waiting. the family of jailed washington post reporter jason rizion said they hope the deal will bring him home saying in a statement, quote, the outcome of the nuclear deal does not change jason s cruel and illegal imprisonment for the past 356 days. jason is completely innocent of all charges. today he should be reporting on the details of this agreement rather than subjected to continued incarceration. and the danger is today s battle of narratives will end up being a battle of interpretation. if all sides are not on the same page about what was agreed upon that could be a real pandora s box when it comes to implementation, john. there are still weeks if not months of discussion about that. elise labott, thanks so much. from the minute the word came down the deal was done the world s been evaluating its merit. the vatican s view of the deal positive also giving the agreement thumbs up syria s bashar al assad who hailed the accord as a great victory.
not intended or bashar will try to exploit pictures on the ground to talk about terrorisms in this context of what the united states has done. there s going to be a battle of narratives here. you ll need to have voices. turkey will be vital. other countries that will suffer the impact of whatever else happens, they ve got to be on board. i want to go to the pentagon by saying we ve got the two minute warning about 45 seconds ago. you re listening to these diplomats talking about this. how much does the pentagon and state department work in concert during a time like this? they always work in concert. some of the concerns we heard expressed here about what would be the result of a limited mission as described by the president himself who said we re not going after regime targets. we don t intend to try to topple
is going to have an impact. you know for some time. your normal leak involves one country, a small set of documents, it works its way through the news cycle fairly quickly. obviously this san archive with hundreds of thousands of documents, it s now searchable. it s in the public domain. it s used every day by journalists in terms of their coverage of u.s. foreign policy. so it s going to have an impact for some time. you know, the charge of aiding the enemy is a very interesting one. because you know, this war on terror, whatever you want to call it that will linger for some time. is more about psychological impacts. a battle of narratives, if we re going to say that bradley manning and releasing this information aided the enemy. well you know, what about the perpetrators of abu ghraib? you know they obviously gave great comfort and incentive to the enemy. what about those who are responsible for the burning of the koran? that action you know caused a halt in what was a nascent
how the speed of the new cycle is accelerating the thirst for details from the very outset, is accelerating. sometimes the old media, if you, will you had stories but it really was then a week late we are the newsmagazines you had you were then able to clarify all the details. now you want details from an instant. you have a late-evening news conference by the president followed by an even later evening background briefing by senior administration officials. it s just the nature of the 24/7 accelerated news cycle and details are going to be in error. given the the high-velocity nature of that news cycle, did the administration rush out with an account before it could be double and triple checked because i wanted to feed that new cycle because all these reporter were clamoring for details? two things are at work, one, the speed of the news cycle but the other is framing large events in perspective. this is a battle of narratives between the united states and
bin laden, our strategic objective is to avoid having him d o iified in death anymore than he was already a commanding figure in life, and i think that the president made the right decision. secretary clinton is one of the people who we ve been told who argued against releasing a photo. having worked so closely with her at the state department, again, what you know of this administration, what you describe as a philosophical orientation toward disclosure, that you put information out when you have a choice to unless there s a reason not to, i understand that as a philosophical point. i wonder if that really is the inclination. if in matters of national security you feel that the bias is really towards more information and not towards less, it feels like a pretty closed world of information for a journalist and for a bystander. many people said and rightfully so, that bin laden was a figure, he was a terrorist but also an idea. we are in a battle of narratives here. one of the reaso