>> the c.i.a. throughout the course of its history has played an important role in different areas and one of the areas has been in covert action. almost every president since we stood up 68 years ago has utilized the c.i.a. covert capabilities. i believe the c.i.a. needs to retain the paramilitary capability, should that the chief executive officer and military need us, the c.i.a. needs to be prepared. by concern is that the c.i.a. has a lot of responsibilities worldwide. i want to make sure we're able to address those different responsibilities cape capably across the board and not swing widely one way or the other. in the last 15 years with 9/11 with the situation in iraq and afghanistan and the counterterrorism efforts, we've had to utilize a number of paramilitary skills and capabilities working with our partners in order to address the threats we face and thankfully the c.i.a. had that capability and experience. so it's not as though i'm trying to diminish it. i'm trying to make sure this is p

. >>> the head of the c.i.a. warned the demeself of the syrian regime could open the doors to i.s.i.l. john brennan says the c.i.a. is being revamped in order to combat i.s.i.l. and other threats to security. more from washington d.c. >> reporter: an assault on staff at the newspaper "charlie hebdo" in paris. bun fire at a cafe in copenhagen and the killing of children at a school in pakistan, the head of u.s. intelligence, says these attacks were a trend to show... . >> the emergence of a terrorist threat difficult to track, and more difficult to this ward. >> that's why the director of the c.i.a. says he's overhauling the agency. critics argued that the c.i.a. has been too focussed. a drop in analytical capability yes and errors were noticed, notably that iraq contained weapons of mass destruction. a pretext to invasion. the c.i.a. would now combine into 10 different mission centers around the world. >> these will ply them more efficiently and effectively. >> the former c.i.a. intelligence officer fears that con

how bad they distracted. >> you guys were able to put your distracted driving skills to the test. . >> she is ex-c.i.arained to drive under extreme duress, and even worse. [ laughs ] >> why is elie in handcuffs. all the obstacle courses the c.i.a. put me through pale in comparison to driving while mum. kosta never had to do any of that. he is young, brash and gen y, an engineer who grew up texting and is used to quick start-ups and fast stops. >> lindsay as an older person will not be as proficient as myself. we both take to the streets to investigate a clear and present danger. each year more than 300,000 people are killed by accidents caused by distracted drivers. what types of activities cause drivers to lose focus on the road and put themselves and others at risk? we headed to the university of utah where david straier is a neuroscience. >> our goal is to try to bench mark the things that people commonly do while driving to get an understanding of how distracting they are. >> his latest study focuses on voice-activated commands, a feature that is common in car infotainment systems. car-makers and

while the c.i.a. is the constitute of spy movies and tom clancy knoxs in real hive there is a unique insight into what is happening in hotspots around the world. today we go inside to a rare and exclusive interview with the man would heads the spy age, director john brennan. >> director we are here in the private museum. tell us about the model next to us. >> first of all, welcome chris to our museum we are proud of. this is a model of the compound that osama bin laden was hiding for a number of years and nasa was the site of the take down of osama bin laden. despite the details you see on the outside there is a lot we did not know at the time as far as the inside of the building and what osama bin laden might have planned in terms of blowing up the building and confronting reports that came n. >> let's talk about a country threat, iran. what if the talk fall apart and there is no deem what is your best intelligence? will iran race to develop a nuclear weapon? are they more likely to go where they were

the c.i.a. is being revamped to combat i.s.i.l. kimberley halkett has more from washington d.c. >>> the staff at the newspaper "charlie hebdo" - gun fire in copenhagen and the killing of children in a school in pakistan. the head of the u.s. central intelligence agency say the attacks are a disturbing trend showing... >> the emergens of a threat that is decentralized, difficult to attack tore thwart. >> reporter: that's why the director said he's over hauling his agency. critics argued the c.i.a. has been too focussed on hunting down and the drop in analytical areas. notably that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. the c.i.a. will now combine the operations and analytical staff into 10 different missions around the world. >> they say are designs for analysis technology, support and innovation and apply them efficiently and effectively. >> this former intelligence officer fears concentrating analysis and operations will make it more susceptibility to having intelligence manipulated. the och sit

