acknowledged stressed that some of the science in thee years, a lot of science was not funded. 2009, the then new ciaector and defense secretary, leon panetta, opened the center to specifically focus on a links between climate change and national security. >> our story found that the center is catching up on efforts that were put behind during the bush years. >> although much of the work is classified, the center is helping to fill in gaps and provide the intel that the policymakers can act on. >> they are wondering -- ok, we have these global forecasts for how climate change will affect the world, even regional forecasts, but what does that mean for nigeria? egypt? what will it mean for water supplies along the nile? water flow between pakistan and afghanistan? pakistan and india? are linkingnalysts regional climate projections with political demographic information. through the national academy of sciences the cia is working with leading climatologists. >> folks within the community have spoken more and more frequently about climate change as a risk. the security community thinks of it as a risk. e

the air the cia is not ruling out an act of terror as this mystery deepens. we've got the latest on the stolen passports, the errant flight path, and the passengers. >>> and then a news anchor having a panic attack on live television. >> it is too early to prescribe statins solely for cancer -- >> how my on-air meltdown sparked a personal breakthrough and set me on a bizarre, eye-opening journey from mega churches to self-help gurus to the vanguard of neuroscience. and ultimately to the secret to happiness. with katy perry, russell simmons, and the founders of twitter, even the marines. what we all now know that could help everyone get a little bit happier, at least 10% happier. >> announcer: keep it right here, america. "nightline" is back in just 60 seconds. >>> good evening. we begin tonight with the latest on the baffling and evolving story of malaysia airlines flight 370, which disappeared en route to beijing with 239 souls on board. in the hours before we've come on the air there have been new developments but still no plane. here's abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross with the mystery of flight 370. >> reporter: tonight the mystery deepened, with

detailing as it seemed to calm the man that cannot be given a sum of ninety two and a new combat i'd love to do the statement to say some bad teeth and then braved the basis that the cia i think i had to finally be cooling and the program today. note the listening to two of you and your sharing your stories together. there's a lot of people you know that i cannot help but wondering that you know if in the future. dad you know you place on your relationship. note that loan note are you able to fill between the two of you know what we're likely to see more more exchanges and he'll use it and also with little closer relations between the two sides and belvoir some of the state you can recommend. no photos featured a new people. no soap or fatalities. i want you first when i accidentally olive ink and my family and friends to come he tied it with the event at women says that this could not see it was a bit difficult for hepatitis that i just said i just tied to that yet because it's the one good thing going was to have new things exploring new things and off place on sat the same for my timing was unbalanced and then you have to come back and one of my professors his amer

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., got a call from "the new yorker" and he said, we know what you're going to be doing the next year. you will be working on the cia, the bush administration, the middle east. he thengave us over a four-year period the best look at what was taking place in the middle east that you could find anywhere at all. hersh has been for many years what a journalist should become a pariah, gaslight constantly indignant, an independent source of information, so that it gets below the surface behind closed doors and tells us what things are really like. that's why he's so controversial, why he's been so revered and reviled. a funny story after the abu ghraib story appeared there was a protest in london, and a little girl at this protest holding a sign and the sign said, protect seymour hersh the last independent journalist in the world. sy got a chuckle out of that one. is he the greatest american investigative reporter? the debate and the fight to get is those people who believe it's bob woodward and most people believe it's seymour hersh. i think it's an apples and oranges comparison because woodward tells us inside stories from the top. he gets access to the whole of our and

about the program and then last tuesday things got real interesting as you claim that the cia had taken. action against the senate intelligence committee get this according to both mcclatchy and new york times the cia secretly monitored the senate intelligence committee itself to find out how the committee obtained the internal cia review according to numerous documents and individuals declined to be identified the agency actually hacked into the computers used by senate aides to write and prepare the study and in retrospect it now seems like senator ron wyden another member of the intelligence committee was trying to get the cia to admit the illegality of its actions back in january yes cia director john brennan if the federal computer fraud abuse act applied to his own agency that law makes it a criminal act to intentionally acts as a computer without authorization and in fact other parties have faced decades in prison for violating it shockingly brennan who promised last year to make declassification of the report and top priority finally admitted five days ago that the act did indeed apply to the cia essentially indicting someone in his agency now since these revelations the

fact, we were briefed by then-cia director hayden only hours before president bush disclosed the program to the public. a little more than a year later, on december 6, 2007, a new york times article revealed the troubling fact that the cia had destroyed videotapes of some of the cia's first interrogations using so-called enhanceed techniques. we learned that this destruction was over the objections of president bush's white house counsel and the director of national intelligence. after we read, excuse me, read about the tapes, of the destruction in the newspapers, director hayden briefed the senate intelligence committee. he assured us that this was not destruction of evidence, as detailed records of the interrogations existed on paper. in the form of cia operational cables describing the detention conditions and the day-to-day cia interrogations. the cia director stated that these cables were, quote: a more than adequate representation, end quote, of what would have been on the destroyed tapes. director hayden offered at that time during senator jay rockefeller's chairmanship of the committee to allow members or staff review these sensitive cia operational cab

and then security consultant, former cia counter-terrorism officer, fbi special agent, delta force officer, now a professor of national security studies at the university of new haven. great credentials in a situation where it's very difficult to know much. let's deal with why there's confidence. three days old? jeff, why are we only hearing about it now? how does it work? >> well, first of all, we have to make sure that whoever took the satellite imagery is confident that it's not going to compromise their true capabilities before they disseminate that information. so, in fact, they may even have degraded the image before they pass it on. >> what does that mean? >> that would mean if they had more clarity on the image, they may have decided to say we're going to dumb that image down a little bit and not make it look like we could read a label on a basketball or something. people don't want to give away their national level capability to use satellite imagery because it has wartime, you know, consequences. >> so that's part of what they're dealing with in this investigation. 26 countries are cooperating. you believe there is reason to be guarded about what yo