yemen is already one of the most heavily armed nations in the world. believe that unemployment has been one of the reasons for the increase in al qaeda presence in yemen yemen yes. you said the government had a plan to combat al qaeda in yemen and you did take steps to clear out of his prisons. we're going to win a little autonomy is it possible to say today that the al qaeda network in the country has been destroyed and. al-qaeda has not been destroyed completely just as it hasn't been destroyed in any particular country there is an al qaeda presence in the united states there is an al qaeda in europe there is al qaeda in russia and in any country it maintains its presence by way of the so-called sleeper cells al-qaeda has become a network without borders as we were wrestling out beyond from them we came across al qaeda fighters who would come over from pakistan chechnya europe the us and other places that intended to establish their own government in yemen and when hostilities broke out in the sand i they thought it was time to set up their government in abuja but with god's help and with the support from popular communities our military and security forc

of yemen who will be guided by the needs of all social layers needs changes for fifty years they've been internal conflicts going on in the country in the past there was north yemen and south yemen and there was bad blood between the two states in one nine hundred ninety they were unified in the republic of yemen but even this move didn't make the parties adjust their course so it led to the war of nine hundred ninety four one party pushed another aside from power up such actions don't fit with modern conceptions you can't just overthrow another party the people of yemen have found themselves the crossroads choosing between a civil war and nationwide reconciliation whereby the system of governance would be reformed peacefully so that none of the communities would feel oppressed and disk. grimm unaided yemen is in a complicated economic situation right now in the one nine hundred sixty s. we launched a bold campaign to eradicate illiteracy poverty and diseases but fifty years on we still find ourselves living hand in hand with illiteracy poverty and diseases. that while there have been reports in the media and as in the destruction of a terrorist network those planning attacks in

to thank the russian government and mr putin for supporting the people of yemen at the time of the crisis in twenty eleven yemen was on the brink of civil war but its political forces the ruling party opposition parties together with our social youth and women's organizations agreed that we should take the way of peace and stop the civil war that had been raging in our camp.

yemen in 2002, a cia predator drone killed this guy, who u.s. officials believeded was the master mind behind the u u.s.s. cole bombing. killed in yemen. the government in yemen didn't want to be known they were letting the americans come in to kill people on their soil, so the dpovt came up with this elaborate story about how it was an exploding gas can. a terrible accident that killed this unfortunate soul. that was the yemeni government's cover story, then -- started bragging about this drone strike, how it had been so successful for the united states. quote, yemen's president was furious when he heard about the governments. he demanded american spies and diplomats appear in his office immediately. since washington couldn't keep a secret, america's hidden war in yemen would be scaled back. he ordered the predator flights to stop immediately and they did for nearly eight years. thanks, paul wolfowitz. thanks to mark's new book, we now know some astonishing details we never knew before. in addition to the wars being fought by the u.s. military over the last decade, the cia has become a full time killing people operation. a lot of us thought that was somethin

yemen. on the ground in yemen, you may have an individual who is affiliated in some way with al qaeda or knows members of al qaeda. al qaeda has members in yemens of particular families. does that mean the entire tribe is ill see an entire family is guilty? these are important to ask him or particularly when the u.s. uses patterns of life are targeting people based to it as they associate with. e. then s. -- all of us have different identities. if you're a member of al qaeda in yemen, al qaeda may be part of your identity, but you might other affiliations as it may be particular times can you stress the identity of being an al qaeda member when you're going through training camp or talking to one of your shakes or whatever. but with your tribe, that's the identity or stretching. individualist u.s. has evidence about and may even be affiliated in some way with al qaeda underground they are seen as tribesmen. the me tell you a quick anecdote. last time was a few months ago in the yemeni court sentenced two individuals to death for belonging to al qaeda and their al qaeda members. they are tribe cut off the electricity to the capital city. so you