he collected them five days later, just before he became director of the c.i.a. and took them to his own house. later, when confronted by f.b.i. agents petraeus maintained, according to the court documents, he had never provided any classified information to broadwell. petraeus was not charged with lying to the f.b.i., which say felony, apparently because there was no triment of that interview. after it was revealed he was also having an affair with broadwell, petraeus resigned from the c.i.a. and signed a document stating, "there is no classified material in my possession, custody or control at this time," even though the notebooks were still stored in an unlocked desk drawer at his house. if convicted of mishandling classified information, petraeus could have received a maximum punishment of one year in prison. his guilty plea faccepted by a judge, would spare petraeus any jail time, as well as a trial that surely would have revealed details of his affair with broadwell. none of the classified information petraeus gave broadwell appeared in her obamacare so argu

. >>> now, the c.i.a. is planning a major re-organisation that will focus the agency on digital espionage. the director said the changes are driven by a wider range of threats, and the impact of technological advancements. new units will be created for mission centers. the changes are aimed at making managers more accountable. well, robert is a former director of the c.i.a.'s counterterrorism and he says the overhaul will strengthen analysis. >> it's the first major re-organisation of c.i.a. but that said, there was less to the re-organisation than meets the eye. the world will continue to be divided up in a way that it has for many decades. it will be a center for the middle east, for instance for africa and east asia. it's taking an existing methodology that has been practised in the counter-terrorism center, whereby analysts work closely in spreading the methodology throughout the c.i.a. it will give analysts better insight in how the information received is gathered and noble them to do better judgments

they build classified reconnaissance satellites for themselves and they serve the d.i.a., the c.i.a.,ional geospatial intelligence. cory: so the satellite that blew up a few weeks ago big secret nerds with telescopes saw it. guest: what happened in early february is that a military weather satellite, this is actually an air force satellite, called dmsp-13 the satellite that was launched in 1995, in early february something happened to it. and it looks like it exploded. this was seen by an amateur astronomer in the u.k. basically with a pair of binoculars. i think this thing blew up. about 20 days later, i think the air force finally fessed up and confirmed that this thing had indeed exploded. not really sure why. nobody's really saying, if anybody knows at all. but it's actually not the first time that one of these spacecraft had blown up. there was another one, an earlier one that something similar happened to in 2004. cory: the technology's much more advanced than nasa but the size of the program is interesting. i want to read a quote from one of the generals who ran the organizatio

plan now is aimed at making the c.i.a. more efficient. rebecca cooper is at our live desk with the details for us. rebecca? >> leon, the internal c.i.a. review called these pain points. what the c.i.a. has to do to be more effective. and these pain points weren't interrogation methods but instead, a major indictment of how the sprawling spy agency is managed, organized, and ready for the future. the verdict on the top it turns out a movie about the c.i.a. would be more office space than bourne identity. john brennan says he wants major changes. this review cited bad management too much office democracy and either tune out at their desk or simply leave the agency all together. director brennan said today he wants one of the biggest overhauls in the agency's history and he's vowing to make managers more accountable and significantly boost the cyber capabilities and analysts and all the way back to espionage after a decade more focus on counterterrorism. that's the latest from the live desk leon. mu story on the website. i'm rebecca cooper re

contractor snowden and the c.i.a. has been trying to break the apple encryption on the iphones and the apps they use. the report does not say how successful the c.i.a. has been but it sheds new lie on the government efforts to exploit any mobile security gaps for intercepting personal information from phone calls and e-mails. >>> privacy concerns this morning at a college in sacramento because of peepholes popping up in the men's restrooms. officials say the peepholes are made through the ways of bathroom stalls and the problem is not new but those with work at school say it has been an off-and-on issue for the last decade. >> if a hole is found metal and screws are used to cover it. at this point, it is not clear if the peepholes are used to spy on other students because no one has ever actually been caught in the act. >> a colorado man is scheduled to appear in court after police say he burned down his ex-wife's home in an apartment act of -- an act of revenge. when crews arrived at the burned down home they found "m

