operatives in afghanistan because the c.i.a. had killed a pakistani leader with a missile strike in august. he said he turned down millions of dollars for the u.s. and jordan who wanted him to spy. he taped the video shortly before he went on a u.s. base and blew up 7 c.i.a. employees and himself in

what bothers people at the c.i.a. certainly, is that the president came into office saying we're going to move forward, look ahead, we're not going to look backward. we're not going to dwell on all the mistakes of the bush years. and then the administration basically did the opposite. and that infuriated people. they felt like they just had been absoluty abandoned by the president. he lost a lot of confidence in that moment. chris: when we come back scoops and predictions from the notebooks of these top reporters. tell me something don't know. we'll be right back. chris: welcome back. elisabeth, tell me something i don't know. >> there have been so many families now who have gone up to dover air force base to receive their war dead that the air base has built a very huge, very large new room for families, very almost luxurious and because of this -- there's so many people coming back. and while this will never of course make up for the loss, they're at least now -- people are up there in some sort of a comfortable -- i

a new videotape of the suspect in the deadly c.i.a. bombing. the man appearing to be mocking u.s. and jordanian intelligence and urging other jihadists to attack american targets. c.i.a. is stepping up attacks in pakistan. intel sources saying a drone missile strike killed two terror suspects. that happened in the north tribal region. sixth such attack in the last week. a new york city man is arraigned on terror charges. prosecutors saying that he flew for military training from al-qaeda. he entered a plea of not guilty. he was one of two men arrested for ties to a bomb plot in the big apple. >> julie: several churches were under attack. david piper has the story from bangkok, thailand. >> what started these attacks, was from the malacia, that said christians. court ruling followed the petition by roman catholic church which many publication use the word allah in the edition. the ruling applies to malay language bibles, more than 10,000 copies by authorities because they translated god as allah. they say it's read by christian tribes. and they speak of languages but pray mostly in

when the c.i.a. said yesterday, releasing a statement to the director after the president spoke where it was increasing its focus on yemen and africa, the analysts i talked to said, wait a minute, yemen's been on the screen quite some time. what the c.i.a. was trying to get at, the peninsula in yemen, not only active there, somalia but with this case was able to persuade someone in nigeria, bring them to yemen, get them on a plan and that sort of suggests a regional component. across the entire maybe northern africa and expanding that focus and the intelligence-gathering is now top on the c.i.a. and the national counterterrorism center's agenda. >> major garret at the white house. a 29 degree afternoon. several legal questions surrounding the prosecution of the christmas day terror suspect. a look at his defense next. new arrests in connection with another terror investigation. a suspect with possible links to a man already accused of trying to blow up trains in new york. our legal panel weighs in on

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the c.i.a. operatives in afghanistan because the c.i.a. had killed a pakistani leader with a missile strike in august. he said he turned down millions of dollars for the u.s. and jordan who wanted him to spy. he taped the video shortly before he went on a u.s. base and blew up 7 c.i.a. employees and himself in afghanistan. he says on the tape, we will never forget the blood of our appear, referring to the dead taliban leader. they said it is they're duty to go after other targets. >> this will be the first of the other operations against another attempts. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the washington post reports thajust before the blast, his vehicle sped through check points on base and when he stepped out to be checked by a security guard, he quickly detonated the bomb, sending pellets ripping through him and others near him. an anonymous former official said meeting someone like that was bad. and leon pinetta said those who gave their lives brought it upon themself. he was about to be searched whe

he taped the video shortly before he went on a u.s. base and blew up seven c.i.a. employees and himself in afghanistan. he says on the tame, we will never forget the blood of our ramir, referring to the dead taliban leader. he tells other jihaddists it's their duty to go after other american targets. >> this attack will be the first -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: "the washington post" reports that just before the blast, his vehicle sped through check points on base and when he stepped out to be checked by a security guard, he quickly detonated the bomb sending steel pellets ripping through him and more than a dozen people near him. the paper quotes an anonymous former official who says it's bad trade craft. but c.i.a. director leon panetta lashed out at critics who say those who gave their lives somehow brought it bottom then selves -- it upon themselves. he said the man was about to be searched when he detonated the explosives unlike what was reported earlier. in washington, fox news. >>> one of the victims of the bombing was 37-year-old harold brown, jr., of fa