yemen? if we sent in troops into yemen, we could probably capture alaki. if we supported yemen, which could probably capture him. they tried once and did not succeed, but we do not think that if the cops come to your house to arrest you and you are not there, but now they are just free to shoot you, right? we try again to our rest. of capturedity criterion raises questions, particularly when catcher mike actually put american lives at risk, but witching that button on the road with no american lives at risk. it is critical that we resolve these questions in a fair and fair ande mat reason legitimate reason, because what we will do will be a precedent for what the rest of the world does, and we did not want to live in a world where the rest of the world feels free to engage in drone attacks the way we have done. because i think that -- they cause a tremendous amount of resentment and anti-americanism out there, they are a recruiting tool for the enemy, which is not in our interest. third, you cannot have a concept the presidenthere can kill any of us in secret without acknowledg

yemen have been the face of america to thousands of yemenis. i was in the south of yemen where i met with some families who lost their innocent civilians for simply by one shot. it became a daily fear, not just my village, it was a daily fear for other areas, like the middle of yemen, where a man said in the past we used to tell women used to tell their children, go to bed or i will call your father. right now they tell their children, go to bed or i will call the drones. it has been horrifying fear at nights for thousands of people who have nothing to do with any sort of sympathy and rather than that, it was -- yes? >> farea, thank you so much for telling your story and for coming to capitol hill and for your public diplomacy in both directions. they are greatly appreciated. thank you very much. >> thank you, chris, thank you very much. thank you. >>> the part of the world that most hates america is the part of the world where america has been droning the most. someone who's actually been there joins us next. >>> a month ago it was in style to stand with rand in the issue of drone strikes, but guess who's not so sure of standing with rand now? rand. the most important conversation no one is having, that's up next. . >>> you guys remember stand with rand, the move

favor of some returns to yemen really pulled back itself from the idea of sending people back to yemen basically slow walking it thinking you know if we send anybody back to yemen and they return to the fight it's going to be a political headache for us so i think if there's going to be a solution here it's going to have to be a bipartisan decision that this is the level of risk we're willing to take with respect to the threat that people are going to return to the fight we may return people anyway because it's you know our sense of what the american sense of what the right thing to do is but it's not without risk it's risk that we're willing to absorb thomas you want to jump in larry and i think you know i really think it's missing the point it's missing the point victory i agree we should have an open debate in this country about what are terrorists terrorism policy should be we should have a debate we should never have a debate in this country about the use of torture which i think is one but we never have an open debate about detaining people let's have that debate but these eighty six men have been cleared after a thorough or thorough review they should no

yemen. soil. yemen is not u.s. i think drones can be used overseas against the fight against al qaeda.y want to kill americans and have declared war on americans. it is a legitimate tool of war that will probably see more of. the lawsenge is that do apply to drones as much as a soldier holding a weapon. host: go ahead, bob. caller: with regard to this faa thing, the president has within his discretion to make sure the public did not suffer. as individual wants to make sure these people understand it is big bet republicans that are responsible for the sequester. that is a bold face lie. this plan was hatched by president obama and jack lew. i am sick and tired of hearing it is the republicans standing in front of this president. this man defines the definition samesanity, doing the thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. he needs to realize we have in debt andtrillion nearly $1.4 trillion in the current national deficit. until the realizes we cannot tax and spend our way to prosperity, this situation is not going to change. the house and republicans in the s

yemen in particular this is my first visit to russia since i was elected in two thousand and twelve i came to thank the russian government and mr putin for supporting the people of yemen at the time of the crisis in twenty eleven yemen was on the brink of civil war but his political forces the ruling party opposition parties together with our social youth and women's organizations agreed that we should take the way of peace and.

