as the chief legal officer of the cia, the general counsel must insure that the cia is complying with the constitution and other applicable u.s. laws. in almost 20 years as an executive branch lawyer, i've had the privilege of providing legal advice on a wide range of difficult legal issues to many government agencies including the cia. second, general counsel must work closely with lawyers across the executive branch. the protection of our nation's security and the achievement of our foreign policy goals depend on an integrated approach within the intelligence community as well as between the intelligence community and other agent is -- agencies. during my time at the national security council as well as at the department of justice, i worked on many, with many lawyers from across the interagency community. i strongly value such interagency cooperation. cooperation with the general counsel for the director of national intelligence is especially important for the general counsel of the cia, and i have a strong and productive working relationship with that office as well as with the mo

including the cia's program. nd this is part of the timeframe that is not consistent with our values. this includes the program. and i do believe you are highly qualified for the cia general counsel position. but as you know in this includes the committee that is researching and drafting the study. this includes the review in the response and the committee members that request that they meet with the staff to study and the methodology. this includes all the requests to meet. >> we have detailed significant errors in the study. i don't believe that's part of it. >> we have had women 60 meetings with the cia and after reviewing medicine being provided on this, i am more confident than ever and want to say that again. but i am more confident than ever of this study. this includes declassification. and last week we have been a part of the staff which i appreciate. and i need additional assurances and first i noted that the cia has not yet responded on this with other information that is necessary for completion of thi

among various agencies and as the boston bombing revealed that communication was still inadequate the cia used to be in believed it still has the dominant role within the intelligence community so what has really changed as a result of that major overhaul that you describe in your book i think you're on to something and that's one of the central questions in my book blinking red which is all the institutional reforms and new intelligence agencies that we set up after september eleventh and after the intelligence failure in iraq whether they have done a good job as we say here in the united states connecting the dots trying to collect information and connect it to each other if they have some sort of effect that might give us a warning of a terrorist attack like in boston or any islamic extremists that might be. coming after the united states or our allies well one thing that has definitely changed is the massive infusion of money since two thousand and one the united states has spent i think over a five hundred billion dollars on intelligence during that period and american officials have

and then that information was taken to the cia at that time. they conducted an investigation, but mr. magee believes that they really knew the whole time what was going on. in any case, eventually that led to the cia having a meeting with the family and according to magee, apologizing to them for not coming forward with this information a long time ago. eventually, a settlement was worked out between magee and the cia for the family amounting to $2.5 million. >> the associated press says they've been holding the score for quite some time. why did they decide to go public with it now? >> the a.p. said explained it this way. they said that backing in 2010, they had been able to be document the information that there was a connection that levinson was working for the cia than they went to washington three times for them to work with them on the story to get comment from them, but on three different occasions, washington asked them to hold off on it saying that it had promising leads about where levinson was but because the a.p. said sources told th

that the cia has been in charge of over the recent decades. their scope is very very wide i mean it's running secret prisons it's a controversial interrogation program deployment of drones a huge expansion of its counterterrorism activities and there is a just the things that we know about and many experts have suggested that over this last decade that you describe in your book the cia has essentially turned into these huge paramilitary force that is still operating under the cover of a spy agency so in other words it has ever increasing authority an ever increasing funds without having to be transparent as some of the other institutions of the american government have to be for example the department of the defense would you agree with that oh no no i wouldn't agree with that at all look the central intelligence agency is overseen very closely by the u.s. congress our congress parliaments around the world have complete insights into what the central intelligence agency is doing that's unique in the united states we have a level of transparenc

funding that the cia has requested of the intelligence community or rather has requested for the fiscal year of two thousand and thirteen it is still pretty high over fifty two billion dollars and it is expected to stay at that level at least until two thousand and seventeen and just to our viewers to make it clear it is pretty much the same or similar to what the united states was spending on their own intelligence ad they hide all of the cold war and. i'm sure you know that these and zorbas and standing on the part of the soviet union was one of the main reasons for its own collapse these very huge spending disproportionate spending on both military and intelligence so i wonder why aren't the intelligence agencies being asked to cut the fat at the time when everybody else is subjected to susteren to measures we have cut intelligence spending as the united states has adjusted to the fiscal realities that we have in the united states but i think it's been money very well spent i don't think it's been exorbitant whatsoever we are a big country like russia where we have a global intellige

