u.s. intelligence community. not just raw intelligence, there are pieces of that.really puts together, probably better than any other document on earth what it all means, what the future implications can be and what the strategic concerns are. >> why is it -- it does sound so scary day after day. most of it goes nowhere, amounts to nothing. most of the threats don't materialize. >> it's not because -- it's not an accident. the idea is when you've got that type of collection, you've got that kind of indicators and warning, you're able to influence those events, either by stopping the threat, shutting it down, capturing the people, arresting them or otherwise making it not happen. and if you look at a decade after 9/11 without a significant 9/11-style or level attack on u.s. soil, that has been because of a lot of very effective work. but, and i have to underline there, there's a couple of places where we were just plain lucky and should have done better. >> let's talk about al qaeda in particular. what's your judgment on the state of al qaeda after the death of bin

u.s. intelligence called it the u.s. ratline for smuggling out spies and intelligence personnel. it was the same system and one of the famous classes is klaus who was gestapo officer in leon, in france. was wanted for war crimes in france, and instead of being tried and convicted he was recycled by the u.s. intelligence services, especially by the cic to fight the communists, especially the german communists and the communists in france. he was considered useful like so many others and recycled for intelligence purposes in the early cold war. and you see here it was the same system. once he was not considered useful anymore, he became too dangerous. the french were knowing too much where he was hiding, that he was living and maybe was used by u.s. intelligence. they brought him to south america, they used the same system i just explained. he was brought to italy, he got travel documents from the international red cross. he got a new name, became an ethnic german -- stateless, of course. this was the precondition for being able to get these travel documents from the red cross. and

u.s. intelligence officials consider the most dangerous current threat to the united states -- al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. u.s. officials tell nbc news, a ship that departed iran several days ago carrying weapons, food and other supplies was intercepted by the indian navy off the coast of mumbai over the weekend. the ship, which had a crew of several yemeni nationals and at least one somali, was headed to yemen. and officials believe it was bringing goods to the terror group. one official acknowledged there weren't many arms on board when the ship was stopped, but said it's common for crews to throw weapons overboard when military vessels approach. >>> back at home, the nation continues to mourn the five victims of saturday's tragic stage collapse at the indiana state fair. at a memorial service on the state fairgrounds yesterday morning, hundreds gathered to remember friends and family who were lost. afterwards, the state fair did reopen, however, a fireworks display and scheduled concerts by janet jackson and lady antebellum were canceled, officials continue to investigate. >>> no

u.s. intelligence warned of possible al qaeda attacks by terrorist scuba divers.s these dolphins are trained to detect. today as part of the navy's marine mammal program dolphins are actively deployed to detect nuclear submarines on the east and west coasts and can be sent anywhere in the world in 72 hours, wherever the enemy threatens. the navy has seen firsthand how vulnerable their ships can be at anchor. 17 sailors were killed when the "uss cole" was attacked in 2000. two years later u.s. intelligence warned of possible al qaeda attacks by terrorist scuba divers. divers these dolphins are trained to detect. today as part of the navy's marine mammal program dolphins are actively deployed to detect nuclear submarines on the east and west coasts and can be sent anywhere in the world in 72 hours, wherever the enemy threatens. now i'll be that enemy diver. i've come to the point low manned naval base to see if i can beat the dolphin at its own game. my opponent will be more of the 75 dolphins stationed here. but before i can test this dolphin's skills in the water,

u.s. intelligence, tom drake never imagined he'd be labeled an enemy of the united states. as a young airman, he flew spy missions in the cold war. in the navy-- here with president clinton-- he analyzed intelligence for the joint chiefs at the pentagon. later, he worked for defense contractors in the highly technical world of electronic eavesdropping. he became expert in sophisticated, top secret computer software, and ultimately rose, in 2001, to a senior executive job at the national security agency. >> thomas drake: my first day on the job was 9/11. >> pelley: your first day on the job was 9/11? >> drake: was 9/11. nsa went into immediate crisis management mode. we had failed to protect the united states of america. >> pelley: you felt that was a failure of the national security agency? >> drake: the entire national security establishment. it was a failure, a fundamental systemic breakdown. >> pelley: part of the failure at the national security agency was in its old technology. these pictures from "60 minutes" in 2001 represent one of the only times cameras have ever be