yemen. guest: yemen is not u.s. soil. i think drones can be used overseas against the fight gainst al qaeda. they want to kill americans and have declared war on americans. it is a legitimate tool of war that will probably see more of. the challenge is that the laws do apply to drones as much as a oldier holding a weapon. host: go ahead, bob. caller: with regard to this faa thing, the president has within his discretion to make sure the public did not suffer. as individual wants to make sure these people understand it is big bet republicans that are responsible for the sequester. that is a bold face lie. this plan was hatched by president obama and jack lew. i am sick and tired of hearing it is the republicans standing n front of this president. his man defines the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different esult. he needs to realize we have nearly $17 trillion in debt and early $1.4 trillion in the current national deficit. until the realizes we cannot tax and spen

you know, his communications to yemen, to anwar awlaki in yemen, were tracked to the joint terrorismorce in the area around ft. hood where this guy worked. unfortunately, they were interpreted as being part of his normal kind of communications that he would use being an army psychologist which was major -- nadal hasan was an army psychologist. that was a huge mistake. these were not normal communications, not consistent with the typical work of an army psychologist. and it was an opportunity that unfortunately was missed. but going to mayor giuliani's point, the fact is i think the controversy surrounding that missed opportunity with major nadal hasan subsided relatively quickly. >> juliette kyyam standing by, formerly with homeland security, massachusetts. >> i think we'll be hearing words about who these guys were. jihadists, terrorists, lots of words, and where they come from. so what we should do is sort of focus on the case against them right now because that information will come over time. and it may be, i is to be honest, sometime we never find out. sometimes we don't know wh

yemen, samir khan, a member of al-qaeda's yemen franchise. al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula. he once boasted i am proud to be a traitor to america. les than two years after issue one hit the streets, he was dead. killed in yemeneptember 30rd, 2011 in a u.s. drone strike. issue 12 was published last year. there has been nothing since. >> still to come, tamerlan tsarnaev's widow spent three hours at her lawyer's today. what she's saying to be the about her husband's remains. >>> plus, amanda knox, the american college student convicted of murdering her roommate, speaks out for the first. her version of what happened that gruesome night. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. [ beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned... mercedes-benz for the next new owner. ♪ hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through april 30th. pre-owned sales event welcnew york state, where cutti

yemen. after president obama halted transfers to yemen following the underwear bombers attempt to blow up a flight, the pentagon won't say how many of them are starving themselves. they acknowledge some are. several weeks ago one prisoner who has been living at guantanamo for more than 11 years and never faced charges described the situation in a "new york times" article. two times a day they tie me to a chair and my arms, legs and head are strapped down in one force feeding. they pushed the pube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurding more than usual because she was doing things so hastily. president obama refuses to send detainees back to yemen. i am a hun an being and not a passport and deserve to be treated by one. on thursday, they asked california senator dianne feinstein, monitors from the red cross told her staff that the level of desperation among the detainees is unprecedented and said i believe it would be prudent to revisit the decision to halt transfers to yem an. facing a growing crisis as more and more prisoners joined the hunger strike, the white house had no answers. >> i can tell you that the white house and the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers. the administration remains committed to closing the facility. >> we are committed to closing the facility in the national security interests. i don't have a specific response to what's happening now. >> i can tell you that we continue to monitor the hunger strikers at guantanamo closely. >> perhaps that's a question that may come up today for the president. up next, the massachusetts race round up. we will talk to the candidates for a final p