. >> the c.i.a. warned that there might be an attack on the 9/11 anniversary. >> during the attack they didn't send help that was waiting in tripoli c-130 to assist these guys. >> coming up, they could have saved four americans but instead, our government told them to stand down. >> jon: so basically you're saying the government of the united states told its military-- if i want to put this in a catchy, protesty kind of phrase-- stand down don't shoot. and fox didn't restrict its anger stoking to words, because let's face ttheir older viewers who are heard of hearing, also have a right to be mad, so scary opens and that burning benghazi footage in a semicontinuous loop like some kind of fox news yule log. ( laughter ) oh, they're running the burning compound footage again. it seems like benghaz-mas comes earlier and earlier every year. but, of course, unlike ferguson protesters fox wasn't being irresponsible and divisive. they just wanted the truth. >> we have unanswered questions about benghazi. >> t

the c.i.a. is clean on this.

stance of the official media was to discredit the victim, like one that said he was a spokesman for the c.i.a. mossad in the united states embassy >>> the official media tried hard to link nisman with the interests of the enemy. >> translation: therefore, it's within the framework of these two polls that the news coverage relating to the nisman case developed. >>> the prosecutor's widow went before the senate asking that nisman's death not be politicized. her request went unfulfilled. president cristina fernandez de kirchner is not the only leftist smern -- south american leader that must contend with owners leading to the right. nicolas maduro ecuador and others face challenges. cristina fernandez de kirchner was the first to try to reshape domestic media. in 2009 her government passed a law mandating that media ownership be divided into three equal starts, a third owned by the state. a third in private hands and the remainder community owned. the clarine group fought that in court. when a paper followed a draft document recommending that the president be arrested a senior aide tore the pape

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. >> the c.i.a. puts the shiite population in yemen at about 35% of the population, and it has been houthi dominated. the sunni part has been divided almost since the formation of yemen, almost constantly fighting, at least at some kind of level. it's a country which has never had the ability since it was unified and before that it was the source of fighting between the two halves south of yemen. >> rose: my conversation recorded this week in damascus by bashar al-assad. there is a number alarming to me is that 90% of the civilian casualties come from the syrian army. >> how did you get that? >> rose: that was a report issued in the last six months. >> as i said earlier the war is not the traditional war. it's not about capturing and gaining land. it's about winning the heart and miebdz of the syrians. we can not sustain that position as a government and me as president while the rest of the world, the great powers and regional powers are against me and my people are against me. that's impossible. thi

police say it appears the gunshots came from a wooded area. former c.i.a. director david petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials. prosecutors say the retired four star army general shared classified material with his mistress for her book. he resigned from the c.i.a. in november 2012 after admitting the affair with his biographer. federal prosecutors are recommending two years probation but no jail time and no word on a sentencing date. democrats tonight are blasting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech before a joint session of congress. house minority leader nancy pelosi called the address on iran's nuclear threat a condescending lecture. brad bell has more on the speech and reaction oochlt. >> the israeli prime minister's speech had all the trappings of a presidential state of the union address. he used the vast majority of his time, as promised to blast a proposed u.s. nuclear bill with iran. >> it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb. it paves iran's path to the bomb. so why would anyone make this deal? >>

the report does future say how successful the c.i.a. been but it sheds new light on the government's efforts to exploit any possible security gaps for intercepting personal information from our phone calls and e-mails. >>> many of us at abc got to spend time at the professional business women of california conference in san francisco. we sponsored a booth with amy hollyfield and cheryl jennings emseed the event. this conference was formed by our congresswoman jackie speiers 26 years ago to hope level the playing field for women. >> we node to have each other's back and this is what the conference is doing we have each other's back. >> rocket fuel is a great program on the peninsula to teach "stem," to young women. more than 5500 women attended. we got great nominations for abc stars, people in our community making a difference. thank you for those that attended. you inspired us. >>> wall street starts the morning hopping to are race losses from a big sell off. >> here is the money report. >> good morning, everyone topping america's money