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know who killed camelot there are a lot of researchers who have gone before me and said well it was the cia it was the mob it was as jackie kennedy believed texas oil they're all correct but what do all those entities have in common lyndon baines johnson i don't think l.b.j. did it i know you did it's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to a special edition of larry king now fifty years ago the course of american history was altered forever when president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas texas today jay of kay's iconic legacy still lives on across the globe here to discuss why that legacy is particularly important for younger americans is scott de rice author of the new book titled the power of citizenship why the john f. kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way to personal moron the john kennedy one. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sites his car from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a cause that how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands

confidence in newspapers this while the current owner of the washington post offers his cloud services to the cia more on these developments later in the show. it's wednesday december eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. and we begin with breaking news the white house has released a report written by a review board set up to investigate possible n.s.a. abuses it included forty six specific recommendations to reform the n.s.a. recommendation one was to limit section two fifteen of the patriot act forcing the government to submit focused requests for data rather than bulk collection that's important the review board also called on the n.s.a. to transition away from story data on its own to having that data stored by private companies which the n.s.a. can go to for specific requests also the report calls on the n.s.a. to stop undermining encryption standards as revealed by edward snowden there are a number of other recommendations. including organizational changes to the n.s.a. and reforms to the top secret buys a court the electronic frontier foundation which

who killed camelot and there are a lot of researchers who have gone before me and said well it was the cia it was the mob it was as jackie kennedy believed texas oil they're all correct but what do all those entities have in common lyndon baines johnson i don't think l.b.j. did it i know you did it's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to a special edition of larry king now fifty years ago the course of american history was altered forever when president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas texas today jay of kay's iconic legacy still lives on across the globe here to discuss why that legacy is particularly important for younger americans is scott de rice author of the new book titled the power of citizenship why you john f. kennedy matters to a new generation i met by the way at a personal moment john kennedy won. i was twenty four years old driving in a car with three friends in palm beach looking at the sights has a scar from behind oh my gosh he was parked he died of a car said how could you hit me on this week and said you want to change license this is no just raise your hands

the iranians almost certainly knew he was a cia contractor. also this was an important accountability story. you alluded to the fact that this was a cia scandal. it was in fact a scandal. the cia analyst should not have been running operatives in the field but that is what they were doing. this was in its heart an important accountability story and until yesterday there had been no public accounting. there had been some people let go from the cia, some people had been disciplined, a $2.5 million payout to the family, and the senate, you know, the cia confessed to the senate that it had initially misled them and told falsehoods about bob and his ties to the cia. >> that was another revelation in the report, that the cia quietly paid levinson's family $2.5 million, to head off a lawsuit that would have revealed all sorts of information about the cia. several were disciplined. how did it explode into the scandal? >> bob disappeared in march of 2007 during a trip to iran. it wasn't until october of 2007 when his family very diligently searching was

if this is true, why is the review the cia conducted a never gave to the committee? so important we have requested a copy of that internal review. you committed to looking into this as well. internal row view but cia hasn't committed to providing it. you've seen this as well. i'd like the white house fullest possible declassification of the committee's study as well as the response to the study. i understand you're not in a position on your own to provide these documents and statements, but confirmation processes are one way u.s. senators can be assured our voices are heard by the white house and agencies we oversee. i don't believe my requests are unreasonable and i want the cia to take them seriously. with that i've got a question for you. in our meeting last week we talked about critical roll of intelligence oversight by congress. can you elaborate on your views on these two matters. one, roll of doj in intelligence oversight. two, specifically address how your views will guide interaction with this committee, engagements with doj and counsel to the cia director. >

