u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing them as acts of self harm who. tool chair has been replaced with and hunched interrogation techniques and when it comes to the natori practice of waterboarding hunger strikes and i long to know malaysia's fossum force feeding is called medical management of prisoners with white loss professor mark denbeaux whose probe into the two thousand and two thousand and six deaths cost times on the official story at the fence what we have is compelling evidence however of the men they didn't appear to have done in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is that there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and alternatives including several walking the short little corridor presently and videos and if you read through that the n.c.i. as investigators for you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic

u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing then as acts of self harm the word torture has been replaced with and interrogation techniques when it comes to the notorious practice of waterboarding not to mention hunger strikes that guantanamo officials now named long term nonreligious fasts meanwhile the painful force feeding procedure on those hunger strikers is being labeled as internal feeding all the medical management of prisoners with weight loss we spoke to professor mark denbeaux whose probe into the two thousand and six deaths casts doubt on the official story of events what we have is compelling evidence however of the men they didn't appear in the manner that the government claims the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide. and the problem with that is there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and alternatives including several walking the short little corridor costly and videos and if you read through the n.c.a. as investigators. you would read that t

u.s. department of defense estimates their ability to move material is 90% dependent upon the confidence they have in cyberspace. most of the production and acquisition occurs in that sector. most of transportation occurs in the private sector. there are no warehouses. everything is choreographed by cyberspace. that is a huge dependence. you need to think about wealth and treasure being dependent on that and other things dependent upon that space. >> getting more specific, tapping your many years at nsa, what is the most frightening cyber issue you ran into on wall street? i think many of you experienced this alongside the and 2013t in 2012 where there were a denial of service attacks on the financial infrastructure of the united states. london and sydney also suffered some of this. what was surprising was the rate at which the adversary, i think it was attributed to the iranians. the u.s. government is more circumspect about naming names. the rate at which they could up the ante, scale up. telecommunications providers provide the backbone to provide a level of service to serve so many custom

department of the army tasks u.s. army south with the lead for phase three reintegration. u.s. army south has received tremendous support from the u.s. department of defense as well as my immediate higher headquarters, the united states southern command and u.s. european command who will lead for phase one the initial recovery and phase two, decompression of reintegration. i would also like to thank our experts from brooke army medical center in the joint personnel recovery agency. they make our reintegration mission here possible. u.s. army south has conducted this important mission six times previously. i cannot emphasize enough that reintegration phase is a culmination of herculean efforts that have taken place across the united states for a long time. this clearly demonstrates our nation is committed to never leaving a comrade behind. it is also my erb mr. you aplea to have colonels on my left and right, both reintegration experts. >> thank you. i would remind you, when it's time to have your question, once acknowledged for the roving mikes, make sure you direct your question to an individual at the panel. and with that, we'll start on the left side o

u.s. military still refuses to release updates on the ongoing detainee hunger strikes at the facility language is an important part of the president's p.r. attempts in two thousand and two the u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts calling them acts of self harm the word torture has been replaced with the enhanced interrogation techniques hunger strikes autonomy fishel is now labeled them a long term non-religious fast painful force treating procedure on those hunger strikers as being called internal feeding or medical management of prisoners with weight loss but what's more after all of this softening of reality professor markdown bo who investigated deaths at the facility in two thousand and six told us it's virtually impossible to commit suicide there. what we have is compelling evidence that however of the men they didn't appear to have done in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is that there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and all times including several walking the short little corridor presi

u.s. department of defense has teamed up with universities and social science researchers to study the dynamics of civil unrest both abroad and at home it's being called the minerva research initiative many scientists educators and activists fear the initiative could not only lead to the militarization of the study of social sciences but that the information gained from the research could be used by the military to control and to stifle ideological and grassroots driven movements like the occupy wall street movement with us today to shed shed some light on the minerva initiative and the military's use of social sciences is professor of anthropology and sociology socio lot so theology at st martin's university david price thanks for joining us professor now i'm glad to be here the minerva research initiative was started back in two thousand and eight and just this year it received one hundred seventeen million dollars from congress professor please walk us through how this initiative works what are its goals and what does the military hope to gain from this initiative. well as you said the miner

