you know, the cia was too bureaucratic for me. so i wanted to break out into something more entrepreneurial. so i got involved in the financial revolution and started being the managing editor of a newsletter called the inflation survival letter in the 1970s. which is now called personal finance. it is much more of an establishment name. my own newsletter, forecasts and strategies, it was started when ronald reagan was elected. i consider myself a great survivor in many ways. i have maintained some of my contact to the cia. i think they are a good source for information. we are a global economy. the cia does everything. the cia did research on basically everything, political, economic, financial, you name it. >> well, mr. skousen, we invited you to talk about "the making of modern economics." this is the second edition of the book correct? >> the first edition came out in 2001. it took me about five years to actually sit down and write. a lifetime of learning minute of it. the second edition came out right after the financial crisi

they are a good source and the cia does everything. research on everything. >> we invite did you to talk about "the making of modern economics" the lives and ideas of the great thinkers." but this is the second edition? >> 2001. came out the first one but it took me five years to write with a lifetime of learning and the second addition came out in 2009 we felt it needed to be updated. my final chapter is "mr. smith goes to washington." that was a little premature but we had to revise the final chapter. >>host: how was it organized? >> we had to create an alternative to the philosophers. it is a story of a great economic thinkers covering it his favorite economist was cannes that was pro government. my perspective i wanted a more balanced approach i wanted to highlight the free-market thinkers. the founder of modern economics i figured by making him the sentral character i could tell a story. it has a plot how adam smith was treated overtime. and how their resurrected and improved upon by the other's goals of e of economics. we have don

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but of course it is not for everyone. >> would you joined the cia? >> no. i would be too afraid, i'm scared by this commercial. >> supporters say a plan to improve a bay area parties being held hostage. why the entire thing is on hold because of just one person. >> words cannot describe my sidekick and i ... >> saying goodbye to another colorado shooting victim, how hospitals are offering to help the survivors. >> i'm putting myself in danger by even having this interview. >> a descendant of l. ron hubbard this closes when he says is the ugly truth of,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> >> for the first time since may of last year, we're learning details about the mission that ended with the death of osama bin laden. graced lee is here with the one thing that the missions mastermind is still not sure of. >> it is fascinating to hear from the man that led the whole operation. he told cnn that a navy seal team rehearsed this operation just like they would for any significant rate. and the admiral says there were not even sure that osama bin laden would actually be inside

well the cia and national u.s. intelligence officials have indicated that they think no more than sixty civilians have been killed in almost ten years of bombing in this campaign and that's ludicrous it's absolutely not the case at all we've identified around one hundred seventy five children killed just in pakistan and we think the number of civilians killed in pakistan as a minimum is just under five hundred and maybe as high as i wonder there are huge numbers of people we simply don't know their identity we don't know their status and for the us to continually claim that it's not killing civilians is simply untrue i think it's wrong and they need they do need to be held to account for this ok bill what do you think is this strategy working. yeah you know this is i absolutely agree the obama administration is making political hay out of these drone strikes and it allows it to project itself as being strong on terrorism but it's really a stopgap. it's it's a cheat to. in order for them not to make hard choices whic

currently has two lawsuits under the freedom of information act seeking information about the cia's use of drones to targeted killings and out these three killings of u.s. citizens issue in this other lawsuit and the government claims that it can either confirm or deny whether the cia even has a targeted killing program or whether the government was responsible for. the public statements the president and leon panetta and others have made acknowledging this program. well i mean we've been covering all those stories here on the show you know and so if you ask me it's always crazy the way that the courts actually side with the how do you think of us applies to you know not only are we looking at constitutional violations because all of these people were american citizens but can you manage to make an argument here about international law you know about what our use of drone strikes abroad what counts as a war zone anymore really isn't in this particular legal battle. yes absolutely we're representing the families of three u.s. citizens and really the only legal relevance that citizenship

members of the cia, rendered him to sue secret prisons in afghanistan. nistan, he was in a prison we think called the dark prison where prisoners are held in pitch black with music pumping 24 hours a day, very seriously abused with no access to lawyers. then it was taken to the salt pit, not much better. alternately, to bagram air force base where he was held for about five years until it was released and sent back to tanzanian in 2008. >> in the original reason why the u.s. government -- and the original reason why the u.s. government took him and jailed him? >> right. it is difficult to piece together because the u.s. government will not talk about why this happened. it seems somewhere in somalia between 2002-2005, there was a system where the cia would pay warlords money, essentially, for so-called terror suspects. the same thing happened in pakistan. 85% of people at guantanamo bay were sold for a bounty. in somalia, this was going on as well but it was much quieter. there was less attention. we think suleiman abdallah their racially have been sold as