. >> and we look at how the cia helped south africa capture nelson mandela in 1962. he was then imprisoned for over 27 years. during much of that time, the national security agency also surveil theall -- african national congress. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a u.s. drone attack in yemen struck a group of people who were traveling to a wedding thursday, killing at least 17. a yemeni security officials said some of the dead may have been members of al qaeda, but most were civilians. the attack occurred in a remote area near the central town of rada. it was at least the second u.s. drone attack this week in yemen after a strike in an eastern province killed at least three people this week since an attack killed at least three people on monday. in ukraine, mass protests are continuing over the government's decision not to sign a trade pact with the european union. but speaking in brussels on thursday, ukraine's first deputy prime minister said ukraine will sign a deal soon. we listen

his connection to the cia never revealed by the u.s. government. a representative for levinson family tells the news he was simply following cia orders. >> what he does not know is the manner they are using him is contrary to the policy and rules of the cia and that the people above, high above the group he was working for were not aware and had not authorized what he was doing. we want to bring pressure on the united states government to do what it ought to do to bring bob home. >> nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me. you've been working this story overnight. the bizarre case, the fact the u.s. government repeatedly, last month ott on one of the anniversaries of his becoming the longest held hostage repeated he had no connection with the u.s. government and the fact that he was doing something so mysterious on an island in iranian territory. >> so i think a couple of threads here, andrea, we should untangle. number one, there's no doubt about what these news organizations have reported. everybody familiar with the case reports he was

. >> that israel reyes, farc leader who was killed with the help of the cia. so the new washington post report reveals how the cia helped kill at least two dozen rebel leaders in colombia. in the attack and meant "a colombian pilot flying a colombian plane would hit the camp using a us-made bomb with a cia controlled frame." the national security agency was key to the program funded through a multibillion-dollar black budget. we will speak with a reporter who wrote the restore he dana priest dana priest,. then, mikhail kalashnikov has died. rifleented the assault also known as the ak-47. weapons should only be in the hands of those people who defend their country, that is the defense not to attack. i design the rifle not for international conflict, but to protect the borders of my homeland. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. u n secretary-general ban ki- moon is calling for near doubling of the international peacekeeping force in south sudan amidst spiraling violence. on monday

but it -- but he worked for part of the cia and the other part of the cia didn't know what was doing. >> that's right, the cia is divide mood operators and analysts. operators run the assets and the spies out in the field. and there's a very specific reason for this they're very good at their job. they have established practise and procedures, security protocols to prevent spies from running into risk from being turned, from being fed that information. the analysts on the other side digest and ingest the information from the assets and the spies in the field. and in this case, bob was contracted with the cia analysts. >> brown: to do what? >> to look at corruption, i understand. they tasked him with several different responsibilities to collect information. and he was very good at it. in fact, he was remarkably good at it. and in fact, the analysts were thrilled with his work product. i mean it was both volume i'm news and insightful and you know, they were certainly getting their money's worth under these cia contracts. >> so he disappears in a scenario where many in the cia and in

the course of techniques used by the cia during the time frame were not consistent with their values as much as anyone i want to see the committee study of the cia's enhanced interrogation program finished and released but that cannot happen while the cia slow walks the documents that we've requested we don't have many options available to us to foresee agencies corp but i will not rule out any in order to get the agency to finally cooperate with our requests the new york times editorial board is also pushing for the obama administration to release the report with minimal redactions yet a tauriel published today says that the illegal detention and torture the not happened on president obama's watch but his quote expansive claims of secrecy have succeeded in blocking victims lawsuits and helping to keep details of rendition and torture secret denying the country a reckoning necessary for the historical record establishing accountability and avoiding similar human rights violations in the future now while efforts to bring this report to light continue here in the us it seems british la

