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Intelligence business, every source that we have of intelligence, we try to confirm that with other sources. i believe some of that has been confirmed and we dont know what that is, and because that is obviously classified. and the fact of the matter is, but even this information, as antiinflammatory and explosive as it is, would have been shared with the entire national command authority and senior leaders of our government. its indisputable that it would not be done. sergeant bergdahl was a ve...

Result of our focus on small operations in protecting the smaller groups of people across the world. in training local militias to train themselves and so on, and one of the interesting things about what the president said today that we are going to work in partnership, and we are going to focus the attention on a wide variety of threats and not just use the military might willy-nilly brings up a significant point brought up a moment ago, it is one thing to say that we are going to do that, but ...

Im going to change things. >> its part of the same story. the command authority. the president with his pen and authority, wave the magic wand and say, do this. this time hes commanding equal pay for equal work amongst federal contractors. what hes saying is you can get out there and discuss how much you each earn so you can start a class action lawsuit. >> if you put a man and woman together today doing the same job, theyre virtually getting paid the sum. >> if you lump everyone altogether, men...

Their commanding officer as victims of horrific acts of sexual violence. >> reporter: the statistics are sobering. an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults in the military last year alone and surveys showed that 2/3 of female victims didnt report them. gillibrands legislation would dramatically change the way the military handles these cases taking the judicial authority away from the chain of command. the top brass at the pentagon is staunchly opposed. military leaders argue they must be able to pol...

Who ran the national security agen agency. he is now principal with the chertoff group. welcome back to the show, michael. >> thank you, fareed. >> lets focus on this issue of eavesdropping of senior officials of allied governments. theres a distinction about collecting metadata, traffic and phone calls and emails from across europe. tell me how would it work if the national security agency would tap the cell phone of senior leader of an allied government, who would have made that decision and w...

Are very specific intelligence requirements from our national command authority and they are laid out to the intelligence community and then the intelligence community goes forward and lays out a collection plan the best way to get that very needed information. occasionally, fareed, occasionally, what you have is political guidance kind of being placed on top of your operational planning. i had political guidance while i was director of nsa. i had targets. i had legitimate needs. but i was told ...

Specific intelligence requirements from our national command authority, and they are laid out to the intelligence community and then the intelligence community goes forward and lays out a collection plan the best way to get that very needed information. occasionally, fareed, occasionally, what you have is political guidance kind of being placed on top of your operational planning. i had political guidance while i was director of nsa. i had targets. i had legitimate needs, but i was told frankly ...

>> get down! i dont give a [ bleep ] whether you did it or not. neither will anyone else. but i will put such a stranglehold on your gun money, youll be out on the streets throwing rocks. >> great stuff. by the way, alex baldwin looked really young there. tom clancy died in baltimore where he grew up. his next book, command authority, set to come out in december. very young and tragic. 66 years old. still ahead, on way too early, baseball lay ploplayoffs. stephen colbert and washington dysfunc...

When they became hollywood block busters we had harrison ford playing jack ryan. that made harrison ford this larger than life figure. alec baldwin also played jack ryan. ben affleck played jack ryan. in 2003 he wrote "the teeth of the tiger." he introduced jack ryan, jr., as the next big intelligence agent in washington. he has a book that will come out december 3. there is an unpublished novel thats coming out called "command authority." well see more of his work in a couple of months. its sho...

"the hunt for red october" was his first novel published in 1984. basement a bestseller after president reagan complimented the book. he went on the to write a host of books centered around character jack ryan. in 2003 he published "the teeth of the tiger." that made jack ryan, jr., the central character. he has a book to be out december 3 called "command authority." thats the latest book in his arsenal hes had there. but, again, we are getting word in that tom clancy has died at the age of 66. ...