reporter: if you're thinking of a career in cooking, you should know some things about applying to the cia. first, the school doesn't require the s.a.t. >> because we have such a diverse student body in terms of geographics from all over the world, as well as age, we cannot make the s.a.t.s or the a.c.t.s an absolute requirement. >> reporter: but don't rejoice just yet. if you're in high school and you are watching this, it would be to your absolute benefit to take the s.a.t.s or a.c.t.s for sure. your test scores can make you eligible for scholarships. so you'll definitely want to study up! here's something else you need to know before applying. >> all of our students are required to have at least six months of back of the house experience in a professional kitchen before they can enroll. >> reporter: that means waiting or busing tables isn't enough. you have to actually get hands-on experience making food. >> peeling pounds and pounds of potatoes over and over again. >> reporter: miles is pursuing his degree in culinary arts. he says getting experience in the kitchen before enrolling at

the director of the cia will define the roles themselves. i guess that leaves things for walter to write about. with that, i will stop. [applause] >> there is always something to write about. let me ask a question because we talk abstractly, and i get complaints all over that i hang on the little facts. it is a question i wanted to pose to the panel. the secretary of defense is really the a hundred pound gorilla in intelligence. that is just a fact. how successful with the dni program be if robert gates or not the secretary of defense? >> since walter looked at me, i will try that and to be corrected by my friends. i and cap and bob gates is a wonderful thing. because he was the tci -- dci in another life, it is a very helpful thing. the essential compromise and a lot is that we exempted technical intelligence from the coverage. we took out intelligence for the war fighter, that was something that was an imperative. we never got his approval, but to get him to stand back a bit, i am quite sure he -- that was the compromise we made. looking b

john mclaughlin, former deputy or the cia, steve kimba, undersecretary of defense who handle defense intelligence matters for the secretary. walter pincus, as an article this morning if any of you have read it already this morning and the post on intelligence reform.

it is not just the cia and dni relationship. we were very mindful of our amazing technology we use in the intelligence business. mike understands this. the one-off we're able to produce hopefully will not be produced anywhere else in the country -- on the planet. everybody wins -- not just an agency has ownership over them. it was a big piece of what we had in mind, so i think our concept is fine. 50% law, 50% leadership, and i would hope going forward the peace of what we had in mind would be implemented vby the dni, fan that is to not build a big bureaucracy that computers -- and that is to not build a big bureaucracy that contain -- that competes with the responsibilities, but to have something nimble. we thought the staff would be adequate. not to build a big new buildings, but to sit as orchestra conductor and wave them across a symphony many instruments play, hopefully making real music. >> i was reminded by your question and discussion of an argument that came up in the policy debates. he made the appointment -- made the p

. >> question about the cia. i was surprised to hear you used to be affiliated with the cia, many consider the operations and even experiences, secretive intelligence agencies to be a major threat to liberty. how did your experience with the cia influence your views and do you think it is correct in keeping with the federalist papers and a free society? >> i won't see... if in fact we have a central intelligence agency such as it was many years ago, when i had the opportunity to work --tives in the 1970s, whose primary focus is to gather information, both covert and open information, on what is going on in the world, and, to analyze that, and present that, and disseminate that to our policy leaders, and not only do i think that is not a threat or a danger to society, it carries out an absolute obligation and responsibility our government has to know what is going on in the world, and to equip our policymakers, with the best and most current information. unfortunately, what has happened, particularly, in recent ye

the authorities claimed it was the cia's fault.the cia was in charge of the protest. >> the clear example of all the things. the iranian-canadian who she was arrested in 2003 and a couple days after, she was arrested in front of the prison, she took some pictures from in prison. they were killed in the prison. no one did not answer. it is her case and this is the situation, you do not know exactly what is happening to you if you follow the information and follow the truth in the country. maybe the best idea of supporting the journalists, who they are in the prison, who they are [unintelligible] it is crucial to know the organization. i do not know the organization. it would help those people. they have the great job and they had the good opportunity for free information for their people inside the country. now, [unintelligible] the european countries without answering to others, responding -- they're not in the good condition. some of them have problems and others with financial problems. it is not easy to live like this. all we we