he would like to return to geneva where he once worked undercover for the c.i.a. 's wanted by the u.s. government for leaking details about its mass surveillance programs. >>> a u.s. president president obama has defended the justice department not to charge officer darren wilson for the killing of michael brown. his death led to nationwide protests over the police treatment of african-americans. >> we may never know exactly what happened, but officer wilson like anybody else who is charged with a crime benefits from due process and a reasonable doubt standard and if there is uncertainty about what happened, then you can't just charge him anyway, just because what happened was tragic. that was the decision that was made and i have complete confidence and stand fully behind the decision that was made by the justice department on that issue. >> 50 years ago a brutal attack on peaceful protesters in the southern u.s. city of selma, alabama gave momentum to the african-american civil rights movement. and today in alabama an organization that monitors and combats hate g

the associated press reported in 2013 that levinson was conducting an off the books mission for the c.i.a. when he vanished. the government claims levinson was on a business trip. levinson a family of seven turns 67 tomorrow. "7 on your side" with a consumer alert tonight. the way your credit score is calculated is about to change. the biggest change is in how you challenge a possible mistake. from now on the three credit bureaus must assign employees to resolve all challenges to information on a report and to make the process more transparent. medical debts also cannot be reported for 180 days. that's to allow time for insurance payments to be applied. we are all very happy with the way the weekend turned out and today is not bad either. >> yeah nice little return to a normal and even above average temperature since thursday's little snow stuff. even more will melt away in the next few days. by the end of the week most of the snow will be gone. most of the ice is off the potomac. a little ice in the shoreline in areas that don't get direct sunlight still hangs tough. that's only briefly.

why the director of the c.i.a. plans to restructure the agency. and, in our signature segment, the increasingly tense climate for muslims in france's most diverse city. >> ( translated ): it's getting worse and worse. and frankly, i don't think it's going to get better. >> sreenivasan: next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening thanks for joining us. time is running out for leaders to make some kind of deal with iran about its nuclear program. president obama told cbs' "face the nation" that within the next month or so, his administration needs to determine whether negotiators can get iran to truly ag

. >> the c.i.a. admitted it... >> then you have to start questioning the whole system... >> the rise... fall... and redemption of freeway rick ross >> freeway crack in the system only on al jazeera america he's out there. there's a guy out there whose making a name for himself in a sport where your name and maybe a number are what define you. somewhere in that pack is a driver that can intimidate the intimidator. a guy that can take the king 7 and make it 8. heck. maybe even 9. make no mistake about it. they're out there. i guarantee it. welcome to the nascar xfinity series. >>> the dark side of the 1980s, images of crack house, and the ronald reagan's war on drugs crack, that could be smoked, spread like wildfire across cities in the united states. as many as 6 million admitting to smoking crack. if you were not watching the new, hollywood had you covered. "new jack city" focussed on druggies druggies. starting tonight al jazeera is showing a 2-part documentary examining the crack epidemic in the united states by focussing in on the former king of crack. freeway rick ross, not to be

jacqui is back with the latest predictions and we are counting down to spring. just 16 more days. >> former c.i.a. director david petraeus might avoid prison time for his guilty plea for mishandling classified information. prosecutors say the retired four star army general shared classified material with his former mistress and biographer paula broadwell. petraeus resigned from the c.i.a. in november of 2012 after admitting to that affair. prosecutors are recommending two years probation and a fine. by comparison other c.i.a. officers who have pleaded guilty to leaks have received up to 30 months in prison. the alabama supreme court is ordering the state's probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. the court ruled the u.s. constitution doesn't offer the judges duty to administer state law and it says the federal court used sleight of hand in a ruling in january. it resulted in most of alabama allowing gay marriage. we are waiting on new information from the justice department. it is expected to release a full report later today after finding evidence of widespread discr