yemen to join us today. we're looking forward to your testimony. please proceed. >> thank you, chairman. ranking men member, for inviting me. i am from a remote village mountain in yemen. just six days ago my village was struck by an american drone in an attack that terrified the region's poor farmers. it's my village but america has helped me grow up and become what i am today. i come from a family that lives off the fruits and livestock we raise on our farms. my father's income rarely exceeded $200. he learned to read late in his life, and my mother never did. my mother, however, has -- i am who i am today because the u.s. state department supported my education. i spent a year living with an american family and attended an american high school that was one of the best periods in my life. i learn about american culture, and participated in halloween. but the most exceptional is an experience coming -- the most exceptional experience was coming to know one into ended up being like a father to me. a member of the u.s. air force. most of my year was spent with him and his family. he came to the mosque with me and i went to church with him, and he became my best friend in america. i went to the u.s. as an ambassador for yemen, and i came back to yemen as an ambassador of the u.s. i could never have done that the same hand that took my life and take it from miserable to promising one, would also drone my village. my understanding is that a man was the target of the drone strike. many people know the man and the government could have easily found and arrested him. he was a -- was we known to local governments and they could have captured him if the u.s. told them to do so. in the west, what the village -- was best on my stories about my own experiences. the friendships and values i experience and describe to the villagers have them understand the america i know and that i love. now, however, when they think of america, they think of the terror they feel from the drones that hover over their heads, ready to fire missiles at any time. what a violent militants had previously failed to achieve, one drone strike accomplished in an instant. that is now an intense anger against this. this is not an isolate incident

or send them home. 86 prisoners, low-level detainees, mostly from yemen, were cleared to be sent back three years ago, but either yemen won't take them or can't satisfy u.s. security demands for their transfer. guantanamo costs taxpayers $800 million a year with no solution for the prisoners or for the president. brian? >> andrea mitchell starting us off tonight, thanks. >>> those guantanamo comments you just saw, part of a wide-ranging news conference today. during it the president was also asked about syria, how to enforce the red line he has drawn, in his words, if it's proven the syrian regime is using those chemical weapons. our chief white house correspondent, political director chuck todd, with us from the white house tonight with more on this chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, the president was very careful in what he said about how he would enforce that red line. of course, the red line is if it is proven that the syrian regime used chemical weapons. here's what he said, and listen to the careful nuance. >> there are options that are available to me that are on the shelf right now th

yemen. united states determined that yemen is an unstable country and it would be dangerous to let these people there. they might fall under bad influence. yementch them. the u.s. do not feel comfortable releasing people to an unstable country like yemen. others are from other countries. congress has imposed a lot of restrictions. what the administration can do to remove people from guantÁnamo, so that is a strange situation. we have people who were either captured in error and were held by mistake or they have decided that they are not a threat to the united states and there is no reason to hold them. perhaps they were minor people, people found carrying a rifle or something. these people are stuck there in this limbo. mainly because of diplomatic and political decisions inside the united states, not because of anything they have done. host: in your story that you write in your book, you focus on one military prosecutor, .ieutenant colonel stuart couch who is he and why is he significant? when we talk about military commissions, most of the -- the debates have been on an abstract or ideological level. let's not do that because it would be unf

yemen to join us. i look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, chairman durbin. thank you for inviting me today. inm from a remote village yemen. six days ago my village was struck by an american drone in an attack that terrified the region's farmers. america has helped me grow up and be what i am today. i come from a family that lives off of the fruit, vegetables, and livestock of our farms. my father's income rarely exceeded $200. he learned to read late in his life and my mother never did. my life, however, has been different. i am different today because the u.s. state department supported my education. i attended an american high school that was one of the best years of my life. i learned about american culture, managed a school basketball team, and trick-or- treating on halloween. but the most exceptional experience was coming to know someone who ended up being like a father to me, a member of the u.s. air force. withof my year was spent him and his family. he came to the mosque with me and i went to church with him. he became my best friend in america. i went to the u.s. as an ambassador for yemen and came back to yemen as an ambassador of the u.s.. i can never have imagined that the same hand that changed my life from a miserable to a promising one would also turn on my village. a understanding is that certain man was the target of the drone strike. many people in the village know him and the yemeni government could easily have found and arrested him. he was well known to the government and even to the local government. even they could have captured him if the u.s. had told them to do so. in the past, what villagers knew in the u.s. -- about the u.s. was about my stories of my wonderful experiences, the helpedhip i described them to understand the america i know and i love. they think of the fear they feel from the drones that hover overhead ready to fire missiles at any time. previouslynts failed to achieve one drone a strike managed to achieve. there is no anger against america. this is not an isolated instance. are the faceikes of america to many yemenis. i've spoken to vic