u.s. intelligence reports.ty that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al qaeda in pursuing a nuclear bomb. sfroo president musharraf's initial reaction was men in caves can't do this. that's what we expected. it's the same incredulity we all felt. >> it's part of a two-part series that starts next tuesday night. it's called day of destruction, decade of war. been working on it for a long time with richard, and we're both really proud of it. hope you'll watch. be right back. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. look at all this stuff for coffee.

u.s. intelligence indicates libyan's raw nuclear materials are secure despite the battles. they have fuel and food. >>> the man they believe beat a san rafael man unconscious last week at candlestick park. the suspect is described as pacific islander, between 25 and 30 years old, 6'3" and 6'5", weighing 265 with a goatee and a ponytail. he slammed the victim into the wall. he's been steadily improving at the hospital. he was reportedly shielding a restroom stall so his sister could use the facilities. that night also included two shootings, multiple brawls and a dozen arrests. >>> nearly two dozen san jose firefighters were welcomed back to work. they were rehired and retained last month but officially returned to the department tomorrow. the staffing for adequate fire and emergency response federal grant provided $15 million to rehire the firefighters. they were among 49 laid off last august before and because of budget cuts. >>> a new study looks at the ongoing debate over the safety of children's vaccines. the federal government commissioned an independent panel of exper

u.s. intelligence so badly misjudged iraq's capabilities before the war having president holding all the cards putting all the people having everybody accountable to him is a very bad idea if i would care to try to operationalize some of the common side made about what was going wrong in iraq and so i said if you among other things that if you're going to do this you've got to treat it like an intelligence problem and that is not go looking for hidden weapons but going looking for the people who would be associated with hidden weapons one of the first things that worried me was we had a big army running through iraq in march and april. w m d was not used against them . nor was it found that sort of remarkable if they had had large stockpiles i really believe in the jungle telegraph put the word out on the street let people know what you're about and what you have to offer and usually you'll get people coming to you around a weapons program of a weapons program exists you're going to find people people engaged in the production of technology engineering design people involved in protecting the

u.s. that they sometimes try to manipulate us to our ends which would be a shocking thing for an intelligence agency to do. [laughter] more, you know, so we do have a cooperation with the mossad, but it's also edgy. the broader question of the israeli/u.s. connection this foreign policy is a very tricky one, and when you address this kind of thing as i have, you have to be really, really careful because you're going to make somebody mad. but, you know, there certainly has been an effort on behalf of support of israel here in the united states to make a -- confine the discussion of the u.s. national interest vis-a-vis israel under very narrow bounds because, um, you know, they are supporters of israel pure and simple, and that's fine. i try to distinguish when i talk about this between our profound to commitment to israel's right to exist, you know, and to never forget what happened which is, i think, a moral commitment of the highest order. and the indulgence of the particular policy of any particular israeli government vis-a-vis our national interests. i certainly think we have a deep moral

u.s. intelligence monitoring group says the posting urges followers to "cut the tongue" of the tv star becausee about al qaeda. >>> straight ahead your thursday morning weather, and in sports, shades of willie mays as the twins ben revere makes some sensational catches. slap! slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums use the hand towel analyzer at kleenex.com and find out what could be on your cloth hand towel. [ ribbits ] upgrade to kleenex hand towels for a clean, fresh towel every time. these are our ocean spray sparkling juice drinks in cranberry and pomegranate blueberry. they have bubbles and come in these really cool cans. it's real fruit juice, crisp sparkling water, and no added sugar. comes in diet, too. it's refreshing, tasty -- the whole family will love it. you want one? i'll wait a bit. all right. mmm. refreshing. real juice. real bubbly. find it in the juice aisle. you feel it working, so you know it's working. and that means you