he was there on detail for the cia. ording to the family members and their lawyer, they contact the cia and say, hey, we need help finding bob and the cia's response is, we didn't send him there. and when members of congress asked the cia, they said the same thing. finally the cia gets its act together and apologizes to the family, but it was -- you can imagine the incredible emotional turmoil this is causing in the family that their husband, their father is missing and the government that sent him there denies to them -- >> is that standard operating procedure? that the government always denies having a spy somewhere? >> no, he's a contract employee, not a cia undercoverundercover operative. >> by the way, one thing to adhere is and the cia didn't play $2.5 million. the family threatened to sue because of this. >> yeah and to settle the whole matter. >> was he breaking the law over there? >> the wrong people that sent him there -- >> this is an act -- >> how did they get -- >> that's a good question. >> analysts can fly

i think this served the cia very well. because alan was not only the chief of the invisible government, he was the ambassador of the invisible government to the visible government. he was always on the party scene in washington, and i think he was a nice guy and a wonderful fellow that people began to think, well, we don't know what the cia is doing, but if it's such a wonderful guy doing it, it must be okay. it's remarkingble although they developed exactly the same politically they developed differently personally. all of these stories reflect what i said at the beginning that this book is not just about the brothers but about us. it's about who we are and why we do what we go in the world. told you at the beginning we largely have forgotten the brothers. it's my mission with this book to try to bring them back to life. the first step, i would like that take the brother's bus out of the conference room at baggage claim number three and bring it to place where people can see it. i have another suggestion. one of the greate

the associated press and washington post first reported levinson's cia ties. cting u.s. government concerns, that were repeated today, that the story could put levinson's life at further risk. >> a story we believe was highly irresponsible to publish. >> reporter: according to his family, levinson was involved in a number of missions targeting iran's nuclear supply network but working for a rogue unit at the cia, not cleared for such assignments. >> they weren't authorized within the cia to do that. but he was so productive, they had a hard time not doing it. >> reporter: when levinson got caught on his last trip to meet a source on the iranian island of kish in 2007, mcgee says the cia lied to his family and congress about his role. >> rather than acknowledge what they had done and try to save bob's life, they denied him. >> reporter: mcgee says the cia has since apologized and paid $2.5 million to levinson's family with three cia employees forced out. the last time his family had proof he was alive was in this video three years ago. >> 33 years of service. >>

not with her job. >> they called up the department of defense, they didn't call the cia. but she was working for the u.s. government, for the agency working on communications for them. >> unbeknownst to just about everyone in her life, marie singleton was a code clerk for the central intelligence agency. she wasn't a spy, but she did handle classified communications from agents overseas. information that might be very interesting. to enemies of the united states. >> part of what the fbi does is investigate things like this, if a cia employee goes missing? >> right, exactly. >> remember, this was 1994, memories of the cold war were still esh. >> it could have turned into an espionage information if you have missing classified informs and somebody is going over to russia, the chinese, something like that, it could theoretically become that kind of a case. >> now there were parallel investigations, the fbi looked for an intelligence worker who might have been kidnapped or changed sides. marie's family meanwhile just wanted her back. >> they started making flyers for my mom. >

of the cia. but they really did believe that the cia had been melted down to, basically, a debased society under the clinton administration. and they felt that the military's covert unit would be the best weapon that the u.s. could use in a discreet global secret war. and so they injected jsoc with steroids. and general stanley mcchrystal ran jsoc for much of the bush era, and they began operating what was effectively a global hunting organization. and they weren't hunting deer, they were hunting people. and they did their own interrogation. they have their own secret prisons. it was a whole parallel apparatus to what the cia had traditionally had sovereign realm other. >> host: how did you get involved in this line of work? >> guest: purely by accident. i went to university thinking i wanted to be a middle schoolteacher. and i discovered very soon after i got to the university what it meant to be on academic probation. i was a terrible student. so if i'm a horrible student, i don't know how i'm