. >> the c.i.a. admitted it... >> then you have to start questioning the whole system... >> the rise... fall... and redemption of freeway rick ross >> freeway crack in the system only on al jazeera america . >> it's an unsolved mystery and a sharp indictment of how a city that prides itself on its power, children for years have been warehoused in a building never meant to be a shelter. a facility politicians keep promising to shut down. you might think aafter eight-year-old relisha rudd fell through gaping contraction in the safety net, city leaders would be ready to make good on its promise he but you're i don't think. lori jane gliha continues with the story. >> this hospital building was home for eight-year-old relisha rudd and her family. >> it's amess, to be honest with you, it's no place for children, to be honest with you. >> how many people were in a room? >> it was six of us. >> in 2013 the family was among 600 others living@d.c. living at d.c. general, a stone's throw from a drug rehab center. >> they go through security every day to just to get into the shelter. they eat in

the c.i.a. refused to comment about the story when we contacted them. secretary of state john kerry is not sure the agreement over the iran nuclear programme is within reach. negotiators hope to develop a framework for an agreement by the end of the month. kerry renewed concerns that a letter sent to iran last week may have undermined the talks. the united nations sent emergency teams to vancouver, in the wake of cyclone pam. eight people are confirmed dead on the island nation laying east of northern australia. thousands have been forced to shelters after their homes were destroyed. vim has the latest. >> venturing out of their homes to assess the -- kim vinnell has the latest. >> reporter: venturing out of their homes to assess the damage by cyclone pam. vanuatu hit by wind of up to 270 k/hr. the category 5 form the most severe on the scale uprooted trees and tore about homes and stores. power was cut, and as the storm raged residents could do little but wait. >> i was in the bathroom, back against the door. i'm listening to the roof which souped like

let's get more from robert gren yair, a former counterterrorism official at the c.i.a. joining us from washington d.c. was this military operation inevitable. was there no other option left for saudi arabia. >> well of course, they weren't inevitable. one of the prime drivers for the saudis is the concern about the iranian influence. my opinion is they exaggerated the influence of the iranians. whether we talk about east of bahrain, in iraq syria or elsewhere. this is the prism through which the saudis tend to view a situation like we see in yemen. i don't think it was necessary to take the action that they have. i don't think that they are seeing the political jockeying inside yemen in a realistic light, and this is their primary motivation and i think that they felt there was something they needed to do at a point when the houthis and the forces allied with them in the yemeni military were consolidating a hold over significant parts, the major parts of the country. >> that being the case from grenier, a senior houthi rebel said the air strikes will trigger a wider war.

we're going to bring in now michael morell, a former number two at the c.i.a., now our cbs news senior securityse contributor. michael, why did the u.s. pull their forces out? >> scott, when the political crisis started in yemen a couple months ago, we said that would divert the attention of the yemeni military, the yemeni government from al qaeda, and al qaeda would benefit, and that's exactly what's happened. al qaeda in yemen has gained ground in the last few weeks very, very close to where theseth special forces were operating,ia and that forced the united states to pull them out. >> pelley: does the withdrawal of the special forces mean the u.s. is blind in yemen? >> scott, they were doing two things there, they were training the yemeni military and they were collecting intelligence, so with the evacuation of the embassy and now the evacuation of these special forces, ourse intelligence on a.q.a.p., on al in qaeda in yemen, is going to go down. >> pelley: briefly, what's the>> danger posed by a.q.a.p., al qaeda in yemen?en >> scott, of all the groups out there, isis, al qaeda in p

robert grenier, a former counterterrorism official at the c.i.a. more from washington d.c. and alan fisher joins us live from there. interesting. robert grenier was saying that perhaps the u.s. felt they could not say though to saudi arabia's perhaps. yes, and while the u.s. is saying look we are involved in logistical support, and intelligence, almost trying to put a bit of distance from the military operation. it will not be seen as that in many parts of the world, as the americans stepping back it will be seen as the americans involved yet again in the middle east. they can stand at the pod um as they will in the next few hours saying all we can provide is what the saudis ask for, logistical but it will be seen as more than that and will be seen here with a mixed view. here the u.s. will support the saudis as they attack iranian proxies. it's over two weeks since binyamin netanyahu as he was then, came to capitol hill and said you have got to be aware of the danger that iran poses across the region not just with the nuclear programme, but other things that the israelis be