with most of the cia population. wife jenne and i, took questions and invariably within the first three questions, what about the dni thing? the answer i would give is the one i just gave you. that it freed up -- i would be the first occupy of my suite to be able to spend my day being the director of cia. i think that really mattering. i'd also suggest that this is hard, as david pointed out, and both david and the congresswoman have commented on personalities matter. if something needs to be grooved here, don't -- improved here, don't jump to the legislative fix. this may depend a lot more on personalities than the careful structuring of the law. if you accept that premise, let me suggest to you some thing that is we could have done better. the dni has a really tough job. senior intelligence, principal intelligence of the president and the smooth functioning of a very large american intelligence community. he really depends on his deputy. i don't mean to be self-referential here, i was a principal deputy for about a

and again the cia was very key in being that liaison and helping out in this way. o the women thing. because it is -- it's half the population of the amnesty and so it's amazing why they're being treated this way. let me ask you, how do you stop this? this is -- the question is how do you create change so that women aren't treated as second-class citizens in that country and were not going to get to the bottom of this right now. but just so some of you know, in some part, were sri lanka is being enforced and paving your windows like the men walking outside can't see inside to see any women inside, it tedrow. it's turco in draconian, it's not even in the last five centuries. >> is a very complex question. the reason egypt went the way it did became more concerned. egypt when is a long wait of progress and noise. european and they're moving that way. and then instability happens with wars and once this happens, the army took over. and interrupted or distracted the progress of what's happening. and so i think stability is a very important thing. >> someone asked earlie

they link up there is some very important people in this story the cia military teams to have gone in earlier to make things happen with these warlords reach as we have lines of communication still open and without pointing these people in the right direction in getting these guys to stop fighting each other you could not have started their resistance among the grass roots level to go after the common enemy of the taliban. it is true the united states and the afghans were the underdogs they did not have the armor, we had air but it came in later sell how they did this was the story of the book and if we look at this room and would come in here we would say we would take control of the room. [laughter] fined teenine way. we look around and say this gentleman over here his issues are this and he wants last he is fighting with this person here. i would know what language you speak for what language you speak to your children were i would know some much and that is what special forces are trained to do in language skills too basically walked into the bottle space to understand the centers

obama administration not long after it came in to office about a year ago discovered that the ciaad been working on various plans or schemes to set up hit teams to go and get terrorists. the director of the cia, leon panetta, decided this was not a good thing to do and he went and told congress and said we're not going to do that. on the other hand the cia does as you know though they don't admit it have a pretty extensive campaign, in fact very intense at the moment of attacking alleged terrorist targets in pakistan covertly using a drone-borne missiles. some years ago the u.s. used such a drone-borne missile to attack a terror suspect in yemen of all places and an attack in which an american suspect was also killed. there was some sort of attack on christmas eve, the day before the bombing on a house in yemen where a suspected terrorist was hanging out and they thought this guy al awlaki had been there though he was not the principal target because at that time the proper authorization was not given to go kill this american guy. they thought they might have gotten him which they

it is important to remember that the cia director cannot do that anymore. after that event, no offense to the media. if you watched the crawls of the bottom of the cable news channels, for the first few days, it was all about how the cia had failed. after two or three days, he started to see other officials appear. people came to realize that there was a dni and ntctc. i think these were fairly obscure initials' to people at the time. there is an opportunity for the dni to demonstrate it is the only person who can tackle all the things involved. you can bring to a 40 in line with responsibility for all the means we've talked about. -- you can bring authority in line with responsibility for all the means we've talked about. i would endorse what admiral mcconnell just said on that score. maybe the most importantly to close the gap is by achieving things out of the dni office that no single agency can achieve. what are they? let me list five quickly then i will wrap up. i will start with big ideas and move to narrow ones that are still the important. we think o

that is the director of the cia. [laughter] i got that wrong. navy is going somewhere else, but i am reading maybe he is going somewhere else, -- maybe he is going somewhere else. looking back over the intelligence community's history, going back to key milestones from 1947 right up through 2001, the first panel moderated by walter pincus, and we would like to thank you for what you published in the favor. -- the paper. that panel did a great job of looking at how our safety and security have been improved since the intelligence reform and terrorist protection act, and i will comment a little bit on that subject as well, and i very much enjoyed the final panel, which i had a chance to attend. those who were involved are very thoughtful and successful practitioners of needing the intelligence community at the highest level, and what they have to say has serious weight and made sense to me. there are really two foundation questions i think we are addressing in our proceedings during this day, and the first is this. what progress have we made in ach