u.s. department of defense has teamed with universities and social science research or is to study the dynamics of civil unrest both abroad and here at home it's being called the minerva research initiative many scientists educators and activists though fear that the initiative could not only need to the militarization of the study of social sciences but that the information gained from the research could be used by the military to control and stifle ideological and grassroots driven movements like occupy wall street to shut some light on the minerva initiative i was joined earlier by david price a professor of anthropology and sociology at st martin's university i first asked him how the initiative works and what the military hopes to gain from it. well as you said the minerva initiative started in two thousand and eight it started with very modest funding around four million dollars it was announced by then secretary of defense robert gates with the idea being that the defense department would try and use social scientists and other academics in american universities to research . issues and

u.s. department of defense. the department of defense would neither confirm nor deny their accuracy. the fact bergdahl was released in exchange for five suspects detained at guantanamo does raise concerns for some. >> reporter: it really is no surprise that the taliban have wanted to get and have been able to get some of their own prisoners released in exchange for bowe bergdahl. this has been one of their key demands. five people being held by the united states in guantanamo bay. they wanted them released. they've done this with the afghan government. they've done it with the pakistan government. capturing officials, demanding then that their own fighters be released. these five men formerly held in guantanamo bay. one was a former interior minister. one was a former deputy defense minister. one was a former deputy head of intelligence. another one was a governor of several provinces. they were all active during the civil war period in afghanistan where the taliban was trying to take control of the country before 9/11. according to u.s. officials, none of these men are believed to h

u.s. department of defense. est names in the history of aviation began as bicycle makers, the wright brothers, glen curtis, appropriate that dr. paul mccready was the first to cross the english channel in a human-powered aircraft, and he started aerovironment. and vision continues today. mentioned the bp contract, it's this company they're getting the $250,000 puma drone for. the company has a lot of great businesses, charging batteries for electric cars, they do work in fuel cells, solar power cars and clean energy. drone business came in at 57 million. up 53% year-over-year, energy businesses are up 24%. business is doing well, the guidance was okay. they were actually ahead of the street but the negative were the margins, gross margins were robust but below expectations two, dynamics i want you to take a look at that are work right now. the stocks since they posted earnings is in the short-term downturn. nearing a very important support point, keep that in mind. see this number used to be resistance and on the

u.s. department of defense.t's interesting what you said about american special forces there not turning their back on the taliban. the paschtu language commentary that overruns this video also says that the taliban didn't entirely entrust their enemy as well. that's why they say they took 18 armed taliban fighters with them, because they say you cannot entirely trust your enemy. so, it was a mutual distrust between the two sides, but as you say, the handoff apparently went across without incident and very peacefully. sergeant bergdahl looking gaunt, his head shaven. the first question that was asked, according to this taliban voiceover that runs throughout, commentary of this video, is that the special forces asked the taliban what the condition was, what the health situation was of the american soldier, and they said tell the truth if he's ill. and the taliban said he seems fine. now, that's in contradiction to what u.s. officials here at the landstuhl regional medical facility here in southern germany have be

the department of defense says it was the u.s. tary, along with enforcement, law enforcement personnel believed to be the fbi who captured khatallah on sunday, the department of defense says there were no civilian casualties and that all u.s. military personnel are out of libya where that capture was made. we have a statement now from the white house press secretary, saying the fact that he, khatallah, is in u.s. custody, is a testament to the painstaking efforts of our law enforcement and intelligence personnel. because of their courage and professionalism the individual will now face the full weight of the american justice system. now, khatallah has denied being involved in the attacks. in fact, he held sort i've gloating press conference about a month after those deadly attacks, but he has been charged three counts here in the united states and he is expected to be brought back to the u.s. for his trial. in fact, the justice department has also released a statement saying now this capture is a milestone. they that i that khatall