sadly, the next time i or anyone else enters c.i.a. headquarters, seven more stars will be on that wall. stars honoring patriots i probably met on one of my many trips that i made as ranking member of the intelligence committee and more recently as chair of the homeland security subcommittee on intelligence. on those trips i always meet with our intelligence officers to hear firsthand about their work and to thank them for their service and sacrifice. when a suicide bomber took those seven lives in forward operating base chapman, americans got a rare glimpse of the dangerous reality that our intelligence community faces on a daily basis. there is no question, madam speaker, that there work has staved and will continue to -- saved and will continue to save american lives. so on behalf of a grateful nation, our profound gratitude goes to the families of harold brown, elizabeth hanson, dane, scott and jeremy wise and to those of two others whose names are not disclosed. we also salute those who were wounded in the attack and their families

have a very prominent nigerian, chairman of the first bank into the american embassy, speaking with the c.i.a. representative and the state department representative and telling them about his son becoming radicalized and living in yemen. at that point the state department had the ability to determine that this individual had a visa. they have a cons lar section right there in the embassy. if they didn't check the records right there they could certainly check back and get an answer. at that point his name should have been flagged so it would show up at the airport in amsterdam he would have been stopped. but that didn't happen. and that's inconceivable that didn't happen. >> charles? >> well, the secretary of homeland security saying on all the talk shows on sunday that system worked, she's been ridiculed. and it will live in infamy like the statement that george bush george bush made after katrina or during katrina when he said heck of a job, brown yes, about his fema director at the time. it was a combination of system not connecting the dots and human error in the sense that those who got

said he was asking john mclaughlin who served briefly under president bush as acting director of the c.i.a. to gather group of intelligence efforts to look at what went wrong before the fort hood massacre and failed christmas day attempt to "remedy potential weaknesses the incidents exposed." bret? >> bret: major garrett, live on the north lawn. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> bret: on the fox news job hunt, the latest numbers on unemployment. correspondent james rosen reports while the jobless rate was unchanged a closer look reveals a still dismal situation for a struggling american workforce. >> even as he touted his plan to award $2.3 billion in stimulus funded tax credit to companies developing green energy technology, president obama acknowledged they slipped back on the number one priority last month. >> job numbers released by the labor department this morning are reminder that the road to recovery is never straight. we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again. for most americans, and for me, that means jobs. >> and once again, there were fewer of those with 85,0

terrorism. 16 separate agencies and departments now feed information to the n.c.t.c., including the c.i.a., the defense intelligence agency, and the national security agency. the goal of the center, which president obama visited in october, is to increase communication among different departments and agencies like historic rivals, the c.i.a. and the f.b.i. but the center's mandate is limited. >> n.c.t.c. is not an operational arm. operational activities still reside with departments and agencies. for example, the state department retains authority to revoke visas; the military obviously has the authority to conduct combat operations. >> woodruff: when the new administration came to power, little changed in the intelligence structure. and in his statement yesterday, mr. obama offered this assessment of how that structure worked in the foiled airliner attack. >> the u.s. government had the information scattered throughout the system to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack. rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand th