the cia expressed some doubt but the director of the cia bill casey sent this report to president reagan with a cover note and on the cover note he said gorbachev and the people around him are, quote, not reformers and liberalizers either in soviet domestic or foreign policy. casey was wrong. at that time the united states was also claiming repeatedly that the soviet union was developing its own missile defense program. its own strategic defense initiative. there was a speech given in july saying of the soviets clearly they see the potential applications for advanced defensive technologies; otherwise, they would not be advancing so much effort and knowledge of this area. we had some good propaganda of our own in a number of glossy reports which were issued by the pentagon and the state department. we showed that the soviets had a laser reaching up to kill satellites. this pencil drawing appeared at least four times in pentagon and state department brochures. but this laser shooting into the sky did not exist. and, in fact, the soviets at one time wanted to build a laser but after years o

. >> he used to be the head of a falls church mosque and he is now on the cia hit list. o, a man at the center of the west virginia coal mine tragedy. the massey energy ceo responds to criticism about safety violations as rescue crews hold out hope that the four miners are still alive deep underground. an arrest has been made after threats were made against house speaker nancy pelosi. >>> now we look forward to a break from the heat? listen to that, heat. it is just april. damage the average height is 64, so this is obviously -- >> the average height is 64, so this is obviously not the norm. high clouds, comfortably warm if you are not doing strenuous work, temperatures slowly falling into the 80's. the weatherbug, pinpointing some locations, 89 burke, high of 91. 90 degrees downtown washington, 86 brandywine, 88 chantilly, manassas 91, rockville 89. the storm scan, tomorrow we will be near 80. in the afternoon, the cold front forming from chicago, southwest toward dallas will swing through tomorrow afternoon and night and bring heavy thunderstorms and much cooler air. th

the escalation began after that attack on the cia base in afghanistan at the end of the last year.s underscores just how ferocious that has become. the drones are continuely pounding taliban and military holdou holdouts. the cia has picked off quite a few taliban leaders, but this what happened today just understo underscores there's quite a few militants who can launch the attacks. >> we just had a successful diplomatic engagement with officials getting most of what they wanted in terms of promises of more action on both military and civilian aid, but this is a sensitive issue. the drone attacks, the fact that the united states is involved militarily. all sorts of issues of pride and the anti-american sentiment in pakistan, which makes this very troubling for pakistan's government. when you see something happen in peshawar, it makes it that much more difficult for them to take it. >> one of the statements said they had something like 2600 to 3,000 more suicide bombers who are prepared to launch these kind of attacks, so the pakistanis are clearly engaged in a much greater degree i

it's important to remember the cia director can't do that anymore. it's interesting, too, if you think back to the period, one thing that struck it was after that event, no offense to the media here, if you watched the crawl at the bottom of the cable news channels, for the first two or three days it was all about the cia had failed. after two or three days, you start to see some other initials appear. people came to realize there was a dni, there is an nctc, these were i think fairly obscure initials to most people in the media until they thought about it for a while. so there's an opportunity here for dni to demonstrate that he's the only person who can tackle all of the things involved. you can bring a story into line with responsibilities to all the me to talk about here today. personal relationships, presidential embrace, more legislative octane. and i frankly would endorse what admiral colleges set on that score, but maybe the most important way to close this gap is to achieving things out of the dni office that no single agency can achieve. wha

guest: the cia, f.b.i., national security agency parts of the department of homeland security. tsa does. there's an intelligence unit. in theory, automatic of these will be brought together before people board airports which ought to happen. >> next up, darryl on our democrat line. >> good morning. my question is regarding the national i.d. if you are under 44, i believe have you to have that i.d. by 2014. if you are over 44, i believe you have to have it by 2017. i'm 48. from what i understand, it should contain built in dna. what i'm seeing or what i feel is the next step after the national i.d. card, you have all of these events like 9/11. you have these events that happen in the united states and around the world. the next major pearl harbor so to speak -- where are we going to go next? from the national i.d. card? host: let's hear what mr. irvin has to say? guest: i think he is talking about the real i.d. act. this is a leg vacation that would require the standardization. a whole wide range of different identification was used in the past. you really can't expect transport

