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Of pretty hefty shock and outrage at the scale of what was going on. at the same time i do think any government in america has got to be doing a lot of this kind of stuff to fight terrorism. as a man that broke the pentagon papers, where is the line? where do we draw the line going forward? because the key question now is what is the line and who draws it? >> i had clearances for communications intelligence for years in the government. when i revealed the top secret pentagon papers, i put out no...

Pentagon papers, i put out no communications intelligence because i really knew of none and had access to it in those years. i had none at that time that was abusive as what we just learned now that i felt the public need to know outweighed the need for secret. i believe there is and was a reason for communication intelligence and much of it has to be kept secret. what is clear here as you say you were shocked and outraged, i presume not at the discovery of communications intercepts, you must ha...

Panetta said that was not possible evgiven the circumstances. >> you dont deploy forces into harms way without information about whats taking place. >> given the circumstances that night, and what we were told about the deployment of forces, was the decision by the president and the pentagon not to send u.s. forces in those seven hours, was that an appropriate decision or not? >> i dont think it was. my experience was, especially on 9/11, especially in that part of the world, where we anticipate...

Times" violated the law. they published information about communication intelligence. it is a felony for ten years to do that. i urged that we ought to investigate. nobody has a nerve to go after the "new york times." but its the books. i thought, admittedly, ami hard rock on some of these things. its probably why. others say we dont want to prosecute the "new york times," but there is a provision of law that is very clear, publication, communication intelligence, and it has never been enforced....

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