in tober, is to increase communication among differt departments d agencies like storic rivals, the c.i.a. an e f.b.i. but the center's mandate is limited. >> n.c.t. is not an operational arm. operional activities still reside with departments d agencies. for example,he state dertment retains authority to voke visas; the military obviouslhas the authority to conduct combatperations. >> woodruff: when thnew administration came to pow, little changedn the telligence structure. and in his statent yesterday, mr. ama offered this assessnt of how that structure worked in the foil airliner attack. >> the u.s. government h the information scatted throughout the system to pontially cover this plot and disrupt the tack. ratherhan a failure to collect or sharentelligence, this was a faure to connect and understand the intelligence at we alrdy had. >> woodruff: forow, the president hanot ordered his tional security and inteigence team to change their structure, but to their jobs betteand faster. and e director of national intelligence blair st out his own memo. among the commendations: assigning clr

explain and defend why he was immediately treated as a criminal defendant rather than turned over to the c.i.a. >> he couldn't defend khalid shaikh mohammed. >> graham made holder look like a child in that hearing. >> yeah. but the president joined holder in defending the decision. my understanding is in that meeting that the president was one of the people saying i don't understand why you did what you did. >> is that a good authority? you believe that? >> i believe that, yes. >> all right. >> unfortunately it's based on one source, not multiple sources. but i do think there was this administration is rethinking and i hope they do rethink their approaches to the war on terror. >> thanks very much. on the subject of your safety, we would like you to vote in our poll. do you support airport security the way it is now? yes or no? this is a very close poll, ladies and gentlemen. so we hope you vote. we'll give you the results on monday. next, a former conservative is supporting president obama's terrorist position. glenn beck on why he's answering his critics why that needs to be done. upcoming.

operatives in afghanistan because the c.i.a. had killed a pakistani taliban lead we are a missile strike in us a. he also said he turned down millions of dollars from the u.s. and jordan who wanted him to spy on militants. the father of the bomber said it is his son. he stated the video shortly before he went on base. he says on the tape, we will never forget the blood of our ramir referring to the dead taliban leader. he tells other jihaddists it's their duty to go after other american targets. >> this attack will be the first -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: "the washington post" reports that just before the blast, his vehicle sped through check points on base and when he stepped out to be checked by a security guard, he quickly detonated the bomb sending steel pellets ripping through him and more than a dozen people near him. the paper quotes an anonymous formeofficial who says meeting an asset like that a bad trade craft. leon panetta lashed out at critics who say those who gave their lives somehow brought is on themselves.

and president bush's acting director of the c.i.a. to gather a group of individuals in the intelligence community to look at what the intelligence community failed to do in reaction to fort hood on november 5, the massacre there, and the attempted christmas day bombing over the skies of detroit. in his announcement, blair said the following, he wanted this group of experts to undergo a careful examination of the secrets of -- convention of events ling up to both incidents, as well as proposals to remedy potential weaknesses in intelligence procedures that these incidents exposed. what's the connection between these two? of course, nidal malik hasan had relations, e-mail and otherwise with a radical cleric in yemen with al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula and al lackey. those connections were not linked in any way, at least in an action orientd way with the abdulmutallab suspect in the christmas day bombing. now the director of national intelligence wants to find out why. >> major, a prominent obama supporter and co-chair of the 9-11 co

that's why the c.i.a. cret prisons for these terrorists that they ran for three or four years. that's why they did this overseas. they didn't snatch people from the u.s. the supreme court was very clear on posea pad la. if you're an american citizens you cannot be considered an enemy combatant and thrown away in a brig and disappear. so the key distinction is american soil. then the constitution does not apply. which is why they have gone to such great lengths to keep a lot of this stuff away from american soil because it gets you very quickly into judicial oversight. which they haven't wanted on this war on terror. that's one of the reasons why president obama is closing guantanamo. he thinks that should end. but he has increased the assassination program dramatically. the last year of the bush administration, they jumped up way high on these drone strikes. he has almost doubled the bush numbers in the last year. and in terms of whether congress has declared war, they have interpreted a lot of the congress

big white house, special counsel that attorney genre rick holder appointed to look into whether the c.i.a. and bush administration officials should be indicted for the anti-terror policies. the he indicts, recommending indicting those, you will see a firestorm. >> paul: there is a good chance that he will make that recommendation. >> >> all right. we have to take one more break. when we come back, big events to shape 2010 and beyond. the panel's predictions are next. next. o >> paul: time now for our new year's predictions and it's on tape. so we're going to hold you to them, all right? play them next year. all right, dan. >> my prediction flows out of all the anxiety we've been pumping out on the program tonight. i'm predicting that there is the possibility of an independent or third party movement emerging in the united states. i know they're usually hopeless. but look what is going on. not just in congress but the legislature in california, new york and new jersey are in a state of crisis. i think there is a crisis of governance emerging in the united states and that the american peop

