says "there has been so much growth since 9-11 that getting your arms around that, not just for the c.i.a., for the secretary of defense, is a challenge." dana, you spent two years looking into this. is this growth better or just bigger? >> well, people inside don't actually know. and that's the most frustrating thing i heard. is that it's gotten so big that they can't tell whether it's making us safer anymore. but just some of the parameters, we've started out looking at the secret level. and it was so big, there are so many things to count, we can't do this even in two years. so we're going to go to the top secret level and fewer people that work on top secret programs. that's what we did and we still found 1,300 government organizations that were -- that work, half of them -- a quarter of them were re-created or new after 9-11 and nearly 2,000 companies that help those agencies work at the top secret level and of course contracting and how big that has gotten was a big part of the story. all of the intelligence agencies are really dependent now on contractors. it's not just to fill a s

and arthur keller, a former case officer in the c.i.a. part of his work there focused on iran's missile and nuclear programs. is first, greg miller, is it hard to believe that the cia would pay $5 million to a guy who is just as, as he called-- what did he call himself, a simple researcher with no classified information? >> i'm sure the cia would say they wouldn't pay $5 million to somebody who fits that description. but it's not hard to believe that the agency would pay large sums of money to defectors, especially from a nation like iran, where the agency is desperate for better intelligence on what is happening inside that country, and what it's doing with its nuclear program. >> lehrer: so your report about the $5 million stands up as far as you're concerned? >> oh, yeah. >> lehrer: arthur keller s it believable to you as well that the cia would pay that kind of money to this kind of guy? >> it is. iranian nuclear physicist does not grow on trees. and to get someone with really good access, sometimes you have to wave a really big potent

center or n.c.t.c. 16 separate agencies and departments feed information to the center, including the c.i.a., the defense intelligence agency, and the national security agency. but from the beginning, the job has been fraught with challenges. turf battles among intelligence agencies have hurt all three of general claper's predecessors the most recent admiral dennis blair who was forced to step down in may. at today's confirmation hearing, the chair of the intelligence committee, democrat dianne feinstein, said claper is taking on a critical task and a tough one. >> intelligence growth has not always led to improved performance. growth in the size and number of agencies , offices, task forces, and centers has also challenged the ability of former directors of national intelligence to truly manage the community. general claper, i want to be clear that we do not question your service, your knowledge, or our capability. we only ask that you clearly indicate your vision and commitment to head the intelligence community this afternoon and work to give it direction and prevent sprawl, overlap and

. >> we all know that al qaeda was created by the c.i.a. >> stahl: he was saying it was the c.i.a.t told osama bin laden to attack on 9/11. we don't... we attacked our own pentagon and the world trade center to have a justification to go into afghanistan? do you really believe that? >> yeah, yeah, i do. >> stahl: they believe we attacked ourselves so we could go to afghanistan and kill muslims. what i'm sensing is that there is an enormous amount of anti- americanism, am i right? >> give us one single reason to love america, and we will forget about the rest of the millions of reasons to hate america. >> stahl: after a statement like that, you begin to question whether even a former extremist can uproot the idea here that the west is out to destroy islam. you're one person, and you're kind of blowing into the wind. it's almost like don quixote... >> nawaz: right. >> stahl: ... tilting at windmills. >> nawaz: there are people who are as frustrated as we are with extremism in their own country, in pakistan. but they've never had anyone to articulate that frustration, to organize them

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and was helping the c.i.a. the u.s. denies charges he was being held against his will. a federal appeals court threw out a government ban on broadcast indecency today. the panel of three judges concluded the rule was unconstitutionally vague and could create a chilling effect on free speech beyond "fleeting expletives". the rule allowed broadcasters to be fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television. the court said the f.c.c. might be able to craft a policy that does not violate the right to free speech. there was news today the drug maker glaxo smith kline knew 11 years ago that its diabetes drug avandia could cause serious heart problems. "the new york times" reported that the company spent all that time hiding important data about the drug from the public and the food and drug administration. separately today, a panel of f.d.a. advisers began meeting to consider whether to pull avandia from the market or restrict its sale. a recommendation is expected tomorrow. the longtime owner of major league baseball's new york yankees, george steinbrenner, died