according to the art erikle the c.i.a. contributes to al qaeda bottom line was another in a long list of examples of how the united states largely because of poor oversight and loose financial controls has sometimes inadvertently financed the very militants who have been killing american soldiers. finally, the article stated, the cash flow has slowed since a new afghan president, mr. beganny, assumed office in september. afghan officials said, but they added the cash was still coming in. for at least five years, it has been reported that cash from the united states has been funneled to the afghan government through the c.i.a. as a sort of slush fund and some of that money has made its way to al qaeda. this is only one example of the waste, fraud, and abuse in afghanistan. yet the current administration has obligated the american taxpayer and soldier to nine more years in afghanistan. without even a debate on the floor of the house. let me remind the house al qaeda is our enemy. congress owes the american people and the sold

intelligence committee and also discusses cyber security issues and a possible reorganization of the c.i.a. watch "newsmakers" sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. the secret service director joseph clancy testifies on an incident in which two secret service agents allegedly drove into a white house barricade while drunk. he spoke in front of a house appropriations subcommittee and you can see his comments sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern also on c-span. c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> welcome to the international convention in las vegas. this is where a lot of the new technology is shown every year telecommunications are also presented. we're going to take a tour with tim moynihan. tim, we're in the lg booth here. what's in here that made you want to see this booth? >> you name it. lg makes a lot of things. my primary area of coverage is television. lg is a very unique company in terms of making televisions because they make oled sets which is people see it as the future of p

life when letter were submitted as evidence in the federal trial of an al qaeda lieu dennant, and the c.i.a. refused to comment about the story when we contacted them. >> secretary of state john kerry said that he hopes whomever wins the election on tuesday is dedicated to peace in the region. it's a tough battle between likud, and rival isaac herzog of the labour party. >> president obama is committed to a 2-state solution and remains hopeful whatever choice the people of israel make that there'll be an ability to move forward on those efforts. >> it's the peace effort that isaac herzog is counting on calling for peace. it's a campaign making the election too close to call. we have more from imtiaz tyab in ramallah. >> reporter: he has met palestinian official more time than any other israel your politician in the past year. and isaac herzog, who heads the left of the labour party, is committed to making peace. >> i think it's a mistake that we assume it's over. it's part of a tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes. it's not true. i'm telling you, it is possible absolutely possible still t

why the director of the c.i.a. plans to restructure the agency.in our signature segment, the increasingly tense climate for muslims in france's most diverse city. >> ( translated ): it's getting worse and worse. and frankly, i don't think it's going to get better. >> sreenivasan: next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

the sitting director of the c.i.a. ths ago in january, you know, they were talking about petraeus being charged with felonies and petraeus indicating he wasn't interested in plea deals but now we see a slap on the wrist. you know as a guy named steven kim who served 13 months in federal prison for simply discussing a rather benign but otherwise classified document with james rosen so what message are we sending here when the sitting director of the c.i.a. can give willingly documents to his mistress and get literally a slap on the wrist even after lying to federal agents? bill: now patrick, what do you think? did the government overreach? >> not at all. i agree with phillip. i defend a lot of military service members these days and including a lot of cases involve classified material. i would never never see a junior officer or a listed man or woman receive the kind of plea deal that general petraeus received and let's be clear. he did pass classified information to paula broadwell when she didn't have the need to know.

the central intelligence agency. today an exclusive interview with c.i.a. director john breten. the iranians, in a wide ranging interview we discuss iran's nuclear program and the growing threat from isis and president vladimir putin's global ambition. >> as director of the c.i.a. do you see any indication that vladimir putin wants out of ukraine? >> spy master john brennan only on fox news sunday. >> new tensions between the white house and israel after prime minister netanyahu is re-elected

then everybody moves from that location back to the c.i.a. se and that is where many hours later the mortar started to rain down and resulted in the death at that location. i think that to a man that i talked to at the scene that unfolded that night, the mortars that were coming in took everybody by surprise. it was something that was not anticipated. i think the challenge with these cases -- and they have been historically in every case i have worked -- in many ways all of us are brilliant after the fact but trying to predict these kinds of events and then the domino effect once they start to unfold becomes the challenge. you can unpack any national catastrophe going back to, direction, deally plaza when -- dealely plaza when president kennedy was assassinated. why was there not a countrier attack group there was no to and why was he in an open limousine. that was a decision by staff. we do learn from the tragedies and try to fix certain things going forward. and diplomats are better protected today as a result of benghazi on very basic thing