. >> that was -- i shared the stage with the director of the c.i.a. tavis: how funny is that? he irony of all ironies. i'm sitting here at maryland university and get the opportunity to address 16,000 people on the importance of education. it was nearly 12 years to the date of me being sentenced by the judge. it was nearly 12 years to the date of me addressing the judge and it was a tremendous honor because the judge they told me thought sending me to prison would help me. i was able to tell them that. even no -- though no one exped me to make it to that points. -- that that point. i hold on to that moment. if you buy the c.d. and listen to it, it says introducing the class of 2009 led by reginald dwayne betts. tavis: you're in grad school. that lady you met in the bookstore you married and you have a baby. life is good. >> life is good. i'm fortunate enough with the campaign for youth justice to go across the country and speak to these young kids who made trouble in their lives to talk about the importance of education. this is a movement that you need to join to educate yours

the c.i.a. will not admit they're doing this. they have a policy of plausible denyability. we've done some checking. under the first 11 months of the obama administration they've actually launched more drone strikes against terrorists than the last four years of the bush administration. so it's not quite accurate to say they haven't been aggressive. they have been aggressive at the point of the spear. trying to take out these cell leaders. and i think we're going to see more of those things going forward. right now they have determined that is the best way to go after the core command-and-control. >> look at what the obama administration has done. he approved sending more than 50,000 more troops to afghanistan. as bob just pointed out he increased the number of drone strikes in pakistan. now he's opened up this new front in yemen ordering u.s. aircraft and u.s. missiles to strike targets in yemen. that's hardly pretending like you're not at war. i think what he's trying to do is keep the war against terror from overwhelming his domestic agenda. and so he tries to low-key thi

and itaid the c.i.a. and the national countererrorism center did not searcall available databases for the nigerian charged with e attempted bombing. newsho correspondent kwame holm begins our coverage. >> holma president obama stepd to the lectern in the white use state dining room two days after he shary criticized u.sintelligence for major failings. toy, he elaborated: >> fir, although our intelligence communi had lened a great deal about the al qaeda affiate in yemen-- caed al qaeda in the arabian peninsula-- we knew thathey sought to strike t united states and that theyere recruiting operatives too so, e intelligence community did not aggresvely follow up on and prritize particular streams of intelligee related to a psible attack against the homend. secondthis contributed to a larger failure of analys, a failure to connect theots of intelligence that existeacross our intelligence community. third, this in turn fed to shortcomings in the watch- listing system, whicresulted in this person not bei placed

chasing down every lead that comes in, and judge, the number of leads that come in each week to the c.i.aence community is sastronomicaastron. you have to have some discretion where you spend your resources. but president created a situation where to cover people's behinds, they will chase down every single lead. if we get a lead that says osama is on the beach at rio, someone is going to be devoted to that. more important from my perspective, is the president laid out our m.o.. we're now going to chase down every threat. al-qaeda listens to that. i think what we will see now is a surge around the world of people walking in to our embassies, of sending notes, and the threats will become squall like. >> michael, mark, thank you for joining us. don't misour spe miss our specie constitution next week. constitution and human freedom. a five-part series on fox nation.com. right back. >>> we started out by saying what a week this has been. americ america, do you see what happens when we rely on the government too much? it gets authoritarian and we get weak. our children grow to expect from the

