good ale was vice chair and general counsel for the new york times published the pentagon papers and led the paper's legal team in its fight against the nixon administration he's often called the father of reporter's privilege means to this day a powerful advocate for the freedom of the press in addition to his legal work goodale as taught at yale and why you fordham university his new book fighting for the press the inside story of the pentagon papers and other battles is a must read for anyone who wants an in-depth look at one of the most famous supreme court cases of the past forty years james goodale joins us now from our new york studios. welcome thank you for being with us or live thank you for having me so let's start with you before we get to the case i'm wondering if you were general counsel for the new york times and a vice president as i recall of that well vice chairman let's go. charleroi ok thank you you all the better. what what brought you to that what made you interested in newspapers in the first amendment and provoked you to brought you to be the guy who was arguing

defense spending at the pentagon amounting to eight. hundred ninety six. charges of. prison break in two thousand and eleven. the first time in my life. we bring you the story of a school boy thrown behind to show support for the country's deposed leader a top story. from. nine pm this is international. has met his whole family in the german capital the former oil tycoon flew straight to. being let out of a russian penal colony on friday following a presidential pardon lots of reports now from outside the hotel where he is believed to be. on the how to cause he's first full day of freedom was a day of reunification with family here in berlin his son told us the son pavel who'd flown from new york told us that the whole family had been reunited and that they were all very happy he really appreciates all of the support that he has received through these years and all the people that have cared for him here for two story over the past ten years his mother has been here in berlin quite a quite a lot in the recent past she has been receiving cancer treatments here and a bil

the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government of reuters investigation says since one thousand nine hundred ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five trillion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for and nobody can say for sure how many billions of that amount of wasted on goods and services that were never delivered on over payments to contractors and many other things what does congress do about it nothing and national security expert steve miles serious here with me to help us crunch the these numbers even if we leave dollars on accounting for a lot of money this is the kind of thing that you would think would bring capitol hill to a screeching halt they would be hearing this kind of almost daily you know various committees looking into it none of that just leads to massive waste and there can be all sorts of fraud that you don't know about just one example when the inspector general looked at iraq which was you know a lot of money but in the grand scheme just a portion of the money the u

the pentagon has secured. three hundred thirty billion dollars budget for next year even though it's failed to account for the money that it's received since one thousand nine hundred six now a whopping eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayer cash has gone to defense programs none of which have been audited the so-called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud as can reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the u.s. government the reuters investigation says since one thousand nine hundred ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five trillion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for and nobody can say for sure how many billions of that amount were wasted on goods and services that were never delivered on over payments to contractors and many other things what does congress do about it nothing and national security experts the miles here you see here with me to help us crunch the these numbers eight and a half trillion dollars on accoun

well the pentagon has secured a six hundred and thirty billion dollar budget for next year even though it's fail to account for the money it receives since nineteen eighty six. now a whopping eight and a half trillion dollars of taxpayers' cash has gone to defense programs none of which have been the object and the so called black budget has sparked concerns over potential fraud as ortiz a naked chick and reports. the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the us government to avoid this investigation says since nineteen ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five billion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for. nobody can say for sure coming in feelings of that amount where waste it on goods and services that were never delivered on over payments to contractors and many other things. what does congress do about it. nothing and that unsecured actress eve myles he is here with me to hold has crunched the numbers needed me. it really dollars on camera for a lot of money the kind of thing that you would think would bring capitol hill to a sc

well here's the way to think about the pentagon papers case without turning off your non lawyers or you know it's very simple what nixon tried to do is he tried to censor the new york times and later the washington post how did he try to censor them the sense of them by going into court and getting an order that you can't print you know it's. simple simple censorship what's interesting about it was the only time in american history that ever happened. during a bet it's not going to happen. well now use the fancy term it's actually called prior restraint when i first heard that term when i worked with went to the new york times i don't know what the heck admit it but it just means it just means censorship and so it's a case for the ages because the only time we have the case and the press one the government lost and the tests or the rule of law or whatever you want to call it the supreme court laid down is very hard to meet almost virtually impossible which means that i don't think it's going to ever happen again and i don't think that caseload would be overruled it's fast i mean if you

what contributes to the massive waves is the fact that for two decades the pentagon has dodged an audit teams. nobody checked if the numbers in garrett county making sets come with this just pass the budget allocates of around six hundred and thirty billion dollars to the pentagon roughly the same route as last year. much of that will be wasted. taxpayers will never know. in washington i'm getting sick and archie i was told to retire us on the candle tightness and wagga on the pentagon's they needed to keep track of its money on things and given the seriousness of the shaded the government of the scene and when needed consumption i have actually being in this position whereby was the director joint operations to chafe headquarters. for reasons i did understand why pay w suddenly reduced. and it took two years over the street to the bed then subsequently i was paid money that i'd actually earned but for reasons that no one could explain it but they do make my point is that you're dealing with billions of people. and a lot of instability a lot of movement and it's a difficult system to to

