how big is the problem and what is the pentagon doing to solve it? here to tell us are gerald brown, head of the anticounterfeit working group at the pentagon, and christine met the technical and >>> thanks very much for joining us today. i want to start off with finding out exactly how big a problem this is for d.o.d., what's being done to keep from buying counterfeit parts and what's being done to remove them from the supply chain. >> thank you very much for having us. i'm a big fan of the show. >> thank you very much. >> this is a serious problem for the d.o.d. anything that would impact war fighter safety or mission assurance we take very seriously. we're treating this as a very serious problem. what we're doing to counteract counterfeit in the d.o.d. supply chain and we're premayoral focused on weapons systems parts, things on airplanes, et cetera, is essentially identify those items that are critical to safety and mission performance, exercise particular due diligence and care in procuring those and testing them, sharing information across the s

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and other nato troops has risen steadily and has tonight prompted orders from the pentagon for u.s. service members to keep their guns at the ready even in places they might assume to be safe. we have two reports beginning in kabul with nbc. >> reporter: good evening lester. today's attack was the latest in a series of attacks that have claimed dozens of american lives. the pentagon also today saying u.s. service members here are required to carry fully loaded magazines in their weapons at all times. today's attack occurred in western afghanistan, farah province. according to officials u.s. special forces were there to train the afghan local police, villagers trained to protect their home towns. as they were handing out weapons one of the afghans took his and turned it on the americans, killing two in cold blood. the assailant himself was then shot and killed. so far this year there have been more than 30 so-called insider attacks claiming 39 coalition lives. most of those are americans. it is eroding the trust between the afghan and u.s. forces here at a crucial time as the united s

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there were groups -- paul wolfowitz, who is deputy at the pentagon. who going back to the original gulf war had wanted to go and knocked saddam hussein off even then. i've written once or twice about a presentation he made to the house budget committee in february before the march invasion, in which he said, unlike afghanistan, if you go into iraq, you would get all of these benefits. first of all, they had oil. they could pay for anything that happened. secondly, they are the most educated people in the middle east. it would become democratic. of course, he was talking about the sunni minority, not the shia majority. he said it would become a democracy, and democracies do not attack each other. therefore, they would not attack israel. it would change its approach to israel. host: go back to this embassy in iraq. are they committed to spending $115 million more? guest: their argument -- i talked to the deputy secretary. host: of state? guest: and what's happened is, partially because of the security situation, they had to bring more people who would be

so the pentagon position, let's get to that first. e general council, the top attorney at the department of defense for the entire u.s. military wrote a letter yesterday. and it says "you are in material breach and violation of the nondisclosure agreement you signed. further dissemination of your book will aggravate your breach." now mark owen's attorney has fired back. and he has said very simply that the seal author and i quote "he has earned the right to tell his story." his state's attorney, bob lus kin is making a very adamant case that the nondisclosure agreement was not all that mandatory and did not cover everything that matt wrote about in the book. but when you talk to military people, i have to tell you, everyone i know in the u.s. military with a security clearance signs these nondisclosure agreements. they are mandatory. and they are in violation of the law if they don't live up to them. and one of the requirements is, if you are going to write a book, and it's going to deal with anything that involved classified military

national security is not just the pentagon or the intelligence agency, cia, etc. but the hill and the public at large. it is spread all over the place. i focus on national security. >> before we head into this, when did you start moskal? school.aw >> i started in 1992. no, 1995. >> why? ben bradlee and k. graeme -- kate graham retired in 1970 at the post. both my folks ran until -- who lived until 95. my father ran a company and when i did not go into it, he retired. i figured i had after 70 lot of years left. i had covered the law a lot, i liked the law, i have friends who are lawyers, have an oldest son. i thought i would give a law degree and practice law. >> did you? >> i graduated in 2001. i flunked the bar, which came funeral.y graham's i was one of pressures. that was my excuse. the war had kind of started. and don graham said i could stay as long as i wanted side have to give him up on it. >> what did it feel like, getting our law degree and flunking the bar? i know that happens to a lot of people. >> it was strange. i stopped going -- i have not taken alm