bob haldeman had asked the cia to do this. and you knew that haldeman and ehrlichman and the president had met to discuss this. but you couldn't prove that -- >> what was said. >> -- that the president had actual i hly said to them do th. >> and there was other circumstantial evidence going on and the reminiscence how the right plan what they did to contain it but you didn't know the exact words. you had a -- i would have said you had enough to be quite clearly and certainly sure, myself, but you didn't have what's called direct evidence. >> but, again, to probe, this is important, this is because you and mr. doar, you weren't alone in this, felt that someone of haldeman's stature would not be asking an agency to do this unless he had the support of the president. >> right. and more -- more than just that one fact. that the follow-up facts supported the notion of a policy and plan of containment of this problem directed by the white house over these following months and that that evidence suggested that at such an early-on meet

wh wsenghc protectyse onaf the cia, the screener applicants. there was a rigorous process. i went through all kinds of sety epoap, amiod it t nn process. then once you get through that, for met was about 18 months of some pretty rigorous training. prs.hereg trngbeti t clst world. and so that is one aspect of it. the training was very good i thought. it was a lot of fun and soerl riacs driving, aggressive driving, shooting, just a whole range of different tack ticks and procedures thatweeoya vs tl t rot. t qs m r ane os et se ae is ennm t a other tactics you need to exlore. what was i think most challenging in terms of personal securi at cia ssof e dri yadng ndnigothh roadblocby drunk teenage soldiers. i did that scores of times. how do you negotiate through that roa k? thbeor vem fe s usst e do mvethrough that, particularly if you have a national spy, one of your sources in the car with you? anreplo rlr re thanwn trras inths nt, let ca tes, people that and call in to an american office or in the sea or to esyhlndmsrth sa, ykw ' o important information that i'm not coming to

some of these drone strikes are organized by the cia, but some are organized by the u.s.ry, including special operati operations. is that right? >> what i can tell you is the military uses drone in afghanistan routinely to conduct strikes. >> in afghanistan. >> afghanistan. >> but you don't want to talk about other places? >> don't want to talk about other places. >> it's a very sensitive subject. >> then why would i talk about it? >> of course. [ laughter ] he's very good. i've heard top u.s. officials, secretary panetta and others, testify, there are fewer al qaeda elements left in afghanistan today than there are in yemen, for example, or somalia, for that matter. is that true? >> you know, i think that's a true statement. and again, it's been a year since i've been in afghanistan, but the number of al qaeda in afghanistan, you know, a year ago, numbers somewhere in the hundred or so. they can still be key interlocketters. so we're always aware of them, and where there are al qaeda, the military makes an very aggressive stance to go after them. so they are still a prob

the two other pieces of this were the cia's role and, i think when the history is finally written and outlined and exposed on how the cia determined that bin laden was there, it will be one of the great intelligence operations in the history of intelligence organizations. and a tremendous amount of that credit goes to director leon panetta at the time, because he built the right team, he had the right people, he made some very gutsy calls. and he was not concerned about who got the credit. and so when you take a look at how he built that team, which was a military and intelligence team, a tremendous amount of credit goes to the agency. and the other piece of this really is the president and his national security team. i've made it very clear to people, again, the military piece of this, we did, i think, 11 other raids that evening in afghanistan. now, i don't want to diminish the nature of this raid. it was a little bit more sporting. and we understand that there were some strategic implications to it. but at the end of the day, it was what we have been doing really for ten years. the

