one of the arguments is that even an error like that could produce a random result in the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court tha

ambassador to libya until this crisis blew up in february, together with the senior state department official for the region. they were the representatives of the united states. we don't know who was at the meeting from the libyan side. we don't know who called the meeting, but we do have kind of a rundown from state department officials here in washington. they say there was a clear, firm, and unam bigious message was delivered to the libyans from the americans. the only way forward, the only way out of the military situation that the country finds himself in now is for "colonel gaddafi to step down." that is the message that the americans took. >> steve kingston, there. spanish police have broke up a major operation of laundering money from drug trafficking. the police have gave videos to the media of digging up some of the money under the floor of a madrid mansion. when all of the cash was counted, it totaled 23 million mcenroes. the european stock markets have been falling. fears continuing over the health of the banking industry. >> that's right, the banking industry and the deb

with one head of state departing just before a new arrival. this was a very privileged experience for both jerry and me, but it was also a very busy time. in what other job could of i have the opportunity to meet and learn a few basketball tricks with the harlem globetrotters? i will admit that it was very short lead. someone higher up in the oval office called an emergency cabinet meeting. he became a little testy when are practicing session became too lively to the point of disrupting his meeting. you'd be surprised how quickly an aide with a message from the president can put an end to a pickup game. [laughter] even a game where the first lady is supposedly going one on one with meadowlark lemon. [laughter] it was the result of my many years of dance training. while i always treasured my time dedicated to the martha graham dance company, where i lived for 2.5 years in new york, my dance with the wonderful fred astaire is the one i will remember fondly. it proves that plans to not always go smoothly, even if you are a first lady. fred astair

for example, the state department cables disclose the real reason google was forced out of china. the cables disclose, um, that american diplomats have been encouraged to spy on united nations officials in new york gathering personal information -- credit card numbers and be stuff like that -- about u.n. officials. they disclosed that the saudis, something they would never cop to in public, that the saudis were actually urging us to bomb iran to wipe out its nuclear capability. and, you know, some of this confirmed, we guessed, that hamid karzai is involved in corrupt links to criminal war lords and that pakistan's playing both sides in all of that. and, sure, these, this information is embarrassing to our government and, certainly, to other governments like the former dictator of tunisia who the wikileaks, this state department cable showed that he was operating a column tock rah si in tunisia, and he was chased out of office in the first arab spring revolution. um, the embarrassing information to many governments, but isn't this kind of information that informed americans ought

state department's written testimony states there were roughly 3,600 metric tons of poppies cultivated. the defense department testimony has the figure at 3,200 metric tons. another example -- state's testimony highlights, quote/unquote, peak cultivation l levels. however, defense department testimony has peak cultivation at 202,000 hectors, 207 current cultivation. if the administration can't even get the base figures right, how are we expected to have effective coordination strategy? given the delay in getting the testimony, these are the questions i have. so mr. nichols and mr. wechsler, why are your testimonies inconsistent on base facts about the levels of narcotic production and cultivation in afghanistan? but more importantly, which estimates are correct? >> while i'm tempted to say that everything will does is right and everything i do is wrong, our source for the data that in my testimony is the u.n. office on drugs and crime which is an assessment of opium cultivation in afghanistan. and that's the source for the number that is are in my testimony, senator. >> yeah, like i sa

the club and dodd. >> you can imagine dodd sitting in germany and having the state department constantly undermining him as he tells fdr that we have problems here. >> fdr's mo was often to make an appointment himself without consulting much the person who was in charge of whatever department to appointing someone to. in the case of the state department, it was roosevelt who pointed dodd to be ambassador to germany without consulting the secretary of state. dodd road handwritten letters to roosevelt about the real situation in germany. beyond that, you had 3 senior guys in the state department. it is not so much that they were not paying attention. it is not that they did not accept what dodd was telling or what the world was telling roosevelt. it was as though they felt that germany was kind of an irritant rather than the important center it would become in a year's time. that was very interesting from the lines of conflict and force within the state department. i was startled by that. >> germans well known in this country, joseph goebbels. >> he was a coveted party guest at a diplomati

the state department has been put on the chopping block again and again, in particular by house republicans. and frankly, we don't really even argue about it anymore, even when the secretary of state is someone as infle inflew eshld popular as hillary clinton. even when he makes the case for a big rethink on these priorities, when it comes to the military, washington is still a 94-0 kind of town. no debate. no politics. unanimous consent. much has been made this year over whether or not this is finally changing, over whether budget hawks in both parties might dare to ever conceivably cut defense this year. we keep hearing that's possible. maybe it is. but convince me. joining us now is lawrence corp. he served as an assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. in that position, he administered about 70% of the defense budget. he is also former director of national security studies at the council on foreign relations. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> nice to be with you. >> do you think we are in one of those rare political climates where it may be possible to

we do have a rundown from state department officials in washington. they say a clear, firm, and unambiguous message was delivered to the libyans from the americans. that message, they say, was that the only way forward in libya, the only way out of the libyan situation, was for colonel gaddafi to step down. that is the message to the americans took. >> that is the washington side of things. do you have any implications of how libya is seeing this? >> the libyan government spokesperson has been talking quite warmly about the meeting, saying it was a positive first step on the road to repairing relations between the countries. the americans beg to differ. they said this was a one off meeting for one purpose, to say gaddafi has to step down. one thing i think is interesting from the u.s. side is that are talking about colonel gaddafi stepping down but are not publicly insisting he leaves the country. they are clearly trying to look for a way out for everybody. colonel gaddafi is now wanted by the international criminal court. so if and when he were to le

. >> reporter: the state department bulletin warns of an enhanced potential for anti-american violence given the death of osama bin laden. current information suggests that al qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks. sources tell abc news that after bin laden's killing, al qaeda's new leader, ayman al zawahiri, told operatives to to target americans wherever they can be found, not just the u.according. according to the state department, americans should be concerned about suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings. u.s. officials are also mindful that bin laden had encouraged leaders to attack the u.s. by the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and there is growing concern about the reach of al qaeda affiliates overseas in yemen and the emerging threat from somalia. a senior al qaeda leader recently killed in somalia was carrying computer files indicating the group was discussing mumbai-style attacks on hotels in europe. this warning from the new nominee to head the national counterterrorism center -- >> probably the next most significa