the pentagon is not too thrilled about the book. a lot of people are not too happy about the secrets of this mission being revealed. >> it is not just a rule for the military, but all federal employees with security clearance. no sharing of classified information without prior approval and plenty of time for vetting, whether or not he were still an employee. this book has not yet come out but details released by the publisher have set off a firestorm of controversy. >> the author claims he was the first in the door the day the navy seals raided the compound killing osama bin laden. the pentagon says the now retired steel, writing under a pseudonym but identified in the press, never received approval. >> i think the secret should be kept secret. >> most people consider protecting mission's secrecy sacred important protection for the safety of seat -- of future missions. everyone we spoke to today agrees. security tromps freedom of speech. >> he is not eligible to disclose that information. i do not think he has the right to come as b

that these wars should not be going on we saw that yesterday with many of them who were there at the pentagon who says you know what he wasn't calling to. dismantle the military by any means but he says they're spending there's wasteful spending in every single department that needs to be slashed and the pentagon is no exception even though this is one way where a lot of his fellow republicans really disagree with him constantly calling for more spending for you know the military and the pentagon he says no way was cut in half what's going to down even more than that and these are all things that we hear ron paul that he has brought up time and time again throughout his entire campaign this wasteful government spending his anti-war message this interventionist message you know with this being kind of the culmination of ron paul's campaign how do his supporters keep his these concerns relevant. i'm sorry to hear your question how to his supporters yes some of these what the highlights that these things are ron paul has consistently brought attention to you know small government his antiwar ant

that spokesman, i should say, has retired from the pentagon. but they did not say they object to all parades to mark the end of the iraq war and welcome home iraq veterans. in fact, the pentagon says it likes the idea of doing that across the country for iraq veterans. except they just don't want it in new york. and, in fact, cities across the country have kept doing it. since the st. louis parade, there have been parades to mark the end of the iraq war, say welcome home, thank you to iraq veterans in houston, in tucson, in fayetteville, north carolina, in melbourne, florida, in richmond, virginia, in new hampshire, austin, texas, and then this weekend, there was another in the twin cities. minneapolis and st. paul, minnesota. >> and as an adult i now have the ability to stand up and do something for our community and for our military members to actually stop and say thank you. and why not? why not do that? >> i think that's important right now. people are finally recognizing that you need to welcome these veterans home. >> the parade in the twi

so when it hit the pentagon, it was clear that we had been attacked. the only question, what was it? was it a truck bomb? was it an airplane? went out and down and went to see what it was. picked this up and brought it back. these are pictures of the presidents. when they get together, they agree to sign so many copies for each other. and president ford sent me these. >> greta: look, there is richard nixon, he didn't sign it. >> he did. he used ink that faded. >> greta: his is faded. >> same thing here. isn't that a nice composition? that's a pulitzer prize-winning photographer from vietnam. here's our place in new mexico. this is where we live. that's our donkey, mo. we don't use fancy names in our family. there is an iraqi ballot. there is a ballot, signed by karzai. this is a missile. an interceptor, a photograph. bullet hits a bullet. it can be done. picture of a pen used to sign one of the civil rights bills in the 1960s. and this is a pen that was used to sign the defense appropriation bill in 1976. >> greta: this is your office? >> it is. there i

on this side, we have the pentagon lawyer, the top lawyer here at the pentagon, who claims that this s.e.a.l. who wrote the book under the pseudoname mark owen signed two separate nondisclosure agreements in which he agreed never to divulge any classified information. and that any of this had to be submitted to the pentagon for pre-publication review. and that he's already violated that part of his nondisclosure agreement. on the other hand, we have his private attorney, robert luskin who specializes in white collar crime and federal investigations who claims the former s.e.a.l. has taken his obligations very seriously and, in fact, was not required under that nondisclosure agreement to submit the manuscript, the book, for a pre-publication review. so this is all going to end up in the laps of the justice department eventually, to determine if there's any cause, any reason for the justice department to pursue any kind of legal action against this s.e.a.l. >> legal action could include the profits from the book. excerpts of the book already out there. if there is "damage," it's done. i