he was considered a hero by many in the united states, he was among the many groups supported by the c.i.aand the pakistani intelligence service and intelligence services of several western nations because he was a major fighter with tremendous issue through his jedran tribe in the border areas of pakistan and afghanistan. because of his tribal sons still have considerable influence. pakistan does not say that it will act against any particular group identified by our american partners. the only question is how, when, and whether we have the capacity to do it at a certain time. as you know, since you and i spoke about it for the first time had when i first became ambassador and came into your studio for a conversation we started our operation in swat. you may remember at that time people didn't trust us, they thought we were trying to cut deals with the extremists. we weren't. what we were doing was trying to deal with the people, and at that time public opinion in pakistan was very reluctant to move against these people, that these guys cannot be negotiated with and if they are negotiated

main media has been one of the most cherished c.i.a.'s is a key a the top drug kingpin all across the country for the taliban high pony and would begin his much for this mujahideen troika they know for sure for almost nine years that old guard is my brother's work for the u.s. government so if they talk u.s. intelligence assets are well known for the whole world for almost nine years and nobody tried to harm them why the united states should be so concerned about this third rate informant sound where in the country second so the u.s. decision makers will be well advised to stop playing the server city expressing their crocodile tears about the threat to the lives of u.s. informants in afghanistan and instead they should start thinking real hard how to arrest the narco terrorist threat that comes under their watch from afghanistan to russia and to european union. now some of the stories from around the world and in pakistan over four hundred have been killed in the past three days the floods triggered by months and rains hundreds of thous

during the vietnam officers from the c.i.a. special activities division trained and led men in laoa and into vietnam for special combat activities. -- laos and into vietnam for special combat activities. they fought shoulder to shoulder with u.s. soldiers. since the end of vietnam, thousands of families have reached out to the united states today. and as a result of a law signed by president ford are now united states citizens. only a few thousand of these original veterans remain alive today. as was done with the philippine armed forces, we should recognize that precedent by offering internment to national cemeteries after verification and documentation is completed by the veterans affairs department. i ask you to support this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? ms. wasserman schultz: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. wasserman

the title character, yes, her name is salt, is a c.i.a. be a russian sleeper agent. but a smarter one than any of the bone heads we just deported. the movie is a blast even though-- and this might be a deal breaker for some speem-- it makes no sense. at all. why does the guy at the start do the thing and then salt do the thing and then forget it. what it lacks in coherence, it makes up for with a centrifugal force that goes by the name of angelina jolie. if you don't know what salt is doing, you know, you know that and lean a knows. her certainty is diabolical. she's bond, bourne, jack bower, even mcgifer. the movie takes a... its drive from her. it's forward ho even when the plot is loop de loop. it's fluid even when the action is smash and bash. i still don't know why her name is salt though. like the heroes of inception, hollywood is good at planting ideas in your head. i'll figure it out at some point. >> osgood: up next,. >> you actually get them to stick in the needle in the murderous process. >> reporter:,,,,,,,,,, [ crowd cheering ]

. >> when i asked you last about my c.i.a., you said the officials were looking at possibly -- >> yes. because i know i've gone long. i do not have an update for you. >> some people wrote in after you -- >> you forwarded them to me. i saw them, yes. >> do you have answers to their concerns? >> there were a couple. what was the specific concern? >> the state licenses that, for example, real estate, home health care are not recognized by other states so if you have someone who is p.c.s.ing, getting a real estate license in one state may not be that helpful. >> jeff, i'm not going to get into the transferability of real estate accreditation. i don't know it, i'm not an authority to speak to it, obviously that was one example offered as programs that could be taken advantage of with my c.a. funds but obviously there's a range of programs you can benefit from and make yourself more attractive to employers through this program. i don't have an update for you. i think this is still with the secretary. i imagine we will have movement soon but i've said that before. and i'll keep you informed

if you look at the international threats that we deal with, we have no n.s.a. and c.i.a., more capability and externally to the united states monitoring what is going on than we could possibly hoped to have internally. internally, it seems like a lot of our ability to catch up terrorist threat in the making comes from a tip from an informant because the terrorist decided to reach out to someone or light up worked six because somebody screwed up the d.v.d. is that if sufficient strategy? what other tools should we look at? we just went through a bloody battle looking at fisa. >> this is what we're thinking about right now. the tools that work abroad, they may not be the tools that perfectly translate into a domestic environment. we have several of them. we have the tools at the border. we have law enforcement, both federal and state and local. importantly state and local. they have enormous information and knowledge of their communities. they recognize abhorrent behavior. they recognize and they understand when things are very badly wrong. we need to engage them and conne