u.s. department of defense estimates their ability to move matÉriel from place a to play. >> is 90% dependenton faith competence they have in cyberspace. even the coronation of transportation occurs in the private sector and they have gone so far to take all of the slop out of the system. everything is exclusively choreographed by cyberspace. you need to think you're not just wealth treasure but vital processes that constitute your competitive advantage. they are also dependent upon that base. >> to get more specific topping your many years that nsa was the most frightening cyber issue you have run into on wall street as an attacker will not go the? >> i think many of you have experienced this alongside the government plan in 2013 there were series of denial-of-service attacks on the financial infrastructure in the united states and by extension london and sydney. what was surprising at that moment in time was the rate at which the adversary the "washington post" attributed this to the iranians i think the u.s. government is more circumspect about naming names but let's say the iranians hypot

base san antonio fort sam houston because the department of defense assigned the department of the army the lead and the department of the army then tasked u.s. army south with the lead for phase three reintegration. u.s. army south has received tremendous support from the department of the defense as well as my immediate headquarters, united states southern command and also u.s. european command and united states central command, who were lead for phase one, the initial recovery, and phase two, decompression and reintegration. i would also like to thank our experts from brook army medical center and the joint personnel recovery agency. they make our reintegration mission here possible. u.s. army south has conducted this important mission six times previously. i cannot emphasize enough that reintegration phase is a culmination of herculean efforts that have taken place over a long period of time across the united states government's interagency and combat and command. this clearly demonstrates from our commander in chief on down, our nation is committed to never leaving a comrade behind. it is also my pleasure to have colonel ron wahl on my

joint base san antonio for sam houston because the department of defense assigned the department of the army the lead and department of the army then tasked u.s. army south with the lead for phase three reintegration. u.s. army south has received tremendous support from the department of the defense, as well as my immediate higher headquarters, the united states southern command, and also u.s. european command, and united central command who were lead for phase one the initial recovery, and phase two, decompression of reintegration. i would also like to thank our experts from brook army medical center and the joint personnel recovery agency. they make our reintegration mission here possible. u.s. army south has conducted this important mission six times previously. i cannot emphasize enough that reintegration phase is the culmination of herculean efforts that have taken place over a long period of time across the united states government's interagency and the combatant command. this clearly demonstrates from our commander in chief on down our nation is committed to never leaving a comrade behind. it is also my pleasure to have colonel ron wol

of increased critical in to us as aimportance nation. even as u.s. cyber command operates networks within the department of defense, i have been tasked are the president and the secretary of defense to provide capabilities to support civilian teammates in trying to deal with many of these challenges, particularly those working in critical infrastructure. to do that, we have to partner closely. our primary partners are the department of homeland security and the federal bureau of investigation. as well as his key corporate entities that are potentially receiving some of these attacks or attempts to intrude on their systems are denied their ability to operate some of their public interfaces. threat that icant think might be coming from a foreign entity. do i deal with that on my own? do i call the nsa? dry call homeland security? -- do i call homeland security? what i would urge any corporation to do, i would urge you to reach out to the department of homeland security and share what you are seeing. congress, we are debating if there is legislation we can enact that would divide a means -- that would provide a means

of the fighting, five american troops were killed. possibly by a u.s. air strike. in a statement, the department of defense says -- this satu phonso van marsh cbs news. (suggesd tag: if confirmed this wille one of the deadliest friend fire incidents for coalition an nearly 14 ye >> reporter: the taliban has claimed responsibility for attacking the troops. this year, 36 nato soldiers have been killed in afghanistan. eight in june. the deaths come just weeks after president barack obama visited afghanistan and announced plans to remove all u.s. troops by 2016. >> america's war in afghanistan will come to a responsible end. [ sirens ] >> reporter: insurgents have intensified attacks on afghan and foreign forces ahead of the country's presidential election runoff this saturday. alphonso van marsh, cbs news. >> if confirmed this would be one of the worst friendly fire incidents for coalition forces since the war began nearly 13 years ago. >>> new at noon, a major court ruling against teachers tenure in california. today a superior court judge in los angeles ruled in favor of nine students saying tenure is uncon

u.s. estimates 10,000 militants in iraq and syria are joining the fight. let's go to time name ma elbagi. >> we're getting a broader sense of what the u.s. has already been providing, the department of defense paper that's been released to us shows there are between 30 to 35 manned and unmanned flights going over iraq, gathering intelligence, bidding a broader picture of what's going on in the ground. in addition, course, we have that aircraft carrier on the coast. and two vessels with the capacity for guided missile, if and when an air strike is deemed necessary. but the reality on the ground seems to be what is emerging is almost a new reality. in iraq, redrawn along sectarian lines where the sunni areas are increasingly falling under militant control. and the shiite areas just about still remain in the grip of the government but it is now, of course, miguel, all about baghdad. and we understand that the iraqi government finding that it can't fight on two fronts is restiend further reinforce the capital. this is now the red line not just for the iraqis, but also for the international community. for the u.s. and for the other allies out there in the world. miguel. >> yeah, it is a huge pro