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gaining leverage in terms of auditing the fad now there is this pro proposal to audit the pentagon. talking about this i think this is great that you bring this up because ron paul there is one thing that he's definitely known for if you were following the occupy protests that's that's that's one thing that a lot of people within the movement were always calling for audit the fed audit the fed and this is something that ron paul has been standing behind for a very long time. unfortunately he doesn't have that kind of support from the rest of congress but with new legislation that we're likely to be seeing regarding auditing the fed we might actually see some headway being made in that regard now not only audit the fed you also bring up the audit the pentagon now even though ron paul is not going to be speaking at the r. and c. his son rand paul will be speaking and that initiative. that he's taking to bring up the subject of audit the pentagon is is kind of central to the speech that he's going to be giving at the r. and c. so it's going to be interesting to see what rand paul has to

the strong words from the pentagon to a former navy s.e.a.l. who was part of the raid that killed osama bin laden. >>> a lot of heat for today. some of the hottest weather in the east bay with discovery bay at 94. livermore at 90. south san jose, 88. a mere memory. the fog starting to roll in. we are expecting estimated travel delays of an hour at sfo in the morning with fog and drizzle. we're tracking that fog and will have it for you coming up. >>> here's a twist. surveillance video and a manhunt. but the man they are hunting for didn't commit any crime as far as we know. instead, he won the lotto. $52 million. so what's the story? nbc bay area's cheryl hurd joins us from the winning location in fremont. cheryl? >> raj there could be a lot of reasons why someone may not want to redeem a big ticket like this. maybe he bought the ticket with a group of friends and doesn't want them to know. maybe he's in shock. maybe he's scared. well, his picture is now out there. we definitely know what he looks like. take a look at the video of the mystery ma

that is the reason the pentagon went after me then. today we don't know. nee know what we don't know what the narrative is. >> tony, the department of defense is saying they did not vet this book. they seem likely to go after this guy. what can we expect in terms of action from the department of defense? >> my attorney who worked with me has said it is highly likely in this charged atmosphere of the pentagon being in a foul mood right now as reflected by jerald dempsey's comments the other day they're going to go after this guy and mark thinks it will be very brutal by the fact that this guy did sign agreements. you saw the results of the process with me. i went through it and tried to follow the rules as best i could. and even then we had to sue them by the fact they abused it. this guy didn't do anything as far as we know and it may be very bad. not only al qaeda but possibly the fbi coming after you on this too. >> tony, thanks so much for joining us. as always, thanks for your insight. >> thank you. >>> up next the book being called an election year mus

. >>> the pentagon has determined the navy seal who wrote the book about the death of osama bin laden violated rules about divulging military secrets. lawyers for the department of defense say the seal who wrote the book under a pen name mark owen failed to follow the rules and did not submit the book to the pentagon before it was published. they say he revealed classified secrets. because of that the pentagon will consider legal action against him. >>> scott pelly sat down with owen. you can see the full interview on september 9 on 60 minutes. >>> george huguely gets 23 years in prison. he's a former university of virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex- girlfriend. a judge in char lotszville handed -- charlottesville handed down the sentence for the murder of yeardley law. his defense team they'll appeal both the sentence and the conviction. >> we believe in the jury system and in our courts but we fundamentally disagree that the conviction in this case for second degree murder was at all appropriate and we basically disagree with the sentence that was imposed today.

leave the pentagon and go to the industry.who is he and how class are you to the way he does things? >> guest: works for the cementer of defense of information, a columnist for us, a panelist at the mill blogging conference we sponsor. he's been a guest on my podcast many times, and so, i mean, i don't quarrel with the point of view. before i took the job at military.com, i was a civil servant at the naval air systems command at the v-# -- v22 program. as a fleet guy, i didn't have exposure necessarily to the industry side of it, the defense procurement, you know, the roslin part, no exposure, but working at the v22, as you know, a controversial airplane. c-span: explain it. >> guest: it's the v-22 ausprey, half helicopter, half propeller plane with several high profile crashes in tests, almost canceled, brought back from the brink of extension, and then had life breathed into it and ultimately succeeded now in fleet use in afghanistan and throughout the marine corp. and the special operation command, you know, the so-com, spe

barbara star, cnn, the pentagon. >> many of us had fender benders. full-blown wicked rollovers like that, not many can say they walked away from something like this. the two guys in the car can. the woman who experienced her own tragedy and went on to be a cnn hero. [speaking foreign language] >> teen pregnancy is a very big issue. when you go to the slums, it is unbelievable what you see. many of my girls live here. you see the girls and they are babies holding babies. >> about ten years ago, i was volunteering at this maternity hospital and holding this baby and he passed away. this teen mother failed to raise the money to cover treatment. four days later, my own son passed away in an accident. i realized i didn't want any mother to feel the same grief that i went through. my name is catalina escobar and i am helping teen moms get a healthy and productive for them and their babies. when we first started at the maternity hospital, we reduced the infant mortality rate. the problem was bigger than that. >> my girls, being pregnant because they don't ha