that is what he did with helms at the cia and gave the ambassadorship. of the was known he was a leak but there was no "deep throat." i have always kept him off the list of my candidates because by the time bob woodward is getting his latest and last tip from "deep throat" is the first of 1973. mark phelps is of the fbi and maybe that somebody gave him a tip and picked off a great line with that is the reason that he never made my last and the other big thing is for somebody in his position for all practical purposes the one man on the watergate investigation into the fbi, there is a massive amount of bad information. dead wrong information program one point* five was flying to wall street and that is a long flight even from los angeles, 17 hours her card took the woodward bernstein book along i have my laptop and pulled out everything both had given to woodward and bernstein and i found out half of it was dead wrong and i posted on one of my articles. if you grew goal in "deep throat", law, a dean they're all done in red you can find of how much bad inf

and the cia is trying to say we are winning the war but in the final analysis, if you read between the lines, it is a failure and we should pull out. host: thank you for sharing that, joe. a tweet -- host: we are pulling our question from a news analysis from alissa ruben from "the new york times." she writes in here about some options and had, what the u.s. and its allies can do. interviews, she writes, with diplomats, afghan analyst, an ordinary afghans of just three options -- dallas, texas. good morning to teddy on our independent line. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i was watching your program just to say what i feel. i am an immigrant from ethiopia and i love america, living in america for about 27 years. but both party systems, democrats and republicans, -- they take the policy everytime. i don't think karzai is a good partner for our interests. ante is another -- like in yemen and somalia. really wondering why our policy makers keep taking the wrong and double standard policy -- the american people we have our own problems. 17%, 40 million people uninsured,

i resigned from the cia because it was no longer possible to do the covert work for which i was highly trained and which i love. however, i did not lose my belief that the danger of nuclear terrorism is the most urgent threat that we face, nor my passion for working to address that threat. i am proud to be working on this issue now and to be here today as a part of the international global zero movement. we know that terrorist groups have been trying to buy, build, or steal a bomb. there have been at least 25 instances in the past 25 years of nuclear materials be lost or stolen. there is enough material to build more than 100,000 bombs in the world today. terrorists looking to buy could look to the approximately 40 countries with nuclear weapons material. then, there are the road individuals -- the rogue individuals. a doctor did it for years before my group with the cia brought him down in december, 2003, after catching him, red-handed selling a full-scale nuclear bomb to libya. if terrorists managed to get their hands on enough, they could smuggle it into a rival, city, -- rival city

there have been some structural things -- the combining of the intelligence components of the cia into an independent agency that was done when they agency was established. i look less at the wiring diagrams and looked at the results in think those are better now when i left our fifth duty in 2002 and came back in 2009, there is a more capable intelligence community that i saw. i think things are removed -- things are moving in the right direction. most are impatient about seeing how much better it could save. -- how much better it could be. >> gary elliott. you spoke of the doctrine of using knowledgeable people on the periphery to deal with real time issues in a proactive, innovative, and risk-taking manner, and you talk about centralize management for you had to have high knowledge verses making decisions. you basically transitioned into a knowledge management organization. with the information sharing agencies we have, there is a lot of problem with the fact that they do not have the same model you have, and they do not understand the need to make the decision, to make decisions qu

peace and when the caller mentioned that -- my family was president after though shah lived, but the cia changed things concerning khomeni. [unintelligible] many people who call in do not about the millions of great iranians who live here and all that they do that is host: good we will leave it there. obama to discuss the needs of the black community. religious leaders will meet with the president before breakfast. the reporters write that obama will sit down today with about 20 black religious leaders. commenting on this situation, a reporter in "usa today" writes that obama ignores black joblessness at his own peril. it says that the rate is trending up while the break for whites is trending down. it says the harsh reality will not change as long as the obama administration thinks its rising tide lifts all boats approach is all that is needed to solve the problem. back to the phones and our discussion on the obama administration nuclear arms policy. next up is melissa on the line for republicans in new york. caller: good morning. first of all, thank you for taking my call. secondly, i

as was a high-ranking official at the cia, they both testified that al qaeda is still actively seeking to nuclear materials to use against the u.s.. >> the timing is what the timing is, something the president promised last year in prague. i think this is the kind of thing they want to do early in year administration, because after the midterm elections, it is not clear what is going to happen in this on to the president's re-election. will it be one of the greatest achievements in the president's foreign policy? it depends if we have clarity or specificity in the working plan that is going to be very specific. >> and fallout. >> in fallout. i give the president a lot of credit. he has made a lot of bold predictions in this area. we have been at it for 15 years, and we have not succeeded in one country at. it is a very difficult thing to. the budget is not adequate. he says that the communique is going to be very specific. i think i will wait until tuesday to see. by the end of his first term, we have not achieved the for your objective, but it would be one of his greatest achievements

