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Charges that are being looked into and we think thats the right thing to do. >> another issue thats popped up this week and took on a new tone in just the last 24 hours is the leak of all of these reports from the afghanistan war and the wikileaks.org website. the pentagon has come down very hard. admiral mike mullen suggesting that the website, the man who allegedly leaked this information and others, may have blood on their hands. but we spoke with recently retired cia analyst lieutenant colon...

Signed a sires of executive orders banning torture and secret dissensions and calling for guantanamo to close in a year. a new day had dawned in america. except that 18 months later, that new day looks disturbingly like the old one. the guantanamo is still very much open for business. and this white house has expanded the terrorist watch list, argued for indifferent in it detention and gone after whistle blowers and on and on and on. today a new report from the american civil liberties union sug...

Young kid who talks about he doesnt even want to go to sleep because of the images that he has. then you hear from that other soldier that says that, you know, he gets this high from killing. what are you doing to deal with the soldiers who are predisposed to risk taking? let me start there. >> you know, we have a population of 1.1 million soldiers and that at-large doing a tremendous job in their day-to-day lives. >> theres no argument to that. you know how i feel about that. we have incredible...

Its more detailed, and theres a potential with the task force 373 issues to be hurtful to national security. >> ill get into that in just a second but quickly i want to ask you about this army intelligence analyst bradley manning already charged with leaking information and now being accused of adding to all of this. >> right. >> first of all, do you know him? >> no. >> have you ever worked with him? >> no, not at all. >> so, let me ask you, what would be in it for this guy? could he be anti-war...

Tony, let me ask you, is this harmful or is this just embarrassing? >> its a combination of both. its harmful by the fact that you pointed out, virtually anyone with a secret clearance can do this. i think that makes the effort of the pentagon to account for how it happened much more difficult, and i think if you look at some of the operational details, how things are done, that could be hurtful as well. 90% of it is essentially historic information which has already been out there. the abuses o...

And all the other policy introductions, for example, policibility throw duckses that accompany the command of general mcchrystal, we dont see a significant shift in the day-to-day behavior of american forces or the day to day behavior of the rebels in afghanistan. >> the president has now said he is concern about the leaks but there is no "new information" in it. do you want to respond to that? >> this is like -- we all know that government is frequently corrupt, that it is one thing to have tha...

Failed policies by the united states military and of abuses by other forces in involved, failed tactics, we have all that there. it is the most significant history of a war to have ever been released during a war by a time where it can make some difference and shape policy outcomes. >> do you worry about your own safety? do you worry about criminal prosecution and about officials coming after you right there in london? >> well, we are not fools in this business, we have been publishing for four ...

Good track record and they say they have never put out anything thats been a forgery or a hoax that the track record so far is 100%. now julianna himself is quite a bit of a character in the sense that hes a former hacker. hes very elusive. he travels around the world. he has no -- you know, no set permanent home. and he is also believed to have been wanted by fbi officials who have been wanting him for questioning. at least thats what he believes. thats why hes now refusing to travel to the uni...

Appearing on wikileaks. theres been legislator reform as a result of material appearing on wikileaks. what has not happened is anyone being physically harmed as a result. >> reporter: he says his aim is to shine some light on abuses in the field and give the general pub applicatilic the informatio to have an informed opinion on the war. >> this material doesnt just reveal occasional abuses by the u.s. military. it does describe the abuses by both sides in this war and its how people can really u...

Reveal occasional abuses by the u.s. military. it has the u.s. military reporting all sorts of abuses by the taliban and ieds going on. it does describe the abuses by both sides in this war and its how people can really understand what is actually going on and whether they choose to support it or not. >> the fact is, it is going to take weeks, even months, to go through this massive amount of information. these are thousands and thousands of raw data. so its going to take a long time before we a...