and it said the c.i.a. and the national counter-terrorism center did not search all available databases for the nigerian charged with the attempted bombing. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> holman: president obama stepped to the lectern in the white house state dining room two days after he sharply criticized u.s. intelligence for major failings. today, he elaborated: >> first, although our intelligence community had learned a great deal about the al qaeda affiliate in yemen-- called al qaeda in the arabian peninsula-- we knew that they sought to strike the united states and that they were recruiting operatives to do so, the intelligence community did not aggressively follow up on and prioritize particular streams of intelligence related to a possible attack against the homeland. second, this contributed to a larger failure of analysis, a failure to connect the dots of intelligence that existed across our intelligence community. third, this in turn fed into shortcomings in the watc

soon-to-be joining us, still in the middle of his commute, is paul pillar, former c.i.a. e security studies program. he will be here within the next five to 10 minutes i do believe. it will take a lot of the morning to lay out all the credentials of this fine group. instead of doing that we have put together a biosheet many of you picked up. if you didn't manage to pick it up i'm sure a neighbor did and you can took at it. as i said after our session this morning, daniel benjamin will give us direct evidence of the administration's thinking and plans, especially in light of the christmas bombing attempt. we are very appreciative he could join us. no between our session and mr. benjamin's talk, we'll have a brief recess in order to reset the stage. you canç u& that to stretch yr legs or fressen up a bit. don't go far because we'll begin in short order with dan benjamin. when we started planning this event, i conceived of a relatively simple structure for our conversation that we would look back on the year just past. look forward with our prescriptions for the next year a

host: our guest in the c.i.a. ut these terms, from the inside i know how hard the work is and the efforts. mostly that is secret and the american people don't get an appreciation of how dedicated. we have had failures and we in the intelligence world see 9/11 as our failure and iraq as something we could have done. so in a way the contract for having a secret intelligence needs to be updated. and as we face these new threats, we need credibility and for the american people to be sure that we use things so these attacks don't occur. it's not for someone such as me to think about what things might be. but we need to think seriously about what they are, so we don't think about after an attack and wonder what weren't wrong again. host: david calling from texas. caller: hello, how are you doing. let me get to the bush', the first bush had the taliban a bunch of them come here to houston in '95 and they stayed with him. and the big thing they loved about houston was the zoo. and when they went to war and the reason for b

i love the c.i.a. statement is clear one. >> my statement is clear. let me read it again. in. >> sorry, i have to find the page. >> there is the maxine waters, tell you what this liberal is going to do. >> guess what this liberal would be all about? this liberal would be all about socializing -- would be about, basically taking over and the government running all of your companies. >> that one is just the best piece of video ever for holy crap, uh-oh. um, um. i can't think of anything barney frank has done this year that's been crazy, except for maybe -- i do like -- when i think barney frank, i think of the audio where right before the crash comes. faneuil and fanie and freddie is perfectly solvent. >> i think fannie mae and freddie is fundamentally sound. i think the prospects going forward are very solid. >> please! >> to your favorite married couple? >> tiger woods. if that is not a marriage made in heaven, you know. swedish supermodel and ahh, hookers and stuff on the side, too. then we have congresswoman chikowsky and robert creamer. married. i don't think he took her

the screen. secretary napolitano, intelligence chief blair, c.i.a. director panetta. estion, have you lost question in any of those? >> well, i work very closely with leon panetta and admiral blair. i think, i think they're doing the best job they can. the problem with the director of national intelligence denny blair, he has all of the responsibility and not enough authority. i voted against the bill because he does not have the ability to control all the elements of the i.c. i have not worked with secretary napolitano, but when she said that the terrorist act should be called a man-caused disaster, or when she said recently the system worked perfectly, i think it raised a lot of eyebrows, but those statements, misstatements are certainly not grounds to relieve her. i think we need to find out what really happened. >> chris: finally, i want to talk with you as i did with mr. brennan about politics. former vice president cheney and a number of top republicans have really gone after this administration for its response after christmas day and suggested this is another e