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the disintegrating security there on artie's in then. and scoff and. money and bill to get a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of scoff and we've got to worry about i want to pay off our our pension bell the oil is as base can get taxes and roll tears from it. you know the all prices dropping from the four you can base your entire. you know your tire color me on oil with we together through war and peace. people as fanatics but in for what it's worth this is a vast states for the for the united states and we want to break with that and everything that that means but we all we want to say that we want to have influence we want to have influence with partners there with the economy in britain is being run just know is leading towards massive inequality on a historic scale and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september. to apologize that this report was actually about scottish independence we get onto that story shortly

u.s. department of defense's own quadrennial defense review, this is the document that defines the department's strategic objectives and potential military threats, declared the threat of climate change is a serious national security vulnerability that could enable terrorist activity. the quadrennial definance review specifically states, and i quote, the pressures cause by climate change will influence resource competition while placing additional burdens on economies, societies, and government institutions around the worrell. the results will be a higher demand for american troops abroad, even as we struggle to deal with the devastating impacts caused by flooding and, treatment weather events here at whom. climate change is also a new form of stress on our military readiness. the navy, for example, estimates of its 6 its -- 128 installations just at the norfolk naval yard alone will be affected by the one meter rise in sea level which we have to anticipated. we recently had to spnd $240 million to double deck four of its peers -- pierce down at the norfolk naval base so they could make the str

u.s. based on facts from the department of defense the cia and the intelligence community. the new memo indicates that the us military and cia had planned to capture al hakim but said it would not be feasible at that time it also acknowledges that while a strike deprives a u.s. citizen of standard due process the imminent threat of violence to other americans overwhelms that right and redacted from the forty one page long memo was an explanation into how the strikes would not violate the fourth amendment while al locky is allegedly the only american targeted by the u.s. three other citizens have been killed by u.s. drone strikes in yemen one of those was al hakim is teenage son. and still ahead here on our t.v. after months of clashes is there a chance for peace in the ukraine and like he has activists have agreed to a cease fire more on that after the break. on marinating in the financial world. to see these developments i mean i'm going to see them slowly take. me like they're obviously. be martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear any right other big story

process is done in san antonio because the department of defense assigned the department of the army the lead, and the department of the army been tasked u.s. army south with the lead for phase three reintegration. u.s. army south has received tremendous support from the department of defense as well as my immediate higher headquarters united states southern command, and also u.s.-european command and united central command, who relieved for phase one initial recovery and phase two, initial decompression. i would also like to thank our expert from brooke army medical center. they make our reintegration mission here possible. u.s. army south has conducted this important mission six times previously. i cannot emphasize enough that reintegration phase is a culmination of herculean efforts to have taken place over a long period of time across the united 's interagencyent and combatant commands. this clearly demonstrates from our commander in chief on down our nation is committed to never leaving a comrade behind. to bealso my pleasure joined by two reintegration experts. >> thank you, sir, and with that, i would just remind you that when it is

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien he was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed this in the disintegrating security they're an r.t.s. in that you now hear of instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed now it's gone of the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now they're taking actually they're actually they've got for all practical purposes running in burra province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility should put on the iraqi government here. well you are actually governments and carpet and it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was that was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was unde

of extremists having seized u.s. army hardware that was supplied to iraq by america michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contracts are in iraq discuss the country's disintegrating security situation with a missile now a host of sees in the now. you now have instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed you know it's going to the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now you're taking actually land there they're actually they vote for all practical purposes running and our province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility supporting the iraqi government here when we were actually governments and competent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force the maliki you know is the shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept the lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unles