u.s. intelligence indicates that saddam hussein had upwards of thirty thousand munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. spector's recently turned up sixteen of them despite the racks recent declaration. denying their existence and then they tried to use the fact that inspectors found sixteen of these as evidence that they had thousands more existed and again i mean it's as a methodology it's a very weak way to predict anything and i think it borders on propaganda to argue that there's a small number that have been found by inspectors imply that. in this case of the nine thousand exist so don the same is not accounted for the remaining twenty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four of these prohibited munitions but this way bush administration officials knew the routinely sad or tried to give the impression that if iraq had not fully accounted for all of a certain item and related to their chemical or biological weapons then it must be either and it's not at all what the inspectors sad or found saddam hussein had material sufficient to produce more than thirty eight thousand liters but h

u.s. intelligence agencies have been working with us on bin ladin all the way up till september eleventh two thousand and one there's michael springman a u.s. government official working in the embassy of saudi arabia that whistleblowers how the cia was ordering him to approve passports to known al qaeda terrorists inside the united states there's also of course lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer who came up about the able danger programs which two point five terabytes of information were destroyed concealed by pentagon officials now these whistleblowers and many others were ignored by the mainstream media or gagged or punished by the government for speaking out but still to this day there is no accountability for the many lies that we were told to us on that day one of the biggest ones has to be that the air was safe to breed down a ground zero now it takes only one nanoparticle of espresso snus to create lung cancer and the buildings were filled with a specialist but first responders was too ordered by their superiors not to wear proper breathing equipment were just given a regular paper m

u.s. intelligence agencies presumably to deal with jihadi threats but you know you never know exactly what the end goal is so are there other examples of corporate america using this. sure we actually did not precisely this tactic but we caught the company koch industries hiring a firm in alexandria virginia called new media strategies and what new media strategies would do was have their staffers create numerous comment section. identities. identities and handles on wikipedia to basically set the frame of the debate write comments to news stories scrub. stories they didn't write off we could p.t.o. that sort of thing that's absolutely extraordinary and you know we've been saying this for so long here and i've been yelling about it for some time it's it's great to see. you guys at the center for american progress and others finally nailing it down leave thanks so much for joining us tonight. thanks for covering this issue it's very hard to to find people that are really ok i get attention so i appreciate it i think it's i think it's one of those important things going on late thanks again

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u.s. intelligence says most of the army continues to believe the use of force against their own people is justified. officials also say the protests are not yet big enough or organized enough to pose a threat to the regime. but they are not going away, and assad is, in the words of one senior u.s. official, in lots of trouble. >> pelley: thank you, david. there was trouble in afghanistan today. a nato service member was killed by a roadside bomb. it was a terrible week: 41 americans died this week, most in saturday's shin knock helicopter cras...chinook helic. for the u.s., the way out of afghanistan depends upon training afghans to fight their own battles. american taxpayers have spent more than $27 billion on that training and we asked seth done to go to violent kandahar province to see if it's working. >> reporter: on the front lines, there's more than just fighting. training 170,000 soldiers of the afghan national army is essential as president obama hopes afghanistan will add an additional 100,000 afghan troops by 2015. to create an army of more than a quarter million that can stand

u.s. intelligence satellite reconnaissance and other physical tests in the disputed territory between yemen and saudi arabia to feed the entire world economy for the next fifty years that's only one example somalia is another one the world is swimming in oil we're running into oil not running out of it so again i say this is a political a geo political question american power since one thousand nine hundred five has rested on control of oil control of oil everywhere and how that middle east situation develops is going to have a massive impact on that but that's a political question not a resource question michael if i hear your answer the question peter is yes they want to sell oil all right dr michael if i can go to you irrespective irrespectively anybody irrespective if you agree in the peak oil theory or not it let's put that aside right now it's still going to be an issue of price and the input political turbulence will always for exporters drive up the price i mean again the kind of in the program where we began i mean how we last accused that when we going through in a recovery i mean