i would like you to address, sir -- and i can back this up with numerous news articles -- the c.i.a.'f their black box operations through the involvement through drug, the drug import business. could you address c.i.a. involvement in the drug business as an active participant and keeping the drugs flowing in to this country? guest: well, i'm familiar with the articles or news reports that did come out from central america in the mid 1980's about how the c.i.a. was apparently using drugs to finance the contrast in nicaragua and some of the other count counterrevolutionary forces in he will solve door -- el salvador and honduras. i recall some of the investigations i think congress carried out. i don't know any more about it than that. and i must say while i believe most of those articles were probably accurate, i don't think this has been a systematic policy of the u.s. government and i certainly don't see it as a policy today because i don't see who they would be funding in latin america at least by using that type of policy. what of course you could argue and you may have a better ca

that i had a staff of 21 people and the president had the defense department, the state department, the c.i.a., the d.e.a., the n.s.a., embassies, consulates, and he had probably a lot more information and better advice than i had. and so on issues of war and peace, you know, i was reluctant to say well i know what i think and i'm just going to stop the president. there was time with i deferred to the executive on those kinds of issues. >> and i forgot, emily lovejoy, hofstra university. >> good. glad of to have you here. >> hi, i'm mike wing from the university of iowa. i had a question. >> congratulations. >> thank you. hawkeyes look good. do you think that the members of both the house and the senate are becoming complacent and siding with their party, simply to save their seat, or is it maybe that their actions have become acceptable by the american public, by continuing to vote them in as incumbents, or is it possibly the more powerful members of each party are kind of restrict being outside thought and maybe stepping over party lines? >> you know, it's really interesting question. i mea

i would like you to address, sir -- and i can back this up with numerous news articles -- the c.i.a.' involvement in the drug busine business. they do indeed fund a lot of their black box operations through the involvement through drug, the drug import business. could you address c.i.a. involvement in the drug business as an active participant and keeping the drugs flowing in to this country? guest: well, i'm familiar with the articles or news reports that did come out from central america in the mid 1980's about how the c.i.a. was apparently using drugs to finance the contrast in nicaragua and some of the other count counterrevolutionary forces in he will solve door -- el salvador and honduras. i recall some of the investigations i think congress carried out. i don't know any more about it than that. and i must say while i believe most of those articles were probably accurate, i don't think this has been a systematic policy of the u.s. government and i certainly don't see it as a policy today because i don't see who they would be funding in latin america at least by using that type o

host: our guest in the c.i.a. in the weapons of mass destruction and worked in the agency of counterintelligence and now that you are outside looking in, what are your thoughts for how we proceed and going forward? you said we have to live with a new reality that sounds scary. but at the same time you said we need it get used to it. guest: one goal as we move forward is to reestablish with the american people. i couldn't talk about these terms, from the inside i know how hard the work is and the efforts. mostly that is secret and the american people don't get an appreciation of how dedicated. we have had failures and we in the intelligence world see 9/11 as our failure and iraq as something we could have done. so in a way the contract for having a secret intelligence needs to be updated. and as we face these new threats, we need credibility and for the american people to be sure that we use things so these attacks don't occur. it's not for someone such as me to think about what things might be. but we need to think

. >>> a local victim killed in the terror attack on a c.i.a. base is being remembered. family, friends, colleagues gathered in massachusetts to honor 37-year-old harrell brown, jr. -- harold brown, jr. he lived in fairfax station with his beautiful family here. he was one of seven victims killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan. his wife and three children stood together at the service along with asrick. >> the kids will miss him. but i think in the years they had him, they did more than manpeople ever do in their whole lives. >> the attack is considered one ever the worst attacks on u.s. intelligence per knell in more than 20 years. >>> the coast of northern california rattled by an earthquake. we're everywhere at 11:00 tonight. the u.s. geological survey says a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit 27 miles from the coastal city of eureka this evening shaking buildings and knocking out power. four after shocks followed within minutes, the biggest registering 3.8. officials say there is no threat of the quake generating a tsunami. the san francisco bay area was struck by two