martha: internal e-mails from 2005, have surfaced, out of the cia and they are getting a lot of attentionay. they show the former agency head agreeing with the decision to destroy the videotapes of harsh interrogation of a terror suspect. according to the documents, the bush administration was informed only after those videos were destroyed. now, this is why this is so significant. these videos showed interrogators waterboarding gitmo suspects, abu zubaydah, and the e-mails show the cia officers were worried the 92 tapes, would, quote, devastate the agency if they surface and now the fbi is investigating, and you have not heard the last of this, folks. bill: and is gitmo moving, the obama administration drafting new guidelines for the prosecution of suspected terrorists. a draft envisioned a proposed site for a gitmo-style jail in bagram airbase, north of kabul in afghanistan. approval of the guidelines is now being delayed by the state department, they are reviewing that and officials are concerned it could encourage more long term detention, we'll see if gitmo moves. martha: her story r

the obama administration has authorized the cia to hunt down and kill an american-born muslim cleric, who they allege is a militant hiding in. he is accused of helping plan attacks, including the attempted bombing of a u.s.-bound airliner and the shooting of an american army base. in afghanistan, president karzai fired the man in charge of preventing election fraud. this in the midst of international concern about the conduct of last year's presidential elections. the electoral commission came under criticism for failing to deal with the allegations of wide scale fraud in the boat won by the president karzai -- tehe vote won by president karzai. >> president karzai may rely on foreign helicopters to make any moves of safety in his own country and foreign funding for 90% of his government spending, but he sometimes speak only to put his foreign paymasters, repeating his claim that foreigners almost stole the election from him last year. >> what i said about the election was all true. this was to clarify that afghanistan is a country, and it belongs to afghans. them of the president may

in this context, probably his story about the clandestine cia operations are the ones that are most familiar. march is the national security correspondent in the washington bureau of "the new york times." to my left is ellen nakashima. she is at "the washington post." she is a national security reporter as well, with special expertise in privacy matters, or certainly a special attention and interest in that area. marc ambinder is sitting next to ellen. he is political editor of "the atlantic." i would say that almost everybody at this table is an online journalist as well as a print or broadcast journalist. marc is one of the pioneers of on-line political blocking. next is ari shapiro of npr. ari does national security reporting, but he also has a broader portfolio, governing legal affairs all over the country and various kinds of legal controversies, including some of the jurisdictional questions that turned out to be particularly thorny in terrorism cases and who can try whom and where. at the end of the table, not least by any means, is judge robert sack of the second court of appeals in

he had been vice president for eight years and before that, head of the cia and representative and liaisonto china. he knew what he was doing and knew he would adjust ever so slightly to the changes within the american economy. now the question that was raised about the first president bush was, was he tough enough. he chose to answer that question in the first year - by sending 24,000 troops down to panama to get mr. noriega. that showed his toughness. he did pretty well the first two years. when president clinton was an elected his job was to mainly mix the economy and he made a number of mistakess. one, his white house was not well structured or tightly run. two, he proposed programs to congress that lacked support. three, he said i'm willing to compromise and the republicans opposed him and the democrats rolled him and he had a tough time and he got stuck on gays in the military and his first year, i think, was basically, defense. trying establish himself and stepped up to the stature we expect presidents to do. in the case of george w. bush. when he was elected, you call in 2000 was a

and the book makes a very, very strong accurate that the cia interrogation program was the reason thatere was not another attack against us after 9/11. it was really pretty remarkable. most people agree it was pretty remarkable and there was not been an attack since then. he argues that's because of the cia interrogation program. and that when president obama came into office and dismantled that program, it was really a very dangerous and risky thing to do. he also has a very, very interesting argument about the whole question of torture and whether or not the tactics really did qualify as torture. he makes a strong argument on a practical sense and a moral sense that it wasn't torture. and that not only did wego out really valuable information but that we were actually very, very careful about staying on the right line of those tactics. it's gotten a lot of talk. even last sunday on the talk shows when you heard dick cheney and joe biden debating, they were debating this very subject and i think this book sparked a lot of that current debate. >> and what's coming up for 2010? >> ah, w

