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Its tough to get enough servings of vegetables every day if you dont always like the taste of them. good thing v8 v-fusion juice gives you a serving of vegetables hidden by a serving of fruit. v8. whats your number? >> what is the expression those who live in glass houses should not charge others with breaking things? make smur dcialg sure there are not bones in the closet. the administration throwing charlie rangel under the bus is looking critical. as we reported the wall street journal has be...

Arrive at that in terms of citizenship or nationality status after following the dots then sometimes youre in a position where you need to ask the question. but that rarely happens and its always the last thin that happens, its never the first. so in my environment i tell you since we are such a high intensity smuggling area its not hard to figure out who is there and who shouldnt be. jenna: you have just filed a motion to intervene in the case. what does that mean exactly, and what do you hope ...

Branch oceanographic. wer looking for any oil damage after the bp spill. any negative results could be used for a government lawsuit against bp. >> we are on the bottom. our depth is 140 feet. >> it almost looks like youre swimming through the water. but weve got 5 and 1/4 inch of plexiglass holding us in. >> this research is being funded by noaa, and the results from this dive are critical. its an urgent health check. >> i think people tend to think that the deeper you go, these deeper wells, n...

Hasnt. >> reporter: they called us back and said we were tracking the wrong plane. they were tracking the wrong plane. how many planes up there with blown tires? we dont know. the faa says the plane should land sometime in the next few minutes. this is a 737-800. it masses a blown tire. it was blown on takeoff. memphis turned the plane around and said go back to atlanta hartsfield and land there. the plane has been burning off fuel the last hour because it took offloaded to fly to portland, oreg...

Very quickly. tom vilsack among them. and he said that he did. we still -- he denied, though, having any communication with anybody, personal or his staff? >> that makes a very good point. you know this from covering the white house. when the sensitive personnel issues or policy issues they are often reluctant to give us the chain of communication and who is involved. in part to protect the president and in part because they say its our business. when the first warning came over what we dont kno...

Abdulmutallab was stopped not with intelligence but because, as we all recall, with that quick acting passenger who was on his flight. it also points out that despite the intelligence gained with respect to the ft. hood shooter. and an overtaxed system sort of allowed that information to go unprocessed. so how do you deal with that? how do we get to the point we can make sure these lapses dont continue? >> well, into davids point, campbell, its not a matter -- its not a matter of collecting more...

Made in other areas like information sharing. >> well, when we had the christmas bomber, we had information coming from the father of the suspect who said my sons on the warpath. hes coming to to the united states. we had simultaneous information from yemen that something was up in that area and nobody put the dots together. what has your reporting told us about dot connection? >> thats a perfect example of how the largeness of the system has overwhelmed some of the progress because really, its ...

There are u.s. soldiers in both theaters right now. thats got to tell you something. >> when were looking at 854,000 people with top secret clearances and 265,000 of them are private contractors, how top secret can our top secret information really be? >> well, thats a great point, when you start spreading this out to that many people, that many people know about it, youre having a security problem. you see, that really is the dichotomy with all of these things, we always talked about the failur...

Analysts turn out 50,000 intelligence reports every year. you can bet a lot never get read. at 263 organizations have been created or reorganized as a response to 9/11. that of course means hiring lots and lots of people. dont ask them where osama bin laden is because nobody knows. with such a sprawling bureaucracy its no wonder they couldnt put together the dots in recent attacks including the shootings at fort hood and the attempted christmas day bombing of an airplane in detroit. the governme...

Analysis, if you will, but it gets to this whole problem, after all these years can you still connect the dots when theres a problem, and heres the scope of what "the washington post" came up up with. they say there are 1200 separate government agencies that deal in intelligence collection and analysis, nearly 2,000 private companies, contractor companies that also work on all of this for the government, and some 850,000 people who have security clearances. so why was the white house so sensitiv...