some headway being made in that regard now not only audit the fed you also bring up the audit the pentagon now even though ron paul is not going to be speaking at the r. and c. his son rand paul will be speaking and that initiative that he's taking to bring up the subject of audit the pentagon is is kind of central to the speech that he's going to be giving at the r. and c. so it's going to be interesting to see what rand paul has to say and whether or not it's going to be a perpetuation of rand paul's movement through his son rand even though it kind of hasn't appeared that way but it will be interesting to see whether or not the case and you know ron paul he really pushed this issue of auditing that the fad other thing small government has antiwar stance you know not interventionist mass a edge and with this kind of being the culmination of ron paul's campaign matter how do you think that all of these issues that he has really pushed and brought to the forefront how they will continue to be pushed and how they will continue to play a role within the republican establishment i think that

according to reports released by the pentagon good most prisoners were forced to take mind altering drugs often against their will before being interrogated a story first broken by truth out's lead investigative reporter jason leopold what the inspector general said was is that detainees were interrogated while they were on drugs that is known to produce or will end up producing unreliable information so then you have the government going into the d.c. circuit ok and arguing that all of the detainees statements are true critics accuse obama of following in the footsteps of his predecessor george w. bush by continuing a system that revolves around censoring defendants in the name of national security this is not a legitimate process how do you prosecute someone cheney years after the crime when you had full control of their body and the evidence for then an entire period of time nearly eleven years following the september eleventh attacks the us military commission at guantanamo bay is set to hear the first set of arguments in preparation for the trial of five suspects the us president mea

make some serious cuts to spending but their arsenal of rhetoric is no match to the firepower of the pentagon coming up a lot of the retired colonel if there's a safe way to slouch slash the bloated military budget without putting national security on the lawn. plus fox news is on the hunt their prey obama adviser david plouffe and his connections to iran but all of this foreign policy double speak is enough to make your head spin so we'll sort it all for you. and be careful where you point that thing secretly recording police officers could land you behind bars for decades i'll tell you about one journalist who's paying the price for doing his job. is wednesday august eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our t.v. you probably were the word sequester ation used recently the process by which spending reductions are planned to be made one point two trillion dollars as a matter of fact over the next ten years with one hundred ten billion being made the first year and that money is split evenly from defense and domestic programs now the defense cuts have brought abo

the public affairs officer working for the pentagon they don't need the job was to be more. but remains will it's impossible no matter how hard they try to hide it it's true friends. it's inherently dramatic we love the visuals and it always gets us viewers but combat is the smallest part of any war it's the smallest feature yet we define war by the guns and tanks and yet collateral damage. the destruction of civil life is the longest lasting and the largest portion of every war but as you know i cover what i'm not scared we've been living in denial when you are that scared but you do it we can to cover a lot of the outside of the story we were the only witness to what was going on not of. you know when i went to baghdad in march of two thousand and three i was determined not to treat war as a spectacle but rather treated as a backdrop to a very human story not of no story of suffering a story of isolation the story of agony or of long. and time and again i saw the stories and the people that i met in baghdad and those that. this is an up or you know war you see the best and

call or click today. >>> the pentagon is threatening legal action against the navy s.e.a.l. who wrote a book about the raid that killed osama bin laden. "no easy day" is due out next tuesday. the pentagon sent the author a letter stating he violate adnan disclosure agreement signed back in 2007. that agreement required he never divulge classified information. aside from legal consequences the pentagon also threatened to take all royalties made off the book. >>> a cheating scandal rocked harvard university. 125 students are being investigated for possibly sharing answers or plagiarizing a final exam. harvard officials say it revo e revolves around a spring take-home final exam for an introductory government class. they will appear before a committee. students found guilty of cheating face up to a one-year suspension. >>> 6:26. in five minutes, the message former uva lacrosse player george huguely had for his victim's family. >>> caught in the act. metro has a warning for some but not all riders. >>> and the heat is on today. tom is talking about soars temperatures. weather an