. >> what was the reaction in jordan after the jordanian suicide bomb that killed the cia agents as thatwas a jordanian agent a few months

as well as the former high ranking official at the cia both testified in january and february that al-qaeda is still actively seeking nuclear weapons. and nuclear weapons materials to use against the u.s. and its allies and it has since the 1990s. >> i think the timing is what the timing is. it's something that the president promised last year in prague. it takes a while to organize something like this. it's the kind of thing you want to do early in your administration because after the midterm elections, it's not clear what's going to happen. and after that it's on to the president's re-election. so i think that there's -- there's -- the timing is actually good. will it be one of the greatest achievements of the president's foreign policy? i think that depends on whether or not we have gauziness and unclarity. or whether we have specificity and the working plan that is going to be very specific. >> and follow-up. >> and follow-up. you know, president -- i give him a lot of credit because he's a very bold -- he's made a lot of bold predictions in this area. secure all vulnerable nuclear mat

that's what he did with helms at the cia. he gave him an ambassadorship. yes, they knew he was a leak. but at this point there's no deep throat. the reason i had always kept him off the list of my candidates is because by the time bob woodward is getting his late -- latest and last tip from deep throat is the first week of november of 1973. mark felt is out of the fbi in may of '73. it may be that he just had somebody who gave him a tip that was very late in the game. and the only thing he gave is something he picked off the white house grapevine. but that's the reason i always had -- felt never really made my list. the other big thing, i think, is there are -- for somebody in his position who for all practical purposes the number one man on the watergate investigation and the fbi, there's a massive amount of bad information. i mean, dead wrong information. at one point i was flying to australia -- it's a long flight even from los angeles. about 17 hours. so i took the woodward/bernstein book along. and i had my laptop. and i pulled out everything that fel

the failures because of the cia. your car broke down must be a drone or something like that. and we played into their hands because they come here and say all the right things. but the pakistani media is the most anti-american in the world by far. and it's utterly irrational. again, their feelings about the what india is taking off next-door, the great enemy, that they need someone to blame. so we are the great state. and i think we're absolutely foolish for supporting pakistan. i think we should -- i would even closer and see. i would pull everything out of pakistan. we can't and i'll tell you i'm a moment. but india has a future for all its many problems and flaws, it is a functioning democracy. it is not perfect, it's big, it's large democratic, it's very, very correct, but they're fighting. they're still respect for the rule of law. their attempts to reform the courts. it's got a long way to go. they hindu caste system is the biggest con game and all of human history. i mean, think about it. back in time memorial a small number of people figured out how to convince the wre

i mean, i'm start by i joined the intelligence community through cia in 1983. i'm here nine years have your president nixon gave the dci the authority to bring the budgets together of the intelligence community in 1974. so here's my question to the assumption. the assumption is the role of the dni is the bald thing. .. to meet these requirements, that is provide more integrated product for that user base of intelligence to informed decision making. hurrah argued that enables 9/11 insurance that user base have increased dramatically right down to the house m.d., the state and local tribal law enforcement entities of which there is 18,000 in the united states. and fourthly, the ic consists of approximately 100,000 personnel and approximately $50 billion annual budget. not including military intelligence personnel or dollars. the odni, note these numbers, consists of approximately 600 to 50 personnel at its core and the circus at 1,200 missions support activities of which of those 000 individuals 600 her in the national counter-terrorism center. so size to the tota

the cia admitted earlier this week iran likely has the ability to build an actual weapon, but now there'snfusion about that white house announcement. chinese leaders spoke this morning and did not sound very interested in pressuring the iranians. ambassador john bolten joins us now. who do we trust? who's right, who's wrong? we're getting so many different stories on where china stands. >> i think actually china stands in the same place it's stood for the past eight years. it doesn't want iran to have nuke lab weapons capability, it doesn't have any faith that sanctions are the way to proceed, and it wants to resolve the issue dip plomatically, so i think we're in for some long period of time, weeks if not months, of negotiation over a sanctions resolution, and that's basically repeating a pattern we've seen in three previous security council sanctions resolutions on iran. shannon: we know that iran's top nuclear negotiator has been in beijing, apparently told reporters china is with us. they understand iran's position. and then we have the white house saying and we're hearing from white