>> one thing they conceded to us is that the iranians probably knew he was working for the cia and weeren't going to tell them anything they didn't know. the family's lawyer, david magee, told everyone that the iranians, without a doubt, knew that he was working for the cia. >> thing q very much for coming in. still to come on tonight's program, what is really happening inside north korea? the execution of the leaders article raises concerns about stability there. >> violent protests erupted in bangladesh after the execution of the islamist opposition mullah.abdul kader three people were killed when demonstrators clad -- crashed -- clashed with police. he was hung for war crimes committed during the war for independence. we are on the scene in bangladesh and have this report on the days events. >> bangladesh is on the edge as islamic protesters are on the streets of the capital. the police retaliate with massive force. wildly firing handguns and rubber pellets as they try to regain control. the islamicists came and they have sticks and petroleum, they pulled me out of my car and they

the number of countries that now have nuclear weapons have grown since you left the cia. are you hopeful that proliferation will stop? >> i am hopeful. i think more and more nations are realizing that nuclear weapons belong in the dust bin of history, that they no longer provide the security that they once did, where we have the nexus of nuclear technology and terrorism, the proliferation will continue unless we take really strong international steps, which is who global zero is support -- which is what global zero is supporting. which is to say enough, i think we've just been lucky so far. >> there is the real belief that iran is trying to despite their denials to get neublg weapons. do you think their talks will stop, will get to a aplace where iran will not develop a weapon? >> i'm cautiously optimistic i think i can term it because maybe there is a window of opportunity. president rouhani has clearly showed a moderation of tone, from all his tweets, wishing happy rosh hasrhana dom all his jewish friends, and meeting in geneva in high level meetings. this is amazing tha

because now that it's been confirmed that he worked for the cia, after the white house and prior administrations denying it, what do they do? >> this person was not a cia agent, he was a contract employee who was supposed to be an analyst, but sort of a group within the analytic camp which is not supposed to run operations violated cia rules and sort of inserted him in a situation or allowed him to go into a situation where he's put in danger. even though he was a contract employee, i think at the end of the day the professional code of the intelligence agency is if someone has one of our people, we're going to do everything we can to get him back. there was some misleading statements to congress and some folks within the agency were not forthcoming. i'm sure they've turned over every rock and done everything they can to get him back. the curious thing about him is when governments take spies, they normally end up trading them up. what was weird about this story is that there was a video sent, a proof of life video, which seems to point more towards kidnappers or terrorists than the government.

have been getting targeted attacks since the beginning of twenty two of inkling of awful and that the cia knew about these human rights watch. and no doubt that medical student was due to the gang meeting indian captain you daddy things have changed a lot but activists say there is much to be done to me all the pieces see if a woman. i do meetings and demonstrations by women activists were held to mark one year since the day the gang gp statue quarter pdf. on sixteenth december twenty twelve and twenty two you don't feed your cat at the stone was to delete it by six men in a moving bus and off to die on a deserted road funny thing was beaten for trying to stop the hunt to cry. the victim died sixteen days need to invest in the hospital and the six men were apprehended and put one child in a frost cooled. one of the six allegedly committed suicide in prison fall but sentence today and a juvenile was sentenced to a maximum punishment of two years. it was a lovely parting of the campaign to be considered. ethan came out again this time since he returned to the indian parliament and the prime

the cia did not tell the truth. >> reporter: the cia first told congress that when levinson disappeared in 2007, he was not working for the agency. later, levinson's family said it discovered he was working for a rogue cia unit. >> the cia sent bob levinson there no iran to do investigations on their belaugh. >> reporter: levinson's not been seen or heard from since this video three years ago. >> 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. >> reporter: the iranian government insist they're not holding him and have no idea where he is. the state department continues to work the case. secretary of state john kerry in an interview with abc dismissed any suggestion that the u.s. is not doing all it can to find him. >> there hasn't been progress in the sense that we don't have him back. but to suggest that we have abandoned him or anybody has abandoned him is simply incorrect. >> reporter: secretary kerry says the u.s. is working a number of different channels searching for proof of life. some kind of sign levinson is still alive. john and diana? >> tahman bradley, thank you