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yemen. the government does not want to return prisoners to yemen he says in the op-ed.licans are unwilling to have people go through the civil-legal process here. >> to be tried. >> the courts won't hear their claims about treatment because congress has told the courts that they don't have jurisdiction to hear the claims about treatment. so guantanamo is just like -- going to be a brush fire that never goes out. because people are there who shouldn't be there. some people are there who should be tried and held for a long time. but other people are there because we can't figure out places to send them. and it's 11 years. >> the legal and political entanglements here. we saw when they tried people -- it is, i agree, it's something that will be a low-level brush fire. but politicians on both sides want to stay away from this. >> in the 2008 campaign we had two candidates who both proclaimed they wanted to close guantanamo and here we are. >> ruth marks, chris fraitz, thank you. >>> next, the newtown families raising voices, sharing their painful stories and trying to urge

yemen. he once boasted i am proud to be a traitor to america. and he was dead and killed in yemen september 30th 2011 in a u.s. drone strike. issue 12 was published last year. there has been nothing since. it's an arm of al qaeda's propaganda that they have been trying to push for many years, and when it gets flattened in one place it becomes open in another place. it reaches into the heart of the united states and europe, poppy. >> absolutely. nic robertson, joining us live in dagestan. thank you. >>> taking a closer look at this. it's a piece of an airplane found in a small space between two buildings right near ground zero. new york police commissioner explained the significance. >> as you get closer on the part you can see a serial number and you see the word boeing before that serial number. you can't say with certainty what that part is, but the assumption is it's part of the landing gear from one of the 9/11 aircraft. >> the five-foot long piece of metal was found behind an islamic community center, and the part will be examined by the ntsb. >>> we will get back to boston a

yemen as well. they sort of reopened the war, this other front in yemen. you see them in parts of africa. this is one of the really defining legacies of the obama administration so far. >> the theory is kill the people, don't arrest them, bring them to trial, too complicated. just kill them. >> it is complicated. there's reasons the administration pursued a kill versus capture strategy. if you look at the last four years, you could probably count on one hand the senior people who have been captured and brought to trial. >> if you capture them, you cancan interrogate them. if you kill them, you can't. >> they took a lot of heat for interrogation. you at least get intelligence. at the same time, there were different calculations of risk. if someone is in a tribal area of pakistan, where pakistani cops and troops could go in and arrest someone. these are things that the administration is wrestling with. >> the president's personal role authorizing targeted killings, what is it? >> the president, when he came in wanted to at least have the authority to sign off on strikes souds pakistan. they already had authority. they were signed on by the cia director, you talk about yemensomalia, brought to the white house by the counter terrorism adviser for president obama, now as we know, cia director. >> he wants the pentagon to take over the responsibility, move it out of the cia? >> he's hinted he wants to move some of the paramilitary functions out of the cia to the pentagon. there are reports there are proposals floated to do that. i personally believe the cia will not give it up entirely, that they will take key aspects of the drone war, this is something that probably takes months or even years as opposed to a short period of time. >> the book entitled "the way of the knife." the subtitle, the cia, a secret army and a war at the ends of the earth. mark, thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >>> stay here, meet the newest member of the cnn family, the world renowned chef, anthony bourdain is here in "the situation room." he will preview his brand new show which debuts sunday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern. lost a few months back. hi. i got a call today t