thew>i director says that it wa poor prey craft in afghanistan of the c.i.a.en deaths in december. saying that we found no commentary that this was brought because of poor trade craft. we have joan joining us from new jersey. caller: good morning, i wanted to call and say i always watch c-span and so impressed with your recent c.e.o.'s remarks about having the health span meetings open to the public and holding obama to his promise. i thought in these times and in view of the media, their liberal agenda, this is refreshing. hats off to c-span and i will continue to be a viewer. host: joan, thank you for the call, if you want to read the letter sent on december 30th, available online at c-span.org. speaking of politics, kathleen parker writes that the race with scott brown for the seat to fill senator kennedy, and parker saying that the january 19th special election when hillary clinton was overtaken by barack obama, only this time it's a wonder kid from the right, overtaking an over confident woman on the left. ben is joining us this morning. caller: good morn

a year ago, the president decided to revise the nation's interrogation policies and to restrict the c.i.a.'s ability to question terrorists. the administration created a high-value detainee interrogation group precisely for the purpose of questioning terrorists. why wasn't this group brought in once this terrorist was taken into custody? americans, madam president, are going to need to know the answers to those questions. madam president, i yie the floor and thank my friend and colleague, the majority leader. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i had a good conversation with senator-elect brown yesterday. he is coming to washington today. i look forward to visiting with him. we have a time set for him to come by my office. in my conversation, he seemed very pleasant and excited about coming to washington, which i'm sure he is. we talked about his daughter going to syracuse and the fact that joe biden had graduated from syracuse, and he knew that. anyway, i look forward to our meeting with him. madam president, i would just say briefly on my fri

those are savings that companies like those can reinvest back into their business, but if you ask the c.i.a., talk to the joint chiefs of staff, a national security issue. and why would we want to depend on foreign sources of energy to supply our own military here in the united states? we address the national security issue we create jobs here in the united states and we help to address the carbon issue here causing global climate change. these are the issues we need to tackle as a country and we can't be afraid to do it. we can't be afraid, madam speaker to make the tough decisions, to push the tough policies, to make sure that 10, 20, 30 years from now, when people look back and say, what did they do in 2010, 2009, in the united states congress, to try to address some of these problem we can say we answered the call, made the tough decisions and the country was bet off for it. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, is recognized for 60 minutes as the desig

the pakistani press. >> was he getting confused between c.i.a. operations of blackwater in pakistan, is that why he said -- >> first of all i wouldn't know what the c.i.a. operation it is there are any operations, i wouldn't speak to them even if i did know them. i don't think he was confused at all. i think he got a rather convoluted question which asked a number of different things in the most generic sense it asked whether security for a company in afghanistan working for us, have rules and regulations governing their behavior. he answered in the affirmative. in between there they threw in as examples dyncorps and blackwater. i don't think the secretary knows who the state department hires to be their security. i don't know -- i don't know he knows all the contractors that are working for us. subsequent to that i think he was crystal clear in the next day in the roundtable where he made it clear we do not have blackwater working for us in afghanistan. . clearly he has asked the general council to look into short of changing the law, can we app

through the country and within more thing, if we do stop the war on drugs, the sheriff deputy and police department and c.i.a. and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money and property and they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i beg your pardon. chris: go ahead. chris: john: he has been the most honest person i have ever heard on any program anywhere about this problem. i agree that the way we can really help mexico is concentrate on our country, the consumption in this country. if we stop the consumption here, no matter what it takes but stop it, it will automatically help mexico and everywhere else. thank you for taking my call. >> final thoughts. >> well, i think that our last question was very clear about this. if as she said quite rightly, we, meaning the unit

