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Us here to serve, they sent us here for a reason. they sent us here to listen to their voices, they sent us here to represent their interests, not our own. they sent us here to lead. and i hope in the coming months well do everything in our power to live up to that responsibility. thanks very much. there you have it, the president with comments out of a meeting with a bipartisan congressional delegation. the president asking for congress to finish its work on war funding legislation. the presi...

Afghanistan, because as i told you, the tribal people who live in that area dont really have any regard for that border. so as far as theyre concerned, this is part of their own country, not a separate country. analysts say that area that youre looking at, those colored areas, are where al qaeda operatives have bases, and is many people believe thats where osama bin laden might actually be hiding. thats where he is likely to be. in that area. its from that area that pakistanis have sometimes lau...

Afghanistan and the document dump giving rise to reports iran has a bigger role than we thought supporting al qaeda and the taliban in the region, mike emanuel live at the pentagon, what do you know about irans meddling role in afghanistan at this point. >> reporter: the intelligence leak reveals that the u.s. military is pretty convinced iran has been engaged in a covert campaign, if you will, to arm, finance and train taliban fighters, to challenge u.s. military forces in afghanistan so that i...

I hope geoff is bright pakistan. i hope theyre not playing a double game. i think there is evidence that karzai has been playing a double game over time in afghanistan. but to the larger political point, john, it does -- its very clear that this document dump something to further fuel the rising discontent with the administrations approach to afghanistan. ive been very taken aback almost by talking to some senior people from past administrations who have been supportive of this war who are begin...

Hearing here, what a lot of people have suspected on many situations is allegation that the pakistani intelligence services have been supporting the taliban, fighting the u.s. troops in afghanistan. we have known for a long time that pakistan sees a huge importance in having a government that supports it inside afghanistan, because they fear india, on the other side of the border. and therefore, they want a friendly government on the other side of their country. so these are things that have bee...

That it happened in this manner. shannon: you mentioned the fact that this is a document dump of what we understand to be more than 90,000 documents that are sensitive in nature. we have heard from this wikileaks all about transparency, they want people to know the truth about the war, they claim war crimes are being committed and theyre putting the information out there for people to see themselves. we do understand there are reports they withheld some 15,000 documents because they said that wa...

War in terms of facts. but it does add texture to a lot of the misgifgs of people inside and outside the government have had about this conflict and it raises a question in the sheer volume of this leak we havent seen much of this in american history. >> its like the pentagon papers. a huge document dump. i agree with mark. the pakistani intelligence services had been known to have aspects or parts of that unit dealing with the enemy and believed to be on the side of the enemy with that good jou...

Its a very selective portrait of the war. we dont know what he left out. we spent a whole week last week talking about somebody who maliciously put out an edited version of what a woman said. it strikes me theres some similarities with that here, too, with an organization thats clearly very anti-war that did this. in terms of a comparison, the pentagon papers, the size of the document dump is bigger, i think. there is a very, very big difference. the pentagon papers fundamentally showed that the...

Political headlines, but what does it say about americas longest war? the highlights or low lights as they may be. the the actual names of pakistan member who is have aided taliban in attacks against our soldiers. fighting the enemy with very little resources and the innocent afghan citizens are often the unintended victims of the battle. none of the information is new, but another blow in an increasingly deadly war. some comparing it to the pentagon papers. the whistle blower behind the latest ...

From, how they got to julian. any progress on that front, or is it just in the beginning stages? >> well, this just happened over the weekend. we are trying to get to the bottom of it. our first priority is to figure out whether theres anything in here, as i mentioned, that could endanger our forces. but, obviously, we want to figure out who did this and make sure there isnt more coming and others who are leaking this. the thing most disturbing to me right now, though s the fact that this group ...