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politics aside, there are institutional prerogatives at the agency will, whether you are talking the cia, the fbi or those that transcended party. there were civil servants and bureaucrats who had a vested interests in keeping policies going and programs going and secrets going. >> a student said that obama had an expansive view of executive power. if you look at what he proposed during the campaign, there are some modifications to it. they're actually has not been that much of a discontinuity. it has certainly been a discontinuity in terms of if you were looking at the emotional tone of what he said he would do. i do think that there have been two changes. one is that the obama administration feels compelled to justify some of these continuities. when he upheld the state secrets privilege, it would make an argument as to why they would disclose that. i do not think that there is the institutional prerogatives of the executive decisions to determine what information should be deemed to national security information and then the mechanisms by which to protect which obama seems to appear t

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everybody remembers that the cia was part of the national security act of 1947.t was designed to keep us safe during a bipolar world. it worked pretty well with a few glitches. the wall came down in 1989 and it took us 15 years to upgrade or change it. during those 15 years, even if few years prior to 1989, the world totally changed. i would argue we did not have the tools against that world and the example is our very flawed intelligence leading up to our decision to go into iraq. i think that the reform, which was modeled after goldwater- nichols, we wanted to set up a command structure across 16 agencies was to -- was designed well. the original bill was introduced by democrats on the house intelligence committee. i was then the ranking member. it had to change in order to get through congress. it was based on recommendations of the joint commission on intelligence which was a bipartisan and bicameral effort met urgent effort -- bicameral effort. it was also based on recommendations from the 9/11 commission which came after us. the joint command structure was

the cia director, leon panetta, says the predator is, quote, the only game in town for disrupting alhip. but are we really doing that? some say no. most recently, robert wright in the "new york times." he says studies show that killing leaders of terror groups, especially religious terror groups, doesn't actually lead to the downfall of the organization. in fact, in some cases, it makes them stronger. the leaders can always be replaced and the organization is energized by the attacks. then there's the legal problem. the obama administration recently authorized the assassination of an american, anwar awlaki. the aclu is in a court battle with the u.s. government to try to force it to release information on the secret i have program. now, late last month, state department legal adviser harold koh, a very distinguished liberal, usually on the same side as the aclu, provided a spirited defense of the predator. he says the use of predators complies with all applicable law, domestic and international. his basic argument boils down to this. on 9/11, the united states went to war with al qae

he's on the payroll of the cia. on with over a million ballots that were not accurate. the thing we need to ask ourselves, what are we doing there? if the leader of that government is saying he's going to join the taliban, why are we spending $300 billion on that war? just think about this for a minute, ed. we could have bought 47 million scholarships for people to attend college for a year on what we've spent in the war in afghanistan. that's a travesty and it's time to get out. >> what does it do to the obama administration lo giji logistic? the president is committed to fighting terrorism. this is the big footprint in the world right now for the troops to do this. how does the administration make sense of this and pivot around this? >> fighting terrorism is an important thing, but you don't go and occupy a country, a muslim country, where you then make more and more enemies. you referred to the story before. those two pregnant women killed by the forces, ed, one of them had ten children and the other had six child

politics aside, there are institutional prerogatives at the agency will, whether you are talking the cia, the fbi or those that transcended party. there were civil servants and bureaucrats who had a vested interests in keeping policies going and programs going and secrets going. >> a student said that obama had an expansive view of executive power. if you look at what he proposed during the campaign, there are some modifications to it. they're actually has not been that much of a discontinuity. it has certainly been a discontinuity in terms of if you were looking at the emotional tone of what he said he would do. i do think that there have been two changes. one is that the obama administration feels compelled to justify some of these continuities. when he upheld the state secrets privilege, it would make an argument as to why they would disclose that. i do not think that there is the institutional prerogatives of the executive decisions to determine what information should be deemed to national security information and then the mechanisms by which to protect which obama seems to appear t