the world, how strong is al qaeda? margaret warner poses that question to a former c.i.a. officer. >> the adversary is growing in its own sophistication, running different types of operations. and as we hit them in certain areas, neutralize capability, they shift to other things. >> the latest from haiti whereas many as 1 million p >> woodruff: the latest from haiti, where as many as one million people are still homeless. ray suarez is in port-au-prince, where he talked with paul farmer, the u.n.'s deputy special envoy, even as international donors meet in montreal to figure out how to help. >> ifill: and a fish story. tom bearden reports on the battle against the invasive giant asian carp. >> they are biological terrorists. and if they get in our great lakes , and hit, impact the ecology and economy, two different canadian provinces, it could cost billions. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle chal

a point that was recently underscored by the decemberth suicide attack that killed seven c.i.a. employees in afganistan. we mourn the lost of these -- loss of these brave americans. their sacrifice, along with the attempted christmas day bombing and recent plot to attack the u.s. subway system reminds us that the threat from al qaeda and other other extremists has not -- i repeat not diminished. but in its

immediately after taking office decided to revive the nation's interrogation policies an restrict the c.i.a ability to question terrorists. this was done by executive order. while questioning the director of national intelligence, i specifically -- specifically asked if the director felt that the classified interrogation methods used previously by our own government were more effective than the current methods found in the army field manual that is publicly available for the terrorists to train to? one statement that d.n.i., the director of national intelligence made, during the q&a portion of the hearing particularly caught my attention. in response to a question from senator burris regarding al qaeda's ability to exploit open-source intelligence, admiral blair stated this, and i'm quoting once again -- "the public discussion of the specifics of the defensive measures we take are making it that much easier for people to evade our defenses and to come in. i think they are just making the job of those who are working hard to try to defend us that much harder. it costs the taxpayer that much

house budget committee, and the former chief of staff of president clinton, now the director of the c.i.a., said this in testimony before the senate budget committee. in response to the question shouldn't we rely on just the regular order, the normal committee process. his answer, it will never happen. the committees of jurisdiction will never take on the kind of challenges that are involved in this kind of effort. if you just leave them under their own jurisdiction, that will never happen. mr. president, it hasn't happened and i'm chairman of one of the committees. i accept that the normal process is not going to deal with the threat of this magnitude. it is going to take all of us, democrats, republicans, congress, the administration working together to fashion a plan that deals with the long-term debt threat. that also deals with the short-term need to restore jobs, to restore economic growth and to build the economy. these things are not contradictory. they, in fact, are complementary. we must do both. we must restore economic growth and economic strength at the same time we must deal

the government said that will not deter them in the fight. >> c.i.a. vowing to revenge the killing of agents. they were kill would by a homicide bomber. he was allowed on the base without much screening. >> tragic start to the new year after mudslides killed 30 people in brazil. it happened in a coastal town. rain loosened sides of the hill sides. 80 mud slides were reported following three days of heavy rains. death tollcould rise as the rains topple trees and take downpour lines. google executive matt dilan is making a run for vermont governor. he is head of community affairs and works out of white junction, vermont. he wants googles culture of being fast to state democrat. he is one of five to face the republican nominee lieutenant governor bryan dubey. >> some people like to drink or shop on new years. these people like to strip down and go swimming in the bitter col. residents of austin and colorado and minnesota took the polar plunge. some benefit charities and others simply because of the tradition or sheer insanity. people in austin didn't have

as we saw last week in the loss of our courageous c.i.a. officers in afghanistan. but when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on christmas day, the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. it's my responsibility find out why and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future. that's why shortly after the attempted bombing over detroit i ordered two revies. i directed secretary of home land security janet napolitano to review aviation screening, technology, and procedures. she briefed me on her initial findings today. and i'm pleased that this review is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of secretary of energy steven chu and his department. i also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, john brennan, to lead a thorough review into our terrorist watch listing system so we can fix what went wrong. as we discussed today, this ongoing review continues to reveal more about the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives. we will make a su