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Taliban and new bride tell their story. david spent eight months as a captive in pakistan. a tragedy with a happy ending. plus cbs cleans house at the early show dropping harry smith and maggie rodriguez. can the new anchors revive that troubled franchise? well ask erica hill. im howard kurtz and this is reliable sources. today brings us the seventh installment of the "new york times" series on secret state department cable, part of an international uproar. hillary clinton asking for personal in...

Detrimental, but our job is not to protect the u.s. the information does enlighten people about the way the u.s.en come ukt disforeign policy. >> i know you argued for greater trar transparency, but why should assange set the agenda? >> the world has changed. someone can know information now and spread it in an instant. we have to look at this the other way around and say why isnt government more transparent. it should be secret by necessary. part of the lesson is that too much is secret, much o...

Understand what the source is and sort of sort of distance yourself in a way to sort of take the information as it stands and understand -- >> to ignore the fact of where its coming from, do you mean? >> no, not ignore the fact, but the information -- first of all, we have to make sure its legitimate. the iraq war logs, afghan war log. understand its news worthy information and its accurate information. and then take the source and take the good with the bad. but you have to see what theyre givi...

Stengel. >> this is nonsense about lives being put in jeopardy is propertied out every time a big military or tell against organization is exhe is forred by the press. it 00 nothing new, its not exclusively american phenomenon by any means. >> so with the obama administration conducting an investigation of wikileaks, how much responsibility do american news outlets bear some joining us, richard stengel from "time" magazine prks jeff jarvis, director of the interactive journalism program, and her...