. >> once a spy himself during his 38-year career with the cia, peter offered us a tour and a firsthand view of what it's like to be under cover. >> and when people talk about i have a cover, that's when i pretend to be somebody else. >> sierra was fascinated especially when given her own cover, a new identity as a spy. >> here's what i want you to try and remember, okay? >> yes. >> what's your fame? >> jane myers. >> and you're what? >> a female. >> okay. all right. and how old are you? >> 13. >> how old are you really. >> 12. >> in real life, she era has had to make changes. five years ago at 7 years old, she became a foster child. >> she came to the system due to instability in her people. >> she says sierra is a bright youngster who adapts well to new situations >> he era's very friendly and outgoing. she's very inquisitive. she really 30ss for knowledge. >> sierra says spying looks really interesting but she really want to be a lawyer some day. >> i want to be a lawyer and because lawyers like to debate, and i like to debate. >> but right now more than anything she want a permanent

that's what he did with helms at the cia. he gave him an ambassadorship. so yes, they knew he was a leak, but at this point there is no deep throat that the reason i had always kept them off the list of my candidates is because, by the time bob woodward is getting his late -- the latest and last tip from deep throat is the first week of november of 1973. mark felt is out of the fbi in may of 1973. it may be that he just had somebody who gave him a tip that was very late in the game and the only thing he gave was something he picked off the white house grapevine. button is the reason i always, mark felt never made my list. and the other big thing is, there are, for somebody in his position who, for all practical purposes, the number one man on the watergate investigation and the fbi, a massive amount of bad information. i mean, dead wrong information. at one point i was lying to australia and that's a long flight. even from los angeles. about 17 hours. so i took the woodward bernstein book along and i have my laptop and i pulled out everything that felt had

steve is actually for about 30 or more of years was an analyst in latin america for the cia and so he knows an awful lot about the region including the caribbean and cuba and we had a conversation in another conference many years ago about his work he decided to pursue dissertation after his -- after he retired from the agency and chose this as his subject and he approached me one day at another conference and i was very interested in thought especially in light of a post-9/11 there is an awful lot of interest in guantanamo of course but not known about the history of the place so i thought this would be a good opportunity for a good book. >> the two conferences are not really about you shopping of your new books that having new authors approach to perhaps. >> is a little of both. we want to show off four new books. this is a chance to reach out to the core audience for a lot of these books. but also it is a good way to meet new scholars and get introduced to the new projects. a little of both. >> ranjit, you were the publicity manager at university of kansas prez and now and acquisit

is a because it's being operated by the cia, not by the u.s. air force? again, you've had over right now we're at 119 airstrikes. or is it a fact of the technologtechnology itself we view it as costless and we don't have to think about in the same wakeup or is it that war is changing? the third issue that comes out of this is something that they worked on as well as how do our laws keep up with all the change that is going on? this is a 21st century technology that's being used against 21st century actors in war like al qaeda, but yet the prevailing laws of war date from the mid 1940s. and i remember doing an interview at human rights watch and asking them who do we hold accountable when predator drone strike goes awry and the two leaders in organizations i was meet with got an apartment at one of instead we turn to the geneva conventions of course pick the other one said no, no, no. that's not going to be useful but we should turn to the directive for guidance. [laughter] >> i love trek, but i can't call captain kirk as an expert witness in a real court

you know, you've gone off the deep end when the cia thinks your covert operation is beyond the pale. no one can say for sure who was supervising or approving his operation and apparently some of the money he was given control over has gone missing. mr. furlong was something of a cowboy actually. according to news accounts, he liked to brag about having a notorious iran-contra on the payroll and likened his characters to fictional characters. this is not a movie. there are grave life and death consequences to the decisions made inside the pentagon. and while a movie costs us maybe $10, 12, this war in afghanistan is costing us millions every single day. it's bad enough that this congress has repeatedly asked to sign another check to pay for a war that is bankrupting our country and failing to advance our national security interests. but then we learn that the money being authorized, which i have consistently voted against, is being used on secret and illegal operations for which there is no transparency or accountability. and this is just the latest example of private contractors bein

is it because it is being operated by the cia and not the u.s. air force? again you have had over right now we are at 119 airstrikes. or is it the fact that technology itself that we view it as costly so we don't have to think about it in the same way? or is it the war is changing? of the third issue that comes out of it is something that ben has worked on as well which is how do our laws keep up with all of this change that is going on? this is a 21st century technology being used against 21st century actors in the war like al qaeda yet the prevailing wall the of the war date from the mid 1940's and i remember during an interview at human-rights watch asking them who do we hold accountable when for example predator strike goes are like and the leaders of the organization got an argument city and returned to the geneva convention of course and the other sit know that's not going to be useful we should turn to the star trek prime directive for guidance. [laughter] i love that but i can't call captain kirk as an expert witness in the real court of law. this c