but one day a week at the cia at the quote, cia. soon turned into lots of days a week. june 2008, mr. beale failed to report to the epa offices for approximately six straight months, mr. beale told epa managers and employees that he was spending time working for langley. so in 2008 he disappeared for six whole months without telling anybody. during this lengthy unexcused absence, mr. beale continued to receive his epa salary. he was not just a low profile epa employee. he was the single highest paid employee at the epa and he just disappeared to go be a spy, he said. and it was not just those six months that he took off in 2008. he also took two whole years off between 2011 and 2013 all under the guise of his super super top secret work at the cia. as you might imagine, the folks at the epa eventually started to get a little bit suspicious about the cia story, after a while. but every time they questioned him about it, he always had an answer. quote to explain his long absences, mr. beale told epa officials that he was engaged in intelligence work for the cia either at

after he was caught the cia abandoned him. they left him there. >> reporter: former officials say when pressure from the family forced the cia to investigate, jablonski and two other top analysts were forced out, seven others disciplined and the cia paid the family almost $3 million. still, iran has consistently denied holding levinson. is he alive? >> i should ask this question. i don't know. we don't know. how can we know that? >> reporter: will iran's new president, rowhani be different? the white house says president obama asked about him in september when they talked. >> they want to show goodwill on a humanitarian basis so they can bring a dad and a husband home, this is the time to do it. >> reporter: much of what emerged today has been known by news organizations which delayed publication at the government's request. when the story emerged the family and government sources confirmed the details yesterday of what they know. what is not known is whether levinson is alive and whether telling the story will do anything to c

and the pressure is mounting on the cia to release a very significant document from the post nine eleven era it's a secret senate report that reveals in great detail how the intelligence agency employed torture tactics and its handling of detainees the six thousand page interrogation report is the product of three years of work and forty million dollars in costs now ever since it was completed a year ago there's been strong disagreement between intelligence officials and lawmakers over how much information the public should be allowed to read some officials at the c.i. . they claim the document is deeply flawed and inaccurate while members of the senate intelligence committee say it's the best account of how the cia carried out its role in the years following nine eleven here's how some vocal lawmakers addressed the issue at a hearing earlier this week. the course of techniques used by the cia during the time frame were quote not consistent with their values as much as anyone i want to see the committee study of the cia's enhanced interrogation program finished and released but that cann

was bob levenson actually spying for the cia? >>> and after walking through the snow for more than 200 miles, britain's prince harry and his team reached the south pole all in the name of charity. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. michael is off today. it's his birthday. happy birthday, michael. news, world leaders, diplomats asking the question what on earth is going on with north korea in the news came out early today north korea time that the man most believed was the second most powerful person in the country was executed by the most powerful. that, of course, being kim jung un, the young leader who holds all the cards in north korea and analysts are puzzled by all this and want to know is he power hungry, is he an raid? what is going on. in a minute, we're go going to talk about all that. first paula hancocks with the back story. >> a young man in mourning walks alongside his father's coffin. two years later five of the seven men walking with him have been fired or executed. on the orders of kim jung un. >>

the reason he was arrested was not because he was working for the cia. he was arrested or at least the charges were that he had helped a terrorist group even though that group had kidnapped him and taken him for ransom. >> the government wanted today avoid the embarrassment nightmare of having to deal with the whole issue of the cia mission and so they essentially trumped up these charges in a tribal court system where the regular rules of evidence and trial by jury don't apply, and so you have seen murder charges. >> they have been able to hide them because of these kind of charges. these charges he is hit with is surgery that he performed 80 years ago. >> that's right. the doctor was involved with shady affairs. he different have a proper license as a surgeon. as i detailed in my own investigation, but the fact of the matter is, the reason they are bringing it up now is to keep him in prison without having to refer directly to the charges in the united states. >> in your article, you say pakistani officials ahave had n problem that that he was arrested