make some serious cuts to spending but their arsenal of rhetoric is no match to the firepower of the pentagon coming up i'll ask a retired colonel if there's a safe way to slash the bloated military budget without putting national security on the line. again the show with a look at the state of texas there last night a mentally disabled man was executed marvin wilson was convicted of killing a police informant twenty years ago he had an i.q. of sixty one well below the average of seventy the number considered to be the bare minimum to determine competency after months of appeals that reached all the way to the u.s. supreme court wilson lost his battle taxes of course is no stranger to the death penalty have currently is at the top when it comes to executing prisoners on death row perhaps you know it's no surprise then when governor texas governor and former presidential candidate rick perry spoke about it he got this reaction in the state of texas has a. very high. a very clear. process in place you will face the ultimate justice in the state of texas and that is you will be executed what you

body that we have caused any individual at any time to come to harm in the past four years. >> the pentagond that they've gone through all of these documents and they found the names of 300 people. >> well, that's new public information to us. it's possible that there are 300 names in the publicly released afghan material. we don't pretend that that process is absolutely perfect. we did hold back one in five documents for extra harm minimization review and we also improved our process. so when iraq came around, there was not even a single name in it. >> i mean, there have been reports of people quoting taliban leaders, saying that they had the names of these people and that they were going to take retribution. >> the taliban is not a coherent outfit. but we don't say that it is absolutely impossible that anything we ever publish will ever result in harm. we cannot say that. >> there's a perception on the part of some people who believe that your agenda right now is anti-american. >> not at all. in fact, our founding values are those of the u.s. revolution. they are those of people like jeff

the pentagon said the book should have been gone through a security review. officials are still evaluating whether any secrets were actually revealed. >>> he's the one and only winner of the $337 million powerball jackpot. his name is donald lawson. he came forward to claim the third -- he was all smiles this afternoon. he quit his job as soon as he found out he won. he credits divine intervikings. >> there was a line, five, six people in front of me, something from up above, i do have to credit that, told me to pick my own numbers. i didn't really bick them. my hand just went. >> lawson will take the cash lump sum of $225 million. >>> to the nats park. hey, carol. >> of course it's football time, baseball in the air here. the nats are not ready to slow down yet, as they push toward the playoffs, appeared a busy day at redskins park. the latest on tuesday's cuts bye, mom! we're here! these days, hey, girls! nobody has time to get sick. mom, i don't feel good. but minute clinic makes it easy to get well. our nurse practitioners can diagnose and write prescript

remember, while he was a seal employed by the pentagon, the bin laden raid was in fact directed by the central intelligence agency. >> pelley: an editor's note-- "60 minutes" has interviewed the seal who wrote the book under the name mark owen. on september 9, "60 minutes" will carry his first-person account on the killing of bin laden. the book, "no easy day," will be released on september 11. chicago's deadly gang wars. why mexican drug gangs invaded the city. and the mysterious makeover of a church painting when cbs evening news continues. exclusive to the milit nation'y are the ones we used to build usaa bank. with our award winning apps that allow you to transfer funds, pay bills or manage your finances anywhere, anytime. so that wherever your duty takes you, usaa bank goes with you. visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. and every day since, two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today,

are fighting with you consider all the afghan security forces are fighting about the chord in the pentagon twenty thousand taliban and the war continues yeah absolutely and you really have a unique perspective because of the time that you spend with the mujahideen back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and i was going to ask you and you sort of answered it that things are very similar today as they were thirty years ago but it seems to me that either the military generals those leading this effort those sort of designing the strategy that they either don't understand that or they're not really conveying that to the american people so i guess i want to ask you jerry i mean what would you add to the to the discussion here when it comes to what the american public needs to know about afghanistan as a region. i think with the united states in that you made a very good point at the start of your question there and that is i don't feel that the bush administration or the obama administration has been straight with the american public as to exactly why we are fighting in afghanistan what led to t

that al-jazeera had given the pentagon well for al-jazeera the message was very very clear stop telling the truth. because that's why they were targeted in baghdad i'm nuts why they were targeted in kabul al-jazeera has revolutionized the reporting of wars. and incurred great anger. in military establishments and among governments. some jealousy amongst their colleagues but also i have to say. a great deal of admiration. that's the message that was the message to them to all those albums in the palestine hotel. the people who died there it was a warning to all of us. when that tank pulled up outside the palestine hotel and fired it was a warning. you will do as we tell you to do as journalists or else. why did journalist become a target. in order to answer this question we need to go back in time. don't know that's our mission we're about to embark on our mission today sir is to report down to the site of the ambush seventy miles south of here and attempt to kill the b c one two three ball with the powerful but be allowed to cronkite a distinguished t.v. reporter and presenter expresses