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in three conversations on june 23, 1972, the president approved the use of the fbi -- use of the cia to obstruct the fbi's criminal investigation. there was a hint that this might have happened, and so in may of 1973 in his most extensive denial of involvement in watergate, the president says and issues this, issued by the white house, a statement. he doesn't speak publicly about it. he says, at no time did i attempt or authorize others to attempt to implicate the cia in the watergate matter. so he's on the record saying that. it had leaked a bit. people in the cia were beginning to talk about how -- they had been asked to obstruct the fbi's investigation. they were -- they were told to say that it was a matter of national security. the fbi should not investigate the sources of money that were found on the burglars. actually -- it's an amazing story. the burglars had keys to a hotel room where they had left their stuff before they entered the democratic national headquarters, the hotel room was actually the watergate hotel. the watergate hotel. on one of the beds were these stacks of

foreign policy he worked with the cia he was educated here in the u.s. in georgia so let's talk more about this at the school of america as and where it stands today well as you said men will know diego was trained at the u.s. army school of the americas which is a military training institution for latin american officials and soldiers it was actually set up in one thousand nine hundred six in panama and later was moved in one thousand nine hundred eighty two to four benning georgia manuel noriega was trained at the school americas in one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's and he was even considered one of the student with honors who he called our man in panama manuel noriega was on the cia payroll that he said from one thousand nine hundred six until his ouster by the us invasion in one thousand nine hundred nine and little has changed since then the u.s. army school the americas has consistently graduated the worst human rights violators and eleven at least eleven dictators in latin america and what we as the school americas watch are saying is what is

think that the distinction between the state department and intelligence gathering operations like the cia is getting more and more subtle

i had the opportunity to see his impressive work up close as director of the cia. close when he was in afghanistan doing tremendous work there. and i have full confidence that he is the right man to lead the more than 16,000 dedicated professionals that are here at the dia. you had a great leader in ron burgess and you now have another great leader in mike flynn. as secretary of defense and as an american i am deeply grateful that our department has men and women that the caliber of these two who are willing to dedicate their lives to defending the values that we cherish and the freedom that we hold so dear to our heart. we have a lot of new and exciting technology in the defense business. i have some of the most sophisticated systems in the world in terms of weaponry and in terms of technology. and even in the intelligence world we now have some of the most exciting new technologies that are being developed. but let me tell you something. none of that, none of that, would be worth a damn were it not for the good people and the good leaders who understand, not only

the u.s. is reviewing options for sending cia officers to the region to aid the opposition reportedly cia officers are operating now in southern turkey and also the u.s. is considering providing satellite imagery and aerial surveillance and intelligence on syrian troops movements to the opposition so it's no secret that the opposition is being armed but who exactly is giving them away well it's unclear but if they turn to their neighbors iraq has a huge stockpile to donate that's thanks to the u.s. and the billions of dollars taxpayer spent to bring weapons in there and now that the u.s. is leaving they plan to leave behind a treasure trove of military equipment from the huffington post the giveaways include enormous elaborate military bases and vast amounts of military equipment that will be turned over to the iraqis mostly just to save the expense of bringing it home those bases didn't come cheap construction costs exceeded two point four billion dollars according to an analysis of pentagon annual reports by the congressional research service. so what do we really know about what's happening in

in the 0 ss, the precursor to the organization of the cia. on the right, row after row of gold stars. we started a briefing at 7:00 that morning. it went for an hour and a half. at the end, i was talking with mr. charlie allen. who was one of the assistant deputy director's chair. i said, thank you for taking the time. america does not understand. i believe it is going to take a seminal event where hundreds die before americans realize we are at war. he said, we are doing our best to make sure that does not happen. 20 minutes later, we watched as the first plane hit. i looked at the television with the smoke coming out of the world trade center. what sightseeing plane on a beautiful clear day could fly into the side of the building? you could also tell from the size of the hole that something was not right. a few minutes later, i was standing in the counterterrorism center. we watched as that second plane banked into the second tower. the director for the counterterrorism center at the cia. >> under what auspices were you at the cia? >> i was

and the cia n.s.a. were charged with extra threats. one did the one did the n.s.a. start looking inside you know this is what you just you just described this is nine eleven was was the event it was pretty quick pretty quickly within a month month and a half after nine eleven. is what i'm told it began. and you have to understand n.s.a. was already in a bad position with regard to network communications it was in a weak position so it then did not have the capability to monitor all the world's communications and that's going to take a while to get to it's going to take some growth and learning but certainly that facility will be able to store the communications for when that moment comes in and presumably process them. back to what extent is that facility an in-house project versus external contractors we were talking earlier about how nine eleven became you know an opportunity to make billions and a small number of people we call a multi multi millionaires is that is that facility still traveling down the road or has the n.s.a. pulled back and said we're going to y