well guys i didn't think it was possible that the cia is officially ruined one of my all time favorite beatles songs that's right according to the associated press reporters out of goldman in matter who is lennon mccartney is classic penny lane was the code name for a multi-year long program to turn guantanamo prisoners into double agents goldman in a talk to nearly a dozen u.s. officials involved in the program and while they owe it all chose to remain anonymous these are the same guys that uncovered the n.y.p.d. is enormous muslim surveillance operation so i think it's safe to say they have some credibility according to their reporting as hundreds of detainees began flooding into guantanamo in the years following nine eleven the cia just couldn't pass up a golden opportunity to put get no prisoners on the agency's payroll which is where penny lane comes in two thousand and three it began as the unofficial name of a cluster of cottages just outside of guantanamo's administrative offices after prisoners were identified as potential candidates for the operation they were taken from the

tara mergener, cbs news, washington. >> the associated press has known about levinson's ties to the cia since 2010 but agreed to hold that story until now. today the white house called the decision to publish irresponsible because it likely puts levin son in greater danger. >>> the focus on the compromised budget moves to the senate now. the deal that nobody seems too encouraged about passed easily in the house last evening. the agreement is a victory for house speaker john boehner who battled tea partied maligned members of his own party. >> they pushed us into this fight to defund obamacare and shut down the government. one of the members of these groups said we didn't really think it would work. are you kidding me? >> the budget cuts, the deficit $23 billion the next 10 years but it does not extend unemployment benefits for about 1 million people still out of work. democrats plan to bring that issue up when congress reconvenes next year. >>> there's claims about the affordable care act provided the worst lies by political figures accord ing to politofax. >> if you like your healthcar

"the washington post" says he was working for the cia, adding a new and complicated angle to the storylk about him with bob. he's a cnn national security analyst and former cia operative. bob, the white house spokesman said bob levinson was not a u.s. employee at the time of his disappearance. let's dissect that for a moment. does that mean he could have been a cia contractor and technically not an employee? >> it's disengeneral would you say. when he went to iran, he was between contracts. they promised him a new one. it's clear from the e-mails he expected to get paid for the visit to the island. certainly, the kidnappers will look at him as a cia contractor/employee/agent, whatever you want to call him. technically, the white house is right but he was working for the cia and it's the way he's been identified with the people holding him. >> iran insists they have no idea where he is. is that believable? >> you know what i suspect and this is truly a speculation is they grabbed him. it's controlled by iranian intelligence, turned him over to a radical group, if you look at the tapes a

secu sions naked all the cia while in these cia black sites on the cherie was captured in the u.a.e. in two thousand and two beta was found in pakistan and the two of them both went through the cia secret prison network often called black sites after that the two men were sent to guantanamo bay where they remain to this day the men claim they were tortured at secret cia prisons in poland a country that has laws against torture while poland has not officially admitted its role in the cia program there is significant documentary evidence pointing to complicity from poland romania and lithuania and creating these secret detention facilities for previous researcher crofton black wrote we have now heard overwhelming and uncontested evidence that the cia was running a secret torture prison on polish soil with the polish government's knowledge despite being given many opportunities to do so the polish government has failed to contest that it knew prisoners were being held beyond the rule of law and tortured by the cia inside their own country poland has been conducting internal investigatio

the cia's shipping trucks well never but before i get ahead of myself let me remind you what the wrong contra was all about between one thousand nine hundred five and one thousand nine hundred six the us sort of weapons of the iranian government despite an existing embargo that specifically for bade them from doing so what happened next was a set of secret operations aimed at swapping american hostages for these weapons and then they vary in those funds to arm a group of anti communist rebels and they called the contras but as president reagan once put it those contras were the moral equivalent of our founding fathers yeah if our founding fathers were also international drug traffickers see according to class to be classified documents the cia had not only allowed the trafficking of cocaine and contras but actually protected the drugs meanwhile of the reagan doctrine the cia was training and assisting their operations see the late journalist gary webb publish an investigative series on cocaine trafficking and the contras in the one nine hundred ninety s. his findings were attacked of c