them are from yemen, and the united states determined that yemen is an unstable country, and it would be dangerous to let these people there, they might fall under bad influence, and yemen couldn't keep an eye on them. the u.s. did not feel comfortable releasing people it had held to an unstable country like yemen. others are from other countries. congress has imposed a lot of restrictions on what the administration can do to remove people from guantanamo, so that is a very strange situation where you've got people who the united states says it either captured in error and were held by mistake, or they've decided they're not a threat to the united states and there's no reason to hold them, perhaps they were just very minor people who were, you know, found carrying a rifle or something. these kind of people, they're stuck there in this limbo, and it's mainly because of diplomatic and political decisions inside the united states, not because of anything they've done. >> host: jess bravin, in your story that you write in "the terror courts," in your book, you focus on one military prosecutor, lieutenant colonel stuart couch, and you share a lot of his perspective. who is h

yemen know that we're there there with the approval of the government in yemen? it is very hard to speak whether people know or don't know, but whether the government approves or doesn't approve, it is outside the big fancy walls of the capital, bringing a lot of blowback. it is not an issue whether the government approved it or not. it is not an issue -- it is as much as this on the ground. thans been a problem more help. >> before the drums, was aqab viewed as a positive force in human or a negative force? >> i've never met anyone who looks to aqab as a positive entity ever. >> we have a divided when it comes to draws between the caa and the military. -- when it comes to the drones between the cia and the military. can you give me your opinion as to whether this is a good thing, a necessary thing, or whether it should be continued? colonel mcsorley will jump in on this great -- on this. whether it be drones or other types of weapon systems, when you ask the military to conduct operations that are not military we generally have trouble. to doin our people military operations. so if you ask them to patrol the border, people often times get killed that should not have been shot. so if we're going to have the military participate in these type of operations for an extended period of time, then we need to go back to some of the practices we probably had in the past associated with reconnaissance, where we have specific units designated and equipped and trained to do that kind of operation. if that is what we're going to do, that is what i would recommend. if you would like to have just one air force rather than two or three for the country for logistics reasons, training reasons, etc., than any to be -- then it needs to be an air force capable of training a set of people for a specific type of mission that is not the same mission as an area of armed conflicts. >> what i'm driving at is i have been to one of our bases where the drones are launched, and i have seen the intelligence gathering taking place. according tone, the book, and that is what i was told, it is a very painstaking, elaborate, lengthy evaluation of sight, percent, before the ultimate decision is made. tragic the circumstances where innocent people have killed, every effort is made to avoid that. to the extreme, avid it should be, as americans would incensed -- would insist that it be. the basic question is whether or not intelligence capacity, which is so important in that process, is different or better between the cia and the military. do you have an opinion you go -- opinion? >> if it is in a country where we have not declared hostilities, then it is generally accepted that the agency have better intelligence and better ability to gather intelligence than the military does. that is under the current rules about who does what where. >> thank you. mr. bergen, one of the things that you're america foundation has been involved in is some public opinion research about the impact of the drone strikes in pakistan and yemen. could you tell me what you found? >> we did on independent poll, we found overwhelming opposition to the drone strikes. -- ifask the question the pakistani military were involved, would your opposition change? and the opposition goes on a lot. so it is an issue of national sovereignty. we also found overwhelming opposition to al qaeda and the taliban. we asked if either one were on the ballot, would you vote for them in an election, and the outcome was only one thing percent what. would. 1% there is nothing in yemen on a scale of what there is in pakistan. it is really more about the sovereignty issues than the civilian casualties issues. parliament and april voted to basically stop this. confusingve a situation where the parliament has voted against this yet is still proceeds. they have f-16s, which could theoretically should these runs down, but they don't. so there are some kind of tacit consent. >> that is exactly the point i want to go to. what i find different here is the defin

yemen, pakistan, somalia >> please remove that woman. please, if you could please expedite the removal. >> pakistan and yemen -- do your job. world peace depends on it. >> please proceed. i'm going to ask that the room be cleared and that codepink not be permitted to come back in. you have done this five times and five times are enough. >> you had your hand with the sign. >> yes. i would like to explain the two women there. they had just returned. we had a group of 34 people who had gone to pakistan. we went to the tribal areas with the u.s. drones are killing so many people. one woman came from san francisco to washington, d.c. right after being in pakistan. she wanted to have the chance to say that brennan is the mastermind of this program that is so inhumane. it is killing many innocent people and causing the u.s. to be seen as the enemy for millions of pakistanis. the second woman who got up and spoke was from indianapolis. she had also just got back. she was holding a list of names of children who had been killed with the drone strikes. we feel that we are the voice of conscience of the united states. we wanted to tell