i know that the cia and other intelligence agencies have to take action to make sure that type of falseinformation does not get into the system as in the past. tavis: so if i take your answer in topline is coming your answer is that you received bad intel, not that you were deliberately misled. >> i was not deliberately misled. there are a lot of critics of the president and of my speech who want to say that i lied or that i told untruths. we did not do that. we said what the intelligence community was telling us, and six months after the fall of baghdad, when no weapons of mass destruction were found, the central intelligence agency was still saying, they were still standing by the judgments they had made the previous fall, so that is not deception on my part or the president's part. we were using information that was given to us. that is not an untruth. it turned out to be wrong. well, we got it wrong, but it was not an opportunity to try to deceive the american people. >> one of the experiences you talk about in the book, i want to phrase this the right way, your journey, your naviga

id nithk id bd hecd b tkehiis r ng r islamist groups bringing the man the fbi, the cia, the white house. so the infiltration has been goonoruiwh we arent'sng bbl tnd torut pic ecess. one of the huge reasons we are in this mess is because president bush and president obama, for slightly different reasons, but the political lo.l oct tos ths a aos . we need a president. we need leaders here who can identify who is the enemy, who is the threat, how are w going bi oeiy omat. thitu,ew . president, is the muslim brotherhood a threat to the united states? the muslim brotherhood is a sworn enemy o the united the isot otabo th oa or m tie . tch tdo ept. ounc vncin will be out the window. you better packing bags and istains for y. now because this h tst td. dn't awerely. ouehe muslim brotherhood is a direct threat to the united states. my view of governor romney, a effort andalouis ve o e of htits o t y rht we just have to -- look, he's going to be aired gazillion times better than barack obama anyway in a million different ways, but we have toe tha ce hes a he to ot o tslishat teden snyay. we see

. >> and the fbi being the component that would have an intelligent component would it be for the cia but the fbi would have used their intelligence resources is that you're suggests. >> i would say siewm so. i don't know who they use. that would be my assumption. the u.s. department of homeland security and fbi found no evidence. >> that is correct. >> thank you, chairman. >> the gentleman from texas mr. mccall. >> thank you i want to thank the witnesses, first, madam secretary let me come plenlt you on the attention to the caribbean. we chaired an oversight hearing on the caribbean being the third border, and i know i got reports back from governor, and representative that did a great job. i certainly appreciate that. i chaired a hearing just recently on the use of drones. as you know, we have been strong advocates for the use of dhs drones on the border. there's another respect the united states and entire your. i bring it because the gao four years ago said that the ts and dhs had a role to play respect to security assessments and a national policy and lane year ago we had a man w

the misuse of the cia. you know, whether or not it turns out to be a crime is an impeachable offense. when you send the cia to, you know -- to act outside its proper parameters for your own political interests, that's a crime. that's rather an impeachable offense. it may not be a crime. that's an impeachment offense. those are the issues we tried to deal with at the time and that's what we tried to articulate at the time. >> when it's articulated in that document, the grounds for -- >> for impeachment, right. >> can you tell us what you remember? who was on which side in that debate? >> no, i don't think -- the others may have different memories, and it's been a long time, obviously. i don't think we had different sides so much. but i think we all reached a conclusion. i know i reached our conclusion. there was not a lot of opposition. the more we looked into it, the more we realized that we really were investigating not whether the president committed a crime but whether there was an abuse of power by the

the crack cocaine epidemic some say that it was in part facilitated by by the cia i mean. is that really some might speculate that it's really about eliminating the competition or controlling these resources in some way or what do you think about well we know that the united states has been involved in drug trafficking we know that oliver north was involved in drug trafficking to speak of a one hundred and press that you know of the united states being being in the region you know in addition to the example that you gave of the crashed plane there's the example that i might have mentioned last time i was on. say wiki leaks cable that came out from i think it was two thousand and four from the u.s. embassy talking about how they know that one of the strongest u.s. allies in the north coast region the land magnate who say was involved in drug trafficking cocaine specifically so. and of course they never mentioned this so what we see is the united states protecting their allies who are the main drug traffickers and you know i think that's one of the things that is really conce

panama dictator manuel noriega was sentenced for drug trafficking in miami on the peril of the cia and graduate of the school of america as noriega has become notorious for representing representing one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the united states and as the us is a war on drugs drags into its fourth decade it looks like a little has actually been achieved and the crackdown violence rages on in latin america that a man for drugs still remains and while brutal drug cartels stay in power u.s. prisons are filling up with nonviolent drug offenders so what will it take for the u.s. to change its failed foreign policy and latin america and rethink the war on drugs to discuss this nico he's the field organizer for the school of americas watch he joined us earlier today take a lesson. the men will know diego was trained at the u.s. army school of the americas which is a military training institution for latin american officials and soldiers it was actually set up in one hundred forty six in panama later was moved in one thousand nine hundred eighty two to four benning geor