foreign policy reveals the league's new only manual from the pentagon. meant to be kept secret of the destruction notice rees destroyed by any method that will prevent disclosure the manual officially orders behavior it says this away is unlawful including instructing u.s. troops to wear the army uniforms of other countries it also calls to infiltrate civilian groups and train quote guerrilla forces the document concludes such illegal interference in other countries is now the rule for american policy u.s. attacks on iran a quote taking a page from the playbook on ukraine and georgia america's training rainy and terrorists knows the b.b.c. responsible for thousands of assassinations but as soon as the pentagon began funding them hillary clinton took the terrorist group off the official terrorist list basic medicines are being slowed by u.s. sanctions on iran the guardian reports this is pushing literally millions of lives at risk leading war crimes prosecutor professor francis boyle warns iran's children going down the path of iraq u.s. sanctions since th

now reports the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the us government to avoid this investigation says since nineteen ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five trillion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for. nobody can say for sure how many billions of that amount where waste it on goods and services that would never delivered on over payments to contractors and many other things. what does congress do about it. nothing and that secured actress eve myles he is here with me to converse in french to these numbers mean and how it really dollars on camera for a lot of money on that this the kind of thing that you would think would bring capitol hill to a screeching halt to be hearing this kind of almost daily to the various committees looking into that none of that just leafing out the latest in a combi saw all sorts of fraud that you don't know about just one example of when the inspector general of the rock which was in a lot of money but in the grand scheme just a portion of the money the us spends what they found was about fifteen

you know no biased way barred from reading your rights has already been dispatched the pentagon's new military doctrine simply abandoned international principles of sovereignty all the rule of law and washington insider told the site subdural is a myth six nothing less than quote world domination and no independence will be tolerated. we will defeat adversaries and the time place and in the manner of our choosing. our role in the world depends on protecting our forces in distant climates where adversaries may seek to deny us access the pentagon couches the doctrine the lovely sounding phrase responsibility to protect skeptics say it's actually just license to kill richard fuld princeton professor over international law and. the un human rights report really great to speak to you why does the u.s. always make so much resistance from people who supposedly quote protecting this is a great deal of suspicion around the claims of humanitarian intervention is actually. magnifies the. violence and. it has the opposite effect of what is. the opposite effect of what was intended in syria report

trillion dollars goes on accounted for in less than two decades as part of the effort to keep the pentagon running. and friday prayers turned violent in the police dispersed supporters of the ousted president who were protesting against the law restricting demonstrations. and i welcome you watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow. now just as after being released from prison mikhail khodorkovsky is back in the lap of luxury the former oil tycoon was one of russia's richest men before being jailed a decade ago but following his presidential pardon he jumped on a private jet flew to berlin and is now in a five star hotel while our correspondents are following the story in russia and in germany so let's cross live now it's a roll over and lindsay fronts firstly to pay to his in in place a lot of questions being asked here firstly who's picking up this bill for this extravagant first taste of freedom that he seems to be having and secondly how did he get a shanking these are considering he's got a criminal record. he well when it comes to who exactly is picking up the bill we

for the first time in two years, the pentagon should get real budgets of $500 billion a year instead of funded through continuing resolutions. it is also going to get $30 billion in sequester relief. and cut the cost of living adjustments by 1% for working age military retirees, in part to do so. d.o.d. however still faces $70 billion in automatic spending cuts over the next two years. and more cuts are likely as lawmakers work toward a broader deal to cut america's $13 trillion debt. meanwhile talks with iran with the nuclear program, to give it up, in exchange for repealing crushing sanctions could change the region's security dynamic as china raises tensions across the pacific by trying to enforce the claims to the east china sea. joining us today to discuss these issues and more are four of washington's top defense analyst, all of whom happen to be listed on defense news's 100 most influential people in u.s. defense. mackenzie eagland of the american enterprise institute. todd harrison for the center of strategic and budgetary asegments. gordon adams of the simpson center and amer

barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> a great story. what do you think were the top stories of the year? go to cnn.com and to go your top ten choices. you have until midnight eastern time tonight. the top ten will be revealed on monday. here are some of our picks. >> a funnel cloud that has just developed. it appears to be on the ground in oklahoma city. >> it is a populated area. we just fear that not everyone may have gotten the word. >> when i got homey realized there is nothing left of my house. >> luckily the only rooms spared were the rooms we were in. >> we're at the end of a searing day. staring at a neighborhood that is almost unrecognizable. >> that's on me. i mean, we fumbled the rollout on this health care. >> i wanted to have the opportunity to have insurance. i don't have insurance at all. >> we should have done a better job getting that right on day one. >> breaking news, a assumer typhoon is slamming into the philippines right now. >> i don't have the words for it. it is really horrific. it is a great human tragedy. >> th

tri-care for life, there is only so much money, the pentagon gets to run that one. what they are trying to do, they are trying to raise the fees, which have not increased since the 1990's, but the target is really, because you can retire from the military at 40 or 50, which was set up back when, and it is hard. physically, after 20 years of jumping out of airplanes, your knees may not be up to that anymore. maybe you should retire, if you have been a clerk for 20 years, maybe you could go longer. but, most of those guys go on and get another job. they have another career and other health-care coverage. what we are saying, understand the guys who do not have other health-care coverage, we have got them. we will not screw them over. but, some of the guys go on to be defense executives who make a couple hundred grand a year, have really good health care, we will increase your fees, really. not people like our callers, but the focus is on those retirees who have come out and done really well. when we have to have sympathy for the homeless vets and the guys who came out w

you'll never manage the pentagon if you can't measure what you're doing. we don't get an opportunity to offer that. it's smart, good-government amendment. not in there. not ever going to get offered. why? because the majority leader in this body has decided he'll decide what amendments are offered and what won't. this is no longer the greatest deliberative body. this is a mimic of the house of representatives, the exact opposite of what our founders intended the senate to be. you see, their genius was is they created a house of representatives to be responsive to the populist demand of our country. that's why elections were every two years for the house of representatives. and when the senate was first formed, it was an appointed body by the state legislatures. it is for six-years term. and jefferson wrote the rules, are the first rules under which the senate would operate. and the senate was designed to make sure there could never be a tyranny of the majority like we see today. that the minority rights of those in opposition would never be limited. for the

next, "your money" segment focuses on the panic on -- pentagon personnel. breaking news -- american airlines and us airways have completed their merger. they are now ranked as the world's biggest airline. willmerican airlines name live on while us airways will disappear. the merger survived a challenge from the government and criticism from groups who feared it would lead to higher prices. personnel changes in the administration. today is the last day for bruce president biden's chief of staff. he will have the broad foundation. succeeds bruce reed tomorrow. the senate is expected to clear a house passed ill extending for 10 years a ban on entirely plastic ones. also members will resume consideration of the 2014 defense funding bill and vote on the confirmation of patricia and the vote will be the first test of how republicans respond to the democratic changes in filibuster rules. watch live senate coverage on c- span2 at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, or you can listen today live on c-span radio. white house coverage on c-span at noon. those are the latest headlin

atneed to make real changes the pentagon. you have people who are authorizing this who do not want real changes. they like the status quo. ella onat are. -- twitter. i do not always agree with him but i know he would be a great president. any interest? frustration is high enough. it is time for me to go home before i get in real trouble. i have done and been where i am going to be. host: senator coburn's fourth wastebook. you can see that on his website, coburn.senate.gov. you can look through that report of about 100 different examples of waste and unnecessary spending by the government. ken from georgia on our line for republicans. glad tosenator coburn, see you on the program. i have seen you on the other discussingn fox, your latest addition of government waste. -- edition of government waste. as you mentioned, i was just watching a program where there is a move afoot to have an amending constitutional convention of where the states' legislatures have to put forth the idea of amending the constituti

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the pentagon's initiative is designed to drive down costs for the pentagon. numerous executives told me effectively it is reducing profit margin. some say it takes profit margins and cuts them in half. other states even worse than that. the kind of costs the acceable costs and often lower than what your real costs are. what has been the impact of better buying power on your business? >> we haven't seen that impact on the vertical lift programs. what i would say is we spent a lot of time understanding better buying power and understanding what is critical in terms of providing more for less. i think the two we just signed are great examples where we have come together as industry and said you can't expect to get paid the same price you have in the past. so what are you going do in order to be affordable and still be able to live to wall street and quite frankly that is a combination of factory renovations, it is a combination of increased productivity and inefficiencies as well as the earlier analogy to partner fog success and working with our teammates. the c