yemen. many will keep trying to get in. but on the low coastal plain, the saudis have already stem the tide of illegal by building this barrier. this border fence with yemen will stretch of away from the red sea in the west to the borders of iran in the east. in theers of olamon east. . oman in the east. they have built a big border fence with iraq. they have sent weapons to syria. and they are watching with a lot of disapproval what is happening to their old ally, egypt. saudi authorities are also dealing with a rising tide of online criticism. i met one of the country's most prolific bloggers. he said the government can only get by without support so long. >> it is not as if arab -- saudi arabia is not affected by the arab spring, but the people here feel it. the government gave all these money handouts to the people to basically buy their silence after the revolution around the region. if you go online now and see the kind of critical language that is used against the government, you know something has changed. >> for now, the saudi regime survives. undemocratic and with a poor human rights record, but still with a loyalty to an aging gene. as youth un

yemen. explains more. they're calling for for the majority of those who are where actually can find and get moment jordi of those inmates are actually from yemen and most of them have been there for more than a decade ever since the invasion off of ganesan by the united states the even the yemeni government itself has actually issued a request to the u.s. government asking it to send the yemeni prisoners to sanaa the capital of yemen so they could at least be tried or hill there or they are here or in for possibly hearing to be held there as well but that request has been heard or at least it hasn't been hasn't received any response from washington so the people in the habit of course are outraged that their compatriots who as you have as we have mentioned how some of them have been cleared of all charges are being held in prison and they're starving themselves just to prove their point and these are not the only protests that we have seen across the region you may say there's also been numerous protests in kuwait on sunday now there are two kuwaiti nationals being held it gets mo. they're both there both of them have participated in the hunger strikes and given all before and both of them have been forced to bed and again lawyers for them as well are saying that their situation is just as dire. as that of the other detainees who are dissipating in the hunger strike and it is clear that they actually are prepared

and we had a young man from yemen who flew out to explain what happened when his village innia -- yemenn these drones kill innocent people. keeping america safe yet building the issue up overseas is a challenge. i would add that it was 12 years ago when i voted for this authorization for the use of military force to go after those responsible for 9/11, al qaeda and it's a associates. i could not have imagined -- no senator could have imagined we were voting for the longest war in american history, and the language of this use of military force would be used 12 years later, for military efforts in yeman, and other places. so we need to revisit that basic authorization. >> bill: absolutely. and what about drones here in the united states? are you looking at that as well? >> it hasn't come up. but if we're dealing with video cameras, all around chicago, washington, new york, and other places that monitor what is happening as they did in boston if we're dealing with new technology, this is a new technology. the question is what is the limitation for use? if you can use a gun, can you use a

obama conducted one drone strike in yemen that we know of in 2002 which actually also killed an american citizen. then president obama has totally waged an air war on yemenre was an operation that happened in the philippines. i think we spend a lot of time focused on drones. what i'm more concerned about is the expansion of admiral william mcraven forces from the special operations command. president obama has empowered them more than any president in history, this sort of dark ops force has become the centerpiece for obama's strategy. they are a setting up liaison offices around the world. we know everything about the bin laden raid. we know everything about the dog and guns used. there were 20,000 raids like that that year in afghanistan and other countries that we know almost nothing about. i think our future is going to be looking at cruise missile strikes, covert operations, raids that we probably won't know about an drone strikes are one part of it but i think we make a mistake in focusing too much on drones because this is a full spectrum war that's being waged by the obama administration. >> jeremy scahill, thank you so much. the book is "dirty w