u.s. defense department stopped reporting suicide attempts categorizing them as acts of self harm also guards don't torture people instead they conduct enhanced interrogation techniques when it comes to the notorious practice of waterboarding hunger strikes are now long term and non-religious fast and force feeding is cold the medical management of prisoners with weight loss we talked to professor mark down bow who's probe into the two thousand and six deaths cast doubt on the official version of events. we have compelling evidence that however of the men they didn't appear to have done in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and if you read through that the n.c.a.a.'s investigators for you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and there are more there's you know if you have five gurn scardino or eighteen to twenty people and three of them. are flipped hanging in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael bryant who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the worsening security situation there on artie's in the now iraqi government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his horse day things like this never happened the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept the lid on a wall of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqi the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam and more news coming your way after the break including the looming deadline for ukraine's gas debt. well dreams with. thirty four countries been building billion euro zone says of each one million degrees with some token much fuel to sell from st petersburg to france the trouble in situ the

u.s. service men and women were there and department of defense believes as many as 600 people may have beenilled, u.s., blood on their hands through their actions in iraq. you're working against iran and the united states have counter interests in syria right now. the only ones that really want to put a hurt on the people who are -- is, again, this rising al qaeda army, is our arab league partners and so listen. we need to give breathing room for political reconciliation. i believe that. to do that you have to have fair ly decisive wins for against isis, al qaeda army operating in iraq and eastern syria. we can do that. this is not too fragile to put back together. the frustration with our arab league partners is saying this for three years and asking for three years worth of help. now's the time. we should reengage that and hopefully have quick halting disruptive-type activity to stop their assault on baghdad. >> do you have a reaction to the arrest of ahmed abu khattala on benghazi, the mbenbenghazi susp finally arrested over the weekend by special forces? >> a little bit of a bright spot

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which best the department of defense program that transfers weapons in vehicles and all this equipment to police departments for free this is reaching every state all fifty states for u.s. territories almost five billion dollars worth of equipment has been handed out since this program was an acted. no one is. from the us now are these equipment that the police departments are getting are they i'm hearing that they're hand me downs from our ending wars and they're coming back and just getting redistributed is that right that's exactly right and we do have to look at the root causes of this why is there so much excess equipment in the first place because that's exactly what this program does of when there's something that that sure that the department of defense doesn't want or doesn't need they hand it down although i will say that a certain percentage has been shown to actually be brand new equipment that's never been used so that tells us something about the level of defense contracts that were purchasing so it's not necessarily pre-owned we'll call them pre-owned stuff that was used in say afghanistan this is extra stuff that was laying around that the d.o.d. had in

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the worsening security there on artie's in the. iraqi government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his worst day things like this never happened the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqi the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam now the campaign to convince the people of scotland as to whether they should stick or split with britain has gathered pace and we've got more on this story plus of the niece and a couple of minutes. debating american foreign policy is there one any more traditionally the political left and right and clearly d

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael bryant who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the worsening security there on artie's in the now. iraqi government's incompetent it's inept put you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was that was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his horse day things like this never happened the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of iraq that the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam now with hours remaining before the deadline expires for a gas deal between russia and ukraine to be signed we examine what's at stake if the negotiations fail and that more it's coming your way very shortly. that we will be pardoned by the enormous pardon of laws rules and regulations which you know cau

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department of defense, the department of justice, gsa, and the department of state. i have, in turn, appointed fema administrator craig fugate to serve as the federal coordinating official for that u.s. governmentwide effort. in this effort, our goal is to quickly and safely transport the unaccompanied children out of cbp custody into the hands of hhs, supplementing the process all along the way in a safe and humane manner into ultimately a safe and secure environment that is in the best interest of the child pursuant to the requirements of the law. fema has dedicated 70 people full time to coordinating this effort. on top of that, folks from across agencies of our government are working around the clock to address the effort. number three, we're looking for more space for processing and temporary shelter. the department of defense has loaned us lacklan air base to house kids before hhs finds guardians, ft. sill in oklahoma, hhs also is using a dod fa siltd in ventura, california, to deal with the processing of influx of people into south texas. we're also sending unaccompanied children to arizona for processing and p then to hhs. gsa is also assisting in the efforts to identify add