s inability to audit the pentagon. they wrote that they were unable to do a comprehensive financial analysis due to, and i quote, serious financial management problems at the department of defense that made its financial statements unaudittable, end of quote. that's from the government accountability office. so we are voting for a budget that the g.a.o. says they cannot even audit for the most expensive agency in government. madam president, let me now quote from an article that appeared in the "washington post" on august 29, 2013. the defense budget, a purposefully opaque document, includes what is known as the black budget -- and the information i am providing here comes from the "washington post." $52.6 billion that funds the c.i.a., n.s.a. and other secret intelligence agencies. the c.i.a., n.s.a. and national reconnaissance office received more than 68% of the black budget, with the n.s.a. receiving $10.8 billion annually. at a time when the n.s.a. has been gauging -- been engaging in what i consider to be unconsti

we asked david martin at the pentagon to tell us more about how this happened. >> reporter: the black hawk with seven aboard was one of two american helicopters on a daytime mission in southern afghanistan when it was forced to make a crash landing. what caused it to go down is still unknown, but the second chopper saw no sign of enemy fire. initial reports reaching the pentagon said the crew of the downed aircraft did come under fire as they tried to get out of the helicopter, but military officers in afghanistan have since discounted those reports. exactly how those six americans died remains unclear. one thing is certain: by the time a rescue force could get there, only one aboard was still alive. the loss of six americans was a grim reminder that while their role has switched from combat to training and advising afghan forces, u.s. troops are still in harm's way. it was the worst single day loss for the u.s. in the six months since afghan troops officially took the lead in combat operations. still, u.s. losses are down dramatically. 125 so far this year compared to 310 last year,

the intelligence was fixed in america by the pentagon and by within the pentagon. and the cia reacted against that and tried to fight against it and there is some confusion over the detail there because the cia thought that my six got some stuff from when actually they got some stuff right that stuff particular stuff right. m i six of course relied too heavily because of the political pressure from above on sources which could not take the responsibility could not take that. did not have the or torah to that they were given by m i six calling that thank you and a brit. well. it was where you start putting pressure on people for information then all sorts of things start happening you put stress on the system if you've got an agent who's paid money and you say look we need information urgently he then knows that he can get money for that information and so he comes up with any information he can it's not necessarily in his area of expertise he will have subagents suit people he works for him who also work for money they will be under pressure to come up with informa

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not only did you have the problem in the pentagon of wanting to use force but you had people jumping back from the problem. so this did make it difficult but we did get the options done and i did get over there and almost did ruin my career, i had senator dole told a president of the should be fired. sandy may have helped me keep my position. it was a rocky road. i will say that. a month before i left, any time you want to do anything in this town you have to be prepared to take the heat for it. he had been criticized in congress. i came back, forget congress, it was all over the washington post i disobeyed ambassadors judgment and i had never been told -- i never disobeyed everybody's direction like that. and as we moved through this process it came to the summer of 1995 and they asked me for some input. you never hear about what is happening. you get a little snatch of it. tony is going to do something, what do you think about such and such? i went on the trip because at the pentagon we had heard richard holbrooke might be taking over this delegation and richard holbrooke cast a tal

well i think that in america the cia was bypassed really by the pentagon and you have to remember the pentagon has run at the time by wrong donald rumsfeld who was very very hardline very right wing. defense secretary determined. to use nine eleven to attack iraq from the very start so determined to prove that iraq was a major threat when actually it was a major threat and we do have this problem which didn't just occur with iraq of course it's occurred. with libya as world where countries which weren't major threats we've got involved in wars in which we didn't need to get involved in at all and the intelligence was fixed. in america by the pentagon and by within the pentagon and the cia reacted against that and tried to fight against it and there is some confusion over the detail there because the cia thought that my six got some stuff from when actually they got some stuff right that stuff particular stuff right. m i six of course relied too heavily because of the political pressure from above on sources which could take the responsibility you could not take that. did not have the

we need to make real changes at the pentagon. you have people who are authorizing this who do not want real changes. they like the status quo. host: stella on twitter. i do not always agree with him, but i know he would be a great president. any interest? guest: my frustration is high enough. it is time for me to go home before i get in real trouble. i have done and been where i am going to be. host: senator coburn's fourth wastebook. you can see that on his website, coburn.senate.gov. you can look through that report of about 100 different examples of waste and unnecessary spending by the government. ken from georgia on our line for republicans. caller: senator coburn, glad to see you on the program. i have seen you on the other programs, on fox, discussing your latest edition of government waste. as you mentioned, i was just watching a program where there is a move afoot to have an amending constitutional convention of where the states' legislatures have to put forth the idea of amending the constitution. this would be to get te