called our man in panama manuel noriega was on the cia payroll that he said from one thousand nine hundred sixty six until his ouster by the us invasion in one thousand nine hundred nine and little has changed since then the us army school the americas has consistently graduated the worst human rights violators and eleven at least eleven dictators in latin america and what we as the school americas watch are saying is what is the purpose behind the training of these human rights violators who keep popping up from argentina. general be there was just sentenced for for kidnapping babies you know in colombia every drug trafficker lot of the major generals were just recently cited as being in the payroll of the north to divide a drug cartel. in mexico we're seeing the same thing as well the u.s. continues to prop up these human rights violators and the continues and as you just had mentioned this school graduates a lot of these people that end up being dictators and human rights violators of what is it about the school of america does that pumps out these these graduates that end up committing

what's the theme of this article ii about agency abuse, fbi, cia, it's all so confusing. i don't understand it. he took his cigar out of it, and said the theme of this argument is we're going to get that son of a bitch out of there. but staff weren't permitted to think or speak in some ways. but there's no question that some of them were not friendly to president nixon. >> was there some pressure on the republicans in the staff because there are a number of minority members of the staff who were very disappointed with how things were going and how john dohr was doing his job. was there any pressure on you? were they asking you questions? >> the republican members of the committee had a perfect right to have their own legal research done. i did that. i think that minority memo you referred to earlier might have been about st. clair's right of cross-examination. there would be the occasional research request from dell latter, chuck wiggins, robert mclurie, somebody on the -- dave dennis, some of the republican members. and we would do that. i thought we had that obligation.

jfccir with her teammates and defense intelligence agency and the cia director was given a second hato dia collection management responsibilities of direct your global planning and operational focus of combatant command. under lieutenant general ron burgess, the jfccir active for failing commands with assets that are always in short supply. and in a complex operational environment, the likes of which we've never seen before. in large measure coming because of their hard work, the dod gathers by misinformation and added me strategic pride and support commanders of forces in the field. braun colleagues friends, thanks to being such great numbers of stratcom and meeting in such a great member. the members say you a debt of gratitude about our heartfelt best wishes as you transition to the next successes in your life. lieutenant general mike flynn, to put on the first of a number of hats. in fact you may qualify with a guy with the most hats. in multiple bosses is savarese cannot i pay to leave secretary have basically the same goals. we will depend on you and your team to meet our isr ne

confirmed the american cia is operating in a base in southern turkey and they're coordinating arms smuggling into into syria to the from the free syrian army and if we look at things like the houla massacre and the kinds of bombing tactics suicide bombing roadside bombing that we see going on in syria now this is not characteristic of syria or lebanon this is characteristic of al-qaeda in iraq now i saw not only the diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media one as well and that is guy nature can explain such overwhelming backing echoes yet another conflict in mind. syrian rebels have rejected the peace plan that was put forward by the international community they made it clear that violence would continue so far the coverage of the conflict in syria has been so one sided that it seems the rebels could get away with anything the media in the us and in the west in general have focused only on what the assad government has been doing almost entirely leaving out the atrocities act of terror committed by the rebels presenting a completely

how the director of the cia is responding. >> also what botched a big 4th of july fire works show fords of spectators. >>> cooler pattern today, low clouds and fog in place. breezy and those out of the west. 60s and 70s today. temperatures coming down 10 degrees. >> this is a picture of a number of rail cars jumbled up. investigators are looking into what caused a freight train hauling coal to derail. a bridge overpass collapsed. clean up crews will spend all day today clean up. checking the train's mechanical equipment as the stability of the bridge and the tracks. >> president obama will speak at a campaign event outside of ohio just about a half hour from now. it's the beginning of a two day, two state bus tour. as for his republican challenger, scott reports mitt romney's wife has dropped a hint about possible choice for vp running mate. >> reporter: yeah she dropped a bomb shell mitt romney is considering a female to be his running mate. first back to ohio and pennsylvania. two states about 40 electoral votes. two states president obama won in 2008 but very much in play this year